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Guthy | Renker is one of the largest and most respected direct marketing companies in the world, with distribution in 68 countries and sales of more than $1.5 billion per year.. Since 1988, G|R has discovered and developed dozens of well-loved, high quality consumer products in the beauty, skincare, entertainment and wellness categories. Known for moving, award-winning productions and marketing campaigns featuring some of today’s biggest stars, Guthy|Renker has been credited with transforming the broadcast direct marketing industry. Originally launched as a television direct marketer by Co-Chairmen Bill Guthy and Greg Renker, the independently-owned, vertically-integrated company has since broadened its focus into every area of electronic retailing, making quality products available to U.S. and international consumers through broadcast television, cable and satellite, as well as internet, telemarketing, direct mail, and retail channels. Bill and Greg have set industry standards for trust, integrity and best practices and have been invited to testify before US regulators to help shape industry governing policies. G|R has a superior track record of customer satisfaction for more than 20 years. Its direct to consumer model allows consumers to purchase products at a guaranteed low monthly price with generous extended return policies.
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners, including Akuna`s CEO Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm`s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and Boston. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company`s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna`s growth profile is ahead of us.
As a global ideas shop, our mission is to create ideas that are humanly relevant. gyro is Advertising Age`s 2016 B-to-B Agency of the Year and the BMA`s 2016 Global B-to-B Agency of the Year. Our 600 creative minds in 14 offices work with top companies, including Aflac, Danone, eBay, Google, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jabra, John Deere, Tate & Lyle, TD Ameritrade, Teva, USG and Vodafone.
SmithGeiger is a custom media research and consulting firm. Based in Los Angeles, with a local presence in Silicon Valley and several other regions, SmithGeiger serves numerous major media companies and top consumer content brands as well as dozens of local TV broadcasters in almost every DMA across the US. SmithGeiger provides custom qualitative and quantitative research. SmithGeiger designs and executes custom research studies that dive into the details of our client`s most critical market and product questions. Going beyond the research, our researchers and consultants are uniquely able to translate the data into concrete and actionable strategies. Then, we partner with our client`s to ensure those goals are pursued and met over time.
Simulmedia is a New York based technology company for TV advertisers. Its Performance TV products - powered by the company`s patented VAMOS data-driven predictive analytic software - deliver high performance targeted national TV ad campaigns at massive scale for dozens of top brands like Clorox, The Home Depot and Choice Hotels. Independent studies show that Simulmedia TV campaigns regularly deliver higher ROI than conventionally planned and targeted campaigns. This is why Simulmedia is alone among TV companies in guaranteeing the performance of its campaigns.