Within each of these core service areas are a number of significant boutique practices whose reputations are national and even international in scope. Within our corporate area, for instance, the firm enjoys a world-class reputation in important areas of practice including asset-based finance; banking; executive compensation; investment services (mutual funds); and aircraft and equipment finance. Law firm Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz has organized its numerous practices into three primary areas: corporate; labor and employment; and litigation. Within those fields, the firm over the years has developed expertise in specialty practices such as accounting, aircraft finance, bankruptcy, construction, executive compensation, and investment services.

Bosch Security Systems, Inc. works closely with an extensive network of certified dealers and integrators to design dependable security and life safety solutions for the market. Our broad portfolio of products and systems for video surveillance, access control, and intrusion and fire detection are used by major schools and universities, government agencies, correctional facilities, retail stores, casinos and in many other commercial environments throughout North America. Bosch Security Systems has a sixth sense for finding business. The company, makes electronic detection and communications equipment for firms that provide security and fire protection systems and services. Its products include smoke detectors, motion detectors, closed-circuit TV systems, access control systems, and control panels. Related communications equipment sends alarm signals over telephone lines, wireless networks, and WANs. Bosch also makes personal safety systems that when activated, transmit the user's identity and location to a monitoring station. The company has sales offices and distribution centers worldwide. Bosch Security Systems is a subsidiary of German manufacturing giant Robert Bosch.

Rapid Response Monitoring provides wholesale security alarm monitoring services to more than 900 security system dealers. It monitors about 200,000 security systems for customers throughout the US from a central facility in New York state. In addition to security alarm monitoring, Rapid Response also monitors fire alarms and offers GPS tracking and monitoring services. The company is also one of about two dozen firms approved to monitor fire alarms in New York City. Chairman and CEO Russell MacDonnell and president Jeffrey Atkins, owners of Rapid Response Monitoring, founded the company in 1992.

Bucknell University is the highly selective private liberal arts school accepts only about 10% of applicants each year. Students who do get in, some 3,400 of them from around the world, have the option to specialize in more than 50 majors and 60 minors. Bucknell confers both undergraduate and master's degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, engineering, and music. It also offers programs in pre-law and pre-med. Bucknell tuition and fees total about $48,000; more than half of the student body typically receives financial aid. The school's student-to-faculty ratio is 11-to-1. Bucknell was founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg.

Salveson Stetson Group (SSG), a retained executive search company that focuses on senior management searches for positions earning $150,000 or more a year. After helping a client develop a position description, SSG creates a profile of the ideal candidate and then helps with the search for positions such as CEO, CFO, HR, and sales or marketing. Founded in 1996 by John Salveson and Sally Stetson, the company also helps with after-the-hire transition issues. Clients range from startups to FORTUNE 500 companies to non-profit organizations.

Albright College is the oldest institution of higher learning in Berks County and is located on a 118-acre suburban campus nestled at the foot of Mount Penn in Reading, Pa., a city of 80,000. The College dates its beginning to the founding of Union Seminary in 1856. The present Albright College was formed by a series of mergers with other institutions of higher learning founded in the 19th century by the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church. Union and Schuylkill Seminaries were not theological seminaries, but were three-year collegiate institutes. The College's rigorous liberal arts curriculum has an interdisciplinary focus. Albright’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Fully half of Albright students have concentrations that combine two or three fields of learning.

Mahoney Cohen & Company keeps a nice set of figures. With offices in New York, Florida, and Texas, the accounting, consulting, and management firm provides services to businesses and high-net-worth individuals. It runs several businesses in addition to its main accounting operations: Creative Financial Staffing of New York (staffing for the New York area), Tax Services (tax consulting and planning), Public Company Services (SEC compliance and governance), Family Office Services (finance services for wealthy clients), Global Services (international business services), and Corporate Recovery Services (bankruptcy and litigation support). The firm was acquired by CBIZ at the end of 2008.

Chapman University, founded in 1861, is one of the oldest, most prestigious private universities in California. Chapman's picturesque campus is located in the heart of Orange County – one of the nation's most exciting centers of arts, business, science and technology – and draws outstanding students from across the United States and around the world. Known for its blend of liberal arts and professional programs, Chapman University encompasses seven schools and colleges: Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Schmid College of Science, College of Performing Arts, School of Law and College of Educational Studies. Named to the list of top universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review, Chapman University enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students. The university's mission is to provide personalized education of distinction that leads to inquiring, ethical and productive lives as global citizens.

VIA International Limited company consults management on product marketing, developing sales channel strategies, improving customer service, and implementing partner programs. Although it is based in London, more than 80% of VIA's revenues consistently come from outside the UK, with a significant portion earned in Asia-Pacific. The firm was started in 1989 by a group of former Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) senior managers. The firm's clients come from health care, pharmaceutical, retail, and technology industries, and include Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Subway.

The Communities Group (TCG) provides consulting services, including training and technical assistance, for local housing authorities and other community organizations. The group works with clients throughout the US; in addition, it has taken on projects elsewhere in the Americas and in Europe and Asia. Through its subsidiaries, TCG also provides design and development services aimed to low- to moderate-income communities and offers property management software. TCG was established in 1984.

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