Founded by Guy Williams and CEO Peter Labadie in 1990, Williams-Labadie is a unit of Paris-based advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe. You might say this company practices medicinal marketing. Williams-Labadie Advertising is a leading provider of advertising and marketing services to clients in the health care and pharmaceutical industries. The midsized agency offers creative ad development and campaign management services, as well as branding and corporate identity services. It also offers services for direct marketing and multimedia communications. Clients have included Abraxis, Advanced Medical Optics, Oscient Pharmaceuticals, and Prometheus Laboratories.

MediaTec Publishing Inc. is an award-winning publisher of magazines and interactive media that focus on workforce development and talent management. Its Chief Learning Officer magazine was named “Best New Magazine” by the American Society of Publication Editors and has been nominated for several Neal Awards, presented by American Business Media. Diversity Executive magazine is the newest title in the MediaTec family, which includes Talent Management magazine, Certification Magazine, CertMag’s StudyGuides, CLO SourceBook and supporting electronic newsletters, special supplements, online e-Seminars and interactive Web sites for each publication. MediaTec also produces the CLO Symposium and Talent Management Strategies events, which bring together international audiences to discuss best practices in corporate learning and talent management. All MediaTec publications, Web sites and events share a similar focus, an emphasis on providing readers, attendees and Web visitors with clearly presented information to help them succeed in new and changing markets.

Rock River Communications licenses music from record labels in order to create compilation CDs for retailers to play in stores. Customers have included The Gap, Williams-Sonoma's Pottery Barn, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Rock River also partnered with Volkswagen to release VW Street Mix Volume 1, a compilation CD featuring music from Volkswagen's first commercials.

Gale®, part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform. The Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted reference brands as Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's Sons® and Primary Source Media™. Gale also serves the K-12 market with its U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, Lucent Books®, KidHaven Press and Sleeping Bear Press™ imprints. Thorndike Press®, Christian Large Print™, Wheeler Publishing™, Five Star™ and Large Print Press™ serve libraries' large print collections. Major brands include InfoTrac, Gale Virtual Reference Library — the company's eBook platform — and the unparalleled Gale Digital Collections such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online. In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations — including Looksmart, Borders, Dow Jones and Thomson Financial — presently enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices in the U.S., and in the following international regions: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America.

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The Hoffman Agency was founded in 1987. The firm operates through about a dozen offices in the US (headquartered in California), Europe (London), and in the Asia Pacific region (Hong Kong). The Hoffman Agency offers services ranging from strategic counsel, positioning, and messaging, to executive communications and customer reference programs, media and analyst relations, product reviews, and speaker programs. In addition, the independent firm offers specialized services in the broadcast and online communications spaces. Clients include Friendster, Oracle, Siemens, Sony, and Texas Instruments.

Archant has been a family-owned business since its inception 165 years ago. Today it is a growing media business and the leading family-owned independent regional newspaper group in the UK.Archant was in 1845 that Jacob Henry Tillett, Jeremiah Colman, John Copeman and Thomas Jarrold started the Norwich-based Norfolk News. The Colman and Copeman families still retain close involvement in the business. The Eastern Weekly Press was launched in 1867 and in 1870 was renamed the Eastern Daily Press. A sister title, the Eastern Evening News was launched in 1882. As the business grew it moved premises in 1902, 1959 and again in the late 1960s to its present headquarters location at Prospect House in the centre of Norwich.At the end of the sixties, Eastern Counties Newspapers began its corporate expansion with the coming together of ECN with the East Anglian Daily Times Company to form Eastern Counties Newspapers Group (ECNG).

CANAL+ Groupe is a leading French media company with operations in television and film. It owns 80% of Canal Plus France, a holding company that owns French satellite TV provider CanalSat and Canal Overseas, a provider of French-language satellite TV services in several international territories. Canal Plus France also holds 49% of Canal Plus SA, which operates the leading CANAL+ pay TV service. CANAL+ Groupe's StudioCanal is one of Europe's leading film producers and distributors with a library of more than 5,000 titles. CANAL+ Groupe is a subsidiary of French telecommunications and media conglomerate Vivendi.

LIN TV owns and operates about 30 stations serving nearly 20 markets in about a dozen states. Its portfolio of stations includes affiliates with all the major networks -- mostly CBS and FOX -- as well as stations affiliated with smaller networks The CW Network and MyNetworkTV. Many of the company's stations operate as duopolies with two stations serving a single market. In addition, LIN Media owns 20% of a joint venture with NBC Universal parent General Electric that operates NBC stations in Dallas and San Diego. Dallas-based private equity firm HM Capital Partners controls 35% of the company.

Affinity Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1998. Affinity Solutions is a relationship marketing agency that specializes in loyalty programs for such companies as financial services providers, insurance agencies, and publishers. The firm designs and implements marketing campaigns that integrate rewards, benefits, advice, and interactive services with goal of creating customer loyalty towards its clients. In addition, Affinity Solutions offers such services as database marketing, data analytics, and creative marketing services.

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