A table saw, his life savings, a little frustration, and a dream. That’s what it took for Donald Peschke to publish the first issue of Woodsmith magazine in 1979. Within ten years his entrepreneurial efforts paid off, as the publishing company he founded landed twice on Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing privately owned companies in America. Today, August Home Publishing Company publishes five national, award winning magazines: Woodsmith, ShopNotes, Garden Gate, Cuisine at home, and My Home My Style. In addition, it has expanded in many ways to meet its mission of “surrounding our customers with service.” August Home provides home centers and woodworking stores around the country with Woodsmith Tools, plans, and hardware kits through its wholesale division, operates The Woodsmith Store in Clive, Iowa (a dream store for woodworkers), has a mail-order business that supplies woodworking and gardening products, and has a new media group devoted to producing an active commerce and information site on the Web (www.AugustHome.com). Of course, it didn’t all start out this way.

Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock, the Omaha World-Herald provides news, commentary, information and advertising that encourages readers to become involved in the world around them. The World-Herald is a statewide Nebraska newspaper, and delivers to more readers in southwest Iowa than any other Iowa newspaper.n 1963, Peter Kiewit purchased The World-Herald to ensure the paper would continue to be locally owned. In his will, Kiewit provided for the newspaper to be sold to its employees, and it has been employee-owned since 1979. The World-Herald is the largest employee-owned daily newspaper in the United States. The Omaha World-Herald has had only six publishers in its history: Gilbert M. Hitchcock (1885-1934); Henry Doorly (1934-1955); Walter E. Christenson (1955-1966); Harold W. Andersen (1966-1989); John Gottschalk (1989 - 2007); Terry Kroeger (since 2008).

Horizon Motion Pictures develops, produces, and distributes international independent feature films, documentaries, and television programming. The company has a library of Canadian, US, and Japanese films, which are actively marketed at film festivals and other venues, including AFM, Cannes, MIP, MIFED, and the London Screenings. Among the films distributed by Horizon is the Japanese movie upon which the US horror hit The Ring was based. Horizon Motion Pictures was founded in 1989 by president Rob Straight, who also owns the company.

Trahan, Burden & Charles (TBC) is a full-service advertising agency offering creative ad development and campaign management services for a broad range of corporate clients. In addition to traditional creative services for print and broadcasting, TBC provides direct marketing, media planning, and interactive services, as well as public relations. Chairman Allan Charles founded the agency with partners Edward Trahan and Tom Burden in 1974.

MGM Studios was once known for popular musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof" and West Side Story, as well as classic films such as "The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Ben Hur", and "Doctor Zhivago". Newer films in its library of 4,000 titles include the most recent James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, and The Pink Panther 2. Parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produces, co-produces, and distributes movies through this subsidiary (its commercial film division), as well as through MGM Studios sister firm United Artists (formerly a specialty unit that is now a production vehicle for actor Tom Cruise).

Vertice 360º es un grupo audiovisual especializado en la produccion y postproducción de contenidos para cine y television, la prestacion integral de servicios tecnicos y equipamiento para la produccion audiovisual y publicitaria, la transmision de canales y la generacion de eventos comerciales y de espectáculos en vivo. El Grupo Vertice 360º esta integrado por companias de gran prestigio dentro de la industria audiovisual como Telson, Videoreport, Apuntolapospo, Vertice Cine, Telespan, Notro TV, CIN.TV, Vértice Sales y Vertice Live. Vertice 360º cotiza en Bolsa desde diciembre de 2007.

Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) is a state-controlled radio service that offers news and official information to citizens throughout the country. It operates six radio channels broadcasting in Vietnamese and 23 other languages. For listeners outside the country, VOV offers online content and programming along with shortwave radio broadcasts. The radio service has news bureaus in about 10 countries, including China, France, Russia, and the US. VOV began broadcasting in 1945.

New York Media publishes New York magazine, a slick weekly focused on lifestyle and business topics in the Big Apple. The under 500,000-circulation publication, considered one of the first city-focused magazines, was founded in 1968 by Clay Felker, and its writers have included Nora Ephron and Tom Wolfe. Current New York editor Adam Moss formerly ran the New York Times' Sunday magazine. Family trusts of the late Burce Wasserstein control New York Media. Wasserstein was a billionaire Wall Street financier and CEO of investment bank Lazard; he died in 2009. The city needs something to do while it's busy not sleeping. Sometimes it reads.

Rare Publishing company is owned by leading UK communications group Chime Communications. Rare Publishing has offices in Bristol and London. Rare Publishing provides contract publishing services for corporations and organizations. The firm produces both branded and unbranded magazines--providing communications planning, editorial, design, commercial, production, and distribution services. Rare Publishing company has produced magazines for such clients as Coventry Building Society, Littlewoods, Somerfield, Securicor, and the Teacher Training Agency. Sister company, Rare Digital, provides Internet communications and publishing services.

This company gets cheerful and bright when people start playing "Blue Christmas." The largest music publisher in the world, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) controls the rights to more than one million songs, including "Girl From Ipanema," "Shake Your Groove Thing," and "Strangers In the Night," as well as the Hayes/Johnson ode to spending the holidays alone. UMPG also administers some 60,000 songs owned by Rondor Music, a catalog of hits from such legends as the Beach Boys, Isaac Hayes, and Otis Redding. Universal Music Publishing Group company collects royalties for mechanical reproduction and licenses its songs for use in movies and television. UMPG is the publishing arm of music industry giant Universal Music Group (UMG).

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