Founded in 1990, Arena BLM provides media buying and planning through its subsidiaries and business units -- BLM Local (UK regional focus), BLM Azure (toys and games), BLM Red (luxury retail), and BLM Quantum (digital marketing). The groups' clients have included Bose, Domino's Pizza, Suzuki, L'Occitane, Nikon, and Thomas Cook. French advertising conglomerate Havas bought out the staunchly independent BLM Group in 2008, changed its name, and made it the stand-alone, UK arm of its media planning group.

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.

Newcity.com is a Web site about Chicago. We start with the core coverage found each week in Newcity magazine, Chicago’s only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, where we’ve been covering the turf for more than 22 years, and extend it with your input on this site. Please sign up and join the conversation.

Alcone Marketing Group, Inc. was established in 1976 by chairman Matt Alcone. The group provides a wide variety of services across marketing disciplines such as promotional marketing, field marketing, event marketing, telemarketing, incentive programs, and fulfillment services. Campaigns have centered around sponsored television shows, concert tours, and sweepstakes. Clients have included such big names as eBay, the California Lottery, Mercedes-Benz USA, and Sara Lee. Alcone Marketing has office locations in San Francisco; Irvine, California; and Darien, Connecticut.

Ricochet produces television content through Ricochet Films and Ricochet South.Ricochet Limited also operates Ricochet Digital (multimedia, youth programming, and documentaries). Ricochet South took its reality series Supernanny across the Atlantic, where the US version became a big hit for ABC. Other Ricochet creations include How Not to Decorate, Risking It All (potential entrepreneurs gambling everything to get their own business), Flying Heavy Metal (a history of passenger flight hosted by Iron Maiden musician Bruce Dickinson), and Sleeping Your Way to the Top (a documentary on women using their femininity to improve their lots in life.) The company is owned by Shed Media.

Topps is an international marketer of entertainment products, principally collectible trading cards, confections, sticker collections, and collectible strategy games. The Topps Company was founded in 1938 as Topps Chewing Gum, and in its early years produced a popular penny "Topps Gum" from a factory in Brooklyn, N.Y. After World War II, the Topps company developed Bazooka Bubble Gum, and in 1950, added trading cards to its product line. Baseball cards appeared in 1951 and quickly became a vital part of pop culture, a tradition that continues to this day, and includes football (both American and European) and basketball, in addition to entertainment cards and stickers and albums. In July 2003, Topps acquired WizKids, LLC a designer and marketer of collectible strategy games. Topps was acquired in October 2007 by Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity group, and Michael Eisner, former CEO of Disney. Now headquartered in New York City, Topps maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, and Argentina, in addition to the U.S. Topps also manufactures the popular lollipop brands marketed as Ring Pops, Push Pops, Baby Bottle Pops and other novelty candy and gum products. the Topps company has worldwide distribution, annual net sales for Fiscal 2006 of $293,838,000, and employs over 487 people worldwide.

From print to pixels, books to bookshops, the SCMP Group brings news, information, and entertainment to the people of Hong Kong, China and beyond. We see our business as 'total publishing'. Much more than traditional publishing, it is a model that leverages expertise, maximises control and builds synergies within the Group to underpin our success.SCMP Group Limited impressive portfolio of businesses includes such well known names as the South China Morning Post and the Sunday Morning Post - Hong Kong’s leading English language newspapers; Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar - trend-setting fashion and lifestyle magazines; Dymocks - Hong Kong’s most respected retailer; an award-winning website, as well as Chinese and English language book publishing. SCMP Group Limited founding company and namesake, the South China Morning Post, reached its centenary year in 2003. However, the SCMP Group, as we know it, really came into being in 1996 with the acquisition of TVE, bringing with it the nucleus of our magazine and book businesses.A strong balance sheet and financial discipline are the bedrock of the Group. We are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and employ almost 1,000 people in our newspaper, magazine and ventures divisions.

Emily is a pioneer in the creation and development of branded digital media content. As the driving force behind TGG for the past twelve years, she has been responsible for building the company into a leader in monetizing and marketing digital content, both in the Digital Marketing and physical distribution. Her vision of bringing traditional companies to partner with interactive entities Sin sales building promotions has made TGG an important force in driving sales for leading CPG brands. And, her leadership in the Direct to Retail channel has made TGG one of the country’s leading independent distributors of DVD and CD products in the entertainment category.Emily began her marketing career in the hotel industry at Marriott and Four Seasons Hotels. She moved into the retail environment as Marketing Director of Zany Brainy, the well-known retail chain that sold educational toys and multi-media products where she created daily in-store workshops, concerts, and author appearances which is where she experienced her first solid introduction to the creation of engaging, interactive programs for parents and their children. Following her years at Zany Brainy, Emily created the Teen Marketing Division for Market Source Corporation, a premier provider of integrated sales and marketing solutions to Fortune 500 companies.

Founded in 1993, Merkley is part of advertising conglomerate Omnicom Group. Some big advertisers hope a partnership with Merkley will bring customers to their business. Merkley + Partners is a leading ad agency offering creative development and brand marketing to such clients as Arby's, Citigroup, Dave & Buster's, The New York Post, and Mercedes-Benz. In addition to traditional advertising services, the firm provides specialized communications services for health care companies and multimedia services through an interactive marketing division.

Hat Trick Productions is one of the top independent TV producers in the UK, specializing in comedy and other light entertainment aired by the BBC and other networks. Among the company's hits are "The Kumars at No 42", "Have I Got News For You", "Father Ted", and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (The company produced both UK and US versions of the latter.) Investment firm Kleinwort Capital owns about 45% of Hat Trick Productions; the remainder is owned by former spouses (and current co-managing directors) Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue, who founded the production company in 1989.

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