Herbst Gaming operates about 15 casinos, hotels, RV parks, and slot routes in Nevada and the Midwest. Its flagship property, Terrible's Sands Regency hotel and casino in downtown Reno, Nevada has more than 800 hotel rooms and some 600 slot machines, as well as table games such as blackjack, craps, and roulette. It also houses restaurants, lounges, a gift shop, and a video arcade. Other Herbst properties are located in smaller towns throughout Nevada, including Henderson, Dayton, and Primm (where its Primm Casinos subsidiary operates). In addition, the firm has a handful of locations in Iowa and Missouri. Herbst Gaming is owned by brothers Edward, Timothy, and Troy Herbst. In 2009 the company filed Chapter 11.

Corus hopes travelers will sing the praises of its mid-priced hotels. Corus Hotels (formerly Corus and Regal Hotels) owns about a dozen mid-market hotels in the UK. Corus also owns two hotels in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur and Port Dickson). Corus' UK hotels have an average of 102 bedrooms per hotel, while its Malaysian counterparts boast an average of 290 rooms per hotel. Virtually all hotel locations provide meeting facilities. The company was formed in 1993 and is owned by Malayan United Industries Berhad, a Malaysian diversified holding company with business interests in Asia, the UK, and the US.

Smith & Wollensky is America’s premier traditional steakhouse, committed to providing outstanding hospitality and delivering the best steaks that are U.S.D.A. Prime and dry-aged for tenderness and flavor. The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, Inc. take great pride in the quality of our food, and hand cut our steaks on premises, and make our own pastries, french fries, salad dressings and soups fresh daily. We offer an acclaimed wine list and our rich ambiance and personal waiter service provides our guests with truly memorable experiences. Our goal is to be the favorite steakhouse in each of our markets, and we recognize that our local managers and staff are the key to achieving this goal. The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, Inc. restaurants have received numerous local and national awards including The Wine Spectator’s “Grand Award of Excellence” and the Distinguished Restaurants of North America “Award of Excellence.”

Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. (Great Wolf Resorts) is a family entertainment resort company. The Company is the owner, licensor, operator and developer in North America of drive-to family resorts featuring indoor waterparks and other family-oriented entertainment activities based on the number of resorts in operation. Each of its resorts feature approximately 300 to 600 family suites, each of which sleeps from 6 to 10 people and includes a wet bar, microwave oven, refrigerator and dining and sitting area. Great Wolf Resorts operates and licenses resorts under its Great Wolf Lodge and Blue Harbor Resorttm brand names and has entered into licensing arrangements with third parties relating to the operation of resorts under the Great Wolf Lodge brand name. The Company is organized into a single operating division. Within that operating division, it has three segments: Resort ownership/operation, Resort third-party management/licensing and Condominium sales.

National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), better known as Minor League Baseball, steps up to the plate as the governing body for nearly 20 leagues and about 250 teams, ranging from the Hickory Crawdads to the Durham Bulls to the Savannah Sand Gnats. Each team in the minor leagues (generally classified as either Rookie, Class A, Class Double-A, or Class Triple-A) is affiliated with a team in Major League Baseball and is part of a farm system to develop players hoping to make it to "The Show." Minor League Baseball also helps rehab major league players who've been sent down to work out any kinks and get back in game shape.

The Denver Nuggets professional basketball franchise was formed by trucking magnate J. W. "Bill" Ringsby in 1967 as the Denver Rockets (renamed in 1974), a charter member of the American Basketball Association. Since joining the National Basketball Association in 1976, the team has had little postseason success, although the signing of star forward Carmelo Anthony in 2004 has helped spur fan interest, giving a boost to attendance at the team's Pepsi Center arena. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke will relinquish ownership to his son Josh Kroenke in 2010.

Premier Inn (formerly Premier Travel Inn) is a leading budget hotel operator in the UK with more than 570 properties. The hotels target both leisure and business travelers with value-priced lodging and amenities, and it markets special offers for families. All of its locations also feature an in-house restaurant. Most of Premier Inn's hotels are located along major roads and in regional and city centers across the country. Premier company is owned by hospitality conglomerate Whitbread, which rebranded Premier Travel Inn as Premier Inn in 2008.

Roots of LaMar’s Donuts date back to 1933 when Ray LaMar began making donuts at the age of 17. Ray LaMar learned his trade and progressed through management ranks of Jack Frost Do-nuts Company. Ray LaMar recalled his early days of work at Jack Frost Do-nuts Company in LaSalle Theater at 34th and Broadway. “I was paid $12 a week. I worked every day for 2 years before I found out I was supposed to get a day off.” the store opened for retail business at 11am and stayed open until midnight. Back then, a dozen donuts cost 18 cents and cake donuts were either plain or dusted with powdered sugar or granulated sugar and there were yeast donuts. By the early 1940s, Ray LaMar introduced new flavors, devil’s food donuts, chocolate iced donuts and an apple-spice donut, to the menu.

Great Canadian Gaming has about ten casino operations in Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia) and Washington state. The properties offer slot machines and/or table games such as blackjack, poker, and roulette. In addition, the company owns and operates one thoroughbred racetrack, four standardbred racetracks, a bingo hall, a community gaming center, several restaurants, two theaters, and a hotel and conference center. Its flagship property, the River Rock Casino Resort, is the leading casino resort in the Vancouver, British Columbia market.

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is the organizing body for women's golf, overseeing development and promotion of the game and its star players. It operates the LPGA Tour consisting of about 30 events a year. In addition to its high-profile golf tournaments, the organization runs the LPGA Teaching & Club Professional Division, which is the golf education and development subsidiary for its 1,200 members. The LPGA was founded in 1950, making it one of the oldest women's sports organizations in the world.

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