ALPINE MERIDIAN, INC.

Alpine Meridian has assisted both large and small clients in the development and implementation of Internet strategies. Representative engagements include:

• The world’s largest pharmaceutical company retained Alpine Meridian to create and structure a virtual private network, allowing it to communicate with 25,000 selected physicians and provide them with marketing information on their drugs.

• One of the world’s largest publishers retained Alpine Meridian to negotiate agreements with major telco and web portals to increase its distribution and licensing revenues.

• A major healthcare publishing company engaged us to source new distributions channels and identify acquisitions to expand its presence in digital markets.

• A leading legal database provider retained Alpine Meridian to advise it on the migration of its existing database offerings to an Internet presence. Engagement included determination of distribution partners, resolution of channel conflict, and pricing.

• A leading healthcare publisher retained Alpine Meridian to provide advice on the development of a consumer and professional healthcare electronic marketplace.  We assisted in identifying strategic partnerships and generating new transactional and licensing revenues.

• A leading newspaper publisher hired Alpine Meridian to optimize the profitability of the digital activities of their 100+ newspapers, including vendors, content and marketing.  Alpine Meridian created and advised on the implementation of an overall integrated content and vendor strategy.

• A major consumer media company retained Alpine Meridian to develop a strategy for monetizing its publishing assets.

• One of the largest internet services companies engaged Alpine Meridian to advise on strategic acquisitions to expand its engineering and systems integration business.

• A major entertainment industry publisher retained Alpine Meridian to evaluate hosting, connectivity, and programming alternatives for new media activities by identifying partners and negotiating agreements.

• A leading music company engaged Alpine Meridian to advise on the development of their Internet distribution strategy and to negotiate marketing partnerships with Internet portals.

• A regional telecom commissioned Alpine Meridian to create and implement a product plan to increase the revenues and profitability of their digital publishing ventures and subsequently to develop a partner strategy to extend their Internet services and generate new revenues streams.