Image Comics knows a lot about black ink figures. One of the largest comic book publishers in the US, its comics and graphic novels feature more risque content than the traditional superhero-based books of its competitors. Titles include Spawn, Elephantmen, and Jersey Gods. The company's comics are owned solely by their creators -- Image merely provides publishing, promotion, and distribution services. Image consists of three autonomous houses: Image Central, Todd McFarlane Productions, and Top Cow. Founded in 1992 by seven of Marvel's artists, Image Comics company is owned by partners Jim Valentino, Todd McFarlane ("Spawn" creator), Erik Larsen ("Savage Dragon"), and Marc Silvestri ("Witchblade").

As one of the UK's leading TV and film production companies, Tiger Aspect works with top writers, performers and programme makers to produce great programming. Tiger Aspect Productions website. As one of the UK's leading TV and film production companies, Tiger Aspect works with top writers, performers and programme makers to produce great programming. They create genre-defining, ground-breaking and most importantly popular quality programming for all the UK's main terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasters and for major international markets. The company has been producing hits for over two decades, working with the UK's best talent.

The company was founded in 1904 in New York City by William Fox, a 25 year-old Jewish Hungarian immigrant, who sold his cloth processing business and with the profits earned bought a lowly "common show." At that time, "common show" was the legal phrase for the exhibition of motion pictures in a store remodeled for that purpose and containing fewer than 299 seats. These primitive movie theaters charged five cents admission and therefore became known as "nickelodeons." Mr. Fox, a born showman, bolstered attendance by hiring a magician to perform in front of his store to attract customers. His growing number of patrons sat closely together on folding chairs (which were rented from a neighbourhood undertaker's parlour) and enjoyed simple short films. These early movie audiences viewed films that were hand-cranked through a lighted box which caused images to be magnified and projected against a white wall at the opposite end of the store. Along with partners B.S. Moss and Sol Brill, William Fox was able to plough profits from this first "common show" into a second and third, until the new exhibition firm of Fox, Moss and Sol Brill had 25 such establishments. As a next logical step, Mr. Fox and partners opened a film exchange - -one of the first in the nation. Named the Greater New York Film Rental Company, it provided their Nickelodeons with new movies and offered an ideal opportunity to trade films with other exhibitors and exchanges. By 1913, the rapid growth of the exhibition industry made it almost impossible to obtain new films. Mr. Fox quickly organized the Box Office Attraction Company and began producing movies of his own. Two years later, along with other motion picture pioneers such as Adolph Zukor (Paramount) and Carl Laemmle (Universal), Mr. Fox decided the temperate climate of California would more easily facilitate year-round productions. He moved his producing operations west and founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915. Mr. Fox's business associate at the time was Winfield R. Sheehan, whom he named Vice President and General Manager of the new company.

Focus America -- which does business primarily as Focus Packaging & Display Group -- concerns itself with the details of packaging and promotion. Focus America company's creative services include concept development, copywriting, graphic and industrial design, and photography, in addition to its production services from US and international facilities. The Group also provides promotion fulfillment and program management for clients in such industries as food and beverages, high technology, clothing and cosmetics.

President and CEO Gianfranco Zaccai helped found Design Continuum Inc. in 1983. Design Continuum aims to blend strategic consulting, industrial design, and branding services. Design Continuum company's design services have helped shape a wide variety of consumer products, including cell phones, speakers, and showerheads. Design Continuum company also helps clients identify business issues and carve out product strategies. Branding services include brand identity consulting, design of retail spaces, interactive design, and packaging. Design Continuum operates from offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Milan, and Seoul and serves clients from a wide range of industries.

Blue Star Movies (BSM) is a European independent film production, distribution, finance, and marketing company. It co-produces three to five films a year, shot in England and Italy. Credits include the romance Head in the Clouds, starring Charlize Theron, the comedy musical Bollywood Queen; and a biopic of Mother Theresa. The company has also launched joint venture Blue Spice with UK film company Spice Factory; the company is intended to help non-Italian European companies navigate the rules and regulations governing filmmaking in Italy. A recent Blue Spice offering is a remake of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino.

Nelson Bostock Communications (NBC) provides consumer and business-to-business PR services to the broadcast, technology, digital communications, Internet, and new media sectors, among others. Services include strategic planning, media and analyst relations, international press relations, marketing communications, and analysis and reporting. Nelson Bostock also works with corporate marketing departments on internal communications. Clients include BMW, Freeview, Pilkington, and Swatch.

The National Magazine Company Ltd. publishes Web sites for NatMag titles through Hearst Digital Network; properties include women's site handbag.com and consumer health site netdoctor.co.uk. Founder William Randolph Hearst established the UK presence in 1910. A subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation, The National Magazine Company (NatMag) publishes about 20 magazines in the UK. Its titles include Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, and Good Housekeeping. The National Magazine company partnered with Rodale to publish Men's Health and Runner's World in the UK through its NatMag-Rodale unit. Its COMAG is a distribution partnership with Conde Nast Publications Limited (part of Conde Nast), one of the UK's largest magazine distributors.

AlphaTrade.com operates as a digital media and marketing company, specializing in creating networking opportunities to build brands, sell products, increase Web traffic, and gain attention. AlphaTrade's services include Web site appearance and optimization, as well as corporate marketing for increasing marketing awareness and Web traffic with targeted demographics. It also offers Stock Quotes, a premium service that provides real-time and delayed stock market quotes with advertising embedded into the applications, to subscribers through the Internet. AlphaTrade's Stock Quotes service includes the provision of in depth market information from the North American exchanges and various exchanges in the Middle East. In addition, it operates a business social networking site, ZenoBank.com, that targets online business introductions, such as investors, business partners, new shareholders, investment banking firms, brokers, new employees, associates, attorneys, and accountants.

The Ardell Group provides public relations services to start-up and mid-cap companies in the communications infrastructure, wireless technology, software, and medical technology sectors, including AMCC, Cisco Systems, National Semiconductor, and United Plastics Group. It assesses no retainer fees; clients pay for what they get. The Ardell Group launched a consumer-oriented public relations subsidiary, The Domino Group, in 2005.

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