Filmmaker Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings) co-owns the company along with creative director Richard Taylor and producer Jamie Selkirk. How often does a company get to call itself an Academy Award Winner? For Weta, it's a five-time honor. The effects studio has won Oscars and other awards for make-up, visual effects, costumes, and miniatures for films including King Kong and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. It also contributed to Avatar, The Lovely Bones, and District 9. Weta also makes 3D models, armor and other props, and sculptures, including collectibles for its own and other properties. Other parts of Weta include film production and post-production studios and a film equipment rental house.

Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications offers advertising and related services to help its clients fulfill their staffing needs. The agency also offers employee communications, sets up referral programs, and provides strategic consulting services. Shaker serves up its advertising and marketing fare in print, interactive, direct mail, and out-of-home media. It has performed direct mail work for Albertsons, Caremark, and Coca-Cola while also offering interactive services for Pactiv and Ossanna. Shaker traces its roots back to 1951, when founder Joseph Shaker began his foray into recruitment advertising.

Film Movement distributes independent and foreign films on DVD. For an annual fee of about $140, subscribers of Film Movement receive one award-winning, independently produced movie per month, chosen from better-known film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance. The company simultaneously exhibits its films at independent theaters through The Film Movement Series. Akin to book clubs, Film Movement also offers its Film Clubs to all subscribers, complete with a monthly film, discussion guide, and online review and discussion forum.

IWCO Direct, Instant Web provides a range of direct-mail marketing services, including printing, assembling, and mailing. Instant Web company also makes promotional plastic and phone cards, envelopes, and printed paper products, and it offers customized products with pull tabs, peel-apart adhesive messages, fragrance patches, and photographic-quality images. Other services include database management, an automated sorting and mailing, and bindery services. IWCO Direct is owned by private equity firm Avista Capital Partners.

Founded in 1958 it targets the Hispanic and African American demographic with its creative work. Sanders/Wingo has worked with such clients as AT&T, the American Heart Association, and Shell. Sanders/Wingo has two Texas offices: El Paso and Austin. The agency was known as Sanders, Wingo, Galvin & Morton Advertising (SWG&M) until late 2005 when it changed its name. Sanders/Wingo provides multicultural advertising and public relations services through two Texas offices in El Paso and Austin. The agency's portfolio includes print, broadcast, and interactive work in fashion, healthcare, and energy industries.

Carsey-Werner to be the king of TV comedy. During its highpoint, the television production and distribution company was responsible for creating several hit TV shows, including The Cosby Show, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and Roseanne, as well as A Different World, Grace Under Fire, and Cybil. No longer active in TV production, Carsey-Werner continues to distribute shows for syndication in more than 175 countries and in 50 languages. Its films division continues to develop a small number of projects, as well. Partners Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner founded the studio in 1981.

Essential Images, L.L.C. company has worked with television network clients such as ABC (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), MTV (Cribs/Paulina Rubio), and Lifetime (You're Not The Man I Married). Despite its location directly in the path of devastation left by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the New Orleans-based Essential Images remained open for business. At least one firm knows the importance of maintaining a good image. Essential Images is a film, video, and audio production company, specializing in broadcast, corporate, commercial, documentary, and syndicated projects.

Getting an education is Common Sense for this publisher. Common Sense Press publishes texts in language arts, math, and science used by schools and parents who home school. Common Sense Press company publishes curricula such as Learning Language Arts Through Literature and Great Science Adventures. Common Sense Press products emphasize hands-on learning activities. The company's products rely on an integrated approach to learning emphasizing context; its language arts course integrates spelling, reading, vocabulary, grammar, handwriting, and phonics into a single lesson rather than separate lessons for each component.

Harris Connect has acquired the assets of IDC, Ltd, an established leader providing fundraising programs for non-profit organizations. Harris Connect’s expertise in data research and analytics, and internet solutions will immediately enhance and expand the breadth of fundraising opportunities for their clients. This multi-platform approach will maximize campaign reach and prospect connection by offering the ability to participate via phone, mail, web and/or mobile. IDC’s established PHONE/MAIL®, Telemax®, CallerMax® and other industry leading applications will be the cornerstone of the enhanced fundraising programs, combined with Harris Connect’s comprehensive analytics to provide deeper insight to each prospect. Major benefits to nonprofits include the new HC Virtual Call Center, using VoIP technology, online giving tools hosted by Harris Connect, and real-time credit card transaction processing with the security of Harris Connect’s PCI DSS Level 1 Merchant status.

Hayslett Group (formerly Hayslett Sorrel) can help solve your communications problems. Hayslett company provides public relations services to a diverse range of companies and organizations. The firm's services include media relations, event management, public affairs, speech writing, and crisis communications. Among its practice areas are health care, retail, and telecommunications. Primarily serving clients in the Atlanta region, the Hayslett Group's customers include BellSouth, The Coca-Cola Company, IBM, and Lockheed Martin.

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