North American Membership Group, Inc., a lifestyle affinity membership organization, owns and operates membership-based lifestyle affinity organizations. It focuses on affinity membership marketing, magazine publishing, and continuity and merchandise marketing. Its services include magazines that features tactics, equipment tips, product ratings, and information; recipes, photography, and techniques; online branding, e-commerce, and lead generation; display advertising, rich media, text advertising, content integration, key word links, enewsletters, microsites, lead generation, and polls/surveys; e-newsletters; and television.

Avalon Travel was formed in 1999 with the merger of three independent travel publishers—Moon Publications (established 1973), John Muir Publications (established 1973), and Foghorn Press (established 1982)—creating the largest independent travel publisher based in the United States. Avalon publishes several major travel guidebook series: Rick Steves; Moon, which includes Moon Handbooks, Moon Metro, Moon Outdoors, and Moon Living Abroad; The Dog Lover’s Companion; the best-selling guidebook Road Trip USA; and individual travel titles. Based in Berkeley, California, Avalon is a proud member of the Perseus Books Group.

Reed Business Information is a leading trade magazine publisher with a portfolio of more than 400 titles. Its US publications (from Reed Business Information US) include the venerable Hollywood trade paper Variety. In the UK (through Reed Business Information Ltd.), Reed Business Information company runs such magazines as Computer Weekly, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, and New Scientist. Outside the UK, other European operations are conducted through Reed Business Information Netherlands. European publications include "Strategies" in France, "Arte y Cemento" in Spain, and "Detail" in Germany. Reed Business Information company also does business in the Asia/Pacific region. Reed Business Information is owned by Reed Elsevier Group.

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. is one of the leading publishers of local news and information in the United States.Founded in 1997, CNHI's newspapers, television stations, Web sites and niche publications serve more than 150 communities throughout the United States. CNHI publications strive to be leading providers of local news and information in their communities. CNHI values excellence, integrity, respect for employees and a customer focus in all of its operations.

Kensington Publishing holds court with readers. The independent publisher sells hardcover, trade, and mass market fiction and non-fiction books through its Kensington, Zebra, Pinnacle, and Citadel imprints. The company publishes about 600 titles a year and has a backlist of more than 3,000. Romance and women's fiction account for more than half of its titles published each year. Other niche topics covered include wicca, gambling, gay & lesbian, and military history. Readers can turn to the company's Rebel Base Books Web site to order titles such as I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, which sold more than 70,000 copies its first year and made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

UKTV is a major industry player and one of the most important and successful multi-channel providers in the UK. Formed in 1997, it is an independent commercial joint venture, between Virgin Media and BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. Attracting 36.5 million viewers each month, the network offers a broad range of quality programming across its entertainment, lifestyle and factual offerings – Watch, GOLD, Dave, Alibi, Eden, Blighty, Yesterday, Home, Really and Good Food. UKTV currently operates 17 broadcast streams when multiplexes (+1s) and broadband are taken into account, and complementary websites for every channel brand. The success of UKTV is based on its programming including award-winning shows from the BBC and an increasing number of original commissions (currently 750 hours a year) and acquisitions. All ten UKTV channels are available on Sky Digital and Virgin Media, with Dave and Yesterday also on Freeview.

Owner and CEO John Metzger founded the firm in 1991. Metzger Associates keeps its clients in communion with the world. The firm handles public and investor relations for a host of technology and telecommunication clients across the US. Metzger Associates offers media relations (press releases and tours), financial communications (annual reports, corporate profiles), and strategic planning and specializes in finance and transaction communications.

FulcrumTV produces documentaries, arts programs, and science programs for Channel Four, the BBC, and others. FulcrumTV productions have included such titles as "What Would Jesus Drive" (a documentary on the US's love affair with cars), "The Beatles Biggest Secrets", Black Gold (a film about coffee farmers in Ethiopia), and Adam Ant: Stand and Deliver. The company was founded in 1986 by current executives Richard Belfield and Christopher Hird.

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.

Zeitgeist Films was founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. From its beginning Zeitgeist Films has differentiated itself by focusing on the more discriminating and adventurous filmgoer, whose needs were not being met by traditional “arthouse” fare. Zeitgeist films are strongly auteur-driven and have a distinct visual style and unique content. Zeitgeist acquires their films with the following criteria in mind: passion for the film, its quality and prestige, and its marketability. Their collection of the best in independent and international cinema has been accumulated by working with the most talented and innovative filmmakers in the U.S. and abroad. Their catalog includes numerous festival award winning films such as 2002 Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA; the 2005 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL–THE FINAL DAYS; the 1997 winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, TASTE OF CHERRY, the 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner POISON and the theatrical re-issue of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (both an Academy Award nominee and Palme d’Or winner, 1964/re-released 1996). The Zeitgeist film library also includes hugely popular documentaries such as INTO GREAT SILENCE, THE CORPORATION and BALLETS RUSSES as well as films by such renowned directors as Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes, Francois Ozon, Derek Jarman, Yvonne Rainer, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Christopher Nolan, Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay.

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