The Rams Football Company owns and operates the St. Louis Rams professional football team, which boasts three National Football League championships, its last coming in 2000. The franchise started as the Cleveland Rams in 1936 and moved to Los Angeles in 1946. The team moved to St. Louis in 1995 where it hosts home games at the Edward Jones Dome. Former minority owner Stan Kroenke is now the majority owner of the Rams after purchasing the Rosenbloom family's stake for about $750 million in 2010.

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.

Don't let the mouse mascot fool you: This amusement kingdom is founded on the power of pizza. CEC Entertainment operates the Chuck E. Cheese's chain of pizza parlors with more than 540 locations throughout the US, Canada, and a half dozen other countries. The restaurants cater mostly to families with children and feature dining-room entertainment provided by robotic characters, arcade games, and other activities. (The eateries are especially popular destinations for birthday parties.) Games and merchandise account for about 50% of sales. The menu features pizzas, sandwiches, salads, and desserts. CEC Entertainment owns and operates about 500 of the pizza and fun joints, while the rest are franchised.

Kampgrounds of America (KOA) won't win any spelling bees, but that doesn't stop this kompany from running the largest network of kommercial kampsites in North America. There are some 500 KOA campgrounds across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan; many of the campgrounds are franchised operations. The campgrounds feature RV hookups, showers, laundry facilities, swimming pools, restrooms, playgrounds, and Internet access. KOA was founded in 1962 by a group of Billings, Montana, businessmen looking to cash in on campers' need for campsites on their way to the Seattle World's Fair.

This deli brings a little New York flavor to Southern California. Jerry's Famous Deli owns and operates more than half a dozen of its flagship restaurants in the Los Angeles area that feature a menu with more than 600 items, including hot and cold sandwiches, burgers, and ethnic-flavored dinner entrees. The restaurants also serve breakfast items, salads, and soups. In addition to its mainstay eateries, the company owns Solly's Deli & Bakery in Sherman Oaks, California. It also has a handful of deli locations in the Miami area. The late Isaac Starkman started the family-owned business when he opened the first Jerry's Famous Deli in 1978.

Preferred Hotel Group was founded in 1968. Preferred Hotel Group operates a network of independent luxury hotel brands that collectively include approximately 700 properties in some 75 countries. Brands include Preferred Boutique, Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Summit Hotels & Resorts, and Sterling Hotels. Its Historic Hotels of America, an affiliation of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, includes more than 200 historically significant hotels. The company provides sales, marketing, and technology solutions to its properties, as well as reservation and guest support services. The Preferred Hotel Group operates from some 30 worldwide sales offices.

LAC Basketball Club owns and operates the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball franchise. The team joined the National Basketball Association in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves before moving west in 1978. Known as the San Diego Clippers, the team relocated to Los Angeles in 1984 and now plays host at the Staples Center with its division rival Los Angeles Lakers. Fans have yet to see the Clippers earn an NBA title or an NBA Finals appearance. Real estate magnate Donald Sterling has owned the franchise since 1981.

The Florida Marlins professional baseball franchise joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1993 and boasts two World Series titles. Under the deep-pocketed ownership of former Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga, the Marlins quickly rose to success and won its first championship title in 1997. A second Fall Classic victory followed in 2003, two years after the franchise was sold to Jeff Loria, who formerly owned the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals). The team plays host at Miami's LandShark Stadium.

Get in touch with your inner chicken-lovin' grease monkey at one of this company's restaurants. Best Wings USA operates and franchises the Quaker Steak & Lube full-service dining chain with more than 35 locations found in a dozen states, mostly in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The auto-themed eateries are best known for chicken wings that can be ordered in a wide range of flavors. The menu also features burgers and other sandwiches, ribs, and steaks, as well as a selection of appetizers. In addition to dining, most of the restaurants offer full bar service. Vice chairmen George Warren and Gary Meszaros opened the first Quaker Steak outlet in 1974.

Ilitch Holdings, Inc., was established in 1999 to provide the companies owned by Michael and/or Marian Ilitch with professional services. The Ilitch companies represent leading brands in the food, sports and entertainment industries and include Little Caesars, the Detroit Red Wings, the Detroit Tigers, Olympia Entertainment, Uptown Entertainment, Blue Line Foodservice Distribution, Champion Foods, Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraising Program, Olympia Development and MotorCity Casino Hotel. Ilitch Holdings is comprised of skilled professionals providing expertise in the areas of finance, human resources, communications, legal, architecture, government relations, and information technology. Ultimately, we contribute to the success of Ilitch companies by providing streamlined processes and procedures that result in improved productivity, increased efficiencies and lower costs.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.