Farrand Research Corporation was founded in 1991. Farrand Research provides custom marketing research for regional, national, and international clients. Farrand Research's services encompass study and questionnaire design, data collection, and analysis. Farrand Research Corporation utilizes interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather quantitative and qualitative research. Products include concept testing, package design studies, pricing studies, customer satisfaction, opinion polls, and cross cultural research. Farrand Research has conducted market research work for clients such as Burger King, the City of Long Beach, and the US Navy.

Slipping beautiful models into haute couture and onto the front pages of high-end glossy magazines is one of the aims of APM Model Management. The boutique firm pairs its cover girls with American and international magazines, catalogs, ad campaigns, and photographers. Led by founder and president Penny Basch, APM is among the top firms representing fashion models in New York. The agency follows Basch's "personal attention" strategy, assigning individual managers to a select group of models to ensure that each model gets adequate attention and support.

Catholic Charities began with the establishment of the Catholic Church in America. John Carroll, the first Bishop of Baltimore, which was the first diocese in the New World, declared in 1792 that one-third of all parish revenues should go to “the relief of the poor”. Catholic Charities of Baltimore provides people in the greater Baltimore area, including nine Maryland counties, with a wide variety of social services. Catholic Charities of Baltimore runs 80 programs that focus on children and families, the elderly, and people with developmental disabilities; offerings include adoption services, child abuse prevention, food, immigration assistance, residential facilities, and services for homeless people. Catholic Charities serves more than 160,000 people of all religions each year. Money for Catholic Charities of Baltimore operations comes mainly from government contracts and grants. In addition, Catholic Charities of Baltimore relies on a network of about 10,000 volunteers. Catholic Charities of Baltimore was founded in 1923.

W. Ray Wallace & Associates helps companies take advantage of grants, tax credits, and incentives offered by state and federal governments to train their workforces. Known as a "retraining tax credit," Wallace helps companies in the manufacturing, service, and retail sectors to train employees on technology and software, equipment and machinery, and customer service and teamwork. Wallace also offers accounting and tax consulting, handling all the regulatory issues surrounding the complicated application process for recovering training costs. Clients include Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, GE, and Aon.

Chrisman & Company is an executive search firm serving companies in the financial services sector, including banks, mortgage lenders, accounting firms, and insurance companies. It recruits board members, c-level executives (CEO, CFO), and other senior- and mid-level management for clients of all sizes, from startups to FORTUNE 500 companies. Chrisman also provides such consulting services as compensation analysis and business intelligence research as well as offering human resources support services for clients outsourcing HR functions or building their in-house capabilities. The firm was founded in 1980 by president and CEO Timothy Chrisman.

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP and its affiliated undertakings have over 300 lawyers in the City of London, Hong Kong, Manchester, Oxford, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore. On 1 May 2007, the practice of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in London and Singapore transferred to Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP, a limited liability partnership and on 20 November 2009, following local regulatory clearance, the practice of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in Shanghai also transferred to Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP. A separate but affiliated partnership known as Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, operates in Hong Kong and São Paulo. Our core values include a strong focus on helping our clients and our own people to achieve their ambitions. We believe in good communication as the key to cementing successful relationships, whether with our clients, or across the firm.

Acknowledged by Inside Public Accounting as one of the Top 25 Best of the Best Accounting Firms in the Country, Windes & McClaughry is a recognized leader in the field of accounting, assurance, tax, and business consulting services. Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation provide valuable business solutions to meet the needs of publicly traded and privately held businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and high net worth individuals. The firm was founded in 1926. Headquartered in Long Beach, California, the firm also has offices in Orange County and the South Bay. Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation offer a full range of capabilities, including audit and assurance, business valuation, cost segregation, employee benefit services, estate and trust planning, executive recruiting, human resources consulting, litigation support, merger/acquisition assistance, and tax planning and consulting, including tax credit studies. Our international alliance with Baker Tilly International, a global association of high quality, mid-tier and regional firms ranked among the world’s top ten accountancy and business services networks, allows us to provide clients with worldwide capabilities.

Simmons & Simmons is a worldclass international law firm in tune with the business world Time and time again businesses across the world bring us their toughest commercial challenges. They call on Simmons & Simmons for our international reach and our expert legal advice. Our clients rely on our ability to get on the same wavelength as them by investing time to understand their business and the world that they operate in. An international law firm, Simmons & Simmons represents major business enterprises and government entities from about 20 offices in Europe, the Asia/Pacific region, and the Middle East. Overall, the firm has about 600 lawyers; practice areas include capital markets, dispute resolution, employment, environmental, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and tax.

Air Sea Worldwide Logistics Ltd., the very first member and also the flagship of the Air Sea Group, began in 1988 in Hong Kong by offering fast and reliable transportation services. At the time there was a great need for our services and we made customer satisfaction our number one priority. With time, our flexible approach and professionalism helped us grow and develop in line with the growing needs of our customers. To expand our international outreach, Air Sea Group set up our own offices in mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, U.K., Spain, Rep of Panama, Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico. Together with our comprehensive agency network, we cover the world. 806 employees form the human capital of the Group. All of them are well experienced and extremely responsible. Our offices are fully computerized and we possess the equipment and vehicles needed for loadings and transports.

Established by the chairman of Microsoft and his wife, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works in developing countries to improve health and reduce poverty, and in the US to support education and libraries nationwide and children and families in the Pacific Northwest. With an endowment of about $29.5 billion in 2009 (down from $38 billion in 2007), the foundation is the largest in the US. Investor Warren Buffett has announced plans to give the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about $30 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock in installments, the first of which was received in 2006.

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