From Our Chairman

At First Citizens Bank, our values have been the basis of the way we’ve done business for more than a century. By understanding and embracing these values, the bank has been able to focus on the needs of our customers and build strong relationships that last a lifetime.

The foundation of these values is integrity. To First Citizens Bank, integrity means focusing on the needs of each individual customer, not on mergers and acquisitions. And it means providing sound financial advice based on the customers’ needs, not ours. Our common sense approach to doing business comes from our century of experience. We know that listening to our customers is the first step in helping them achieve their financial goals and that no two customers’ needs are the same. We also value consistency, because consistency builds trust. Doing business the same way for more than a century means that customers trust that the bank we are today is the bank we’ll be tomorrow – and that’s important in building long-term relationships.

First Citizens Bank’s values are, and will always be, the foundation of our relationship with our customers. You can count on the bank to provide sound financial answers for your personal and business needs – today and tomorrow.

Lewis R. Holding
Chairman

 Noël Group, LLC. is a privately-owned industrial management company located in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Our mission is to invest in, lead and strategically manage manufacturing companies that participate in the transformation of engineered synthetic materials. For more than thirty years, the Group has been guided by a passion to create new markets, foster innovation and achieve market leadership. Today, the Group operates six manufacturing companies with more than 1,200 associates serving the home furnishings, recreation, construction, mechanical insulation, wine closure, automotive and industrial packaging markets. Noël Group's vision, management attitude, entrepreneurial culture, ingenuity and operational expertise enable its companies to strive for market leadership. Offering its business entities operating autonomy, strategic support and ongoing capital investment, the Group enables its management teams to thrive in and lead their respective industries.

www.noelgroup.net

Progress Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 250 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. The company will observe its 100th anniversary in 2008. Progress Energy includes two major utilities that serve 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company is the 2006 recipient of the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence. The company also is the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. Progress Energy serves two fast-growing areas of the country, and the company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future. That balance includes aggressive energy efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system.

For more information about Progress Energy, visit the company's Web site at www.progress-energy.com.

 Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties is the Triangle's leading commercial advisory real estate firm with a fully-integrated real estate asset management division offering the most comprehensive services in the local region.

Founded in 1984, TradeMark Properties announced in June 2003 its new affiliation with Coldwell Banker Commercial, one of the largest franchisers of commercial real estate brokerage firms in the world representing over 250 offices with over 2,000 agents. This partnership symbolizes the leadership of a local team with extensive market knowledge and the global resources of a national network. As a Coldwell banker Commercial TradeMark Properties client, you can always count on our core values to make your real estate experience a successful one, every time. Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties through its team of experienced brokers and support staff is uniquely qualified to market your properties for sale or lease.

Our listings cover the Triangle-wide area, offering purchase or lease opportunities in every sector of the market - Class A and B office, flex, industrial, retail, raw land, multi-family and build-to-suit opportunities. We operate with the following end-goals in mind:

FOCUSED: Our focus is you. Our seasoned professionals are dedicated to delivering client-focused results that add value to your business or investment strategies.

COMMITTED: Whatever it takes. Our hands-on approach and responsive team is committed to meeting your needs and will do what it takes to get the job done.

CAPABLE: Value-proven results. Global connections, local market expertise and a top-notch team guarantee our ability to deliver and exceed promised performance. 

www.cbctmp.com

MMI Public Relations is a full-service public relations firm offering a wide range of services to help clients achieve measurable results in brand awareness, name recognition, market penetration, public relations and crisis management. Among the firm’s strengths are a unique operating model, successful and innovative strategies and our ability to achieve results.

Established in 1994 in Phoenix, followed by Raleigh in 2003, this award-winning firm was named one of the top 10 PR firms in Arizona and ranks among the top 5 PR firms in the Raleigh-Durham of North Carolina. The firm has received numerous Awards and has been recognized by the Triangle Business Journal with the Best Places to Work award.

www.mmipublicrelations.com

 K&L Gates LLP comprises 1,700 lawyers who practice in 29 offices located on three continents: Anchorage, Austin, Beijing, Berlin, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Harrisburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, Paris, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Spokane/Coeur d'Alene, Taipei and Washington. K&L Gates represents capital markets participants and leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations. Our practice is robustly a full market practice — at once regional, national and international in scope — and it is cutting edge, complex, and dynamic. 

www.klgates.com

 The Special Event Company is a boutique event creation firm with more than 20 years experience in strategic event marketing and production, public relations management. Our dedicated team provides the highest level of service, creativity and industry expertise in crafting innovative event-based solutions to marketing challenges.

Founded in London, we are committed to the creative development, management and execution of distinctive and memorable events that achieve targeted marketing and communications objectives and support myriad strategic goals.

Our only interests are the best interests of our clients; we know their businesses as well as we know their brands. That's why they turn to us for strategic guidance and tactical execution of events that advance their most pressing communications priorities and deliver breakthrough results that exceed expectations without surpassing budgets.

Enter our site to learn more about how our unique approach can help your group maximize its marketing power through the experience of live communications.

www.specialeventco.com

Bandwidth.com is a complete nationwide communications provider, We offer business-class VoIP and Data services, including SIP Trunk connectivity, Dedicated Internet Access, MPLS and network monitoring, management, and security. Our services are delivered over the most scalable and reliable network service providers in the country, including ATT, Verizon, Qwest, Sprint, and Level (3).

Organizations consolidating their voice and data needs with Bandwidth.com experience unparalleled selection, significant cost savings and exceptional customer service - all backed by industry-leading Service Level Agreements.

Internet Services
Bandwidth.com has the largest coverage area in the United States through our wholesale relationships with ATT, Broadwing, Qwest, Sprint, Verizon/MCI, and others. We offer pricing and availability from multiple carriers for over 95% of businesses nationwide.

Voice Services
Bandwidth.com offers SIP Trunking connectivity to complement your organization's IP-PBX for toll quality voice service that is backed by the most comprehensive SLA in the industry. For businesses utilizing large amounts of bandwidth, we offer QoS router solutions that prioritize voice over data to assure the highest call quality.

Managed Network Services
Bandwidth.com can monitor and manage your network 24x7x365, so you can concentrate on running your business. Our monitoring service notifies key personnel in an organization when potential network issues are detected. Through Managed Services, Bandwidth.com engineers will isolate and repair the issue before it becomes a serious problem. Managed Network Services help lower network management costs while increasing the security and availability of your network and freeing up resources critical to the core of your business.

www.bandwidth.com

 Since 1995, Capital Style Luxury Transportation has specialized in corporate events; airport and point to point transfers; charter aircraft reservations; sporting events and concerts/theatre events: special events such as weddings, proms, sweet 16, quinceañera, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs, funerals, and group event reservations. We are the meeting planners trusted resource in North Carolina, providing quality transportation services for large group meetings, seminars and conferences.

We would like to welcome you to join our family of satisfied customers. When you try Capital Style, you will immediately appreciate the unmatched level of attention to detail by our professional chauffeurs. In addition, you will thoroughly enjoy comfortable transportation in the newest and cleanest fleet around. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. 

www.capitallimo.com

 Since our law firm’s founding in 1912, Smith Anderson has grown to become the largest Research Triangle-based business and litigation law firm and one of the largest in North Carolina. Representing diverse organizations with local, state, national and international interests, for our 96-year history our lawyers have remained committed to understanding clients' businesses and customizing legal solutions accordingly. Our commitment also extends to our community and the legal profession.

We hope that the information contained within our web site acquaints you not only with our skills, experience and accomplishments – but with our people. We welcome your input and hope you find this information of value.

www.smithlaw.com

Nextreme Thermal Solutions: Changing the Future of Thermal and Power Management

Nextreme designs and manufactures micro-scale thermal and power management products for the semiconductor, photonics, consumer, automotive and defense/aerospace industries. The company has embedded cooling and power generation capabilities into the widely accepted copper pillar bumping process used in high-volume electronic packaging.

Breakthrough Technology
Nextreme’s breakthrough addresses the most challenging thermal and power management constraints in electronics today, and delivers the only fully-scalable technology solution by leveraging the existing, high-volume flip chip manufacturing infrastructure. By minimizing the need for manufacturing changes and focusing on developing a seamless design-in solution, Nextreme will change the future of thermal and power management for the entire electronics industry.

Experienced Leadership Team
Nextreme’s management team has introduced numerous new materials-based component technologies and has collectively exited >$1.4B in materials-based start-up activities. The team has worked together for ten years in multiple companies. Nextreme’s technology team is unparalleled, including world experts in thermal management, electronics packaging and semiconductor processing, all of whom have successfully introduced materials-based component breakthroughs to the market.

www.nextremethermal.com

Noverant is a leading provider of information, training and compliance management services. Originally focused on industries governed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company’s expanded technology now provides web-based solutions for a variety of industries including aviation, legal, biomedical, pharmaceutical, board governance and education. The company’s unique software and service offerings improve the effectiveness and reduce the cost of training, while ensuring 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for electronic signature, management and archival of critical records. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

www.noverant.com

 Lonesource is recognized as the leading provider of spend management solutions that consolidate, standardize and simplify corporate spending. Our new class of spend management solutions deliver a combination of consulting, training and automation technology to help companies streamline internal controls, increase visibility and decrease the hard and soft costs associated with processing, reconciling, tracking and reporting corporate transactions.

• We provide the technology, people and processes that allow you to focus on your core business.
• We improve employee focus on core objectives, drive enterprise wide compliance to corporate policies.
• We work with organizations looking to implement process improvement solutions that will provide an immediate return-on-investment.

Born out of the demands created by companies that must improve their processes to be competitive in today's market, Lonesource has been serving geographically dispersed organizations since 2000. Our success is quantified by the bottom-line results our customers have realized and the speed in which our solutions can be deployed.

www.lonesource.com

 The new Allscripts is the clear leader in software, services, information and connectivity solutions that empower physicians and other healthcare providers to deliver best-in-class patient safety, clinical outcomes and financial results.

Nationwide, more than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare providers in clinics, post-acute care facilities, and homecare agencies utilize Allscripts solutions to automate and connect their clinical and business operations. Together with our clients, Allscripts is transforming our disconnected 'healthcare' system into a connected system of 'health'.

Our four Business Units focus on delivering innovative, effective, easy-to-use solutions to stakeholders across the continuum of care.

• Professional Solutions
• Enterprise Solutions
• Health Systems Group
• Medication Services

Allscripts is headquartered in Chicago and employs approximately 2,500 people in more than 20 locations across the United States.

Allscripts is publicly traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol MDRX.

www.allscripts.com

 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) offers what no one else can: an exclusive focus on leadership education and research and unparalleled expertise in solving the leadership challenges of individuals and organizations everywhere. We equip clients around the world with the skills and insight to achieve more than they thought possible through creative leadership.

What is creative leadership? It's the capacity to think and act beyond the boundaries that limit our effectiveness. Every leader and organization faces obstacles that are difficult to surmount - from corporate executives confronting the complex global marketplace to educators trying to lift student achievement to nonprofit groups and government agencies addressing critical social issues with tight budgets

CCL believes that solutions to these challenges exist — and for nearly 40 years we have helped clients unlock them through creative leadership. We believe leaders are made, not born, and that they can adapt and change. We believe that strong interpersonal skills, grounded in personal reflection and self-awareness, are the key to effective leadership.

www.ccl.org

About Aten Solutions, Inc.

A10 Clinical Solutions (A10) helps its clients get their life-saving, innovative, investigational new drugs to market faster and safer by the quality management of critical clinical trials. Known for its outstanding thought-leadership, A10 is one of only a handful of certified woman and minority owned firms that provide clinical trials services and functional outsourcing for phase I-IV clinical trials that contribute to the FDA approval of therapeutic products for global biotech and pharmaceutical clients and studies conducted by government agencies and academic medical centers.

 Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) and its subsidiaries operate under the master brand name RBC. We are Canada’s largest bank as measured by assets and market capitalization, one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies and among the largest banks in the world, as measured by market capitalization. We provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate and investment banking and transaction processing services on a global basis. We employ more than 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 17 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 48 other countries. For more information, please visit www.rbc.com.

RBC has strong financial position, with Tier1 capital ratio of 9.0% and a total capital ratio of 11.1%. In addition, RBC’s senior long-term debt credit ratings are stellar, including a Aaa (Stable) rating from Moody's Investors Services and a AA- (Positive) rating from Standard & Poor's. The bank also has AA (Stable) ratings from both DBRS and Fitch.

www.rbcbankusa.com

We help customers succeed by providing services and solutions via four major groups:

QUINTILES® product development services, which provides all clinical research aimed at regulatory approval, and post-launch research and consulting on product safety and value.

• Phase I Services for early-phase human drug development. 
• Global Clinical Development Services, encompassing all Phase II-IV trial services, such as clinical trial management, medical and regulatory affairs, biostatistics, patient recruitment, ECG services, and drug safety and strategic research. 
• Global Central Labs to support all phases of clinical trials. 
• Global Biometrics to capture, analyze and report patient-related data. 
• Medical Education involving the development and delivery of Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs for health care practitioners. 
• Drug Safety and Medical Affairs focused on characterizing product risks and benefits after initial regulatory filing.

INNOVEX® commercialization, responsible for sales force and medical communication
services. 

• Sales solutions, including the recruitment, training and deployment of customer- or Innovexmanaged primary and secondary sales teams; health management services; and vacancy management. 
• Medical communications to promote physician education and communications programs, including symposia, exhibition support at major scientific congresses, advisory boards and publication planning.

NOVAQUEST® managed partnership solutions to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies optimize portfolio development, company growth and profits through innovative, tailored financial and strategic solutions.

• Investment partnering: tailored financial solutions for customers needing financial support via funding, development or commercialization services.
• Strategic resourcing: long-term, strategic outsourcing or insourcing relationships that reduce fixed costs and increase resource flexibility.
• eBio: Specialized strategic and financial solutions for emerging biotech and pharma companies.

QUINTILES CONSULTING®, providing expert strategic, operational and technical advice to help companies maximize potential and minimize risk from discovery through development and commercialization. With full-time consultants in the U.S. and Europe, its practice areas include Product Development and Commercialization; Regulatory and Quality; and Market Access.

www.qtrn.com

At the Revisory Group, we understand real estate. Our decades of experience in acquisition and development, debt and equity financing, project accounting, marketing, sales, and legal affairs allow us to bring a broad range of expertise and perspective to rethinking, redirecting, restructuring, and refinancing real estate projects. Our experience enables us to work quickly and efficiently to deliver value rapidly and add value consistently.

Rethink strategy
We have significant experience repositioning, restructuring, and refinancing distressed projects and properties. In this context, we rethink strategy and guide restructuring of finance, development, marketing and sales, and management to achieve goals jointly defined by us and our clients.

Reliable information is essential
We very often serve as an independent investigative resource for one or more stakeholders in a project to gather historical information rapidly and present it concisely.

Reset expectations
With reliable information in hand, we facilitate establishment of new project goals and then guide the work of owners and developers toward those more achievable goals.

Resolve disputes
We may be engaged to help resolve a dispute among project sponsors and investors to eliminate the distraction of disagreement and facilitate success through cooperation of all stakeholders.

Relationships add capabilities and flexibility
Our strategic partners allow us to provide property management and maintenance services or sales representation of commercial and residential properties while allowing us to remain independent of the influences of these revenue interests.

www.revisorygroup.com

WNCN-NBC, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill

NBC 17 strives to be the premier hyper-local news, information, entertainment and advertising resource in the Raleigh-Durham market. Every day, NBC 17 works hard to deliver accurate, balanced and to the point information to our viewers and empower the audience to make the decision. Expanding its presence on the web, NBC 17 has developed MyNC.com with its viewers in mind. MyNC.com expands the reach of the traditional newscast into the local neighborhoods in which it serves. This fast-growing local online community provides a platform in which residents can take an active role in the news process by sharing videos, photos and stories specific to their communities.

NBC 17 also brings Triangle viewers news the way they want it on-air with NBC 17 News at 7PM. This unique newscast offers more points of view on local issues, positive stories in the community, plus Precision Weather updates throughout the hour. NBC 17 delivers this full hour of local news at a more convenient time, 7 p.m. Viewer feedback helps the dedicated team of reporters, photographers, producers and editors at NBC 17 continue to deliver Triangle news that’s accurate, balanced and to the point.

www.nbc17.com

Our Mission
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is a leading health services company. We deliver quality products, information, and services to help our customers improve their health and well-being. 


History & Facts
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to more than 3.7 million members, including approximately 900,000 served on behalf of other Blue Plans. The company offers its members discounts and information on a wide variety of health-related services at no additional cost. BCBSNC also offers life, dental and disability insurance products. For 76 years, the company has served its customers by offering access to quality health care at a competitive price and has served the people of North Carolina through support of community organizations, programs and events that promote good health.

About Our Company:
Headquarters: Chapel Hill, N.C.
Major operations centers: Durham, N.C.; Winston-Salem, N.C.
Founding: August 7, 1933, as the Hospital Care Association
Current membership: More than 3.7 million
Employees: 4,900
Service area: All 100 counties of North Carolina

www.bcbsnc.com

 Clean Design is a branding and design agency located in RTP that builds and integrates some of the world’s most recognized brands. Our work is successful because it’s based on strong strategic insights, a powerful brand truth and fresh creative. We specialize in building brands and creating a clear, distinctive voice that translates to every customer touch point.

www.cleandesign.com

Innovation begins with a clean sheet or a blank screen. When creating Active Data Services, the executive management researched innovation. Analyzed processes. And examined the key disciplines of capture, manage and output.

Vision realized. Active Data Services, the Next Generation Integrated Document Facility, capable of everything from dots on paper to pixels on screen.

Active Data Services, Inc. is the market leader focused on the Integrated Document Facility™, which provides a full complement of integrated relational management and communications solutions for businesses to create lasting profitable relationships with their target audiences.

The company was founded in April 2002 and is a privately held US corporation headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, providing world-class operational excellence.

www.activedataservices.com

 RR Donnelley is the world's premier full-service provider of print and related services, including document-based business process outsourcing. Founded more than 144 years ago, the company provides solutions in commercial printing, direct mail, financial printing, product customization, print fulfillment, forms and labels, logistics, call centers, transactional print-and-mail, print management, online services, digital photography, color services, and content and database management to customers in the publishing, healthcare, insurance, advertising, non-profit, consumer package goods, retail, technology, financial services and many other industries.

The largest companies in the world and others rely on RR Donnelley's scale, scope and insight through a comprehensive range of web-based tools and innovative technology, variable printing services, market-specific, and customized supply chain solutions.

www.rrd.com

 At Merrill Leadership we optimize the leadership potential of senior executives, senior management teams and boards of directors. We promote both personal and professional self-awareness resulting in leadership growth at the point where an executive's past, personality and performance intersect. Through the experience of executive coaching, our clients learn to skillfully handle real-time leadership challenges, create more strategic leadership paradigms and develop fresh perspectives. The Return on Investment is significant, both qualitatively and quantitatively, as exhibited by more effective communication styles, enhanced team morale, stream-lined corporate performance, lower turnover, higher employee satisfaction and greater profit margins.

www.merrillleadership.com

Who is Kaspersky?
It’s a cyber-war – an arms race that pits us against the cybercriminals who negatively impact how we use the Internet in our personal and professional lives. At Kaspersky Lab, our mission is to respond rapidly to all Internet threats by joining together with the broader community to find ways that best combat these criminals.

Our Mission
We put all our resources and know-how into preventing these threats from spreading, and educating the community at large on best practices to ensure the greatest possible online security.

The success of our mission has resulted in Kaspersky Lab emerging as the world’s largest privately held anti-malware company. Founded in 1997, the company offers its products and technologies to industry and consumers in virtually every country around the globe. Today, more than 250 million users worldwide are protected by our technologies. And every week, we add more than 100,000 new users.

As a result of supporting our customers’ needs, Kaspersky Lab has grown to more than 900 employees, with more than half of us focused on R&D and customer support. Our products have continually received the highest recognition for quality, including CNET’s 2006 & 2007 Editors' Choice Award. And we’ve experienced exceptional financial growth, with 2007 bookings of more than $200 million – a 140% increase over 2006 and an increase of ten times within the last three years alone.

Kaspersky Inside
We are also the largest licensor of anti-malware technology in the world, with more than 130 leading IT security, networking and messaging software and hardware vendors choosing our state-of-the-art anti-malware protection for use inside their own products. These companies include industry leaders like Microsoft, Check Point, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, SonicWall, ClearSwift and many others.

Optimized for the Real World
Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company in the endpoint security market, Kaspersky Lab combines innovative technology with a unique approach to managing risk and delivering new operational efficiencies. We do this by minimizing our customers’ window of exposure, with the most resource efficient endpoint and server security solutions available.

More than one million unique threats - two every minute of every day - entered Kaspersky’s Internet Security Lab in 2007. We believe the only way to combat this escalating volume of complex, hybrid Internet attacks is through a combination of rapid response and sophisticated technologies. Over time, our solutions have evolved with these new threats to incorporate industry-leading proactive and reactive protection technologies, while continuing to be rated as best in class by leading independent testing labs.

Learn how our endpoint and server security solutions can protect your business. We’re Kaspersky Lab. And we’re on a mission.

As a coach and facilitator for workshops focused on achieving high priority goals, Orna Drawas trains business professionals to drive towards real and measurable results on a daily basis. Orna's workshops are fast-paced, memorable and actionable - bringing new ideas to what personal productivity is all about. Her approach is easy to embrace and apply immediately.

Orna has been helping professionals succeed for more than 25 years. Her knowledge and enthusiasm stems from her many years in field sales and marketing, as well as a sales trainer, curriculum designer, coach and professional speaker.

Orna has worked with companies both large and small to create dynamic results-oriented workshops. Most recently, Orna managed East Coast Field Marketing for Time Warner Telecom where she developed and delivered field marketing programs into seventeen east coast U.S. cities. With every city representing an independent market with unique challenges, Orna built programs that included fundamentally new ways to train sales teams in Best Practices for Time Management, Productivity Improvement and Team Building.

Orna has a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Boston University and Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

www.ornaspeaks.com

About Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P.:
For more than 60 years, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. (CB&H) has provided high-quality financial and management services to a diverse and successful client base. As an innovative and highly professional certified public accounting (CPA) and consulting firm, CB&H serves as a valued advisor to more than 25,000 clients by providing guidance on important operational and individual matters. Ranked among the top 30 accounting firms in the nation, CB&H is uniquely positioned to impart quality, cost-effective and practical advice to clients that include multinational corporations, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, emerging or startup firms and successful individuals. As one of the largest regional CPA firms headquartered in the Southeast, CB&H's resource network stretches across six states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and nationally and internationally through an alliance with Baker Tilly International Limited, an association of independent accounting and consulting firms. For more information, visit www.cbh.com.

www.cbh.com

SportsFan Marketing Group
(Capitol Broadcasting Co.)

SportsFan Marketing Group is the sales arm of Raleigh-Durham’s first FM sports talk radio station, 99.9 FM - The Fan. And The Fan’s ESPN Radio platform extends to the entire sports portfolio of Capitol Broadcasting Company: 

• 99.9 fm – The Fan – ESPN Radio
  Flagship Station for the Carolina Hurricanes 
• wralsportsfan.com 
• NC State University/Wolfpack Sports Marketing 
• Durham Bulls Baseball Club 
• Fox50 – Fox Sports 
• WRAL TV5 – CBS Sports

SportsFan Marketing Group creates and executes marketing campaigns utilizing CBC’s radio, web, television, mobile, event and promotional assets.

This is a significant arsenal in a market that boasts three ACC universities, Major League Hockey, the nation’s most famous Minor League baseball team and one of the leading youth soccer programs in the country. Last fall, Sporting News magazine ranked Raleigh-Durham as the 24th best sports market in America.

Sports is a vibrant thread in the fabric of our community and sports marketing is vital for attracting customers and for molding tastes and opinions in the Triangle.

The University of NC, Duke and NC State University enroll thousands of students, maintain strong alumni associations and are among North Carolina’s largest employers.

72,000 students are enrolled in the three universities that employ more than 80,000 people. Fold in the local membership of booster clubs and alumni associations and more than a quarter of a million people maintain strong associations with one of the three schools.

More than 1.7 million people will attend a college sporting event in the Triangle this year. (That’s like relocating a mid-tier NFL, NBA and MLS franchise to the Raleigh-Durham market.) The NHL Carolina Hurricanes and Minor League Baseball have a combined paid attendance of 1.5 million.

SportsFan Marketing Group puts this massive fan base to work for your business. Our expertise is valuable because upscale men (the 25-54 male demographic) are notoriously difficult to reach with traditional mass media. However, SportsFan Marketing Group targets this elusive yet lucrative target audience with a variety of niche media and high profile sports events. This is not a conventional “time buy” - rather a multi-media campaign with specific objectives, tactics and ROI.

Marketing jargon aside, this is all about sports - the games people play, attend and watch. It evokes loyalty and passion. That’s why it’s such a strong advertising platform. From participants to couch potatoes, SportsFan Marketing Group transforms the Triangle’s sports fans into your customers. For more information, please visit www.wralsportsfan.com.

www.wralsportsfan.com

Ready to leave YOUR mark?
FAMOUS MARKS can help; we've been serving busy marketers since 1994!

Whether you are looking for a specific promotional concept or just browsing for ideas to enhance your marketing programs, FAMOUS MARKS has what you need. From fun items to the traditional, search our site for some of the hottest items on the market when you want to ...

• Leave YOUR mark
• Fetch some mind-share
• Improve traffic at trade shows
• Motivate staff
• Thank a customer
• Increase loyalty
• Improve client relations
• Increase awareness of your products and services
• Run with the Big Dogs

In a hurry? Contact us and we'll make recommendations to enhance all your marketing programs while making you and your clients happy.

About us ... FAMOUS MARKS is a full-service, promotional products and specialty advertising company in Raleigh, North Carolina. Serving busy people since 1994, we make it easy for our clients to leave their mark while fetching mind-share for their sales and marketing programs. We're about mugs, bags, pens, T-shirts, and embroidered wearables -- and so much more. Our product selection is all about you, your needs and your market. We bring expertise in marketing, design, product knowledge and creative thought to your team and make recommendations relative to what products can best meet your goals and be delivered in the quantities that you need to do the job, on time and on budget. FAMOUS MARKS is a Certified Woman Owned Business.

www.famousmarks.com

MANAGING THE HUMAN SIDE OF CHANGE ®

Right Management is the world's leading global provider of integrated consulting solutions across the employment lifecycle. We help our clients maximize the return on investment in their people, while assisting individuals to achieve their full potential.

We offer services in four areas:

• Attract & Assess the best talent in the marketplace
• Develop the best people in your industry
• Engage & Align your people and your organization
• Transition employees through successful outplacement initiatives

Headquarters
Home Office
1818 Market Street, 33rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-3614
United States
Telephone: 800.237.4448
Telephone: 215.988.0150

Established
Founded in 1980, Right Management was at the forefront of “inventing” the outplacement industry, and expanded globally to match the footprint of its multi-national clients.

Beginning in 1996, Right Management extended into consulting services to help clients address human resource and organizational consulting needs.

Right Management was acquired by Manpower in January 2004.

Number of offices:
More than 300 service locations worldwide in over 50 different countries

Number of Employees
2,500 worldwide

Markets Served
Right Management serves large and medium-sized businesses in all industries, including 80% of the Fortune 500 and 50% of the Global 1000 companies.

www.right.com

An award winning photographer. Originally from England and the owner of an American based photography studio. Extremely versatile, covering a broad range of photography, from weddings, portraits, events to commercial work. Bringing the same style and skill to all areas.

Described as contemporary fine art, with elements of American gothic, storytelling, urban chic and fashion influenced.

www.warrenmccormack.com

The North Carolina Chamber is focused on creating jobs and strengthening and growing North Carolina’s economy. With direct input from employers of all sizes and sectors across all parts of our state, our Chamber is ready to be a proactive, positive force for growth and transformation. Together, we will position North Carolina to lead in job creation on the other side of economic recovery. Together, we are shaping North Carolina’s future.

Pillars of a Prosperous Future 

• Strong education and workforce development systems that are effective, agile, accountable and continually produce a competitive, world-class workforce. 
   
• A globally competitive business climate that positions North Carolina to attract, grow and retain the good jobs that we want for our residents. 
   
• Effective economic development strategies and tools, including sufficient physical infrastructure to meet future needs.

We are a progressive, non-partisan business advocacy organization. We work in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that North Carolina is a leading place in the world to do business. Our vision is to be the unifying voice of North Carolina’s diverse business community. We want to take a forward-looking, proactive role on issues that will positively impact the state’s business climate and quality of life. 

 www.ncchamber.net

 Attends Healthcare Products manufactures and markets many of the most trusted and well known disposable medical products used by hospitals, long-term care facilities, and the growing home-care market. We manufacture and market products to manage every type and degree of adult incontinence, and through this broad range of products, we are able to meet the individual needs of each incontinent person.

www.attends.us