The agency was created in 2004 from the merger of two separate Omnicom companies, Accel Healthcare Communications and the Corbett Healthcare Group. The Corbett Accel Healthcare Group provides marketing, advertising, promotional, and public relations services to clients in the health care industry. The company's clients have included such big names as GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Procter & Gamble. A unit of advertising giant Omnicom Group, Corbett is comprised of several business units which include its advertising and promotions segment Corbett Worldwide Healthcare Communications as well as Kinect, its unit specializing in digital marketing services.

Quotable Cards, Inc. company was founded by Colgate University grads Gillian Simon and Matt Vogel in 1993. After the co-founders invested $10,000 of their own money and starting with 48 card designs, they received several orders from independent retailers. Simon, a graphic designer, hand- crafts every card. Quotable's products are now available at retailers (primarily gift shops and bookstores) throughout the world, including those in the US, Canada, the UK, and Japan. Quotable Cards creates stationary and other gifts, including greeting cards, magnets, tote bags, candles, stationery, and calendars, all imprinted with inspirational quotations.

C.A. Short Company plans and manages employee recognition and safety awareness programs to its clients, which have included Fiserv and Knoll. Its service recognition programs provide packages acknowledging employees' performance and longevity. Its Safety Awareness/Incentive segment provides customized safety instructions and rewards for safety practices. Other reward programs include attendance, sales, and birthdays. C.A. Short's prizes have included brand-name items from RCA, Sony, and Waterford. Chairman Robert Davis and his son, CEO Charles Davis, took the company private in 2002 and became its majority shareholders.

Grace & Wild was founded by president Steve Wild in 1984. Grace & Wild is the largest teleproduction and presentation services provider in the Midwest. The company offers sound stage rental, studio and remote production, motion picture processing and printing, film transfer, computer graphics, and editorial services. It operates through a handful of business divisions (such as Postique, Griot Editorial, Division X, and Emerge). Its hdstudios subsidiary offers high definition capabilities. Grace & Wild primarily serves broadcast advertising agencies, business communicators, and entertainment companies. Clients have included Ford Motor Company, Wal-Mart Stores, and the rock band KISS.

Brunswick was founded in 1987 by Alan Parker. The Brunswick Group is neither Canadian nor concerned with bowling. It is an international public relations and corporate communications agency with about three offices in the US and another dozen in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The company provides communication services in such disciplines as media and investor relations, regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, employee communications, crisis management, and corporate campaigns. The firm's clients have included BT, Marks and Spencer, the Bank of Scotland, and Shell Oil.

Question: Can you name a provider of outsourced contact services with more than 50 contact centers located across the US and Canada? The correct response is AnswerNet. Services include telephone answering and messaging services, voicemail and interactive voice response, as well as inbound and outbound lead generation and qualification, customer acquisition, and customer support. It manages more than 60 million calls and Internet messages each year. The company, which has been expanding through a slew of acquisitions and partnerships, provides its services under various names including Cerida, Signius, MRC, TelePartners, and Unicall.

Maddock Douglas was founded by CEO G. Michael Maddock in 1991. The firm specializes in creative development and marketing to help both start-ups and large companies conceive and commercialize new products and services. It offers market and trend analysis, modeling and prototype testing, and branding and packaging services to customers in the automotive, consumer products, financial services, publishing, retail, and telecommunications industries. Clients have included such big wigs as Allstate, ESPN, Johnson & Johnson, and McDonald's.

TR Design (formerly Tepperman/Ray Associates) wants to help its customers get their messages out. The independent agency is a marketing communications and design firm; its services include advertising, branding, production, Web site design and other digital offerings, exhibit design, printing, and direct mail marketing. Clients tend to come from the health care industry but have also included computer software, professional services, and manufacturing. TR Design has worked with Iron Mountain, Teradyne, and Zeiss. Principals Paul Tepperman and Carroll Ray founded the agency in 1986.

Founded in 1980, Telerx contact centers offer multilingual customer service (Spanish, French, and English) through half a dozen locations in Canada and the US. Telerx Marketing provides customer service outsourcing, specializing in customer relationship management, printing services, data entry and reporting, media responses, and consumer data collection. As a subsidiary of pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co., the midsized company serves clients in such industries as consumer packaged goods, health care, durable goods, and restaurants. Clients have included Kraft, Dannon, and Mars.

Founded in 1982, Allegro has grown to become one of the largest independent distributors of music in North America. Our catalog includes a broad range of music, including classical, pop, world and jazz, to name just a few of our genres. We are a customer-focused organization committed to fostering strong working relationships with the labels we represent, the retailers we serve and the consumers that purchase our music direct. Our strengths as a corporation leverage the skills, knowledge and creativity of our employees, comprised of a healthy mix of music and business professionals.

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