The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) operates a toll system consisting of about 90 miles of roadway. Facilities include the Dallas North Tollway, the President George Bush Turnpike, the Addison Airport Toll Tunnel, the Mountain Creek Lake Bridge, and Sam Rayburn Tollway. The authority serves four counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A predecessor agency, the Texas Turnpike Authority, was created by the Texas Legislature in 1953; the NTTA was created by the Legislature in 1997 to take over for the turnpike authority in Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), known for its black and white panda logo, strives to protect the diversity of life on the planet. The conservation organization has worked on more than 13,000 projects in about 160 countries to save endangered species and natural areas, as well as to address threats such as global warming and the exploitation of forests. WWF operates projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Eurasia with national affiliates in about 100 countries. World Wildlife Fund publishes data on endangered wildlife, wild places, and global challenges, such as toxic chemicals and climate change. WWF was founded in 1961 and is supported by some 1.2 million members in the US and 5 million globally.

The Aerospace Corporation provides space-related research, development, and advisory services, primarily for US government programs. The Aerospace Corporation chief sponsor is the US Air Force, and its main customers have included the Space and Missile Systems Center of Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office. Other clients have included NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as commercial enterprises, universities, and international organizations. Areas of expertise include launch certification, process implementation, systems engineering, and technology application. The Aerospace Corporation was established in 1960 and operates through about 20 offices.

Gold Medal Travel Group thinks its travel packages and services take first prize. As a travel consolidator, the company offers a variety of online travel services and products (airfares, hotel reservations, auto rental) to travel agents throughout the UK. Gold Medal Travel customers can choose from 1,500 destinations and 30,000 hotels in countries around the world. The company concentrates on cruises and on packages to such destinations as Dubai, the Indian Ocean, and South Africa; Canada and the US; the Far East; and Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. In April 2009, European travel giant Thomas Cook Group bought Gold Medal Travel's parent company, holding company Gold Medal International.

The American Booksellers Association was founded on November 15, 1900, to represent the interests of the retail booksellers of America. ABA held its first convention in 1901 and in the 100-plus years hence has continued to provide its members with education, research, information, and advocacy. From the first edition of the Book Buyer’s Handbook to the birth of IndieBound in 2008, the ABA has always existed to serve its diverse, knowledgeable, and passionate membership. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) offers strength in numbers for independent booksellers in a bind over how to battle the superstores. The organization is dedicated to protecting book retailers' interests. For an annual fee, ABA provides its members with an annual trade conference, industry news and information, professional development services, and advertising and promotional opportunities. Its members include independent bookstores and chains, university stores, and specialty shops. To help members compete against large Internet booksellers, ABA has launched an online sales network, BookSense.com.

Total Resource Management company offers asset and IT management (using IBM's Maximo asset management programs), systems engineering, training, and consulting services, which include data migration, integration, implementation, mobile computing, and report writing. It also creates IT management software under the RulesManager brand. The company serves customers in federal, state, and local government, and in the energy, transportation, education, public works, manufacturing, and retail industries. TRM has five locations, mostly in the Western US. It was formed in 1993.

The World Gold Council’s mission is to stimulate and sustain the demand for gold and to create enduring value for its stakeholders. The organisation represents the world’s leading gold mining companies, who produce approximately 60% of the world’s annual corporate gold production in a responsible manner and whose Chairmen and CEOs form the Board of the World Gold Council (WGC). As the gold industry’s key market development body, WGC works with multiple partners to create structural shifts in demand and to promote the use of gold in all its forms; as an investment by opening new market channels and making gold’s wealth preservation qualities better understood; in jewellery through the development of the premium market and the protection of the mass market; in industry through the development of the electronics market and the support of emerging technologies and in government affairs through engagement in macro-economic policy issues, lowering regulatory barriers to gold ownership and the promotion of gold as a reserve asset.

Fry Inc. company designs online sites, including corporate intranets and extranets, and provides a host of marketing services, including brand design and multi-channel marketing campaign development. Additionally, Fry creates and integrates e-business applications, provides managed hosting services, and collects and analyzes Web traffic data. Clients include Brookstone, Eddie Bauer, and Godiva. The firm was founded in 1994 as part of printing company Fry Communications but was spun off as an independent enterprise in 1999. Fry has offices in California, Illinois, Michigan, and New York.

Vantage Partners LLC provides management consulting services focused on negotiating and managing relationships with outsourcing partners, suppliers, customers, and others. The company also offers workshops and customized corporate training. Clients have included ConocoPhillips, Lexmark, and Johnson & Johnson. Vantage Partners techniques are based on those in the book Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, written by director and founder Bruce Patton. The founders of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a research center at Harvard Law School that focuses on negotiation and conflict resolution, formed Vantage Partners in 1997.

Human Synergistics/Center for Applied Research provides individual, group, and organizational diagnostic tools and development materials for team building, leadership development, and organizational change. Services include survey design and administration, consulting, and seminars and workshops. Human Synergistics/Center for Applied Research company serves clients in the business, government, and academic sectors; it has offices in Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco.

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