Express Employment Professionals was created in 1983 by founders Robert A. Funk, William H. Stoller, and James Gray, from the dissolution of Acme Personnel, a Washington-based staffing company in which all three were associates. After the death of Acme president Bill Reiff, the three purchased and operated several franchises of Acme which became Express Employment Professionals. The mission of Express Employment Professionals, from its staff and founders to its franchisees, is to reflect a common desire to help people succeed. Robert Funk says, "For many people who have lost their jobs, often through no fault of their own, we provide great hope. Our mission is to help people find jobs and our client companies find good employees, and to help those clients make those jobs and those employees even better."

CompuDyne Corporation is an industry leader in advanced technology integration for the Homeland Security market. Founded in 1952 as a defense contractor, CompuDyne has become a leading U.S. manufacturer and integrator of physical and electronic security products and services. CompuDyne, growing both organically and through the acquisition of companies specializing in the public safety and security business, now has more than 900 employees working in six divisions worldwide. CompuDyne’s primary customers are local, state and federal government agencies, yet its commercial customer base has grown rapidly as the need to protect the public and information has become increasingly critical. CompuDyne and its divisions offer products and services that protect vital physical spaces, monitor critical intelligence information, detect security threats, and manage essential public safety and justice information. CompuDyne technologies can be installed in individual buildings, large multi-site campuses, or deployed over hundreds of square miles.

ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a not-for-profit organization responsible for the management of the Internet's domain name system (DNS), allocation of Internet protocol (IP) addresses, and assignment of protocol parameters. The DNS allows people to type in an address like "www.hoovers.com" rather than the string of numbers that represents the underlying IP address. Internet users register domain names ending in .com, .org, and .net, among others, through ICANN-accredited DNS registrars.

Facilities management company City Refrigeration provides HVAC, janitorial, landscape maintenance, pest control, and plumbing services to retailers, restaurants, and other businesses. It is one of the UK's largest specialist refrigeration and facilities management companies and provides services at thousands of locations throughout the UK. Its City Technical Services subsidiary offers installation, testing, and maintenance expertise for heating systems and gas appliances. Chairman Willie Haughey and his wife, Susan, founded the company in 1985, starting off by selling refrigerators and technical services to pubs.

Hays replenishes people. Through its network of about 400 offices across some 25 countries, the company offers personnel services (contract and permanent placement), primarily for high-end positions in accounting, banking, construction, and information technology, among other areas. Hays also provides human resources consulting and outsourcing services, including assessment, performance management, employee relations, and learning and development. In addition, Hays operates career site Hays.com, which maintains a database of more than 40,000 jobs. Its customers mainly reside in the UK and Ireland and have included such big names as ricewaterhouseCoopers, Deutsche Bank, Fujitsu, and KPMG.

Creative Good checks out the effectiveness of clients' Web sites, focusing on customer experience and how a site's usability and design affect branding, customer retention, and revenue. (President Mark Hurst, who founded the company in 1997, is known as a pioneer in the field of online customer experience.) Besides its qualitative evaluation, Creative Good offers customer-focused usability tests and feedback, competitive analysis, and prototyping. Its clients span such diverse industries as entertainment and media, financial services, insurance, travel, and health care.

Analytics Operations Engineering gets down in the trenches to help companies improve performance. Rather than focusing on high-level strategic initiatives, Analytics company provides consulting services related to the performance of production lines, inventory management systems, quality controls, and pricing structures with the aim of increasing productivity and lowering costs. Among other things, Analytics helps its clients forecast sales more effectively, redesign production line architecture, and train staff on new procedures. Founded in 1994 by Mitchell Burman, the company has counted Bain Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, and Northrop Grumman among its customers.

Cyclops Displays has an eye out for your trade show needs. The company sells and rents a variety of products designed to catch the customers eye at trade shows. Cyclops Displays wares include tabletop displays, pop-up displays, folding displays, panel systems, banner stands, and modular flooring including pre-owned displays and portable exhibits. The company also provides graphics services for clients in need of creative input and boasts an artwork upload area on its Web site. For those customers who purchase graphics products, Cyclops Displays offers its design services for the development of promotional products, as well as an online catalog to preview trade show display examples.

Ascend Consulting is trying to help banks, brokerages, and insurance firms reach new heights of success. The company offers business process and IT consulting designed to meet the strategic goals of clients in these global financial services industries. Ascend's consultants work with in-house IT teams on systems integration and software quality assurance using its Catapult methodology. It also partners with Endeca and Metatomix to deliver technology that aids in customer relationship management and compliance. In addition to banking, brokerage, and insurance, industry sectors that it serves include capital markets, mutual funds, and trusts. Clients are primarily firms with complex IT infrastructures.

Benesse Corporation is committed to three key objectives: providing the kind of high-quality services ; supporting people in fulfilling their potential at every stage of life; and delivering services that help customers find even greater enjoyment in life the older they become. Through Benesse Style Care the company operates nursing homes throughout Japan, as well as senior day care and temporary health care staffing services. Benesse Corporation also publishes magazines aimed primarily at women. Its Berlitz International subsidiary provides language training throughout the world.

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