Premium Retail Services was founded in 1985 by chairman and CEO Ron Travers. Premium Retail Services provides marketing consulting and outsourced merchandising services for a variety of packaged goods manufacturers, as well as retail operators. The firm has retail service representatives in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to handle its clients' merchandising needs on a third-party basis; clients can use the company's services to supplement their own sales forces for short-term projects or for on-going merchandising operations. Premium Retail Services works with retailers in segments including big box, consumer electronics, food and drug, home centers, and office superstores.

Leveraged Marketing Corporation of America (LMCA) specializes in brand licensing and consulting services for clients trying to capitalize on the intangible asset of brand recognition. LMCA helps clients set strategic goals, identify prospective partners, and implement brand licensing programs. Clients include such well known companies as United Airlines, Eastman Kodak, and the San Diego Zoo. LMCA has offices in California, Missouri, New York, and Shanghai. Leveraged Marketing Corporation of America has affiliates in Switzerland and the UK.

Established in 1956 and today supported by close to 550 foundations, the Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. Its audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.Every day thousands of people gain access to valuable resources through the Center’s web site and in its five regional library/learning centers and national network of more than 425 Cooperating Collections at libraries, nonprofit resource centers, and organizations in every U.S. state and Puerto Rico and in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and Thailand. The Center’s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides detailed information about more than 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors and 1.7 million grants. It can be used free of charge on site at all Center locations and Cooperating Collections.

Cheskin Added Value was founded by Louis Cheskin in 1946; it is owned by a unit of worldwide media conglomerate WPP. The unit, Added Value, operates within WPP's Kantar Group and owns a network spanning 25 offices across 15 countries. Cheskin Added Value offers strategic research and consulting services specializing in the branding and design components of marketing. Services include market segmentation, new product assessment and design, and new market assessment. Clients have included such companies as General Motors, Motorola, and Pepsi-Cola. In addition to its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Cheskin has offices in New York and Seattle.

Bailey Gardiner wants to get creative on the West Coast. The San Diego agency provides integrated advertising, marketing, and public relations services for clients in such sectors as consumer goods, hospitality, entertainment, not-for-profits, and automotive. The agency offers expertise in interactive advertising, trade show support, collateral materials creation, media buying, social media marketing, and event marketing. Clients have included such notable brands as Royal Caribbean Cruises, Bucca di Beppo, House of Blues, and the AIDS Foundation San Diego.

Since 1999, The Deal LLC has covered the dealmaking across all its many mutations along with the ups and downs of economic cycles and business leaders. Through print, electronic media and events, we provide original content that serves the news, information and idea generation needs of corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers, intermediaries and investors. "Imagine a world without deals. Transactions are agents of change. The surge of dealmaking is not just the result of deregulation or advisers' incentives, rather it is fueled by accelerating technology, geopolitical change and innovative capital markets. Without dealmaking, corporations would be locked in stasis, like sleeping giants, unable to sustain the macro-economy. For all its chaos, we need a deal economy."

Established in 1997, One to One has helped such clients as Motorola, Nextel, and Unisys create their online marketing campaigns. One to One Interactive specializes in providing Internet marketing services by the numbers. Through several operating units, One To One Interactive company offers marketing, creative, and technology services to companies in such industries as financial services, life sciences, media, telecommunications, and technology. One to One's services include segmentation and predictive modeling, new media planning and buying, e-mail marketing, and search engine optimization. It also provides various creative (visual design, copywriting), advisory, and software development services.

Gruner + Jahr (G+J) is the international magazine and newspaper publishing arm of German media giant Bertelsmann, which owns a 75% stake. The company publishes more than 500 magazines, newspapers, and digital publications in 30 countries, including "Stern" and "Brigitte" in Germany and Top Girl in Italy. Gruner + Jahr operates through five divisions: G+J Germany; G+J International; G+J France; Print; and Corporate Services. Its US magazine operation, which made up about a quarter of revenue, was sold in 2005. The company also owns European financial newspaper "Financial Times Deutschland". In addition, G+J offers commercial printing services and distribution services. The founding Jahr family owns 25% of the firm.

Scribd democratizes the written word online. Scribd company runs a social publishing Web site geared towards professional, up-and-coming, and wannabe writers looking to share their original works with the public. Everything from novels and screenplays to recipes and sheet music can be uploaded using Scribd's iPaper document reader, which converts PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files into Web documents. Launched in 2007, Scribd boasts about 60 million readers per month and writings displayed in more than 90 different languages. Authors can also sell their documents through Scribd's copyright-protected online store. Publishing house Simon & Schuster sells roughly 5,000 of its titles through Scribd.com.

Putman Media, Inc. company was founded in 1938 by Colonel Russell L. Putman with the launch of Chemical Processing magazine that year. John Cappelletti and about 15 other employees purchased the company after Colonel Putman died in 1973; the Cappelletti family continues to control the business. Process is important to Putman Media. The company publishes nine B2B trade magazines focusing on manufacturing communities. Its titles include Chemical Processing, Control Design, Food Processing, and Plant Services. Putman Media also creates newsletters and Web content, offers custom publishing, and organizes conferences and trade shows.

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