Activant Solutions Inc. is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving small and medium-sized retail and wholesale distribution businesses in three primary vertical markets: Hardlines and lumber; wholesale distribution; and the automotive parts aftermarket.

Founded in 1972, Activant provides customers with tailored proprietary software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. More than 30,000 customer locations use an Activant solution to manage their day-to-day operations.

Activant has operations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Canada, France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
www.activant.com

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Successful enterprises embrace collaboration as a critical core competency. They understand that collaboration drives efficiency, innovation, customer satisfaction and profitability. Breakthrough levels of collaboration occur when information sharing is intuitive, fast, comprehensive and secure. ANX was built from the ground up to help companies unleash the power of collaboration. ANX delivers "Collaboration as a Service" using a fully managed service approach.

ANX core competencies include:
* Deep technical knowledge
* Focused industry expertise
* Broad experience as a provider of mission-critical data connectivity and transaction solutions
* A passion for customer support and, a proven record of enabling collaboration across multiple value chains

With a stable financial foundation and a passion for excellence, ANX combines robust internal product development with strategic acquisitions (six in the past three years) to deliver a global, secure collaboration platform. Unlike many solution providers creating closed networks that slow implementation and fast collaboration, ANX provides an open platform that enables rapid, secure collaboration with any company, anywhere. ANX is delivering the next generation of collaboration solutions for the Automotive Aftermarket.
www.anx.com

Arent Fox is a premier national law firm, with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The firm has long had one of the top regulatory practices in the world, and has served as general counsel for MEMA for over 40 years.

We represent numerous automotive suppliers in areas including government relations, NHTSA compliance, antitrust, intellectual property (including trademark, patent, counterfeiting and trade secrets), litigation, bankruptcy, environmental, OSHA and transactional matters.

We pride ourselves on our understanding of the automotive industry (both original equipment and aftermarket). Our lawyers are business oriented and make recommendations to our clients based on the desire to achieve business objectives.
www.arentfox.com

Since 1975, the independent automotive aftermarket's only independent news source! Led by industry veteran Gary A. Molinaro, Automotive Week/The Greensheet has been the source for frank, focused and fearless coverage of the independent automotive aftermarket - unequaled market intelligence for executives in the $260 billion market. As a weekly newsletter - emphasis on news - we cover personnel news, mergers and acquisitions; financial reports of both privately-held and publicly-held companies; and any news affecting marketers, manufacturers and distributors in the independent service and parts business. We develop our own stories - never just press release rewrites - written by an editorial staff with more than 50 years of aftermarket experience. With a paid-subscriber revenue base, we are able to report news with no influence from advertisers - a unique position in the industry. The coverage is edgy and often controversial, yet professionally reported with a balanced approach. The only independent news source in the automotive aftermarket!
www.thegreensheetonline.com

We are the ONLY provider in the market today to manage, run sercure, and monitor all your business interactions-emails, files, messages, services, events and processes. Spanning all industries, over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries depend on axway's proven breadth of services and layers of governance to build and improve value chain efficiency regulatory compliance and quality of service.
www.axway.com

Babcox Publications, LLC, is a business-to-business magazine, custom publishing and e-media company serving both the automotive and truck fleet markets.

With a comprehensive mix of niche publications, websites and on-line products, Babcox has the unique ability to effectively and efficiently package and deliver top-quality media properties to the industries it serves.

For more than 80 years, our commitment to bringing our readers and advertisers the highest level of quality publications has never wavered and continues to expand each year.
www.babcox.com

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Founded in 1985, DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. (DAC) is the only consulting and market research company in Canada that specializes in the automotive sector.
www.desrosiers.ca

Edgenet is committed to being the highest quality provider of product content management, selling and advertising solutions in the world. Through the Edgenet Network, our customers access a product information ecosystem that ensures the highest quality, most complete set of product content available. Product content is managed by suppliers and distributed from our network to retailers, distributors and media channels. Suppliers, distributors and retailers of all sizes benefit from a complete software as a service (SaaS) solution where best practice workflow, collaboration, quality assurance and product content delivery come together. Edgenet's data services, guided selling and advertising solutions are used by top retailers, distributors, media sites and suppliers in the automotive, home goods and sporting goods industries. The Edgenet Network provides unparalleled quality, breadth and value. Learn more about the Edgenet Network at http://www.edgenet.com.
www.edgenet.com

At the Global Automotive Center, more than 50 of our most experienced professionals collaborate to conduct automotive research and share knowledge. Our global network of member firms spans more than 140 countries. We tap into talent and resources from this network to foster best-practice collaboration, learning, speed-to-market, and implementation. The result is an integrated approach to developing and delivering relevant, high-quality services for the world’s leading and automotive manufacturers and suppliers. To see just how well our approach works, take a look at the automotive issues we address.
www.ey.com

www.experian.com/automotive

GCommerce is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology solution. GCommerce eliminates the pain and errors from manually processing documents with industry trading partners. Founded in 2000 GCommerce provides supply chain Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) connectivity solutions and enable information sharing between incompatible business systems and technologies, resulting in improved efficiencies and operational performance. Our team has significant experience and in-depth knowledge of the automotive aftermarket and serves all market sectors including passenger car, light truck, high performance and heavy duty.
www.gcommerceinc.com

Helm Incorporated is a marketing services company that helps corporate clients develop and execute solutions to address their business challenges and build their brands. Using comprehensive in-house marketing and distribution resources as our building blocks, we specialize in Specialty Fulfillment, Branded Merchandise, E-Commerce Solutions -- Service & Owner Publications and E-Commerce Solutions -- Shop Tools & Equipment. Our value is our ability to provide single-source solutions to our clients and a central point of contact with our organization. We also focus on Innovation, which to us means change, both incremental and monumental. This leads to one or more of the following: Improved efficiency, Reduced costs, Increased sales and Improved customer satisfaction. Helm is ISO 9001:2000 certified with over 60 years of experience in the automotive and aftermarket industries. We’re proud of our loyal customer base, flawless execution, and proven results.
www.helm.com

www.meyerspublishing.com

Headquartered in Westmont, Ill., IMR Inc. has been an industry leader in automotive research since 1975. IMR Inc. conducts syndicated and proprietary market research studies that focus on automotive parts and services, repair shops, technicians, accessories and vehicle technology trends. IMR research is frequently referenced in industry association fact books and status reports and industry magazines. For more information, call 800-654-1079, e-mail Info@AutomotiveResearch.com or visit www.AutomotiveResearch.com.
www.automotiveresearch.com

Inmar, CLS Reverse Logistics is an industry leader in providing technology-driven reverse logistics and supply chain solutions to the consumer goods and healthcare markets.
www.inmar.com

A consulting company that works exclusively in the automotive aftermarket and provides management, marketing and technology advisory services including, organizational development, new product development, market research, supply chain technology implementation, sales consulting, business development and strategic planning.

Since 1926, McKinsey has helped business leaders address their greatest challenges, from reorganizing for long-term growth to improving business performance and maximizing revenue.
www.mckinsey.com

www.millercanfield.com

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, investment management, and credit services. With more than 600 offices in 30 countries, Morgan Stanley connects people, ideas and capital to help clients achieve their financial aspirations. Since 1997, Morgan Stanley has combined the complementary skills and resources of two powerful organizations: Morgan Stanley, established in New York in 1935, and Dean Witter, established in 1924 in San Francisco. Their distinguished pedigrees encompass a record of historic firsts: in national and international expansion, in the use of technology, and in the development of new financial tools and techniques that have redefined the meaning of financial services for individual, institutional and investment banking clients.
www.morganstanley.com

MOTOR Magazine's subscribers aren't just readers, they're also customers. For 107 years and counting, MOTOR Magazine has been part of MOTOR Information Systems - the industry leader in every facet of technical service and repair information for the automotive aftermarket. MOTOR's audited circulation of 136,000+ has the highest first-year qualified rate in its category. And its unmatched pass-along readership means it's read by over 500,000 industry professionals each month. MOTOR's readers - independent automotive repair shop owners and technicians - are exposed to award-winning editorial that gives them all the information they need to fix the vehicles that show up in their service bays, provides guidance on running their businesses and reports on the newest tools, equipment and repair techniques as they're introduced.
www.motor.com

NASCAR Automotive Aftermarket Developed in 1996, NASCAR's automotive aftermarket program builds awareness for the sport by creating marketing alliances with leading manufacturers in the automotive industry. NASCAR supports its aftermarket program with a fully-integrated media platform that includes a weekly television show on SPEED Channel, monthly magazine sections in Babcox publications, in-race performance tips on the Motor Racing Network (MRN), bi-weekly car care tips in NASCAR Scene as well as the NASCAR Performance Network on NASCAR.com. In 2002, NASCAR and Universal Technical Institute opened the NASCAR Technical Institute to attract and train automotive technicians for the industry.
www.nascar.com

OptiCat is an industry data cooperative that collects, aggregates and distributes product attribute and catalog application data. It is owned by AASA, MindQuest and TecDoc. It's DIO (Do-it-Once) model enables suppliers to deliver ACES and PIES data to one location and customers (data receivers) to retreive data from location. It also will provide the world's most comprehensive vehicle application tables.

Benefits include faster data time-to-market, more accurate data, data IP protection (suppliers dictate who has access), reduced costs due to single location and single format required, more robust application tables and more sales opportunities.
www.opticat.net

Pricedex Software Inc. is the aftermarket's leading provider of world-class product information management (PIM) and pricing management software applications. Pricedex PIM solutions help manufacturers and distributors optimize profit potential by ensuring the creation and delivery of the right part information, at the right price, to the right place at the right time. The Pricedex 'AutoPIM Pro' system enables companies to integrate product, part and pricing information in 'one single source of the truth', enabling people across the enterprise to collaborate, create and accurately manage catalogs, price books, quotations, parts lists, pricing contracts, and technical and other service publications. This best-of-breed, highly configurable and highly adaptive PIM system is the most flexible tool on the market today, offering a family of products for; Catalog Management; Pricing Management; Automated Cross-Media Publishing; Collaborative Product Management; Revenue Acquisition, Sales Quotation and Contract Management; and online and offline e-Catalogs.
www.pricedex.com

R. L. Polk collects and interprets automotive market data, and offers its knowledge, insight and extensive industry expertise to help its clients make good decisions and implement change, consistently throughout the world. Our offerings include vehicle parc, sales and registration statistics to analyse channel performance and market share as well as demand forecasts for vehicles, services, parts and components. At the same time, we plan effective retail networks for sales and service, implement change programmes to improve dealer operations, profile and contact customers, remarket used vehicles, and provide financial composites and network viability studies.
www.polk.com

Provide content management solutions, digital asset services and mapping services.
www.soleniuminc.com

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www.tecdoc.com

The Marx Group is a full-service business strategy and marketing communications firm offering a diverse range of marketing services, including business development strategies, lead generation programs, customer retention processes, on-line marketing, advertising, public relations, collateral, tradeshow programs, and interactive design. TMG began as an advertising and marketing agency in Southern California in 1982. Now based in San Rafael, we have creative and account teams in New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. Our team members, each with a strong, proven track record, include strategists, account managers, public relations and media specialists, and an award-winning creative group for both print and on-line programs.
www.themarxgrp.com

Union Pacific Railroad's Intermodal team provides a wide range of multi-modal transportation solutions for both domestic and international freight. Our extensive door-to-door and ramp-to-ramp services provide customers access to markets throughout North America, with the flexibility to move freight in rail-owned shipping containers or private equipment. We even offer less-than-truckload (LTL) options for small shipments. Union Pacific Intermodal is committed to offering truck-competitive rates and service schedules. We seamlessly connect with Canada's rail system and are the only railroad serving the six major gateways to and from Mexico, making us North America's premier transportation carrier.
www.up.com