The Big Issue is one of the UK’s leading social businesses, which seventeen years since its inception continues to offer homeless and vulnerably housed people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income. The organisation is made up of two parts; a limited company which produces and distributes a magazine to a network of street vendors, and a registered charity which exists to help those vendors gain control of their lives by addressing the issues which have contributed to their homelessness. The Big Issue Company publishes a weekly entertainment and current affairs magazine, which Big Issue sellers (or vendors) buy for 85p and sell for £1.70, thereby earning 85p per copy. Any post investment profit generated through the sale of the magazine or the sale of advertising is passed on to our charity, The Big Issue Foundation. The Foundation is also reliant upon donations from the public to fund its crucial work with vendors. The organisation currently supports over 2900 homeless and vulnerably housed people across the country. The magazine is read by over 670,000 people every week throughout the UK*.

Gale®, part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform. The Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted reference brands as Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's Sons® and Primary Source Media™. Gale also serves the K-12 market with its U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, Lucent Books®, KidHaven Press and Sleeping Bear Press™ imprints. Thorndike Press®, Christian Large Print™, Wheeler Publishing™, Five Star™ and Large Print Press™ serve libraries' large print collections. Major brands include InfoTrac, Gale Virtual Reference Library — the company's eBook platform — and the unparalleled Gale Digital Collections such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online. In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations — including Looksmart, Borders, Dow Jones and Thomson Financial — presently enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices in the U.S., and in the following international regions: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America.

EPerformax Contact Centers Corp. operates contact and business process outsourcing (BPO) centers in the Philippines. It offers contact center voice services, such as inbound customer service, inbound technical support and help desk, inbound sales, and outbound business-to–business services; contact center non-voice services, including chat and email; and BPO services, including third party quality monitoring, research and data mining, database maintenance, records management and processing, document imaging, data entry and transcription, and claims processing. ePERFORMAX company’s call center provides customer service, technical support, quality assessment call monitoring, and data collection and verification for the U.S. companies. It offers contact center services for English speaking customers.

TRIBUNE is one of the country’s leading multimedia companies, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. In publishing, Tribune’s leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Sun Sentinel (South Florida), Orlando Sentinel, Hartford Courant, The Morning Call and Daily Press. The company’s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable and Chicago’s WGN-AM. Popular news and information websites complement Tribune’s print and broadcast properties and extend the company’s nationwide audience.

Platts has about 15 offices worldwide, and is owned by publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Platts has been monitoring the energy industry for more than 75 years. The company offers energy and commodities information and analysis on the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets. The company sells subscriptions to its content, which is offered through Web sites, newsletters, and magazines, to traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry executives. Other product offerings include maps and software. It also produces conferences for the energy industry.

Ferolie Corporation (operating as Eastern Sales and Marketing or ESM) broke into the business on the East Coast in 1948. Ferolie company provides sales and marketing services for packaged food and packaged goods companies. Through exclusive area and regional contracts, the group arranges distribution to warehouse stores, drugstores, supermarkets, and mass merchandisers. Some of ESM's biggest clients have included Nestle Waters North America, B&G Foods, Turkey Hill Dairy, Bumble Bee Foods, 3M, and SC Johnson. Founded by Joseph Ferolie, the company remains family-owned.

Best known as the home of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Gemstone Publishing, a division of Geppi's Entertainment Publishing & Auctions, was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen A. Geppi as a conduit for his efforts in preserving and promoting the history of the comics medium.In addition to our Disney comics line, Gemstone currently offers publications such as The Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide, The Big Big Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, The Official Price Guide to Disney Collectibles, The Official Price Guide to Pop Culture: 150 Years of Character Toys & Collectibles, Hake's Price Guide To Character Toys, The Official Price Guide to Mechanical Banks and The Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide. Gemstone also publishes Scoop, a free weekly e-newsletter which looks inside the world of pop culture with a focus on auctions, toys, comics, posters, art and anything and everything pop culture! The spotlight is on fun, while also offering informative insights into the beloved playthings of the past and how they have influenced our culture.

Bonnier AB company is the largest publishing and media concern in Scandinavia and one of the largest in Europe, with some 175 companies and units. It is a leading force in Sweden's newspaper market, with publications such as Stockholm City and Expressen. Bonnier is also active in book publishing (Templar Publishing in the UK, Tammi of Finland), and has magazine publishing operations (health and fitness title I Form). The firm's other businesses include television, radio production, and Internet operations. The founding Bonnier family owns Bonnier company, which operates in 25 European countries. Although it is 200 years old, media firm Bonnier AB (also known as The Bonnier Group) is showing no signs of slowing down.

Pronto has a successful 25 year history of providing print and mail production services for direct marketers in South Florida, and nationally. Pronto continues to add to Pronto list national fortune 100 companies who demand speedy production, and an adherence to a production standard that guarantees the highest quality materials.

College Hill Life Sciences (formerly Northbank Communications) is a London-based public relations firm specializing in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and health care companies. Its services include public relations, marketing, events promotion, investor relations, media relations, business consulting, and brand design services. Initially formed in 2002, Northbank Communications was acquired by College Hill Associates in late 2007 and subsequently changed its name.

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