ImpreMedia is a leading Spanish-language media company with a portfolio of more than a dozen newspaper titles and about 15 online properties tailored to Hispanic audiences in the US. Its papers include dailies El Diario La Prensa (New York City) and La Opini�n (Los Angeles), as well as weekly entertainment paper La Vibra and monthly magazine Vista. In all, ImpreMedia's print publications serve readers in more than 15 markets; its print and online publications reach about 10 million readers. Formed in 2004, the company is backed by an investment group that includes Clarity Partners, Halyard Capital Fund, and ACON Investments.

The Macaluso Group (TMG) has just the thing for marketing drugs. The company offers a MasterCard branded debit card that allows pharmaceutical firms (including Novartis) to offer samples, discounts, and loyalty programs while tracking the effectiveness of these promotions. TMG issues cards and replacements, offers customer service to users, and manages tailored Web sites where customers can reload cards. It also sells store-specific cards, pharmacy specialty cards, and in-office procedure cards. All these cards are the brainchild of CEO Joe Macaluso, who started TMG in 2001.

ITA Group, Inc. was founded in 1963. Specializing in performance marketing, ITAGroup (standing for "Ideas to Action") builds and manages programs that help clients increase sales and customer satisfaction through incentives and training. The company's services include research and program design, administration, fulfillment, and measurement for employee recognition and rewards programs, business-to-business loyalty programs, and sales incentive programs. ITAGroup also provides business meeting and event planning services.

Connextions helps mostly health insurance and health care providers (but also businesses and the public sector) attract, transact with, and retain consumers through its call centers, software, and fulfillment and supply chain management services. The firm has call centers in Florida, Indiana, and North Carolina that provide customer service, sales, tech support, and licensed personnel, such as insurance agents and registered nurses. Clients of Connextions include Mercedes-Benz, FedEx, and Kaiser Permanente. Established in 1992, Connextions is a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital.

Allbritton Communications is a leading TV station operator and a top affiliate of Walt Disney's ABC broadcast network. It has a portfolio of about 10 stations that serve markets in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as Washington, DC. The company also owns and operates a 24-hour cable news channel (NewsChannel 8) that serves the nation's capitol, and it operates Politico.com, a Web site and companion newspaper offering political news and opinion. Joe Allbritton started the family-owned business in 1975.

SPS Studios creates and sells greeting cards under the brand Blue Mountain Arts. Its selection of cards includes anniversary, birthday, and sympathy cards sold under such lines as Children of the Inner Light, Occasion Gallerie, and Thoughts of Life. It also creates Spanish-language greeting cards under the Sentimientos banner. SPS Studios also markets bookmarks, calendars, and mugs, as well as blank books and illustrated poetry books. Self-described hippies Stephen Schutz, a physicist, and Susan Polis Schutz, a poet, founded SPS Studios in 1970 while traveling across the US selling their silk-screened posters and greeting cards.

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.

Modern Times Group MTG is one of Europe's leading diversified media conglomerates with operations in television, film, and the Internet. Its Viasat Broadcasting, the company's largest division, broadcasts more than 50 branded free-TV and satellite premium pay-TV channels in 30 countries, and has a total of some 125 million viewers. MTG also produces films and television shows through Modern Studios, and is the largest commercial radio operator in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. In addition, MTG has Internet holdings that include online gaming operations and e-commerce sites.

VICE Magazine Publishing Inc. company was founded in Montreal in 1994 as the publisher of a free underground culture magazine, addressing topics such as sex and drugs and rock 'n roll. VICE has since surfaced above ground; it moved to Brooklyn, where operations expanded to activities such as film (VICE Films), video (VICE DVD), television (VICE TV), music (VICE Records), the Internet (Viceland.com), and books (The VICE Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock 'N Roll). The flagship publication is perhaps best known for its popular Dos and Don'ts street fashion column. VICE Magazine Publishing can help. Or at least tell you what the cool kids are up to these days.

Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC (ASM) provides outsourced sales, merchandising, and marketing services to consumer goods and food product manufacturers and suppliers. It works to win optimal placement of clients' products at retail locations throughout the US and Canada, and it offers a variety of promotional programs aimed at boosting sales. Owning more than 65 offices in the US and Canada, ASM does merchandising for Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, and other major retailers. Investment firms Allied Capital, J.W. Childs Associates, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity own a controlling stake in ASM company.

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