Pomegranate Communications is a leading publisher of calendars, postcards, Christmas cards, and other consumer products. Its calendars and cards are targeted towards such niche interests as art, nature, and women's studies, as well as culture, music, and photography. Pomegranate Communications company sells its products direct to consumers through its Web site and catalog; it also distributes through other retail stores. Company president Thomas Burke started Pomegranate Communications in the late 1960s.

International Market Brands (IMB) provides export marketing, sales, and consulting services for companies that manufacture food, food service, and pet products. IMB's consulting services help manufacturers develop new export markets by identifying foreign buyers, advising on costs and shipping, and navigating administrative hurdles for export. IMB also provides strategic sales and marketing planning and production services targeted to specific countries, cultures, and client needs.

Platinum Studios controls an independent library of comic book characters, which it adapts and produces for film and TV projects. The company owns more than 3,800 characters that have appeared in hundreds of millions of comics in 25 languages and more than 50 countries. Platinum Studios is responsible for the Men in Black comic book; it also co-produced the hit movie-version with Sony Pictures. Platinum Studios was founded in 1997 by Malibu Comics creator Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.

The Roanoke Times newspaper serving the Southwestern region of Virginia with news, sports coverage, and lifestyle features. In addition to its flagship publication, Times-World produces specialized niche publications including HomesNOW, Inside Out, Job Market, Neighbors, and News River Valley Current. The company also publishes the regional business publication Blue Ridge Business Journal. First published in 1886 as The Roanoke Daily Times by founding publisher M. H. Claytor, The Roanoke Times was the area's first daily paper. Times-World is owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, which also owns North Carolina's News & Record newspaper through Greensboro News & Record.

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.

Podesta Group (formerly PodestaMattoon) offers governmental relations and strategic consulting services for those with interests within the Beltway. It assists with branding, crisis management, strategies involving legislation, and message development. Clients have included associations such as the National Association of Broadcasters and corporations such as The Washington Post Company and Clear Channel Communications. Podesta Group, Inc. was initially founded in 1998 by former Republican strategist Dan Mattoon and Tony Podesta, legendary lobbyist and brother of former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta. In 2006, however, Mattoon left to create his own public relations firm.

Nolo was born of the frustration of two legal aid lawyers who were working to help low-income families in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. Charles (Ed) Sherman and Ralph (Jake) Warner were tired of having to turn away working people who didn't qualify for free legal aid but couldn’t afford lawyers. There was no place to send these people, because there were almost no sources of free or low-cost legal information—no do-it-yourself books or software, no court-based, self-help programs, no Internet. And precisely because the many millions of Americans who earned less than $5 per hour had to purchase even the most routine legal information and help at $80 per hour, most went without. In 1971, to help fill the need, Sherman wrote How To Do Your Own Divorce in California, and Warner immediately followed with The California Tenants’ Handbook (with Sherman and Myron Moskovitz). They took the books to established publishers, who promptly rejected them. (“Self-help law? You must be nuts!”)Warner and Sherman decided they had no alternative but to publish the books themselves—and so Nolo Press was created. (Nolo, in Latin, means “I don’t choose to.” Warner and Sherman thought it was appropriate given that they had never intended to become publishers.) Joined by Toni Ihara, they committed to publishing a comprehensive series of do-it-yourself legal guides. Nolo books soon covered a wide variety of legal niches, including debtors’ rights (How to Beat the Bill Collector, by Warner and Peter Jan Honigsberg), personal relationships (The Living Together Kit, by Warner and Ihara), business formation (How to Form Your Own California Corporation, by Anthony Mancuso), and estate planning (Plan Your Estate, by Denis Clifford). The public was hungry for this information, and Nolo became widely recognized as a pioneer in what can best be described as a popular law revolution.

Founded in 1992, Market America is a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-to-One Marketing. With more than 3 million Preferred Customers and 180,000 Distributors and UnFranchise® Business Owners worldwide, Market America has generated over $3.4 billion USD in accumulated retail sales. In that time, individuals have earned over $2 billion USD in commissions and estimated retail profits. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the company employs over 500 people globally with international operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines. Through One-to-One Marketing, Market America combines the Internet with the power of people, creating the ultimate online destination. As a result, Market America have revolutionized a brand-new industry, setting a standard by which all other businesses are measured: Built on Product. Powered by People.

CRT/Tanaka (formerly Carter Ryley Thomas) specializes in a broad range of corporate, consumer, and health science areas of practice. The agency's services include media relations, product launch support, crisis communications, direct marketing, and advertising. Its clients include Air New Zealand, Charles Schwab, Girl Scouts of the USA, HoMedics, and Performance Food Group. Carter Ryley Thomas' 2005 acquisition of Patrice Tanaka & Company bolstered the firm's consumer portfolio and added a New York outpost to the firm's regional offices, located in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as in Los Angeles.

TBN is the world’s largest religious network and America’s most watched faith channel. TBN offers 24 hours of commercial-free inspirational programming that appeal to people in a wide variety of Protestant, Catholic and Messianic Jewish denominations.

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