Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack has been a positive force in Wheeling, West Virginia, for more than a century. From its early racing days that predate the Civil War to its current state as one of the largest tourist attractions in West Virginia, Wheeling Island is rich in American history. Originally created as a site for thoroughbred and harness racing in 1866, Wheeling Island has grown, thanks to the introduction of a full-service hotel and banquet center, restaurants, video lottery terminals, table games and other amenities. All of these features make it a premier destination in the region.In total, Wheeling Island is fully equipped with a 151-room hotel, 2,000 slot machines, including Wheel of Fortune, a 1000-seat showroom, meeting and banquet services, casual and fine dining restaurants, a food court, gift shop and 2,800 parking spaces, including 220 covered spaces among its variety of amenities.

Tampa Bay Rays Baseball owns and operates Florida's Gulf Coast baseball franchise. Founded as the Devil Rays, the franchise was originally awarded to a group led by local businessman Vincent Naimoli and joined joined Major League Baseball in 1998 as an expansion franchise along with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Playing host at Tampa's Tropicana Field, the team earned its first ever American League Pennant in 2008. (The Rays fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, however.) CEO Stuart Sternberg leads a management group that purchased control of the team in 2004.

The matchmaking service sets up busy, professional singles for lunch dates based on personal interviews instead of the much-maligned introduction videos or online dating pools. It's Just Lunch International LLC, which franchises more than 100 offices in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Singapore, and the US, charges singles around $1,000 for a series of dates (prices vary by location). It boasts having arranged more than 2 million dates since its inception. Founder Andrea McGinty established the company in 1991 after her fiancé jilted her weeks before their wedding. She sold IJL to The Riverside Company in 2006.

SpringHealth Leisure hopes that going private will be its springboard back to fiscal health. The company, which operates gym facilities in the UK, was taken private by chairman Sandy Anderson in 2005. The company's five London-area SpringHealth Leisure Clubs typically offer such amenities as swimming, court sports, makeovers, and massage in addition to aerobics classes, personal trainers, and weight machines. SpringHealth Leisure operates the publicly owned swim and fitness facility (Pools on the Park) at Richmond. Prior to Anderson's move to privatize the company, it had already divested nine other health clubs and a restaurant.

The National Hockey League is one of the four major professional sports associations in North America, boasting 30 professional ice hockey franchises in the US and Canada organized into two conferences with three divisions each. The NHL governs the game, sets and enforces rules, regulates team ownership, and collects licensing fees for merchandise. It also negotiates fees for national broadcasting rights. (Each team controls the rights to regional broadcasts.) In addition, five minor and semi-pro hockey leagues also fly under the NHL banner. The league was organized in Canada in 1917.

KC Hopps, Ltd. is a homegrown, handcrafted restaurant and brewpub management group that tapped its first kegs in 1993 in a cozy corner of Waldo. KC Hopps owns and operates multiple establishments in the greater Kansas City area that combine a great atmosphere, friendly service and scratch menus. We are proud of our partnerships with some of the areas most successful individuals and organizations and continually focus on being the best casual restaurant and bar operator in the Midwest.

When Mom wants a salad, Dad craves fried chicken, and little Johnny is screaming for enchiladas, what's an all-American family to do? A simple trip to the cafeteria line at Luby's may do the trick. Luby's owns and operates about 95 cafeteria-style restaurants that offer dozens of different entrees, salads, vegetable dishes, and desserts. The chain's menu is heavy on such comfort foods as mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and fried chicken. Nearly all of the restaurants are found in Texas; Luby's has a small number of eateries in three other states. In addition to its core restaurant business, Luby's offers contract foodservices to a small number of clients in the health care and education industries.

Beate Uhse AG is Europe's largest porn retailer, selling erotic lingerie, sex toys, and videos through its mail-order catalog (PABO by Beate Uhse) and its chain of nearly 300 sex shops in about 10 countries. In addition, Beate Uhse offers adult content through its Web site operations, telephone sex network, and 49%-owned Beate-Uhse.TV in Germany. Beate Uhse AG also has a wholesale manufacturing business with two latex products plants in Germany and the Netherlands, and it owns 30% of Content Group (formerly erotic media), a film licensing operation with a portfolio of some 6,000 erotic films.

NetPlayTV is the UK's largest interactive TV gaming company. NetPlay TV use our extensive knowledge of creating profitable games with our proven ability to create great TV show formats. Applying this unique combination, we develop highly successful brands that people can play on TV, online and on their mobile. At NetPlayTV, the customer is at the heart of everything we do. NetPlay TV plc acquisition, retention, VIP, loyalty and customer service programmes are world class, which is why our players stay with us longer and have higher lifetime values than our competitors.

Operating one of the world's largest online betting businesses, Betfair offers wagers on everything from horse and dog racing to which royal prince will get engaged first. With more than 6 million transactions per day, its products include peer-to-peer betting exchange Betfair.com and a group of poker and other traditional casino games. Betfair holds licenses to take bets in the UK, Germany, Italy, Malta, Austria, and Australia though it allows customers to bet on events worldwide. For another sort of betting, the company runs Tradefair, which applies its transactional technology to the financial derivatives market.

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