Alcone Marketing Group, Inc. was established in 1976 by chairman Matt Alcone. The group provides a wide variety of services across marketing disciplines such as promotional marketing, field marketing, event marketing, telemarketing, incentive programs, and fulfillment services. Campaigns have centered around sponsored television shows, concert tours, and sweepstakes. Clients have included such big names as eBay, the California Lottery, Mercedes-Benz USA, and Sara Lee. Alcone Marketing has office locations in San Francisco; Irvine, California; and Darien, Connecticut.

Capstone publishes fiction and nonfiction books, picture books, literacy books in English and Spanish, and educational comic books for the pre-kindergarten to high school set. Its more than 13,000 titles are distributed to schools and public libraries nationwide. Capstone Publishers company also offers online content, such as the Capstone Interactive Library, which has more than 200 e-books available for kids to read online or in CD-ROM format, and other educational Web sites. Capstone Publishers makes at least one of the three Rs exciting. Capstone Publishers company publishes children's books under six imprints -- Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Heinemann-Raintree, Picture Window Books, Red Brick Learning, and Stone Arch Books.

The Sterling-Rice Group was co-founded in 1984 by Rick Sterling and Michael Rice, who had worked together at Celestial Seasonings. The Sterling-Rice Group knows how to build a brand's image. Services include media planning and buying, brand design, and online advertising. The firm serves customers ranging from startups to FORTUNE 500 companies. The Sterling-Rice company has worked with numerous food and beverage clients, including Kraft, Coors, and Starbucks, though it has also had clients in a variety of industries such as telecommunications ( Qwest Communications) and transportation (Frontier Airlines).

Adperio is a direct marketing and advertising agency that reaches it clients' customers online by offering a plethora of rewards. Web surfers earn rewards on a point system by visiting websites, completing surveys, and making purchases. The program is designed to attract new customers and has created loyalty for such retail clients as J. Crew, Amazon.com, and Pizza Hut. The business started as an offline direct marketer in 1994. It initiated its Web-based marketing strategy in 1998. David Asseoff, Adperio's founder, president, and CEO, owns the majority of Adperio, Inc.

SEK & GREY is part of Finland's Salomaa Group, which specializes in marketing communications. Grey Group (which is part of advertising behemoth WPP Group) controls more than 20% of SEK & GREY. The company was founded in 1935 as SEK and named using initials from the three founders. Grey bought into the company in 1987. In advertising, it's a truism that sex sells; in Finland it's also true that SEK sells. SEK & GREY provides advertising agency services for such clients as Alko (government-owned alcoholic beverage stores), Nokia, Paulig (coffee, seasonings, and ethnic foods), Valio, and Finnair, which has been on SEK & GREY's client roster for some seven decades.

Rapp Collins Worldwide is one of the world's leading direct marketing and customer relationship management agencies, with about 50 offices in more than 40 countries. Doing business as simply Rapp, it offers a full slate of services for planning and implementing integrated marketing campaigns involving direct mail, television, telemarketing, and interactive media, including creative development, data analysis, and production and fulfillment. Specialties include health care marketing. Rapp is part of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom Group, the #1 media services conglomerate in the world.

Summit Business was formed in 2006 by private equity firm Wind Point Partners, which owns the company. Summit Business Media is not content with offering business content in one form only. A business-to-business media company, Summit Business Media offers digital and print publications, as well as business information, primarily to professionals in the insurance, financial, and professional services industries. The company's offerings include specialty online publications and print magazines (National Underwriter Life/Health, Senior Market Advisor, Agent's Sales Journal, and others); industry-focused conferences and events, and insurance company financial and agent information.

Aspen Publishers provides mountains of legal research information to lawyers, business professionals, and law students. Aspen Publishers company publishes manuals, books, periodicals, CDs, and online content, and specializes in legal, tax and business, health, and educational information. Aspen covers both US and international topics. Specific practice areas include administrative law, government contracts, intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Among the company's titles are Lawyer's Desk Book and Securities Act Handbook. Aspen Publishers company is a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, itself a unit of European professional publisher Wolters Kluwer.

Punch Integrated Communications takes a one-two approach in providing knockout marketing services. The independent agency offers internal communications to reach its clients' employees and external communications to build awareness with customers. Internal communications services include employee research, computer-based training programs, rewards and incentives programs, and training. Its external communications offerings include advertising, branding, media planning, marketing communications, special events marketing, and public relations. Punch works with clients in the retail, grocery, hospitality, manufacturing, financial, and technology sectors.

Established in 1967, employee-owned GA Communications has offices located in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. GA Communications Company produces advertising for retail clients which have included Lowe's, S.P. Richards Company, and Michaels. Also operating through its PureRed Creative subsidiary, it offers photography, prepress, print management, website design and development, set design and fabrication, visual merchandising, printing, and broadcast services.

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