Ocean Properties is a private, family-owned company founded by Thomas Walsh, who built Maine's first franchised Holiday Inn in 1969. Ocean Properties has plenty of sea views. One of the largest privately held hotel operating and development companies in the US, Ocean Properties operates more than 120 hotels across the US and Canada, primarily under the AmeriSuites, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Marriott, and Sheraton brands. Ocean Properties luxury resorts include the Marriott Delray Beach Florida Hotel. The company also has shopping centers, restaurants, and other real estate holdings, such as the Pete Rose Ballpark Cafes in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach, Florida.

We are a global hospitality company with widely recognized, industry leading brands and a tradition of innovation developed over our more than fifty-year history. Our mission is to provide authentic hospitality by making a difference in the lives of the people we touch every day. We focus on this mission in pursuit of our goal of becoming the most preferred brand in each segment that we serve for our associates, guests, and owners. We support our mission and goal by adhering to a set of core values that characterizes our culture. We manage, franchise, own and develop Hyatt branded hotels, resorts and residential and vacation ownership properties around the world. As of March 31, 2010, the company's worldwide portfolio consisted of 434 properties.

AlacraStore.com is an e-commerce website offering consumers access to select reports from a host of premium databases. Searching AlacraStore.com is free. You register to purchase and download reports with a credit card. Types of business information available include company fundamentals and financials, credit research, earnings estimates, economic data, filings, market and investment research and news. Company coverage includes more than 50,000 global public companies, 20,000 private issuers of public debt and 350,000 global private companies with more than $20 million in revenue or 200 employees. Searches can be performed by keyword, company name, ticker symbol, publisher, or industry criteria. AlacraStore.com is a service of Alacra, Inc. Alacra is a leading global provider of business and financial information and solutions. A privately held company founded in 1996, Alacra is headquartered in New York City. The company provides a diverse portfolio of authoritative databases along with proprietary solutions that enable clients to quickly find, analyze, package and present mission-critical business information. Alacra customers include more than 700 leading financial institutions, professional service firms, consulting, law and accounting firms and other corporations throughout the world.

If you really had two left feet, wouldn't you just keep dancing to the left? Arthur Murray International would prefer not to find out. Originally famous for its "footprints" method of dance instruction (foot outlines placed on the floor, a method it no longer uses), the company franchises about 225 studios in approximately 15 countries. Dance lessons range in skill from beginning to competition-level dancing, and students can learn a variety of steps, including swing, samba, merengue, rumba, cha-cha, mambo, tango, and waltz. Founder Arthur Murray began teaching dance in 1912; he formed the company in 1946. The company consists of approximately 275 franchised studios in eight countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Italy, and South Africa. Former staff members who have worked their way up in the company own and operate the franchised studios. These owners typically began their careers with Arthur Murray as dance instructors, realized the opportunity of operating a studio, and reached executive level. Arthur Murray staff members were eligible to become franchisees within just a few years of beginning as teachers. Sales for Arthur Murray International during the late 1990s amounted to an estimated $50 million.

Boston hockey fans roar in approval -- and in disapproval -- of their Bruins. Operated by Boston Professional Hockey Association, the team is the third-oldest surviving franchise in the National Hockey League and has made 17 trips to the Stanley cup finals, winning five championship titles (the last in 1972). The storied hockey club, which plays host at TD Garden, has boasted several Hall of Fame players on the roster, including Phil Esposito, Cam Neely, and Bobby Orr. Formed in 1924, the Bruins franchise has been owned since 1974 by Jeremy Jacobs, chairman of concessions giant Delaware North.The Boston Professional Hockey Association Inc. is the corporation that operates the Boston Bruins, the first American franchise in the National Hockey League. Playing in a state-of-the-art arena, the FleetCenter, and enjoying the stable ownership of Jeremy M. Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer of the highly successful Delaware North Companies, the Bruins are one of hockey's most successful franchises. On the ice, the team has known periods of greatness, and over the last three decades of the 20th century, it was one of the most consistent winners in all of team sports, making the Stanley Cup playoffs 29 consecutive seasons.

San Francisco Forty Niners owns and operates the San Francisco 49ers professional football team, which boasts five Super Bowl championships (a mark it shares with the Dallas Cowboys). The franchise was started in 1946 as part of the All-American Football Conference (AAFC) and joined the National Football League in 1950. Its burst of championship glory came in the 1980s and 1990s with the help of such stars as Joe Montana and Steve Young. The team was started by brothers Anthony and Victor Morabito; it is owned by Denise DeBartolo York through her family's DeBartolo Corporation.

Red Lion Hotels Corporation was founded in 1937. Red Lion Hotels Corporation (RLH) is a hospitality and leisure company primarily engaged in the ownership, operation and franchising of midscale and upscale, full service hotels under its Red Lion brand. The Red Lion brand is associated with three star full and select service hotels. As of December 31, 2009, its system of hotels contained 45 hotels located in eight states and one Canadian province, with 8,671 rooms and 431,244 square feet of meeting space. Red Lion Hotels Company operates in three segments: hotels, franchise and entertainment segment.

The world’s leading hotel manager and market leader in Europe, Accor operates in 90 countries with 145,000 employees. The Group offers to its clients and partners nearly 45 years of know-how and expertise. Accor provides an extensive offer including about 15 complementary brands—from luxury to economy—that are recognized and appreciated around the world for their service quality: Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure, ibis, all seasons, Etap hotel, hotelF1, Motel6, as well as Thalassa sea & spa and Lenotre.

NH Hoteles company is becoming one of Europe's leading hotel operators, with a collection of about 340 owned, leased, or managed properties (totaling more than 50,000 rooms) in some 20 countries. Most of its hotels are in Europe, but the company also has made inroads into other areas, specifically Latin America. NH Hoteles operates properties ranging from four-star establishments to budget hotels. Its nhow hotel brand features a modern design and hosts art exhibits and fashion shows. The firm also owns 51% of Italian hotel operator NH Italia (Intesa Sanpaolo owns 49%); it additionally owns Italian hotel operator Jolly Hotels.

Littlefield Corporation is a public holding company traded on the OTCBB with trading symbol LTFD. Littlefield is a growing company with positive cash flow, positive earnings, and controlled expenses. Littlefield's exceptional leadership and clear investment strategies have guided the company to profitable quarters even in an economy where negative earnings abound. Imagine that … predictable income, logical investment philosophy, consistent strategies, real cash flow. This is not the most cutting edge idea. It may even be a little boring, but it is also predictable, logical, consistent, and profitable. Economics clearly dictates that when demand is low, so is price. Littlefield Corporation is capitalizing on this under valuation by putting cash into what we like to call "Adventureless Capital." The businesses we target are not the most high-tech, cutting edge businesses around, but unlike many of those, our business will be around for many years to come.

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