Focus Features is the specialty film unit of Universal Pictures. The unit, which produces films by cutting edge directors like Sophia Coppola, has become a frequent industry award winner and nominee in recent years, scoring several Oscar nods for Milk, Atonement, and Brokeback Mountain. Other titles include In Bruges and Burn After Reading. Focus and Universal Pictures together operate as the film holdings of Universal Studios. (Vivendi sold the studio, among other entertainment assets, to GE in 2004 to form NBC Universal.) Focus was formed in 2002 through the merger of USA Films and Good Machine.

Public (formerly known as The Publicity Bureau) isn't shy on services. Founded in 1987 as The Publicity Bureau, the company offers design, direct marketing, public relations, packaging, media buying, exhibition, and advertising services. The agency's client list includes national, regional, and local companies with an emphasis on business-to-business, leisure, and public Sector accounts. Public has worked on campaigns for Baumer Electric, Manheim, The Queens Hotel, Sheffield Business Club, Hazelwood Prepared Foods, Netto, and Sheffield City Council's Education Directorate.

Strat@comm offers public relations planning and services to a variety of clients in industries including automotive, energy, environmental, food and beverage, government, health care, and transportation. The firm's strategic communications services encompass public affairs, crisis communications, corporate communications, and educational campaigns, while providing tactical expertise in media relations, event marketing, product launch support, and media training. Strat@comm also provides creative development for Web sites, audio/visual production, and editorial projects.

G2 Direct & Digital (formerly Grey Direct) is a leading direct marketing agency. The firm helps develop and implement direct mail, response television, and other marketing campaigns. It offers creative and production services, as well as planning, data analytics, and database marketing services to such clients as GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, and Pfizer. In addition, the agency provides services for interactive and e-mail marketing campaigns. G2 Direct & Digital operates through 45 offices in more than 30 countries. It is a subsidiary of Grey Group, which in turn is a unit of UK-based advertising and marketing services conglomerate WPP Group.

Sourcebooks, Inc. company was founded in 1987 by former advertising executive Dominique Raccah who left Leo Burnett, cashed in $17,000 from her 401K plan, and launched a publishing house from her upstairs bedroom Sourcebooks is an independent publisher of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles through imprints such as Sourcebooks Casablanca, Sourcebooks Hysteria, Sourcebooks Landmark, Sourcebooks MediaFusion, and Sphinx Publishing. Sourcebooks authors include college expert Edward B. Fiske (The Fiske Guide to Colleges), NPR commentator and Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford (An American Summer), and CBS Early Show host Hannah Storm (Go Girl!).

Briefings Media Group, LLC provides valuable information to help business people grow their companies and succeed in their careers. The information we provide takes many forms including newsletters, magazines, books, videos, training programs, software, ezines, events, workshops, database directories, web sites, audio conferences, and web search engines. Briefings Media Group is an accredited International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) provider. IACET (www.iacet.org) is a non-profit association dedicated to quality continuing education and training programs. Created in 1968, IACET authorizes education providers that meet strict continuing education guidelines.

FOUNDED IN 1949, Rowman & Littlefield is an independent press committed to an editorial mission increasingly sacrificed in a publishing era marked by corporate takeovers and university budget constraints. With the freedom to determine our own financial goals, we devote our resources to cultivating superb scholarship and innovative teaching in the academic disciplines we serve. Our renowned publishing tradition demonstrates that the calibre of authors, bookmaking, distribution, and creative interaction with scholars brings success. And we plan to carry this independent tradition far into the next century.

Points International Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides ecommerce and technology services to the loyalty program industry. It owns and operates Points.com, an online loyalty program management portal that enables consumers to earn, buy, share, swap, redeem, and exchange miles and points with various loyalty programs and retail partners. Points International's ecommerce solutions include Buy and Gift that enable the members to buy additional miles or points; Transfer, which facilitates transfer of loyalty program currencies among multiple accounts; Corporate that facilitates the sale of loyalty program currencies to corporate customers; and Elite, which enables the online sale of elite-tier status to members of loyalty programs. Its ecommerce services also comprise AirIncentives for the online sale of various airline loyalty program currencies to third parties that offer airline miles as incentives to their customers and suppliers; Systems Design, which are custom applications developed for loyalty program partners; Integrate that functions as a common platform to process transactions among third-party loyalty programs; Auction, which enables programs to offer mileage or point based auctions to their members; and Earn Malls, an online shopping mall platform. It primarily serves loyalty program operators and loyalty program consumers in the United States.

NewsMax Media serves up the news with a conservative slant. The company publishes alternative news and opinion content through its monthly magazine "NewsMax" and corresponding Web site. Columnists include Reed Irvine (founder of conservative watchdog group Accuracy In Media) and national broadcasting hosts and analysts Bill O'Reilly, Ed Koch, and Dick Morris. The company generates sales from advertising, as well as from politically oriented merchandise (clothing, posters, books) showcasing stars of the Republican Party. Former "New York Post" reporter Christopher Ruddy, the company's CEO, founded NewsMax Media in 1998.

Vue Entertainment is one of the UK’s leading cinema developers and operators of multiplex cinemas in the UK. The Vue brand and company was launched onto the UK market in 2003 with 38 cinemas. Since then, Vue’s UK & Ireland circuit has grown to 68 cinemas with 657 screens with over 140,000 seats. In the 12 months to the end of May 2010, the company served over 37 million customers. Vue also operates a 9 screen cinema in Faro, Portugal and a 13 screen cinema in Taipei, Taiwan serving a further 1.1 million customers. Vue has cinemas located across the whole of the UK with circa 60% of the population living within a 30 minute drive of a Vue cinema. Vue also has excellent representation in the vibrant Dublin market in Ireland with one of the top grossing cinemas in UK & Ireland and is also market leader with 19 sites in the key London market which represents 24% of the total UK box office. The company has the most modern state-of-the-art multiplex cinema circuit in the UK with 95% of its seats in stadium seated screens, which is the highest in the market when compared to other major multiplex operators. Vue has set new standards of comfort with the introduction of premium seating through a circuit-wide rollout of over 12,000 VIP seats. These are seats in the best locations in every screen and all can be pre-booked. Of its 657 screens, 121 are digital with 108 able to show the latest 3D films. Vue Cheshire Oaks and Vue West End were the first cinemas in Europe to show a 3D movie (Chicken Little) in February 2006. In September 2008, the company showed Keane live in 3D which was the first 3D live music event shown in cinema.

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