URS Corporation’s oldest predecessor company was founded in 1904. URS was established in 1951, and incorporated in 1957 as Broadview Research—a research group active in the area of physical and engineering sciences. In 1967, management developed a growth strategy focused on building a multidisciplinary professional services firm. In 1968, Broadview Research acquired United Research Incorporated of Cambridge, Massachusetts. During this period, the name Broadview Research was changed to United Research Services and later shortened to URS. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, URS continued to expand through internal growth and strategic acquisitions that enhanced our engineering, architectural and environmental practices. These acquisitions included Madigan-Praeger; Coverdale and Colpitts; John A. Blume and Associates; Hill Dreman Chase; and Dalton, Dalton and Newport.

World Concern is concerned with the poorest of the poor around the world. The Christian not-for-profit helps about 4 million people a year in more than 30 nations. World Concern uses its own index of nine factors like economy, health issues, conflict, and food availability, along with prayer, to determine which nations most need assistance. World Concern provides emergency relief and community development, including small business loans, agriculture starter kits, prenatal education, Christian literature, village sanitation kits, and donated goods (clothing, plant seeds, bedding). Founded in 1973, World Concern uses about 1,300 volunteers throughout the world working from offices in the US, Bolivia, Kenya, and Thailand.

Career Education Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides educational services primarily in the United States. The company operates schools, colleges, and universities that offer doctoral degree, master's degree, bachelor's degree, and associate degrees, as well as diploma and certificate programs in various career oriented disciplines. Its academic programs include career oriented disciplines, such as business studies, visual communications and design technologies, health education, information technology, and criminal justice and education in an online, classroom, or laboratory setting; and culinary art programs in the career-oriented disciplines of culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, and hotel and restaurant management primarily in a classroom, kitchen, or online setting. Career Education also offers health education academic programs complemented by programs in business studies and information technology in a classroom, laboratory, or online setting; and arts and design academic programs in the disciplines of fashion design, game design, graphic design, interior design, film and video production, and photography and visual communications in a classroom, laboratory, or online setting. The company provides education to approximately 116,000 students through approximately 90 campuses. It also operates in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Career Education Corporation was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

Protection One home security systems deter intruders and can often lower homeowners insurance costs. Protection One offers affordable and reliable security system packages that accommodate your home, pets and lifestyle. You can even order specially priced online packages. Protection One, Inc. provides electronic security alarm monitoring services to single-family residential, commercial, multifamily, and wholesale customers in the United States. The company monitors signals from burglary, fire, medical, and environmental alarm systems, as well as manages information from access control and closed-circuit-television systems. It operates in three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Multifamily. The Retail segment provides monitoring and maintenance services for electronic security systems to residential and business customers, as well as sells and installs electronic security systems for homes and businesses. The Wholesale segment contracts with independent security alarm dealers to provide alarm system monitoring services to their residential and business customers. It also offers business support services, as well as financing assistance for these independent dealers by providing loans secured by alarm contracts and by purchasing alarm contracts. The Multifamily segment provides monitoring and maintenance services for electronic security systems to the tenants of multifamily residences, including apartments, condominiums, and other multifamily dwellings under long-term contracts with building owners and managers. As of December 31, 2009, the company monitored approximately 1.4 million sites, including 540,000 retail customers, 4,600 independent alarm monitoring companies, and 213,000 multifamily units in 1,300 properties. Protection One, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas.

Redington India Ltd has successfully positioned itself as a focused distribution player with a significant reach across India, Middle East and Africa. We have demonstrated our capability in these price sensitive / difficult to penetrate geographies by leveraging our risk management capability, effective Supply Chain Infrastructure Management and efficient utilization of the Management Information Systems. Within a short span of 15 years the Company has successfully transformed itself from a pure IT products distribution firm with traditional cash and carry model to a leading integrated Supply Chain Solution Provider that includes non IT products and involves the management of inventory of greater than 7200 SKU's (stocking units) while transacting business with over 16,000 channel partners.

Softworld Inc., an IT staff augmentation and strategy development company, provides IT contract staffing and IT business solution services to corporations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company provides technical staffing services primarily to banking, financial services, government, telecommunications, and high technology industries. It also offers IT consulting services, including merger and acquisition data conversions, core system upgrades, system integration, year-end services, project support and staffing, audit preparation, and quality assurance services to banks and financial services firms. In addition, the company provides strategic IT services, including business system performance assessment, quality assurance, IT program management, and IT strategy and architecture assessment services. Further, it offers permanent placement services for IT professionals; and assistance to companies for the optimization of their vendor management services and managed service offering programs.

SuperMedia Inc. provides media advertising programs in the United States. It publishes SuperYellowPages, the print directories, which offer a range of paid advertising options, such as listing options, in-column advertising options, display advertising options, and specialty advertising, as well as white pages directories. The company also operates Superpages.com, an online local search site that provides advertisers fixed-fee and performance-based advertising options. In addition, it offers direct mailers under SuperpagesDirect name; and Superpages Mobile, an information source for wireless subscribers. Further, SuperMedia Inc. operates as an official publisher of print directories. SuperMedia Inc. was formerly known as Idearc Inc. and changed its name to SuperMedia Inc. in January 2010. SuperMedia Inc. is based in Dallas, Texas.

Plante & Moran is planted firmly in the upper Midwest. With some 20 offices in Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois the firm provides a variety of accounting and management consulting services. Tax preparation, employee benefits consulting, technology assessment and planning, and wealth management are among Plante & Moran's menu of services. The firm's clients include auto dealerships, construction, financial institutions, health services, manufacturing, real estate, and service companies, as well as not-for-profit and public sector organizations. Plante & Moran, which is affiliated with international accounting alliance Praxity, also has offices in Mexico and China.

A. Rifkin is a leading manufacturer of fabric security bags and other cash handling products used by the banking industry. It makes bags for coins, currency, and sensitive documents, along with products for bank lobbies and tellers. The company also makes cash handling bags designed for grocery stores, restaurants, and other retailers, as well as specialty products designed to handle such items as works of art and medical records. Russian immigrant Abraham Rifkin started the family-owned the company in 1892. A. Rifkin pioneered the development of a high-security courier bag.

The Onstott Group has a respected practice with services to technology, manufacturing, clean technology, consumer, business services, non-profit, higher education, venture capital and high growth companies. In most cases, recruitment and selection is conducted nationally to ensure that the most highly skilled candidates are identified. To extend its global search capabilities, the firm is a member of TRANSEARCH International, an international network of search professionals with offices in Africa, Europe, the Americas, Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.The Onstott Group is committed to our profession's highest ethical standards, and is one of a select number of firms admitted to the Association of Executive Search Consultants.

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