This company is pinning its hopes on the flavor of the Big Island to draw a few mainlanders into its restaurants. Kona Grill operates about 20 upscale casual-dining restaurants offering both seafood and American dishes with an island twist. The restaurants serve both lunch and diner menus, and they offer a wide selection of sushi. In addition to dining, each location typically has a bar area for happy hour with margaritas and martinis. The restaurants are typically found near upscale shopping areas in Arizona, Texas, and about 20 other states. Former chairman and CEO Marcus Jundt and his family own about 20% of Kona Grill.

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.

EIH Ltd. was founded in 1934 by former chairman Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi, who died in 2002 at the age of 103. Asian elegance is the key to running hotels, if you ask EIH (better known as The Oberoi Group). EIH company owns and operates about 30 hotels and luxury cruisers in five countries under the Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Trident brands. The Oberoi Group operates primarily in India, but also has hotels in Egypt, Indonesia, Mauritius, and Saudi Arabia. In addition, The Oberoi Group operates luxury cruises of the Nile River and India's Kerala region.

SNAI (Sindacato Nazionale Agenzie Ippiche) is a leading operator of sports betting shops in Italy. The shops offer wagering on a variety of sporting events. In addition to on-site wagering, the company offers online and telephone sports betting. SNAI also offering other online gaming, including poker. In addition to gaming, the company operates horse racing tracks and has multimedia operations.

Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) operates lotteries and other games of chance in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. It manages scratch-off card games, regional lottery drawings, and video lottery games, as well as interactive games played online. All of the profits generated by the company's games are returned to the provinces and used for a variety of programs. ALC was formed in 1976 and is owned by the four provincial governments.

PartyGaming is the world's leading listed online gaming business. The Group offers a variety of games through an integrated Party-branded platform and through a number of secondary brands and alliances with blue chip companies. Through our unique operating platform, adults can tune in to a broad range of games, using multiple languages, multiple-currency options and with the tools to ensure they have fun and play within their means. PartyGaming Plc listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2005. Regulated and licensed by the Government of Gibraltar, the Group has around 1,300 employees located in the head office and operations centre in Gibraltar, a business process outsourcing operation in India, and a marketing services subsidiary and multi-lingual customer service operations in Europe. The Group has customers throughout the world. PartyGaming does not accept wagers or deposits for real money games from customers located in the US.

Family-owned Shibley Management operates Yours Truly Restaurants, a chain of about 10 family-style eateries in the Cleveland area. The restaurants offer traditional American fare for lunch and dinner, such as chicken broils and hamburgers, as well as an all-day breakfast menu that includes specialty omelets. Brothers Larry, Art, and Jeffrey Shibley opened the first Yours Truly location in 1981.

Larry Blumberg doesn't want to leave anyone out in the cold. Larry Blumberg and Associates (LBA) develops and manages hotels (brands include Best Western, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Hampton Inn & Suites, Red Roof Inn, and Holiday Inn) in the southeastern US. Its portfolio includes about 50 properties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. LBA also offers operations and asset management, accounting, and sales and marketing services to third party hotels. CEO Larry Blumberg developed his first hotel -- it is still managed by LBA -- in 1972.

You might say this company is angling for hungry customers from the pool of seafood fans. Rockfish Seafood Grill operates about 15 rustic-themed seafood restaurants mostly in the Dallas and Houston areas. The small chain's menu offers a wide variety of seafood selections and features specialty appetizers and signature entrees. For meat-eating customers, the restaurants offer beef and chicken options. Randy DeWitt and his wife, Michele opened the first Rockfish location in 1998. CEO Henry Leonard and Dallas restaurant investor Ray Washburne control the company with backing from a group of private equity firms.

Novus Leisure operates about 40 upscale nightspots in London and nine other cities in the UK. The company's flagship chain of bars, Tiger Tiger, has about 10 locations offering drinks, dancing, and food. Its other concepts, such as Strawberry Moons, Sugar Reef, and Zoo Bar, each offer a unique atmosphere for young adults out on the town. Spun off from intellectual property firm Chorion in 2002, the company was acquired by private equity firm Electra Partners in 2005.

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