Mendelsohn/Zien Advertising is a full-service advertising agency and a leading West Coast creative ad firm. It provides creative development and strategic planning for a wide range of advertising and marketing campaigns, serving such clients as automaker BMW, fresh fruit company Dole Food, and fast-food chain Carl's Jr. (owned by CKE Restaurants). In addition to traditional print and television ads, Mendelsohn/Zien creates ads for outdoor media as well as interactive and digital advertising. CEO Richard Zien and former partner Jordin Mendelsohn started the agency in 1984. It is owned today by Japan's Hakuhodo.

Symphony Publishing acquired the assets of Earnshaw Publications in 2005. Symphony Publishing looks for harmony between the print world and the online one. The company publishes B2B magazines, Web sites, and directories in the music product, music education, children's fashion, and footwear markets. Print titles include Musical Merchandise Review, School Band and Orchestra, JAZZed, Choral Director, Footwear Plus, and Earnshaw's Review. Sites include MiBlueBook.com and MiDealerMap.com, a used instrument price guide and dealer locator, respectively. Its directories include Student's Guide to College Music Programs, School Band and Orchestra (career guide), and Musical Merchandise Review.

Buchanan Communications company, one of many subsidiaries of global advertising bigwig WPP, offers a variety of financial communications services. Clients use Buchanan's help to get their financial message across to current and prospective investors. The firm, which operates from offices in London and Edinburgh, has teams dedicated to investor relations, initial public offerings, and mergers-and-acquisition communications. Its client list includes soft drink maker A.G. Barr, the London Stock Exchange, Majestic Wine, and Oxford BioMedica.

CEO Gary M. Reynolds founded GMR Marketing LLC in 1979. It is a part of The Radiate Group, a unit of advertising giant Omnicom. GMR owns or is affiliated with about 25 offices worldwide. GMR Marketing company produces product promotions at shopping malls, temporary retail locations, concerts, sports, and lifestyle events such as car shows and Spring Break -- as well as "virtual" events tied in with video games and online spaces. It provides all-inclusive services -- from concept and design to construction and site management. GMR productions have included the Microsoft Xbox Odyssey, the Kraft Food and Family Show, and the Miller Lite Racing Garage.

Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc. offers investor relation services. Lippert/Heilshorn provides strategic investor relations programs, messaging and communications, and market intelligence and outreach services; and corporate communication services. It also offers strategic media relations services, including development and execution of external communications programs, brand positioning and key message development, proactive media-specific messaging and targeted outreach, news bureau management, editorial desk-side meetings, audience identification, targeting key influencers and thought leaders, media audits, tradeshow support, collateral development, and media training and interview preparation, as well as securing special event attendance, introductions, and meetings with key editors and industry professionals.

Newsday, LLC publishes the daily newspaper Newsday serving readers primarily in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, as well as in the borough of Queens in New York City. The paper boasts a daily circulation of about 330,000 and Sunday circulation of about 400,000. In addition to its daily newspaper, Newsday, LLC publishes amNew York, a free daily that serves New York City commuters, and through Star Community Publishing the company publishes and distributes weekly shoppers throughout Long Island and in some sections of New York City. Newsday, LLC is a subsidiary of cable system operator Cablevision.

UBM Global Trade, formerly Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., has been the leading provider of proprietary data, news, business intelligence and analytical content supporting commercial maritime, rail, trucking, warehousing and logistics industries worldwide since 1827. The company’s portfolio of more than 100 online, print and interactive workflow business solutions includes The Journal of Commerce, The Journal of Commerce Conferences, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions and an array of international trade and transportation databases and directories. UBM Global Trade, a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited, is headquartered in East Windsor, NJ, with offices throughout the United States and in Canada and Hong Kong.

Echelon Studios is a film production, domestic distribution, and foreign sales company. It partners with firms such as Newmark Communications, Panorama Entertainment, and Profile Entertainment. Echelon films include Fish Without a Bicycle, a romantic comedy directed by Beverly Hills, 90210 star Brian Austin Green and BachelorMan, starring David DeLuise (son of Dom DeLuise). The company's current incarnation was founded in 2004 by president and CEO Eric Louzil.

Chairwoman Joanne Truffelman and CEO Lauren Genkinger (the initials "T" and "G" in the firm's name) founded the company in 1986. TG Madison isn't a Madison Avenue ad agency, but it can offer its clients many of the same services as the big firms. The independent agency helps companies and not-for-profit groups get out their message by creating and producing radio, TV, and print advertising. It also provides collateral services, such as writing annual reports and brochures, preparing displays and packaging, and designing logos for everything from cocktail napkins to hockey pucks.

SmartPros Ltd. company was formerly known as KeepSmart.com, Inc. and changed its name to SmartPros Ltd. in June 2001. SmartPros Ltd. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hawthorne, New York. SmartPros Ltd. provides learning and training solutions for accounting/finance, legal, engineering, securities, and insurance markets, as well as for information technology professionals. Its products and services include accounting and finance libraries; SmartPros Advantage, a skills-based learning library; financial management network, a library of update programs dealing with current topics; CPA Report, a library of programs that cover various topics in public accounting for accountants in public practice; and CPA report government and not-for-profit, a library of programs designed for accounting professionals. The company’s engineering library comprises PE Exam Review course for civil engineers, online professional development hours, project management for engineers, fundamentals of engineering exam review, and supply chain and CPIM certification. It also offers continuing legal education and business ethics; and courses, including banking compliance, general banking, general bank management, insurance, lending, retirement and estate planning, securities, ethics, anti-money laundering, financial planning, and industry-related sales and services, as well as provides various courses focusing on IT related briefings to executives, technologists, and consultants. The company’s training solutions comprise training in corporate governance, ethics, finance, and compliance for the general corporate market; and pharmaceutical, professional services, banking, securities, and insurance industries. In addition, SmartPros Ltd. provides video production, duplication, e-marketing, and e-commerce services. It provides its products in various formats, including print, CD-ROM, DVD, videotapes, and via the Internet.

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