The Company is an international marketing and communications services company specializing in health care. The Company provides many of the world's largest pharmaceutical and other health care companies with a comprehensive range of integrated strategic marketing services designed to accelerate the market acceptance of new products and to sustain marketability throughout their life-cycles. The Company's services include advertising and promotion, contract sales, consulting, publishing, medical education, public relations, interactive multimedia, database marketing and marketing research services. The Company offers its clients global reach and expertise through its operations in the United States and the United Kingdom, and through Healthworld B.V., a world-wide network of licensed independent marketing and communications agencies located in 13 other countries, in which the Company is a founding licensee.