Snowball Media got its start in 1980 as a boutique ad agency named Ad Dimension and later ad2. Companies looking to add to the sophistication of their marketing campaigns won't be rolling downhill with this company. Snowball Media, formerly ad2, specializes in interactive and digital marketing. The company offers expertise in Web development, interface design, and interactive programming, as well as the use of CD-ROMs, games, and motion graphics in promotions and marketing strategy. Snowball Media also creates television ads. Clients have included SANYO North America, Bose, Warner Home Video, Zildjian, and Toyota.

The Macaluso Group (TMG) has just the thing for marketing drugs. The company offers a MasterCard branded debit card that allows pharmaceutical firms (including Novartis) to offer samples, discounts, and loyalty programs while tracking the effectiveness of these promotions. TMG issues cards and replacements, offers customer service to users, and manages tailored Web sites where customers can reload cards. It also sells store-specific cards, pharmacy specialty cards, and in-office procedure cards. All these cards are the brainchild of CEO Joe Macaluso, who started TMG in 2001.

Chairman Stephen Haines founded Carte Blanche Greetings in 1987. This company gives you full authority to send out warm and fuzzy feelings. Carte Blanche Greetings is one of the leading makers of greeting cards and related products in the UK. Its cards are sold primarily under the Me To You brand; Carte Blanche Greetings company also markets stationary and other gift items. Carte Blanche Greetings is perhaps best known, however, for its Tatty Teddy plush bears. Carte Blanche Greetings company distributes products through retailers in 60 countries worldwide, as well as through its Web site.

iUniverse was founded in 1999 by Richard Tam and is a subsidiary of Author Solutions, the country's largest self-publishing firm. The publishing world just got a little bigger. iUniverse is an online publishing company that provides individual writers publish, market, and sell their books. Services include author support, copy-editing, contracts, distribution, and cover design services. iUniverse offers six separate packages, ranging in price from about $600 to more than $4,000, depending on how many services an author wants. Its iUniverse online bookstore has distribution agreements with retailers such as Barnes & Noble (through BarnesandNoble.com) and Amazon.com.

SayOne Media (formerly Conquest Business Media) publishes The Manufacturer (with both US and UK editions), which digests the problems and challenges of the manufacturing industry. Other titles include environmental magazine Green Business and The Boardroom, a magazine for business executives and directors. SayOne Media company also operates Manufacturer LIVE, one of the UK's biggest manufacturing conference and exhibitor events. Its Manufacturing Alliance is a network for senior management in manufacturing.

Bloomsbury is led by co-founder and CEO Nigel Newton. Non-UK operations include Bloomsbury USA and Berlin Verlag (Germany). Chronicles of the boy wizard Harry Potter have lent a magical quality to Bloomsbury Publishing's bottom line. J.K. Rowling's mega-successful book series has brought this small publisher to worldwide fame, but Bloomsbury also has other best-selling authors on its list, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Bloomsbury also publishes non-fiction titles, including "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, the famous-persons reference title "Who's Who", and the "Whitaker's Almanack", primarily through its A&C Black subsidiary.

Cohn & Wolfe, an operating unit of ad giant WPP Group's Young & Rubicam, serves clients from more than 50 offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Its services include crisis management, investor relations, media relations, and public affairs. It also helps clients take the plunge into digital and social media like Facebook and Twitter. Cohn & Wolfe company's specialty divisions provide expertise in the health care, consumer, corporate, energy, entertainment, sports marketing, and technology sectors. Clients have included such notable brands as Taco Bell, LG Electronics, and The Medicines Company.

Hilite Direct Marketing Services is one of the UK's leading independent List Managers and Brokers. We target approximately 50 million pieces of direct mail every year – one in every 200 pieces of mail carried by the Royal Mail is targeted by us. We pride ourselves in our unique formula of industry expertise coupled with a friendly professional service.Since 1986, Hilite has grown to become the exclusive List Managers of 130 mailing lists and with over 25 million names under management, we can give you access to some of your best prospects. Our list portfolio is made up of the customer databases of almost 100 UK mail order companies. Six out of ten of the UK's top mailing companies rent our managed files, for example; Barclays, Book Club Associates and Royal Bank of Scotland. All the names and addresses we exclusively manage are known mail order buyers and responders.

Established in in 1997, Tranzact Information Services LLC took its current form when parent TRANZACT (no relation to TranzAct Technologies) combined Data Warehouse with MarketerNet Holdings in 2008. Tranzact Information Services (formerly Data Warehouse) is a direct marketing firm specializing in the mortgage, insurance, and automotive industries. Tranzact Information Services company pulls together public records and credit data on millions of US consumers and turns the information into prospect lists for its customers. Tranzact Information Services also provides analytical services and reporting for customers' marketing campaigns.

Aardman Animations is the studio that created the film Chicken Run (in partnership with DreamWorks) and the BBC animated series Wallace and Gromit. Other projects have include "Flushed Away," the studio's first CG film, another collaboration with DreamWorks, and "Crood Awakening", a prehistoric comedy co-written by actor John Cleese. The studio has received seven Oscar nominations, and has been awarded four. Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by animators David Sproxton and Peter Lord. (The duo is also known for its work on the ground-breaking Peter Gabriel video "Sledgehammer".)

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