Columbia Pictures is the studio through which Sony Pictures Entertainment produces its big budget movies. The studio was founded in 1924, and in 1982 it was purchased by Coca-Cola. Sony purchased Columbia from Coke in 1989 for $3.4 billion. The deal was the largest acquisition by a Japanese firm up to that time, and initially caused headaches for Sony due to losses from elaborate spending budgets and box office duds (Ishtar). In recent years Columbia Pictures has scored hits with its Spider-Man franchise, as well as comedies such as Superbad and Hancock. It operates as part of Sony Picture's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is one of the leading producers of religious television programming in the country, offering news and entertainment shows with a spiritual message. Its centerpiece is The 700 Club, a daily show featuring a mix of news and commentary, interviews, feature stories, and Christian ministry co-hosted by CBN founder Pat Robertson. The company's programs are syndicated to broadcast and cable TV outlets that reach audiences in more than 200 countries. CBN generates most of its revenue through ministry donations. Robertson started the company with a single TV station in 1960.

The DeLor Group specializes in corporate branding and product rebranding for clients in the health care, manufacturing, and service industries. The company provides a full set of offerings for creating and revitalizing brands, from research and positioning to advertising, direct marketing, packaging, sales training, and collateral materials creation. The DeLor Group serves companies across the US, Canada, and Europe. Clients have included Akzo Nobel, Eli Lilly, and PSI Energy.

Founded in 1993, The Integer Group is a subsidiary of global media services conglomerate Omnicom. It works in conjunction with Omnicom's expansive TBWA Worldwide advertising network. The Integer Group offers promotional marketing, retail marketing, field marketing, public relations, event marketing, and interactive marketing for clients in the food and beverage, telecommunications, retail, and packaged goods industries. Operating out of several offices spanning the US, the group also owns international offices in Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. Clients have included AMD, United Airlines, and McDonald's.

Birch Tree Entertainment specializes in the world of films not touched by Hollywood. Birch Tree Entertainment is an independent movie production and distribution company specializing in martial arts, horror, thrillers, and foreign language films. The company has distribution partnerships with leading production firms in the Netherlands and Finland. It is responsible for top-grossing movies in Finland, including BAD BOYS -- A True Story and Frozen Land. Birch Tree was founded by president and CEO Art Birzneck.

Reese Communications Companies which does business as RTC Relationship Marketing provides customer relationship management (CRM) services that help companies retain existing customers and acquire new ones. It develops campaigns that use direct mail, telephone, and other direct response channels, as well as such interactive marketing strategies that use e-mail and websites. In addition, the firm offers analytical services to measure campaign effectiveness. RTC is a unit of Young & Rubicam Brands, one of the flagship agency networks of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group. RTC works within the Wunderman advertising network, which operates from about 120 offices across 50 countries.

The Hal Lewis Group (HLG) operates through its three divisions, each with its own expertise: HLG Advertising (advertising and marketing), HLG InSight (strategic consulting and market development), and HLG Interactive (digital and online marketing). In addition, the group's Red Car Pharma Solutions (launched in 2008) helps "mature" brands engage customers. HLG has worked with such health care clients as Meda Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Merck & Co., and Neuronetics.

Founded in 1969, McKinney is owned by its management team, which acquired control of the agency in 2008 by buying out Paris-based communication conglomerate Havas. McKinney & Silver, known as McKinney, is a national advertising agency offering creative development and campaign management services for television, radio, and print ads. It also provides media planning and buying services, retail communications, and marketing collateral design services. Its interactive services unit helps create online marketing campaigns. The firm has done work for such clients as AUDI, Nasdaq, Qwest Communications, Sony, and Travelocity.

Grace & Wild was founded by president Steve Wild in 1984. Grace & Wild is the largest teleproduction and presentation services provider in the Midwest. The company offers sound stage rental, studio and remote production, motion picture processing and printing, film transfer, computer graphics, and editorial services. It operates through a handful of business divisions (such as Postique, Griot Editorial, Division X, and Emerge). Its hdstudios subsidiary offers high definition capabilities. Grace & Wild primarily serves broadcast advertising agencies, business communicators, and entertainment companies. Clients have included Ford Motor Company, Wal-Mart Stores, and the rock band KISS.

Towers Productions is a TV production business that focuses on documentary specials and series, including such titles as FBI's Most Wanted (for Discovery Communications' Discovery channel), High School Confidential (WE: Women's Entertainment), and the long-running Biography series for A&E Television. Past productions have included Road to War for the National Geographic Channel and When Weather Changed History (The Weather Channel). Television news producer Jonathan Towers left CNN to found the company from a spare bedroom in an apartment in 1989.

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