TDL Infomedia (Thomson Directories)

Today Thomson Directories delivers information products using its regularly updated database of 2.3 million business listings. This quality database is the basis for a range of powerful database products and services, including the printed Thomson Local directories.

Thomson Directories is based at Farnborough in Hampshire, with over 400 head office staff and a further 500 employees located throughout the UK at 10 regional sales offices.

Yahoo! USA

Yahoo!’s top priority is to provide users with the information they want, when they want it, how they want it and on any device. To ensure this, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of products and services that provide our users with the power to connect, communicate, and create, access, and share information online.

Yahoo! Search Marketing

Yahoo! Search Marketing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo!, Inc., offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The company’s full suite of search-based products and tools help businesses connect with highly motivated customers.

Yahoo! Search Marketing pioneered sponsored search by aligning the interests of consumers, its more than 100,000 active, paying advertisers and its worldwide distribution partners, including Yahoo!, MSN, Wanadoo and CNN.

The company’s Web-based marketplace provides consumers quality search results; supplies advertisers with a cost-effective medium to drive targeted leads to their Web sites; and offers its distribution network a meaningful, revenue-generating search capability.

Yahoo! Search Marketing is based in Pasadena, Calif., with U.S. offices in New York, Chicago, and Sunnyvale, Calif. The headquarters for Yahoo! Search Marketing’s non-U.S. business is in Ireland, with offices across Europe, Asia and Australia.

AA

Today, the AA is in many ways the same motoring organisation that motorists have trusted since 1905. Our millions of members make us by far the largest motoring organisation with some 3,300 highly trained patrols.

The principal difference these days is that we now provide services not only to get you safely from A to B, but also to help organise your finances and even buy a new or second-hand car. The AA really can offer you everything you need.

The AA and The AA Motoring Trust also provide expert knowledge and advice on transport issues, which are respected by AA members, the public, safety experts and the Government. 

ITIS Holdings

ITIS has invested in the development of a unique system for the collection and analysis of traffic information; it combines information from traffic offices around the UK with ITIS historic and real-time Floating Vehicle Data (FVD®) to provide Journey time forecasts and real-time updates. ITIS now operates the largest commercial application of FVD® anywhere in the world, and delivers the content over a variety of platforms including RDS-TMC (Alert C), digital radio and automated telephone services (IVR) under the AA Roadwatch brand.

Through its NavTrak business (www.navtrak.com), ITIS has developed a unique and innovative stolen vehicle tracking service delivered via GPS/GSM technology, which offers theft alerts, vehicle tracking and police liaison throughout Europe. 

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster is the world’s leading ticketing company, providing ticket sales and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, and international websites including www.ticketmaster.co.uk, both among the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 3,300 retail Ticket Centre outlets; 19 worldwide telephone call centres; and a broad online and offline marketing network. Ticketmaster serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theatres, and sold 98 million tickets valued at $5 billion in 2004. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood, California and is an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). 

PA

The Press Association, the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, is at the heart of the media industry.

As the UK’s leading provider of real time news and sports information and images, The Press Association supplies services to every national and regional daily newspaper, major broadcasters, online publishers and a wide range of commercial organisations.

PA’s wire service provides breaking news and photographs 24 hours a day, covering UK stories from politics and crime to entertainment and royalty.

A network of news journalists produce 150,000 words of copy and over 100 photographs each day setting the news agenda minute by minute.

The Press Association supplies one of the most comprehensive sports data and editorial services available, covering major and minor sports in the UK and abroad. The stories PA journalists are writing now will be the stories that make today’s bulletins and tomorrow’s newspapers. Minutes after being written, PA reports are appearing on websites, mobile phones and being read on company notice boards across the British Isles.

In addition to the core news and pictures operation, PA supplies a wide range of business-to-business services to media, government and commercial organisations. These include weather reporting, audio and video services, TV and event listings guides, news and photography archives and response and fulfillment services. Our expanding services are designed to help customers in their day-to-day activities, for example by running a centralised copy-taking service and a growing Page-Ready and Contract Publishing department.

Many non-media customers receive PA’s breaking news service via the internet, use our press release and picture distribution services and hire photographers or film crews to cover their events.

Active Hotels

Active Hotels is one of Europe’s leading online reservation providers to the hotel industry. The company has over 11,000 hotels, which it promotes across 1,500 websites, including many of the market leaders in online travel. We currently sell over 2 million hotel room nights per year. 

Itchy

Itchy produce entertainment guides on-line, and in print. They are to put it simply, the best city based titles available and are a unique and different way of effectively marketing to 18-35 year olds across the 16 most important UK cities.

Itchy Guides are the funkiest little city entertainment titles in funk land, covering everything from clubs and bars to shops and restaurants, and have been bestsellers in their respective cities for a few years now and are getting bigger and better, expanding to 16 UK cities: 

• London, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Cambridge, Oxford, and Bath.

Visa

Visa International is a membership association owned by 21,000 financial institutions worldwide. We provide products, systems and services for banks and other organisations that are members of Visa. We also help to create standards for global interoperability, security and new technologies, so you can pay with Visa anywhere, any time and any way you choose. 

Top Table

toptable.co.uk is the largest online restaurant booker in Europe whose eminent shareholders include legendary football manager Sir Alex Ferguson, celebrity chef Gary Rhodes and Diageo the premium drinks company company in the world. We help you research, plan and book everything from a romantic dinner a deux to a large corporate even for thousands. You can choose from over 1200 restaurants around the UK and in Paris, from fabulous Michelin starred eateries to nice local pizza places. There are over 2 million seats available for booking at any one time and we bring tens of millions to the restaurant industry every year!

CGA-Centro

CGA Centro is an innovative, flexible and creative marketing information company specialising in the On-Trade. Our aim is to provide clients with solutions to their individual business needs.

Directors and owners Martin Curren and Peter Goodden have over 25 years’ experience of the On-Trade between them, both having worked for AC Nielsen and Stats MR. In 1991, CGA was begun in Worcester and Martin and Peter’s in-depth knowledge of the market has led to CGA becoming a leader in the provision of information about the Leisure Industry.

Much of the strength of the company comes from the fact that we share the confidence of all major operators in the market. The wealth of information from which all CGA products are drawn is updated continuously by input from these operators, as well as fieldwork, telephone and desk research.

An early member of the ALMR (Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers), CGA has carved a niche in the competitive world of Market Research and Database Management. Large enough to inspire confidence, small enough to be flexible, and using leading edge technology creatively to provide brewers, retailers and other suppliers with the market information that they need.

Ents 24

Established in 1999, Ents24 is widely recognised as the UK’s leading provider of entertainment listings and information. Ents24’s coverage extends to every city and town in the UK, providing compelling and relevant information for everyone who likes to make the most of their leisure time, whether they’re in Tottenham or Totnes.

The website you’re currently reading, at www.ents24.com, contains over 100,000 pages of information about events around the UK, including details about more than 30,000 artists, 10,000 entertainment venues and 5,000 colour photographs.

Our extensive listings content, encompassing live music, clubbing, cinema, theatre, arts and stand-up comedy, is also available to licence for use in web, mobile, iTV, and print media. Ents24’s current clients include Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile, The Sunday Times and Streetmap.co.uk.

OAG

OAG is the leading source of flight schedule information, operating the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date schedules database.  It is an independent company based in the UK and USA, with regional offices in Asia. 

OAG is a modern, progressive company built on over 70 years of practical experience in the processing and distribution of airline schedules. 

It utilizes a breadth of technology platforms to create and deliver information to address differing customer needs in the most appropriate way.  OAG also has the capability to receive and distribute customized information.

Customers of OAG include airlines, airports, business travelers and travel organizers.

Empics

EMPICS is an international sports photo marketing agency, making innovative use of technology to provide customers with picture solutions.

Established in 1985, EMPICS is a team of 50 picture professionals, all focussed on giving customers the best possible service.

It offers Picture Buyers a digitised sports photolibrary of over 650,000 images covering moments and heroes from the world of sport from the 1860s to the present day - the choice of newspapers, magazines, books, web-sites, sporting bodies and marketing agencies, around the world, every day.

It offers Sports Rights Holders expertise and infrastructure to create maximum value from photography.

EMPICS works with some of the biggest names in sport, providing consultancy, photo management, distribution and licensing services.

Multimap.com

Multimap is Europe’s leading provider of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where’s my nearest?") searches to businesses and consumers than any other supplier in Europe.

Que Pasa Media

Que Pasa’s branded content unit offers customer communications planning and bespoke content development. We specialise in creating lifestyle and entertainment content primarily for digital platforms and our areas of expertise include celebrity, music, sport, fashion, film, humour and travel. 

Lastminute.com

To become the number one European e-commerce lifestyle player by delighting our customers with great-value inspiration and solutions. 

Film Night

Filmnight is a flexible and convenient way to rent or buy the best Films on DVD.

Located in areas of high commuter traffic, Filmnight stores are set up to fit in with the commuters’ busy lifestyle.

No more tiresome additional journeys to rent and return a film, Filmnight is located on or around the stations that are part of your regular routines.

Whether you are in the mood to rent a film, or need to buy a gift for some one special, you can visit our shops on the station concourse or www.filmnight.com.

When you’ve watched a great film, you just drop it back to your Filmnight store as you head for work the next morning.

TEAMtalk.com

TEAMtalk is the UK’s leading voice of mainstream sport for the digital age. We have built up the best in sports news gathering and distribution to make us the number one player.Our success comes from our genuine enthusiasm for sport, reflected in our grass-roots focus and in-depth coverage. Whatever is happening now in the world of sport, we have it covered.

Established in 1988, TEAMtalk has evolved from providing fixedline telephony services to become a major provider of sports content and entertainment delivered to customers via radio, TV, Internet (www.teamtalk.com), mobile and premium rate fixed line telephony, and satellite networks. Bespoke content is distributed directly byTEAMtalk through its own product and services, or sold to business partners for delivery via all major channels.

In July 2002 TEAMtalk was acquired by ukbetting plc, the AIM-listed digital wagering operation and now forms part of the UK’s leading portfolio of sports content and betting sites including sportinglife.com, bettingzone.co.uk, totalbet and ukbetting.