Clear Media banishes dark and dreary bus stops. The outdoor media company places bright flashy ads on more than 24,000 bus shelters in 30 cities throughout eastern China's urban centers like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. It claims to have more than a 50% market share. Clear Media's major advertisers include Clear Channel Communications, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Jeep, and KFC. Clear Media company plans to continue growing its network while expanding into other outdoor formats and acquiring competitors. Clear Channel owns about 50% of Clear Media.

Matador Records keeps the indie rock banner waving. Positioning itself as an alternative to music conglomerates such as Sony and Universal, Matador Records, Inc. company releases CDs and albums (yes, vinyl albums) by a diverse group of about 20 artists and bands (many referred to as independent or "indie" rock), including Cat Power, Spoon, Interpol, Stephen Malkmus, M. Ward, and Yo La Tengo. Over the years the label has expanded its musical taste to include hip hop, electronic, and experimental sounds in its portfolio. UK-based Beggars Group owns half of Matador Records, Inc. company.

Founded in 1992, Ronald Trahan Associates (RTA) Inc. specializes in building media and investor relationships for big and small companies, both public and private. The firm was founded to provide experienced counsel in a timely fashion while garnering the right kind of attention for clients, all at an affordable price. Headquartered just outside of Boston, RTA serves companies in the Biotechnology, Medical Technology, and Pharmaceutical sectors. From English teacher to journalist, author to public relations counselor, Ron Trahan has been a professional communicator for nearly four decades. Counseling clients at the highest corporate level (CEO, CFO and VP/Marketing), Ron has developed expertise and experience in strategic communications planning, writing for publication, media relations, investor relations, crisis communication, speech writing and presentation coaching.Before founding his own firm in December 1992, Ron spent five years as senior vice president at Boston-based Sharon Merrill Associates, Inc. (SMA), where he played a major role in evolving that financial public relations agency into one of the dominant corporate communications resources for New England-based companies. Prior to SMA, Ron was director of public relations at a fast-growing Boston-based advertising agency that was turning away public relations business from its ad clients because the agency had no in-house PR expertise. Ron was recruited by the ad agency to develop strategies and PR programs as a one-person department for the ad agency’s clients.

Groupon company helps businesses attract customers by offering them a unique way to save on things to eat, see, and do in more than 150 cities across the Americas and Europe. In each participating city, Groupon advertises a daily deal, typically a half-off coupon for anything from a local restaurant or retail store to a hotel or spa; if enough consumers buy the coupon online by midnight, the deal is on and the featured business achieves a nice chunk of sales. Groupon reaches more than 7 million subscribers and uses its website (searchable by locale) and opt-in e-mails to help businesses market their goods or services.

In November 1903 Johan Frederik Wegener began in Apeldoorn a news and magazine advertising: the later Apeldoornse Courant. Koninklijke Wegener NV is ruim honderd jaar later de in Apeldoorn gevestigde, beursgenoteerde (Euronext) onderneming in kranten en multimedia. Koninklijke Wegener NV has over one hundred years later in Apeldoorn-based, publicly listed (Euronext) company in newspapers and multimedia. Wegener is de grootste uitgever van regionale dagbladen en huis-aan-huiskranten in Nederland. Wegener is the largest publisher of regional newspapers and door-to-door newspapers in the Netherlands. Dagelijks bezorgt Wegener 7 regionale dagbladen met een oplage van circa 800.000 exemplaren in een groot deel van Nederland, die iedere dag door gemiddeld 2,6 miljoen personen worden gelezen. 7 Wegener provides daily regional newspapers with a circulation of about 800,000 copies in a large part of the Netherlands, that each day an average of 2.6 million people read. Wekelijks produceert Wegener ruim 225 nieuwsbladen en huis-aan-huiskranten met een gezamenlijke oplage van circa 8,6 miljoen exemplaren per week. Wegener also produces more than 225 newspapers and door-to-door newspapers with a combined circulation of approximately 8.6 million copies per week. Daarnaast ontwikkelt en exploiteert Wegener internetproducten met een miljoenenbezoek en levert Wegener grafische producten en diensten. Wegener also develops and operates Internet products and one million visits Wegener provides graphics products and services.

Founded in 1996, NetPlus Marketing, Inc. specializes in online marketing, and has kept up with all the changes related to marketing in a digital world. The ad agency provides such new media services as interactive advertising, e-mail database marketing, search engine and social media marketing, and Web design for a variety of clients traveling the information superhighway. NetPlus Marketing also provides product-centered online games and research and planning tools covering the interactive advertising sector. NetPlus clients have included Charming Shoppes, ConAgra, and The American National Red Cross.

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.

Eric Mower and Associates offers a broad range of advertising and marketing services, including brand promotion and development, consumer advertising, digital relationship marketing, public relations, and public affairs services. The agency has counted such companies as Dresser-Rand, FedEx, and Motorola among its customers. It provides its services through offices in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, New York; as well as in Charlotte, North Carolina; Torrance, California; Sarasota, Florida; and Atlanta. Eric Mower expanded its operations in 2008 by acquiring agencies Mark Russell and Associates and Sawchuk Brown Associates.

Big Sky Communications can open the public relations horizons for Silicon Valley companies. Founded in 1994 by Katy Boos (partner) and Colleen Muller Padnos (partner), Big Sky Communications is a boutique public relations and marketing communications agency serving the technology industry. The agency provides companies with public relations, customer success programs, and writing services. Clients include Adobe Systems, Hyperion, and Sun Microsystems.

WebMama.com Inc. was founded in 1996 by CEO Barbara Coll. WebMama.com is a search engine marketing company specializing in driving traffic to its clients' business-to-business Web sites. The company's services include audits of existing Web sites, search engine optimization, competititive analyis, paid search program development and management, e-mail marketing, and newsletter development. Clients have included Actuate, Verisign, and Shoes.com. WebMama.com also hosts seminars that address search marketing issues.

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