Fortex, formerly known as Courant Systems, delivers trading advantages that keep their clients foremost in their markets. Short, evocative, and memorable, the "Fort-" portion of our new name suggests the strength and reliability of the company's professional trading software, while the "-ex" portion references the many financial exchanges where this highly advanced system enables traders to operate.

Formerly Homestar, our new name for this privately held mortgage banking company expands their scope of operations to encompass more than just home mortgage banking. Opteum also positions the company as a national leader, being deliberately weighty and important in tone.

Formerly Kraft Foods Federal Credit Union, our new name reflects the company's increasingly diverse membership, as they begin to serve customers besides Kraft and Altria (Philip Morris, Nabisco, Oscar Meyer, etc.) employees. As described by Marketing Director Kim Smith, "The word Quorum means 'a select group' - a name that signifies who we are, who our members are, and the exclusivity of benefits that comes with membership..."

For Contango Capital Advisors, the new wealth management affiliate of Zions Bancorporation, we provided positioning, messaging, and naming consulting, including the management and analysis of extensive qualitative and quantitative customer research. Contango offers a unique approach to managing assets, focusing on individuals' real-life goals and using sophisticated analytical techniques and risk-management tools to design clients' investment portfolios.

Nexxar Group Inc. is a money transfer company with extensions into bill pay, check cashing, and money order services targeting the unbanked and ethnic populations through the consolidation of niche ethnic corridor players. By capitalizing on management deep experience, growing scale efficiencies, and best-of-breed technology platform, Nexxar believes that it can realize significant growth opportunities and cost reductions through the consolidation of this highly fragmented market. Founded in 2003, Nexxar is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey.

 

Goal Financial, our new name for the former Student Loan Consolidation Center, more accurately suggests the growing range of financial services the company offers. The aspirational aspects of borrowing money for education-related expenses is appropriately emphasized.

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Prialta specializes in a complete array of impartial financial services. The founders wanted a benefits-oriented name that didn't emphasize "money." Prialta, based on the Latin words primus, "first," and alta, "high, deep," suggests comprehensive services, a broad perspective, and looking forward to the future.

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Our name for this popular payment service, adopted as the company's name, humanizes and demystifies the "beaming" of money over the Internet. PayPal conveys the speed and ease of use of the service, benefits that make PayPal the most popular way to pay for online auction purchases, as well as to borrow cash or split expenses. The name's short syllables, plosives, and alliteration make PayPal particularly easy to say and remember.

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Specifically designed for small business, Business Gateway is Wells Fargo's online banking service, allowing customers to manage their money on the PC. With Business Gateway, small business owners can access account balances, transfer funds, stop payments, prevent overdrafts, see if checks and deposits have cleared, and make federal payroll deposits electronically.

Schwab Signature Services is Master-McNeil's name for Charles Schwab's premium service, which increases the range of services offered to Schwab's most valued customers. The personal nature of our name suggests the customized attention these top investors receive, building on the trusted Schwab brand, and particularly on the high customer awareness of and respect for Charles Schwab himself, as confirmed through research. Higher tiers of the program are Signature Gold and Signature Platinum.

ClearPath is our company name for the former Farallon Advisors, a financial services firm for high net worth investors whose wealth was created through equity ownership in public technology companies. Our name highlights the insightful guidance ClearPath offers, and their emphasis on creating a unique financial roadmap for their clients to help them achieve their financial goals.

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Provantis Insurance Company is wholly owned by Delta Dental Plan of California and Delta Dental of Pennsylvania. Provantis Insurance Company is licensed in 42 states and the District of Columbia to underwrite insurance plans for client groups and individuals.

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Dentegra is our holding company name for America's largest dental insurance company, serving 16.2 million members through Delta Dental Plan of California and Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, including dental insurance businesses in 16 additional states. Our new name combines "dental" and "integrity," to communicate the organization's core business, while referencing corporate values of substance and quality. Dentegra also subtly suggests the operating and economic efficiencies the more tightly "integrated" holding company provides.

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Master-McNeil created the name Highway One Communications for the merger of San Francisco's Pacific Marketing Group and the Los Angeles office of the international ad agency DMB&B. This forward-looking name suggests the West Coast orientation of the new agency by referencing California's coastal highway. In addition, "highway" suggests fast-moving, efficient, and goal-oriented, and "one" suggests comprehensiveness and leadership, as well as the unity formed by this merger.

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Master-McNeil created Navigant as our name for the Metzler Group, an international publicly traded management consulting firm. Our name conveys the group's common mission of guiding clients through rapidly changing business and economic environments. It was applied both to the original Metzler & Associates, as well as to numerous acquired consulting firms which previously operated under their own names, allowing the organization to market itself as a unified source of world-class management consulting services.

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This line extension of the Quicken brand from Intuit is designed specifically for tracking and reporting business expenses. Quicken ExpensAble builds on the equity of the Quicken brand, while clearly communicating the product benefit: the ability to handle expense reporting more effectively.

Now owned by OneMind Connect, line extended to ExpensAble Small Business, ExpensAble Workgroups, and ExpensAble Enterprise and licensed to American Express for their American Express Business Cardholders.

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Workforce is an industry-leading magazine for human resource professionals. Formerly known as Personnel Journal, our shorter, punchier name repositions the magazine to a wider, more senior management audience, and differentiates it from its many personnel-oriented competitors.

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We developed VisionPoint for SBT Accounting Systems for their Windows-based accounting software. The name suggests the instant access to visual information that this product provides.

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