President Robin Masten and her husband, James (CFO), started SuiteAmerica in 1990. SuiteAmerica leases furnished apartments on a short-term basis to mostly corporate clients. Its properties include laundry facilities, swimming pools, exercise facilities, business centers, and more. Through its affiliations with other corporate housing companies, SuiteAmerica offers temporary housing solutions in nearly every state in the US. It has offices in California and the Washington, DC area.

Global Entertainment Corporation is helping to bring sports to the hinterlands. The event and entertainment company, through its various subsidiaries, offers project management services to midsized communities looking to develop event centers and sports facilities. It also offers facilities and venue management and ticketing services, as well as sponsorship and marketing consulting. Through its WPHL (Western Professional Hockey League) subsidiary, Global Entertainment manages the Central Hockey League, a development league affiliated with the National Hockey League. WPHL Holdings, which is affiliated with chairman James Treliving, controls more than 40% of the company.

Indy Racing League (IRL) is the governing body for the Indy class of racing cars, which are open-wheel and -cockpit single-seat speedsters. IRL's primary circuit tour, the IndyCar Series, features more than 25 drivers competing in almost 20 races across the US and another in Japan, including its premier event, the Indianapolis 500. The body also runs the Indy Pro Series, a developmental circuit for up-and-coming drivers. IRL markets the races and drivers and generates revenue through broadcast rights and sponsorships. The league was formed in 1996 and is controlled by the Hulman-George family, which also owns Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation.

Guoman Hotels (formerly Thistle Hotels Limited) is trying to stick it to the competition with its chain of UK hotels. Guoman Hotels company operates more than 30 hotel properties in the UK under the Guoman and Thistle brands, and is one of the largest hotel operators in London. Targeting both business and leisure travelers, its full-service, four-star hotels feature such amenities as fax, modem, and PC hookups, as well as restaurants, conference rooms, and lounges. Properties include the Thistle Marble Arch, Thistle Piccadilly, Thistle Bloomsbury, Thistle Hyde Park, and One Whitehall Place.

JOM is a leading manufacturer of professional gaming poker chips that are customizable and embedded with counterfeit protection for casinos, collectors, and retailers. JOM is a leading manufacturer of professional gaming poker chips that are customizable and embedded with counterfeit protection for casinos, collectors, and retailers. JOM Inc. operates a manufacturing facility that produces 40,000 chips per day. It makes both the ProTech and Unicorn series chips, which are played in casinos around the world. CHIPCO also makes chips with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as well as such ancillary products as plastic chip trays and metal alloy tokens. CEO John Kendall has controlled the company since 1985. operates a manufacturing facility that produces 40,000 chips per day. It makes both the ProTech and Unicorn series chips, which are played in casinos around the world. CHIPCO also makes chips with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as well as such ancillary products as plastic chip trays and metal alloy tokens. CEO John Kendall has controlled the company since 1985.

Tennessee Football owns and operates the Tennessee Titans professional football team that represents Nashville in the National Football League. A charter member of the American Football League, the franchise was founded by Texas oilman Bud Adams as the Houston Oilers in 1959 and joined the NFL in 1970. It moved to the Volunteer State in 1997, originally playing in Memphis before settling in Music City (and changing its name) the following year. Tennessee made its first and only appearance in the Super Bowl at the end of the 1999 season, losing to the St. Louis Rams. Adams continues to control the team.

Jazzercise shows people how to shake their booties toward fitness. A leading fitness instruction operator, the company has more than 7,800 franchised instructors across the US and in more than 30 countries offering some 32,000 weekly fitness classes that blend jazz dancing with an aerobic workout. Jazzercise generates revenue through franchise fees, as well as the sale of clothing, books, and other merchandise. The company's JM DigitalWorks unit produces Jazzercise workout tapes and provides video production services to other clients. Its Jazzertogs division offers fitness apparel and accessories. CEO Judi Sheppard Missett, a professional dancer, founded Jazzercise in 1969 and began franchising in 1980.Jazzercise, Inc. is the world's leading franchiser of dance and fitness classes. The company pioneered its own brand of dance-based exercise routines. These are taught by certified Jazzercise instructors across the United States and in Europe, Japan, and Latin America. The company has over 5,000 franchises, and an estimated 450,000 students worldwide. Franchisees pay a nominal start-up fee to the company, and then 20 percent of gross revenues monthly. Founder Judi Sheppard Missett choreographs new routines approximately every ten weeks. The company also produces videos, music recordings, and other educational materials, as well as a computer-based CyberStretch program that aims to prevent repetitive stress injuries among office workers. The company's retail division sells exercise wear, accessories, and items bearing the Jazzercise logo. The division sells primarily through a mail-order catalog. Jazzercise also operates a video production division, JM DigitalWorks, which produces Jazzercise videos and also does videotape production, post-production, and duplicating work for hundreds of other clients.

This restaurant chain has been feeding boys big and small for more than 70 years. Big Boy Restaurants International operates and franchises more than 150 of its signature family-dining spots in Michigan and more than half a dozen other states. Known for their hamburgers (and the iconic Big Boy figure holding a plate-sized sandwich), the restaurants also offer a full menu of breakfast options along with such home style dinner favorites as meat loaf, pork chops, and chicken fried steak. More than 20 locations are company-owned, while the rest are franchised. The company also has some 300 licensed Big Boy units operating in Japan. Founded by Bob Wian in 1936, the Big Boy chain is owned by chairman Robert Liggett.

These Jets begin boarding at the start of every football season. A storied franchise in the National Football League, the New York Jets claim just one Super Bowl title, but its victory over the favored Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) in 1969 was one of the more famous matches in the history of championship. The franchise, founded by broadcaster Harry Wismer as the Titans, was a founding member of the American Football League in 1960 and joined the NFL when the leagues merged in 1970. Robert Johnson IV, whose family founded pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, has owned the team since 2000.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., an integrated media and entertainment company, engages in the sports entertainment business. The company develops content centered around its talent, and presents at its live and televised events featuring World Wrestling Entertainment brands. It operates through four segments: Live and Televised Entertainment, Consumer Products, Digital Media, and WWE Studios. The Live and Televised Entertainment segment conducts live events; produces television shows; sells merchandise at its live events; provides sponsorships, such as various promotional vehicles, including Internet and print advertising, arena signage, on-air announcements, and pay-per-view sponsorships for advertisers; offers television rights; and markets and promotes the storylines associated with pay-per-view events. It also provides WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand, a subscription video on demand service that offers classic television shows, pay-per-view events, specials, and original programming.

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