When Francis Ford Coppola decided to streamline the service at his Palazzo Margherita luxury hotel in Southern Italy's Basilicata region he turned to Amelung & Partners. With a background in hotel operations and training Peggy Amelung, Claudia Leloup and Rosa Domingo add their magic touch to even the most polished hotel management.

The hospitality consultants not only lend their years of expertise and their meticulous attention to detail to a client's project, true to their mantra 'simple completeness', they are also at hand to help the hotel team deliver on their promise with dedicated training programmes.

ATeNe is a consultancy specialising in innovation and technology. The organisation performs a dual role in order to marry investment and innovation: on the one hand ATeNe advises technology companies and innovators on planning, finance, implementation and marketing, on the other, the consultancy provides analysis, studies and reports about the potential of innovations and technologies to public and private investors.

Axentum Asset Management is an investment fond specialising in independent power producers.

Bernd Seidel & Friends advises, researches and writes for print and online media, hard- and software manufacturers as well as consultants and service providers in the IT sector. In addition, Seidel is available as a moderator and presenter for technology related trade fairs, events and seminars.

In his role as coach and trainer, Seidel offers presentation and interview training as well as individual and team coachings.

Brainshell is an agency that was founded in February, 2002, as a special department of ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH (ZAB) in order to market the intellectual property of Brandenburg's eight colleges and universities.

The goal of this 'patent exploitation offensive', supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to make maximum use of the region's innovation potential.

Brainshell supports the colleges in developing, using and marketing patent rights. The agency acts as a link between research institutes and business, an interface between technology and the marketplace.

Breeze is a firm of energy brokers who set out to bring some fresh ideas to the selling of gas and electricity.

Business Link was set up as a nationwide network providing small and medium sized businesses with a single point of contact for independent advice and support.

Chorus Capital ist ein auf Kreditinvestment spezialisiertes Unternehmen mit Fokus auf den Bankensektor.

Brazil is different – at least that is what any aspiring entrepreneur from the old world will learn very quickly when trying to do business in Latin America's economic power house. Equally, Brazilian companies trying to enter the German market will find the lack of flexibility not necessarily conducive to their way of doing business.

Enter Debracon. The consultancy is fostering bilateral, political and economic relationship between Germany and Brazil. Project development, the build-up of communication structures and entrepreneurial partnerships all benefit from the consultancy's cultural expertise in both countries and the in-depth market knowledge of its German-Brazilian team.

Deloitte is one of the world's leading professional services organisations. The member firms of Deloitte deliver assurance and advisory, tax and consulting services. With more than 119,000 people in over 140 countries, the member firms serve over one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions and successful, fast-growing global growth companies.

Depken & Partner are management consultants based in Berlin.

eComm is a government agency which organises workshops and seminars for small and medium sized companies, illustrating how they can benefit from the e-commerce culture.

Enders Analysis provides research and analysis on the media, entertainment, mobile and fixed telecommunications industries in Europe. With a special focus on new technologies and media, the company covers all aspects of the market, from consumers and leading companies (e.g. Vodafone, Iliad, ITV, BT, BSkyB, Virgin Media and others), to regulation.

ERP World is a trade fair for the Enterprise Resource Planning sector. It is a platform for small and medium sized enterprises to meet the big players of the industry including SAP and Microsoft.

Exponatus manages cultural exhibitions interfacing with science and society. From the initial theme to the final evaluation, Exponatus acts as an interpreter during the development process and moderates the collaboration of artists, curators and designers. The Exponatus projects have been developed in collaboration with designer Valentina Boffa.

A one-stop purchasing service provides firms in London's business heartland, The City, with the details of local suppliers.

First Source was an initiative of some of the leading City firms with the aim to give back some of the City's wealth to the poor surrounding areas.

Founded as Business Technology Partnership management consultants Fusion for Business favour a holistic approach to information technology. By looking at how technology can improve business practice and address environmental concerns, the company is trying to create a seamless process fusing technology input, business practice and environmental output.

Hermann Breitegger was a project manager for retail and hotel projects. He has been responsible for the high street presence of German mobile phone company E-Plus as well as hotel developments within one of the best known German theme parks.

IIF is an institute for the finance and management of innovation. The organisation advises enterprises and financial institutions trying to enhance their ability to innovate.

The institute is involved in the education of finance experts as well as the development, analysis and optimisation of finance models for companies and investors in the innovation sector.

K.R.P.R. is a New York public relations company named after the founder Katie Rosenberg.

The Lean Alliance develops a theoretical and practical understanding of lean principles at both an executive and employee level. It supports the introduction of lean business processes within changing organizations at an international level. The Lean Alliance programmes and individual coaching are designed to hand on their experience and know-how to companies and their employees.

Lill Rechtsanwälte is a partnership of solicitors specialising in all aspects of real estate, construction and public procurement legislation as well as company and insolvency law. At the same time they have extensive litigation experience in these areas and are able to represent their client interests in court.

Metamorphosis is a UK firm specialising in personal and corporate image consulting offering men and women advice on how to portray the image they desire.

Schober Eiche & Co connects people, businesses and capital. The team develops individual concepts with the aim of preparing the clients for the strategic challenges of the future. They think and act entrepreneurially and independently and advise competently and success oriented.

T+I Technology and Innovation Consultants see themselves as partners for small and medium-sized technology firms, which need assistance in project financing and growth capital respectively.

The Henry Lydiate Partnership helps clients with projects in all areas of creative and cultural practice, working in partnership, with vision and imagination. The Partners describe themselves as business consultants for the arts.

With 13 partners and over 50 employees Witte, Weller & Partner ranks among the largest patent law firms in Southern Germany.

Witte, Weller & Partner can rely on a vast body of experience and know-how in all areas of intellectual property, such as patent law, trademark law, utility model and design law, copyright law (software law) and employee inventors law. Additional expertise lies in interdisciplinary areas such as litigation, contract and licensing law and in consulting technology-oriented start-ups.

Witte, Weller & Partner represents small and medium-sized companies as well as large corporations and public research institutions, technology leaders in their respective fields of business in many cases. The clientele extends beyond Germany and other European countries, to the U.S., Canada, Japan and China.