ALISIAS provides public relation services, from repairing damaged reputations to creating new public images from the ground up. The firms practice areas cover corporate communications, media management, community and urban relations, crisis management, and PR support for not-for-profit organizations. ALISIAS company's community and urban relations work helps clients build support for public policy at the grass-roots level. ALISIAS specializes in presenting complicated or nuanced information succinctly and accurately through diverse media.

Lightning Entertainment Productions is a worldwide distributor and licensor of independent films. The company's catalog includes titles such as Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Cougar Club, Kenny, and Tortilla Heaven. Subsidiary Lightning Media focuses on US film distribution and has partnerships with Anchor Bay Entertainment and Lions Gate Entertainment. Another unit, Mainline Releasing, specializes in distributing made-for-TV and direct-to-DVD films. Lightning Entertainment was founded in 2002 by Richard Guardian, a veteran film distribution and sales executive, along with Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg.

Platts has about 15 offices worldwide, and is owned by publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Platts has been monitoring the energy industry for more than 75 years. The company offers energy and commodities information and analysis on the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets. The company sells subscriptions to its content, which is offered through Web sites, newsletters, and magazines, to traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry executives. Other product offerings include maps and software. It also produces conferences for the energy industry.

Herbst LaZar Bell (HLB) provides product design and engineering services specializing in consumer products, industrial components, and medical devices. With expertise in market research, business strategy, industrial design, materials and processes, engineering, manufacturing, and prototype services, HLB can minimize the trial and error part of product design. The employee-owned firm was founded as Sherman Herbst in 1962 by Walter Herbst and Bill Sherman. Headquartered in Chicago, HLB owns an additional office in Boston.

Original Media company produces mostly films and television shows. Its handful of movies, including The Squid & The Whale and August, have all premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. While its gritty TV shows, including LA Ink, Storm Chasers, Miami Ink, and Skate Maps, can be found on FUEL Network, TLC, NBC, and Discovery Channel. In addition to its independent films and edgy TV shows, the company has also produced concerts that play on music station VH1's website. Executive producer Charles Corwin formed the company in 2002; global media giant Endemol owns a controlling stake.

Eye-To-Eye Communications, Inc. was founded in 1996 and primarily serves clients in and around the San Diego region. Serving privately held and publicly traded companies Eye-to-Eye Communications counts Applied Medical, Arrow Electronics, and Trellia Networks among its clients. Eye-To-Eye Communications helps its clients create a direct line of communication with the press, investors, customers, and employees. The public relations company offers corporate positioning, crisis communications, investor relations, media placement, and product marketing for clients in the high-tech, education, and not-for-profit sectors.

Andrea Obston Marketing Communications provides a variety of communications services to clients, but it specializes in crisis management, media relations, and media training. Serving clients in a broad range of industries, from consumer services and industrial manufacturing to health care and legal services, the firm has made its name primarily as a regional firm since its beginning in 1982. Founder Andrea Obston started the firm to offer the marketing advantages typically associated with large corporations to mid-sized companies.

RiechesBaird, Inc. which was formed in 1994 by Ryan Rieches and Ray Baird, counts Toyota Material Handling, Entergy Corporation, and Cisco Systems among its customers. RiechesBaird is an integrated B2B company that believes building brands requires the skill to plan and execute. As such, the company offers an array of services to help chart the course for a business and decide how branding best fits that course. The kicker, as RiechesBaird sees it, is that a business plan and a branding vision are little help without successful marketing and advertising. So RiechesBaird offers that, too.

VPE Public Relations (formerly Valencia Perez & Echeveste) provides public relations services specializing in consumer strategies, social marketing, and public affairs. Its consumer strategies group offers branding, product launch support, community relations, and media relations services to both the general and Hispanic markets. VPE's social marketing group specializes in raising the profile of social issues through grassroots organizations, policymaker outreach, and public education campaigns. The public affairs group helps clients influence public policy. VPE extends its reach through its membership in the Public Relations Global Network, a group of independent agencies working together to share resources.

Modern Times Group MTG is one of Europe's leading diversified media conglomerates with operations in television, film, and the Internet. Its Viasat Broadcasting, the company's largest division, broadcasts more than 50 branded free-TV and satellite premium pay-TV channels in 30 countries, and has a total of some 125 million viewers. MTG also produces films and television shows through Modern Studios, and is the largest commercial radio operator in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. In addition, MTG has Internet holdings that include online gaming operations and e-commerce sites.

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