Questor Management Company would rather light a candle than curse your darkness. The turnaround capital investment firm acquires underperforming or troubled companies that show performance improvement opportunity. Questor makes controlling investments in companies with promise for success but a need for capital and management assistance.Its portfolio includes tank trailer manufacturer Polar Corporation and food manufacturer Chef Solutions; Questor Management has acquired more than 20 businesses around the globe with combined revenues of about $7 billion. The firm works with management teams, strategic buyers, and existing equity holders to assure a smooth transition and turnaround.

ACCION International helps people take action to help themselves. ACCION International, Spanish for "action," gives the poor the means to achieve economic independence by providing micro loans for starting small businesses. Enterprises are typically making and selling food, sewing clothing, or growing and selling produce. ACCION International works with lenders to support programs in about 20 countries in Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It loans about $5 billion each year to nearly 3 million people. First-time loans average about $600 each. The program's repayment rate is more than 97%. ACCION was formed in 1961 to fight poverty in Latin American cities.

ChinaCast Education Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an e-learning and training services provider in the Peoples Republic of China. Its e-learning education services include interactive distance learning applications, multimedia education content delivery, vocational/career training courses, and English language training. The company provides these services through its nationwide satellite broadband network, as well as through traditional bricks and mortar schools to post-secondary educational institutions, K-12 schools, government agencies, and corporate enterprises. ChinaCast also provides bachelor and diploma programs in finance, economics, trade, tourism, advertising, information technology, music, and foreign languages. It has a joint venture agreement with the China University of Petroleum to offer distance learning programs. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.

BCD Travel Operating in more than 1,500 locations in 90-plus countries, BCD Travel is a leading provider of corporate travel services. Its TripSource: Portal offers personalized travel information and services, including real-time flight status, hotel rates, weather, and maps. The company also offers travel consulting services through its Advito unit. Chairman John Fentener van Vlissingen's BCD Holdings owns BCD Travel, which was formed when WorldTravel BTI and The Travel Company were integrated in 2006.

Dignity plc is a holding company that is engaged in the provision of funeral services, including funeral directing, crematoria operation and the marketing and administration of pre-arranged funeral plans. The Company owns 544 funeral homes and operates 25 crematoria in United Kingdom. The Company’s operations are managed across three main areas: funeral services, crematoria and pre-arranged funeral plans. Funeral services represent 78% of the Company’s revenues and relate to the provision of funerals and ancillary items, such as memorials and floral tributes. During the fiscal year ended December 26, 2008 (fiscal 2008), the Company conducted 68,700 funerals. Crematoria represent 17% of the Company’s revenues and arise from cremation services, and the sale of memorials and burial plots at the Company’s crematoria and cemeteries. Pre-arranged funeral plans represent 5% of the Company’s revenues.

AmeriCold Logistics is a leading provider of temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution services. The company offers about 545 million cu. ft. of storage space for refrigerated, frozen, and dry merchandise in more than 100 facilities throughout the US and in Canada, including 10 regional distribution centers. Major customers have included ConAgra, General Mills, Heinz, and Tyson Foods. AmeriCold Logistics is owned by AmeriCold Realty Trust, which in turn is controlled by investment firm Yucaipa. Vornado Realty Trust sold its interest in AmeriCold to Yucaipa in 2008.

Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC), a financial services and payments consultancy, provides strategy consulting services in the United States and internationally. The company focuses on strategic analysis and critical business guidance to issuers, acquirers, processors, technology providers, and merchants. It offers corporate, business unit, product, market, channel, merger and acquisition, and partner and alliance strategy services, as well as strategic planning process facilitation, organizational design, implementation and change management, and merger integration services; and marketing services, such as market assessments and segmentation analysis, interchange and pricing strategy, market research, brand positioning and strategy, marketing plan, customer acquisition and retention, and new product development.Edgar, Dunn & Company also provides financial analysis and profitability services, including business and portfolio valuations, due diligence reviews, cost analysis financial forecasting and modeling, performance benchmarking, and capital plans and structure; and operations services comprising functional review and process improvement, business requirements, information technology system review and design, project management office, outsourcing analysis, and vendor evaluation. In addition, EDC offers risk management services, such as credit risk management and collections, fraud risk management, enterprise and operational risk management, regulatory assessment and compliance, performance benchmarking, and best practices; industry forum and roundtable services; law firm support services, including litigation, transactional, and regulatory support; and meeting facilitation, training, workshop, and seminar development services.

Danilo Black would love an opportunity to examine and improve its game face. The firm offers design consulting and services for newspapers and magazines, as well as Web-based publications. The company also performs custom publishing jobs for clients. Danilo Black was formed in 2001 by Roger Black and has offices in the US and Mexico. The firm has helped redesign Web and print products for such clients as the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, Adweek, and Popular Mechanics.

In 2000, Dr. Kalchman was a founding partner in Cortex Search Inc.. For the past decade, Cortex Search Inc. has been providing exceptional, professsional, efficient and effective Executive Search performance for clients ranging from angel funded companies, to large multi-national pharmaceutical companies. The success of Cortex has been largely a result of Dr. Kalchman's thorough understanding of the scientific, business, and strategic interactions with client companies. We have relocated professionals domestically and internationally, so we understand the nuances of relocating individuals, even in tough economic climates.

Continuous Learning Group, Inc. provides behavioral based management consulting services. It offers Performance Catalyst, a leadership process that strategically aligns and activates critical work behaviors to reach targeted results; Change Catalyst, a process that guides leaders to assure that strategic change is adopted in the organization; and Leadership Catalyst, a suite of tools instrumental in developing the intellectual and practical capabilities of leaders. The company also provides behavior change tools, such as ABC Analysis/E-TIP Analysis, which are models for analyzing the consequences of behavior and its effect upon the performer; IMPACT Model, a program for determining desired behaviors and their implementation in employees and organization; and NORMS of Objectivity, a test to ensure that the focus is on facts when selecting behaviors. In addition, it offers organizational change tools, which include DCOM Model, a tool for assessing organizational performance and potential; MAKE-ITSM Model, an approach for determining and implementing desired behaviors at the organization level; and performance drivers to guide employee performances.

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