Cowley Associates provides advertising, public relations, and marketing services for regional, national, and international clients. The agency balances its workload with about half of its clients on the consumer advertising side and the other half falling on the business-to-business side. Cowley Associates offers creative services in print, broadcast, and interactive media, as well as media relations, crisis communications, and media buying services. Customers have included Dermoody, Burke & Brown, Ellis, and Stickley Furniture.

A company with deep roots in the Triangle, The News & Observer Publishing Co. publishes not only The News & Observer, one of the nation’s best regional newspapers, but also nine weekly or bi-weekly newspapers offering community coverage throughout the Triangle. The company launched nando.net, one of the nation’s first internet service providers, in 1994, and today is home to both newsobserver.com and triangle.com, the region’s leading websites. The main office is located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Journal Communications, Inc., headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was founded in 1882. We are a diversified media company with operations in publishing, radio and television broadcasting, interactive media and printing services. Journal Communications publish the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which serves as the only major daily newspaper for the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and Journal Community Publishing Group publishes a number of community newspapers and shoppers in Wisconsin and Florida. Through Journal Broadcast Group, we own and operate 33 radio stations and 13 television stations in 12 states and operate an additional television station under a local marketing agreement. Our interactive media assets build on our strong publishing and broadcasting brands.Journal Communications also provide a wide range of commercial printing services through IPC Print Services, including printing of publications, professional journals and documentation material.

Fishbowl, Inc. is a leading provider of on-demand marketing software and services to the restaurant industry. Fishbowl’s easy-to-use solutions help restaurants of all sizes manage critical guest marketing services, including Email Marketing, Social Media, Guest Database Management, Analytics and Local Store Marketing. Fishbowl supports over 40,000 restaurant locations and manages the industry’s largest guest database, with over 50 million opt-in members. Fishbowl is based in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in North America and Europe.

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.

Greenbax Enterprises began as a sister corporation to Piggly Wiggly Carolina in the 1950s. What started as a simple trading stamp program has become a multifaceted, consumer-oriented organization with a variety of redemption options and earning opportunities. Today, Greenbax Awards is one of the nation's oldest and most successful customer loyalty programs.In the beginning of the program, customers saved and earned stamps only at Piggly Wiggly stores. Shoppers had a limited selection of items to choose from at redemption stores located throughout South Carolina and southeast Georgia. Over time the choice of redemption options increased tremendously as the products grew to include national name brand items. The selection of merchandise was also eventually made available through more Greenbax Redemption Centers, the Greenbax mail order catalog, via the Internet at www.Greenbax.net, through the Partner Merchant network, and at more than 120 Piggly Wiggly stores.

In 1981 Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Today’s Bloomberg builds on that foundation - everything we do connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions.

Since 1999, Return Path has helped some of the world’s most successful companies use email more effectively. We began with the notion that there was a better way to do things: that email marketing didn’t have to be a war between marketers and consumers, that it was possible to do more with less, that the smartest email solutions were the ones that not only impacted your bottom line in the short term but also benefited your reputation for the long term. As we grew, we attracted many of the leading minds in the industry and our perspective broadened and deepened along with our capabilities.Today Return Path are the world’s leading email deliverability services company and Return Path clients include Fortune 500 firms, online retailers, publishers, market researchers and catalogers from many different industries. Still our basic spirit is the same. If you’re a marketer we can help you get through to your audience – not by sneaking around email filters but by using them to your advantage. If you’re an email receiver, we can help you distinguish valuable messages from junk mail – not by outgunning the spammers, but by outsmarting them.

Arclight Films focuses on international film sales and distribution of American "arthouse" fare under the Arclight banner. Its Arclight Television group is devoted to TV distribution while Darclight handles genre films (thrillers, horror, action) and Easternlight covers Asian cinema. Arclight Films is also active in producing and co-producing, with a theatrical production branch in Australia. The company, founded in 2002 by managing director Gary Hamilton and chairman Victor Syrmis, has offices in Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Sydney, and Toronto.

AKQA, an independent Web design and interactive marketing agency, offers online and digital media development for branding, marketing, and e-commerce, as well as consulting services to help its customers use interactive technologies to their advantage. One such project was AKQA's design for the user interface for Microsoft's Xbox 360. AKQA's clients range from small companies to big names such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and McDonald's. The agency has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, DC and was founded in 1995. Private equity firm General Atlantic owns a majority stake in AKQA.

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