Barrington Broadcasting tunes in where big city TV stations tune out. Serving small to midsized markets, the broadcasting company operates more than 20 television stations serving 15 markets in 10 states, including Michigan, New York, and Texas. Most of its stations are affiliated with broadcast networks ABC, NBC, and The CW, while a small number are affiliated with CBS and FOX. Barrington operates duopolies (two or more stations) in four of its broadcast markets. CEO K. James Yager and other company executives founded Barrington in 2003. The company is owned and managed by private equity firm Pilot Group.

As the #1 producer of warm fuzzies, Hallmark Cards is the Goliath of greeting cards. The company's cards are sold under brand names such as Hallmark, Shoebox, and Ambassador and can be found in more than 41,000 US retail stores. (About 3,300 stores bear the Hallmark Gold Crown name; the majority of these stores are independently owned.) Hallmark also offers electronic greeting cards, gifts, and flowers through its website. In addition to greeting cards, the company owns crayon manufacturer Crayola (formerly Binney & Smith), a majority of cable broadcaster Crown Media, and Kansas City's Crown Center real estate development firm. Members of the founding Hall family own two-thirds of Hallmark.

Addison Whitney constructs identities and brands for its clients, with a particular emphasis on product and brand naming. It develops and implements brands across the Internet as well as designs verbal strategies and logos. Operating offices in Germany and San Francisco, the firm has served such clients as DuPont, Duracell, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly and Co. In May 2007, inVentiv Health, a communications and outsourcing services firm specializing in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, acquired the company.

EarthQuake Media is a next generation marketing services company. Our strategies help clients to create authentic dialogue with their consumers via advertising, Word-of-Mouth, and experiential marketing. Our offering is unique because we deliver on the promise of integrated marketing communications. We have not only been talking about this since our inception in 1999, but we have been putting it to use for our clients successfully.

BBDO Worldwide, Inc. company operates through some 290 offices in about 80 countries, featuring outposts such as Abbott Mead Vickers and Proximity London. This alphabet soup of advertising hopes to spell success for its clients. As the flagship agency of media conglomerate Omnicom Group, BBDO Worldwide offers creative development services for some of the world's top brands using television, print, and other media. BBDO Worldwide also provides campaign planning and management services, as well as other brand promotion services. The firm's Atmosphere BBDO unit offers interactive marketing services in North America. BBDO's clients have included Chrysler, FedEx, and PepsiCo.

The Willis Music Company is a leading independent music publisher with catalog of about 13,000 titles. It also publishes sheet music and other publications aims at musicians. In addition, the company operates a chain of more than half a dozen music retail stores in Kentucky and Ohio offering musical instruments, instrument rentals, sound equipment, and related products. Willis Music Company was founded in 1899 by Charles H. Willis, a veteran of the sheet music industry. It is owned by the family of president Kevin Cranley.

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC company publishes more than 70 magazines, newsletters, and journals on international finance, led by flagship publications "Euromoney" and "Institutional Investor". The firm also publishes databases and provides other information services, and conducts conferences, seminars, and training courses. Subsidiary Metal Bulletin publishes information on iron, steel, and non-ferrous metal markets. Euromoney has a portfolio of websites dedicated to international finance and business, including euromoney.com and securities.com. The company is majority-owned by UK media group Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).

Marketing firm OgilvyAction (formerly 141 Worldwide) offers services in sales promotion, digital and direct marketing, retail design, and customer relationship management, shopper and trade marketing, as well as other areas of specialized marketing. Primarily it analyzes shoppers and how and why they make their purchases. The company, a division of creative advertising network Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, works with businesses all over the world through more than 60 offices in nearly 50 countries. The agency was founded as 141 Worldwide in 1992; it restructured into OgilvyAction in early 2007. Some offices in international markets continue to operate under the 141 Worldwide banner.

Editis edits literature for French-speaking countries -- it's that simple. The publishing company is one of the largest educational and consumer publishing groups in France. Editis organizes its products into three distinct business segments: literature (general public and children's literature), education (grade school textbooks and scholastic aids and games), and reference (dictionaries and encyclopedias). It publishes under more than 40 brands and has some 9,000 titles, and is active in distribution through subsidiary Interforum. Editis traces its roots back to 1835, when it was founded by Charles-Louis Havas as a news agency. Editis is a subsidiary of Spanish publishing firm Planeta Corporacion.

Anita Santiago Advertising specializes in creating and placing Spanish-language ads and promotions for such clients as Compass Bank and Carl's Jr. Restaurants. In 2007 the company lost major client Wells Fargo to Los Angeles-based agency Acento Advertising. Specializing in reaching the Hispanic market, Anita Santiago Advertising provides public relations, direct marketing, media buying, and market research, in addition to its creative advertising services. The independent agency was founded in 1987 and serves clients in the financial services, retail, fast food, and health care sectors.

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