At Elavon, our entire focus is on delivering reliable and secure payment solutions to help businesses succeed in an increasingly complex global marketplace. By serving as a single source for payment processing worldwide, Elavon sets new standards in convenience, reliability and innovation. Elavon, more than 1 million merchants trust us to efficiently and securely manage their payments business. We extend powerful payment solutions, flexible connectivity, and effective fraud monitoring tools to customers around the globe—from smaller retail merchants to the largest organizations in segments such as healthcare, hospitality, and the public sector.

Tuffy Associates knocks out tough auto problems and keeps its customers off new car lots. The firm operates more than 235 franchised and company-owned Tuffy Auto Service Centers in some 20 states, primarily east of the Mississippi River. Though Tuffy first began as a muffler shop, it has expanded, similarly to its competitors, into other services, including repairs and maintenance for suspension, brakes, and steering. Tuffy also owns about 170 franchised and company-owned Car-X Tire & Auto dealers and maintains it as a separate brand and operation. Tuffy Associates has been opening stores under the Tire & Auto name even though most of its stores offer the same services.

Insights Research Group (IRG) is dedicated to sorting it all out. Insights Research Group, LLC provides quantitative and qualitative market analyses, online research, and marketing research. Insights Research Group, LLC also has a focus group facility outside Memphis, Tennessee. IRG assists clients with information regarding new product development, market penetration, customer satisfaction, and brand image. Insights Research Group, LLC has three sister companies -- Food Insights, which does marketing research for the food industry, Source1 Purchasing, software for the food industry, and SatisTrack, a tool to gauge customer satisfaction. Clients include International Paper, Aramark, and AARP.

Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. is a media and entertainment consulting firm. Frank N. Magid Associates helps companies understand target audiences. The consumer research company designs customized research programs to assist with product and brand development, media effectiveness, e-commerce, TV programming, and executive communication coaching. Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. specializes in several industries including media and entertainment; interactive media; healthcare and pharmaceutical; sports; not-for-profit and politics; and wireless and telecom. Frank N. Magid was founded in 1957 and has about 350 consultants working with customers worldwide out of four offices -- New York, Los Angeles, London, and Marion, Iowa.

Trover Solutions, Inc. is a leading independent provider of outsourced insurance subrogation, claims recovery and cost containment solutions for the healthcare payor and property and casualty industries. Founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1988 as Healthcare Recoveries, the company initially focused on recoveries in the healthcare segment of the insurance industry. Trover launched TransPaC Solutions, a separate operating division facilitating recoveries in the property and casualty industry. The company introduced its proprietary recovery software, Troveris®, in 2001, as well as launching consultative services for healthcare and property and casualty insurers with internal subrogation departments.

Shearman & Sterling has been advising many of the world's leading corporations and financial institutions, governments and governmental organizations for more than 135 years. Shearman & Sterling are committed to providing legal advice that is insightful and valuable to our clients. The work of Shearman & Sterling started on Wall Street and spread worldwide. Long known for representing major US financial institutions, today Shearman & Sterling has about 900 lawyers in almost 20 offices, not only in North America but also in the Asia/Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Its practice areas include antitrust, bankruptcy, capital markets, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, project development and finance, and tax. Shearman.

Founded in 1947, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually — including the TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® General and Subject Tests and The Praxis Series™ assessments — in more than 180 countries, and at over 9,000 locations worldwide. ETS has been certified by the British Standards Institution (BSI) for its Business Continuity Management System. The BCMS program safeguards ETS's critical operations and systems as well as the integrity of information entrusted to the organization. ETS is one of only four U.S. companies receiving this certification.

Gen-Probe knows the answer is flowing through your veins. Gen-Probe Incorporated is a leading provider of diagnostic tests and instruments to detect HIV, chlamydia, and other sexually transmitted diseases. Gen-Probe also makes diagnostics to detect a host of infectious, disease-causing bacteria and fungi, including those behind tuberculosis, strep throat and influenza. In addition, Gen-Probe Incorporated makes products that screen donated blood for these diseases. Gen-Probe's products are designed to provide results within hours, while traditional cultured tests can take days. Major blood suppliers, including The American Red Cross and America's Blood Centers, use its products to screen much of the US blood supply.

The Viscusi Group recruits top executives and professionals for customers in the interior furnishings industry, including retailers, manufacturers, and distributors of such items as furniture, textiles, lighting, floor covering, and wall coverings. It fills chief executive and board positions, as well as vacancies for designers, sales representatives, and showroom managers. Founded in 1985, The Viscusi Group uses a database of more than 80,000 candidates worldwide.

Nationwide Maintenance works to keep other businesses working. A contractor in building maintenance, the company provides a variety of services, including air conditioning and refrigeration, heating and ventilation, lighting and other electrical work, plumbing, ventilation cleaning, and water treatment. Nationwide Maintenance also installs control, fire-alarm, and sprinkler systems and generators. Clients include British Land, Lloyds Bank, Benetton Formula One, and Close Brothers. Nationwide Maintenance operates about a half dozen offices serving most of the UK.

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