In 1994, with nearly two decades of public and private sector experience, Evan N. Zeppos, APR, ventured out as a sole public relations practitioner. His main goal for Zeppos & Associates was to build the best, not the biggest, public relations firm in metro Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Zeppos & Associates started with just three full-time employees. Since then, the firm has steadily grown to include a team of 16 professionals and now ranks as one of the top 100 independent public relations firms in the country.Zeppos & Associates, located in Downtown Milwaukee, works with a wide variety of clients, ranging from small, nonprofit organizations to large, international corporations. Through careful planning, controlled expansion and a strong team environment, the firm has maintained its focus on client service, and continually strives to be the best public relations firm, not the biggest.

Rodale is the authoritative source for trusted content in health, fitness, and wellness around the world. Rodale reaches more than 70 million people around the world through its category-leading media properties, trade books, subscription online properties and integrated marketing solutions. The company is also a leader in direct response marketing and has more than 26 million active customers in its database. Rodale publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazines, including Men’s Health, Prevention, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Running Times, Organic Gardening, and Mountain Bike.Rodale also publishes highly acclaimed books on health, fitness, cooking, gardening, spirituality, nature, the environment and more. Recent Rodale bestsellers include The Flat Belly Diet by Prevention Editor-in-Chief Liz Vacciarello and Cynthia Sass, RD, Eat This Not That by Men’s Health Editor-in-Chief David Zinczenko, and The South Beach Diet Supercharged by Arthur Agatston, MD. A broad range of successful interactive media products such as BiggestLoserClub.com, special interest publications, and integrated marketing solutions are among the assets that round out the company’s portfolio of innovative, mission-based brands and properties. Rodale reaches consumers through retail and direct response channels, and its products span multiple media formats and platforms, including print, video and the Internet.

Founded in 1972, LIH owns Plug, a public relations unit, and Kairos, which provides media buying. This ad agency is more than a little territorial. Lopito, Ileana & Howie (LIH) provides the full range of advertising services (including branding, sales promotion, event marketing, media buying, and public relations) in Puerto Rico. LIH mostly serves clients in the retail, fast-food, packaged goods, and alcoholic beverages sectors. The agency's creative portfolio has included campaigns for The Hershey Company, McDonald's, and UBS Financial Services, in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the US.

ASP Westward, L.P. (Westward) publishes community newspapers in suburban metropolitan and isolated rural communities. The Company is focused on establishing and maintaining a strong franchise as the leading provider of local information and advertising.ts largest group of papers serves the suburban communities surrounding Houston, its headquarters city. Westward also publishes a suburban group serving communities south of Denver, Colorado, and a group of isolated rural weeklies in East Texas communities, which share a common production facility.The company's overall distribution footprint has more than doubled in the past decade primarily in the Houston market. The Company has gone through significant management and operational changes over the past three years, and has developed a strategy that will take advantage of the significant growth opportunities in the suburban markets.Westward has been a leader in establishing a relationship with major advertisers and bringing the market to realize the value of suburban newspapers as an advertising vehicle. Through its significant investment in a major account sales strategy, the company is positioned well to maintain and grow the local advertising that serves as the foundation of its individual newspapers, while taking full advantage of significant revenue growth from major accounts that see the value of the network of suburban community newspapers.

Point.360 company provides audio, video, and film management and post-production services (including color correction, editing, and animation) for TV programming, feature films, and movie trailers. Clients include film studios, ad agencies, TV networks, and production firms. Point.360 also offers editing, mastering, reformatting, archiving, and electronic distribution services for commercials, press kits, and corporate training. In addition, the company rents and sells DVDs and video games directly to consumers through its Movie>Q retail stores. Chairman and CEO Haig Bagerdjian owns more than 50% of Point.360.

Founded in 1997, PointClear's client list has included such big names as Microsoft, UnitedHealth Group, and Dun & Bradstreet. PointClear company specializes in lead generation and sales prospect development, providing marketing and sales support to technology, health care, and business services companies across the US. It works with its clients to ensure they are accessing the most qualified sales leads possible. Services include sales planning, fulfillment and e-fulfillment, list segmentation, win-loss analysis and other related services.

Bader Rutter & Associates, Inc. offers creativity, research, media strategies, advertising, brand management, local marketing, relationship/direct marketing, collateral, and event management services, as well as public relations and digital solutions. Bader Rutter & Associates was formerly known as RA Advertising, Inc. Bader Rutter & Associates, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is based in Brookfield, Wisconsin with service offices in Chicago, Lincoln, and Nebraska.

Real London was founded in 1995 by managing director Richard Proctor. Real London Ltd. (formerly 21 Carrot) provides a whole bunch of enticements for advertisers to use its services. The company offers contract publishing services, creating customer magazines and "advertorials" (advertisements that mimic the editorial content of the periodical in which they are included) for corporate clients. Real London clients' advertorials appear in such publications as Sainsbury's Magazine, a consumer title owned by popular TV host, cookbook author, and chef Delia Smith. The company has produced campaigns for such firms as Akzo Nobel, Nestle, and Discovery Foods.

XPLANE Corp. company's "XPLANATiONs" are visual depictions of mission statements, processes, pitches, presentations, or other messages frequently issued by corporations and businesses. Far from blase pie graphs or flow charts, XPLANE's creations distill complex concepts and obtuse ideas (and probably a lot of nebulous business-speak) into illustrations, almost resembling cartoons. Customers, such as Bank of America and EDS, use the XPLANATiONs for everything from sales pitches to communicating internal company initiatives. Publications including Time and USA TODAY have also commissioned the company. Former news graphics editor Dave Gray founded XPLANE in 1994.

The DeLor Group specializes in corporate branding and product rebranding for clients in the health care, manufacturing, and service industries. The company provides a full set of offerings for creating and revitalizing brands, from research and positioning to advertising, direct marketing, packaging, sales training, and collateral materials creation. The DeLor Group serves companies across the US, Canada, and Europe. Clients have included Akzo Nobel, Eli Lilly, and PSI Energy.

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