Bethune-Cookman University is an institution filled with rich history and beloved traditions, and a strong commitment to academic excellence and community service. From its beginnings as a school for young African-American girls to its status as a University, offering 35 undergraduate programs and a master’s degree in transformative leadership, B-CU has educated generations of lifelong learners and community leaders. Bethune-Cookman University is Founded in 1904 by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, B-CU has become a leading institution of higher education.

Ipsos MORI is a leading provider of market research in the UK. Working as a group of companies -- consisting of Market & Opinion Research International, Ipsos UK Limited, and Ipsos MORI Ireland Limited -- the company provides survey research services in such areas as advertising and media, consumer goods, health care, and tourism. It also performs public opinion surveys on social issues and employee satisfaction surveys. Ipsos MORI was founded in 1969 by noted pollster and political analyst Sir Robert Worcester. In 2005 France-based market research firm Ipsos bought rival MORI and combined its Ipsos UK unit with MORI to create Ipsos MORI.

The Howard-Sloan-Koller Group (HSK) specializes in media, advertising and entertainment, recruiting in the functions found in print publishing, digital media, advertising, public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion, broadcast and cable, and related fields. Our dedicated practices are built on deep market knowledge as well as a long-established network of clients, candidates and friends.Because we have worked in the professions in which we now recruit, we also serve as true consultants to our clients. While our core function is search and recruitment--connecting people with companies and companies with people--the insight we bring to the search process gives us an unmatched ability to offer ideas and perspective that go beyond the recruitment of talent. The firm's roots go back to the mid-'70s, when Ed Koller joined Howard-Sloan Associates, a recruiting firm established in 1957. In 1989, he acquired the part of the firm he had been running and launched the Howard-Sloan-Koller Group (HSK) as a newly focused entity: A retained search resource for the media sector. In 1991, as synergies grew between the advertising and media industries, HSK acquired Jerry Fields Associates, the leading recruitment firm in advertising. Today, the Jerry Fields name has been brought under the Howard-Sloan-Koller umbrella to reflect the convergence of these industries and to provide the firm with a single brand with a unified message.

U.S. Energy Services manages clients' energy requirements and provides management services related to natural gas pipelines. The independently owned company provides energy audits, tariff reviews, supply procurement and management, and plant site development, as well as mapping services, to its clients. U.S. Energy Services operates from offices in Louisville, Kentucky; Omaha, Nebraska; Overland Park, Kansas; and Plymouth, Minnesota. CEO Bill Bathe started the firm in 1993 with two partners after the 1988 deregulation of the natural gas industry. U.S. Energy Services is owned by its employees.

4Kids Entertainment, Inc., together with the subsidiaries, operates as a diversified entertainment and media company. It operates through four segments: Licensing; Advertising Media and Broadcast; Television and Film Production/Distribution; and Trading Card and Game Distribution. The Licensing segment engages in the business of licensing the merchandising rights to popular childrens television series, properties, and product concepts. It acts as merchandising agent to grant licenses for third parties to manufacture and sell various merchandise, including toys, videogames, trading cards, apparel, housewares, footwear, books, and other published materials in the United Kingdom and European marketplaces. The Advertising Media and Broadcast segment, through an agreement with Fox Broadcasting Corporation, leases Foxs Saturday morning programming block, as well as provides programming content to be broadcast on 4Kids TV. It also has an agreement with The CW Network, LLC, to program CW's Saturday morning children's programming block. The Television and Film Production/Distribution segment produces and adapts animated and live-action television programs and theatrical motion pictures for distribution to the domestic and international television, home video, and theatrical markets. It also composes original music for incorporating into television programming, and markets and manages such music, as well as distributes home videos associated with television programming.

PeopleAnswers, Inc. develops and provides Web-based assessment and work force optimization technologies. It offers a Web-based software application that analyzes a set of behavioral characteristics in candidates or employees against its validated best practice profiles or against the customer’s custom-developed top performer profiles. The company also provides assessments, which provides the analysis pertaining to candidate's fit to the position, as well as includes must-ask interview questions, management insights, development roadmap and resources, and relative ranking to other candidates; and printing engine that enables users to select online assessment to be repurposed in a formatted printable document, and to review the information offline, including in management reports or share with others. It offers its products and services for pre-employment selection and evaluation of current employees. The company serves financial services, retail, transportation/energy, technology, restaurants, professional services, healthcare/medical devices, call centers, media/publishing, real estate, telecommunications, manufacturing/distributors, and hospitality industries. PeopleAnswers, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

A.B.C. Learning Centres provides day care through some 700 centers in Australia and New Zealand and more than 1,000 centers in the US. The centers offer preschool programs for infants and children as young as six weeks old as well as vacation care for older children. Befallen with unmanageable debt after a rapid international expansion, A.B.C. Learning went into voluntary receivership in November 2008 and began selling off and closing its assets. It sold 60% of US arm Learning Care Group to Morgan Stanley and its UK arm Busy Bees to Singapore company Knowledge Universe Education.

MAACO Franchising offers relief from chips, dings, dents, and other auto body blemishes. The company franchises about 500 MAACO Collision Repair & Auto Painting shops throughout the US and in half a dozen Canadian provinces. The company does business with vehicle fleet operators as well as with individuals. Fleet clients include ARAMARK, DHL, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. MAACO estimates that its franchisees have painted more than 16 million vehicles since the company was founded in 1972. It was sold in late 2008 to Driven Brands, owner of Meineke Car Care Centers and several other automotive service chains.

An apple a day keeps the unemployment lines away. The Howroyd-Wright Employment Agency, doing business as AppleOne, is one of the nation's largest privately held employment agencies, with more than 200 offices across the US and Canada. It places job seekers in a variety of temporary and full-time positions in accounting, customer service, law, and information technology, among other fields. The company also offers its corporate clients human resources services, such as payroll and tax filing, continuing education, and outplacement. President Bernard Howroyd, who founded the company in 1964 after a conversation in a bar with an unhappy temp worker, controls AppleOne.

Aboitiz Transport System (ATS) is the only integrated transport solutions provider in the Philippines today. Its principal business units are engaged in the movement of people operating under brand name "SuperFerry", "SuperCat", and "Cebu Ferries" and the movement of cargos operating under the brand name "2GO". ATS' array of services geared towards cargo movements includes containerization, RoRo services, logistics and supply chain solutions. The company also provides ship management and manpower solutions worldwide under the Aboitiz-Jebsen group of companies. It is majority-owned by Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV), one of the largest and most diversified publicly listed corporations in the country with business interests spanning in various industries such as power, banking, food production, property development, construction, shipbuilding, and leisure/resort.

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