HLB Communications was formed in 1977. The communications consulting firm specializes in providing the financial services, software, engineering, legal, professional services, and healthcare industries a variety of solutions to their corporate marketing and internal communications needs. The firm's services include crisis communications, media and presentation skills training, investor relations' communications, and internal branding program creation for such clients as Cardinal Health, Harris Bank, and Winston & Strawn.

Workman Publishing Company, a medium-sized independent publisher, is the creator of award-winning calendars, cookbooks, parenting/pregnancy guides, and fun, educational children’s titles, as well as gardening, humor, self-help, and business books. From our What to Expect series and Page-A-Day Calendars to the iconic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and Gallop!, the one-of-a-kind, moving picture book for kids, our products inspire readers and other publishers alike. The Workman Publishing Company also includes Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Artisan, HighBridge Audio, Storey Publishing and Timber Press. In addition, Workman is the distributor for Black Dog & Leventhal, Greenwich Workshop Press and Fearless Critic Media.

Lerner Publishing was founded in 1959 by CEO Harry Lerner. Lerner Publishing Group is all about learning. The children's book publisher has about 3,500 titles in print, including picture books, biographies, fiction and nonfiction, and young adult novels, for grades K-12. Imprints and divisions include Carolrhoda Books, Darby Creek Publishing, ediciones Lerner, Graphic Universe, Kar-Ben Publishing, LernerClassroom, Lerner Publications, Millbrook Press, and Twenty-First Century Books. Lerner's titles are distributed primarily to schools and public libraries, and some titles are available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. It also prints and binds its books at Lerner Publishing Group company-owned Muscle Bound Bindery.

The Aker Partners was founded by managing partner Colburn Aker in 1983. The independent public relations and marketing communications firm provides strategic counsel, publicity management, crisis communications, media relations, and public affairs expertise primarily to clients in health care, energy, and business products and services. Clients include the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, Ford Motor Company, Washington National Cathedral, and Honeywell International.

CheetahMail provides direct e-mail marketing and other interactive marketing services; clients have included leading consumer brands such as Borders Books, H&R Block, and Starbucks. CheetahMail company, which does business as Experian CheetahMail, is a unit of credit bureau and marketing services giant Experian Group. For e-mail campaigns, Experian CheetahMail helps develop content and manages delivery and fulfillment, in addition to providing reports on each campaign's effectiveness. CheetahMail company also offers management services for multi-channel marketing campaigns and analytical services for marketing Web sites.

Merritt Group Inc. was founded in 1996 by CEO Ben Merritt. The Merritt Group provides public relations and marketing communications services primarily for government, health care, and technology companies. Services include research; market segmentation; media, analyst, and investor relations; crisis communications; trade show and event marketing assistance; and digital and social media marketing. Clients have included Teradata, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Metastorm. The firm has offices in Reston, Virginia, and San Francisco.

As the #1 producer of warm fuzzies, Hallmark Cards is the Goliath of greeting cards. The company's cards are sold under brand names such as Hallmark, Shoebox, and Ambassador and can be found in more than 41,000 US retail stores. (About 3,300 stores bear the Hallmark Gold Crown name; the majority of these stores are independently owned.) Hallmark also offers electronic greeting cards, gifts, and flowers through its website. In addition to greeting cards, the company owns crayon manufacturer Crayola (formerly Binney & Smith), a majority of cable broadcaster Crown Media, and Kansas City's Crown Center real estate development firm. Members of the founding Hall family own two-thirds of Hallmark.

With more than 100 years of experience, IHS Jane’s holds an unrivalled reputation for the reliability, accuracy and impartiality of our information and advice, trusted and relied upon by business, government and military decision-makers worldwide. In the specialist fields of defence, security, public safety, transport and law enforcement, IHS Jane’s intelligence is a ‘must have’ resource for our clients, who can trust our intelligence over that from any other open source. IHS Jane’s continues to push the boundaries in open source intelligence gathering, reporting and analysis. Our solutions offer the breadth, depth, accuracy and reach to meet a broad range of needs. Our high-speed electronic platforms give you on-demand access to the most relevant, accurate and timely intelligence. In an increasingly competitive and uncertain world, you can trust Jane’s to help you make the right decisions.

One of Europe's leading media companies, Mediaset is anchored by its commercial Italian broadcast networks Canale 5, Italia 1, and Rete 4 (Retequattro). The company also operates digital channels Boing (children's programming) and Iris (films and documentaries), as well as pay-TV service Mediaset Premium. Other operations include include advertising firms Publitalia '80 and Digitalia, and Italian film studio Medusa. Outside Italy, Mediaset owns a controlling interest in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco, and it has a 33% stake in TV production company Endemol.

RED Distribution is a Sony Music-owned independent record distributor that handles the sales and marketing of releases for nearly 50 record labels. A leading indie distributor in the US, the company distributes music for prolific labels including Fat Possum Records (home of critically acclaimed acts such as The Fiery Furnaces, Dinosaur Jr., and Andrew Bird); Sanctuary Records (home of artists such as Ashanti and Blues Traveler); and Victory Records, its top-selling label. Successful RED Distribution acts have also included the popular bands Los Lonely Boys and Switchfoot.

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