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American Express Business Insights is a global information, analytics, and consulting organization that combines real behavioral information — based on actual aggregated purchasing data — with sophisticated analytics to reveal unique insights about your customers, competitive set, and marketplace.

AOL Advertising drives significant results by reaching 180 million of the web's most valuable customers through some of the best online content, from Stylelist.com to Moviefone.com. Through sites like Affluent and Fashionistas, AOL Advertising delivers specific, luxury consumers at a scale no one else can match and offers the most advanced analytics to optimize your ROI. Give your luxury brands’ creativity more impact with the largest, 100% SOV platform online, branded experiences, and new premium ad units.

AOL’s Pictela is the award winning, high definition content marketing platform and it's revolutionizing how brand content is served, distributed and measured for top brands, such as Gucci, Infiniti, and Neiman Marcus.

"Pictela puts the art into online advertising. This platform is built for creating and delivering rich brand experiences everywhere," says Wenda Harris Millard, President, MediaLink. Now clients have an elegant solution for distributing content with advanced features.

For luxurious success online, it's all right here. http://advertising.aol.com/.

Arvato and hybris make a strong team when it comes to full service eCommerce solutions. The state-of-the-art solution integrates arvato's premier end-to-end supply chain services with hybris' leading agile technology. Forrester Research recognized hybris as one of the top three industry-leading multichannel eCommerce platforms. The hybris commerce suite, combined with arvato’s outstanding track record in delivering large-scale global software projects, can provide customers with all of the expertise necessary for a successful online future.  Industry-leading brands, such as Reebok, Adidas, Sephora, L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, Dior, TaylorMade, AshworthGolf, and many more, trust in our services and expertise. We always have one goal in mind: the development of first-class, future-proof solutions for our clients.

iProspect is a leading global digital performance marketing agency. The company helps many of the world's most successful brands maximize their online marketing ROI through paid search, search engine optimization, performance display, comparison shopping shopping management, local search, mobile marketing and social media management.

The agency, which is part of Aegis Media, has received numerous industry awards including: The 2010 ClickZ Connected Marketing Award for Best Use of Search Engine Marketing; The 2009 Search Engine Strategies Award for Best Social Media Marketing Campaign; The 2009 Search Engine Strategies Award for Best Use of Local Search.

With offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth, and around the globe, iProspect can be contacted at 1-800-522-1152, or by visiting www.iprospect.com.

Oracle works with brands of all sizes to redesign the customer experience, reinvigorate operational excellence and reimagine growth. Only Oracle allows brands to create a unified view of information that delivers economic value to the whole business, from in-store operations to corporate strategy to supply chain and logistical management. Oracle solutions provide accurate, actionable data, fully integrated among store, merchandising, and financial operations, with the industry's most complete set of applications, middleware, and technology infrastructure.

• 10 of the top 10 global fashion retailers run Oracle
• 20 of the top 20 global retailers run Oracle
• 10 of the top 10 European retailers run Oracle
• 10 of the top 10 North American retailers run Oracle

Payvment, Inc. (www.payvment.com) is an award-winning, venture-backed startup that has created the number oneFacebook ecommerce platform. Recognized by ecommerce Awards for Excellence 2010 with the ecommerce Site Innovation Award, Payvment provides, free of charge, the only application that enables brands and merchants a way to create their own storefronts where Facebook’s 600 million users can discover products and shop without ever leaving the social network. As brands look to social media for new ways to build their identity, Payvment helps monetize a brand’s Facebook presence and turn “Fans” into more valuable customers. Launched in late 2009, Palo Alto-based Payvment has signed up more than 50,000 brands and merchants offering more than one million searchable products across Facebook. Payvment is currently adding hundreds of storefronts and thousands of products per day.

Pod1 is a growing team of 100+ creative, strategic and technical specialists all extremely passionate about the digital and creative industries and what they do. We're an independent global digital agency network with offices in London, New York and Cape Town.

We've been in profit since inception and have had massive success through forming long-term client/agency relationships, which has meant that 90% of all Pod1 sales have been through referral and/or repeat business. In our time, Pod1 have been fortunate enough to have worked with some fantastic clients such as: Net-a-Porter, Lord & Taylor, Matthew Williamson, Nanette Lepore, Gieves & Hawkes, John Varvatos, Kenneth Cole, Mr & Mrs Smith, Kurt Geiger, LK Bennett, Jigsaw, Derek Lam and Harvey Nichols to name but a few. We have also collected a few awards along the way.