Gannett is an international media and marketing solutions company providing millions of people with the information they want; and connecting them to their communities of interest through multiple platforms including Internet, mobile, newspapers, magazines and TV.As an innovative industry leader, Gannett engages consumers wherever they are with its powerful brands and trusted content. The company helps businesses grow by providing marketing solutions that reach and engage their customers across its diverse platforms. Gannett is a digital leader with more than 100 U.S. newspaper and TV station web sites; CareerBuilder.com, the nation's top employment site which is expanding rapidly internationally; and Gannett Digital Media Network, which includes top brands like USATODAY.com, MomsLikeMe.com, HighSchoolSports.net, Metromix.com, and action sports networks BNQT and Venture. Helping to further Gannett's scope as a marketing solutions company is PointRoll, a leading online advertising rich-media provider, and ShopLocal, a leader in connecting advertisers and consumers online and in-store. PointRoll and ShopLocal work together to provide online advertisers with rich media advertising solutions. Ripple6 helps advertisers deploy easy – yet powerful – social media solutions.At the same time, the company's 81 U.S. Community Publishing information centers reach deep into local communities through newspapers, web sites, mobile content and niche/custom publications. With USA TODAY, they have a combined daily paid circulation of approximately 6 million, providing crucial neighborhood-to-national news and information.

Electric Word is a specialist information business that serves the sport and education sectors. Our range of products and services includes newsletters, magazines, websites, events, books, special reports and bespoke research.

Founded in 1991, R. Walt & Company (dba Walt & Company) provides strategic planning, media relations, corporate and marketing communications, as well as conference and trade show services to companies in the technology and financial services industries. It also helps clients to better align their communications strategies with online social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Walt & Company serves customers ranging from start-ups to industry-leading conglomerates. Clients have included such notable names as Dell, Dow Jones & Company, Microsoft, Sprint, and SSH Communications Security.

The agency serves clients that have included Zippo Manufacturing Company, H.J. Heinz Company, DeVry University, and GlaxoSmithKline. Chairman and CEO Michael Brunner, who helped found the agency in 1989, has been its controlling shareholder since 2003. Independent ad agency Brunner, formerly known as Blattner Brunner, provides advertising, design, marketing, and public relations services. Its Brunner Digital unit (formerly bbdigital) offers services such as Web site design and development, digital marketing, and media planning.

e-Dialog, which was founded in 1997, is a subsidiary of GSI Commerce, a provider of e-commerce services. e-Dialog provides e-mail marketing tools and services to more than 75 large corporate clients in the US and Europe. The company provides Web-based software that helps clients implement and manage e-mail marketing campaign functions such as reporting, message deployment, segmentation, and analysis. e-Dialog also offers campaign management services for clients needing a full-service option. It operates from offices in the US and the UK. Clients have included British Airways, the NFL, and Reuters.

Merkle Inc. was founded in 1971. Merkle, a customer relationship marketing agency that has counted enterprises such as Dell, GEICO, and the American Heart Association among its clients. Merkle helps clients market themselves by providing strategic consulting, business intelligence and analytics, media targeting and measurement, and mail creation and production management services. The agency, which manages more than 75 databases, serves customers from three main industry sectors: direct-to-consumer, financial services, and nonprofit fundraising. It manages billions of direct mail pieces each year and owns a dozen offices throughout the US.

Founded in 1983, the agency shifted its primary focus to advocacy marketing in 1990. Sherry Matthews provides advocacy marketing and advertising services. It works primarily for not-for-profit and government agencies in Texas, focusing on such areas as the environment, education, drug and alcohol abuse, and teen pregnancy. The agency provides services such as advertising, public relations, research, fund raising, Web development, and media placement. Sherry Matthews also features a Hispanic division. Clients have included the Texas Department of Transportation, Whole Foods Market, and Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Carl Bertelsmann founded the company in 1835. His descendants, the Mohn family, control the business through the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation. This company is so big, it takes up space on the bookshelf, the magazine stand, and on television. Bertelsmann is one of the world's leading media conglomerates with operations in publishing and TV. It owns about 90% of RTL Group, Europe's #1 TV broadcaster with more than 40 channels operating in a dozen countries. Bertelsmann also owns Random House, the world's top trade book publisher, as well as 75% of magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr. In addition, its arvato unit is a leading provider of distribution, manufacturing, and other business services to media companies.

Australians looking for that last minute birthday card for Mom can thank John Sands. A unit of American Greetings, John Sands Group company supplies customers in Australia and New Zealand with cards, gift wrap, and other items. Brand names include John Sands, Momentum Greetings, Creative Stationery, and The Ink Group. Acquired by American Greetings in 1996, John Sands Group company was founded in 1837 by John Sands, the son of an English engraver. It's Australia's second oldest registered company.

A leader in news and business information world-wide, Dow Jones is newswires, Web sites, newspapers, newsletters, databases, magazines, radio and television. Our publications inform the discussions and decisions of the world while our databases make the business world more transparent. We develop technology to transform information into insight. From 58 countries and in a dozen languages, we inspire audiences with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.

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