Cold Rock Management helps keep Australians cool with ice cream. Cold Rock Management Pty Ltd. is a leading franchisor of frozen treat outlets with its chain of about 85 Cold Rock Ice Creamery locations. The shops feature a variety of ice cream flavors, gelato, and sorbet, along with a menu of ingredients such as nuts, cookies, candies, and fruits that can be mixed into the ice cream. Each Cold Rock location features a refrigerated granite slab used for combining the ice cream with the additional ingredients. Started in the mid-1990s, the Cold Rock chain is owned by Franchised Food Company (FFC), a multi-concept franchising business controlled by Stan Gordon.

Chateau Elan Resorts, LLC was founded in 1981 by businessman Donald Panoz and his wife Nancy. Panoz first made millions pioneering a nicotine patch through his Elan Pharmaceuticals. Chateau Elan proves you don't have to be French to enjoy fine wine, fast cars, and fancy hotels. The upscale resort is located in Braselton, Georgia (30 minutes north of Atlanta), but is designed to resemble a 16th-century French-style château ("Élan" means "spirit" in French). The grounds are home to luxury accommodations at the Château Élan Inn, as well as a spa, four golf courses, eight restaurants, a tennis center, and a 3,500-acre winery.

When you reach this Rock Bottom, you'll find a warm meal and craft brewed beers waiting. Rock Bottom Restaurants operates about 100 eateries and brew pubs across the US, including its flagship pizzeria chain Old Chicago and its Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery pub chain. Its pizzerias, found in Colorado, Minnesota, and 20 other states, feature deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza and more than 110 different brands of beer. Rock Bottom's smaller brew pub chain offers fish, pasta, and meat, plus a variety of microbrews produced on the premises. In addition to its corporate-run units, the company has a small number of franchised Old Chicago locations. Chairman Frank Day opened the first Old Chicago restaurant in 1976.

The sweetest honey for these Grizzlies is an NBA championship. Hoops, L.P. owns and operates the Memphis Grizzlies professional basketball franchise. Originally located in Vancouver and controlled by Arthur Griffiths (who also owned the Vancouver Canucks hockey club), the Grizzlies joined the National Basketball Association as an expansion team in 1995, forming the new Canadian wing of the league along with the Toronto Raptors. Chicago billionaire Michael Heisley acquired the franchise in 2000 and relocated the Grizzlies to Tennessee the following year. The team plays host at Memphis' FedExForum.

South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a private company based in Austin, Texas, with a year-round staff of professionals dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals. Since 1987, SXSW has produced the internationally recognized Music and Media Conference & Festival. In 1994 as the entertainment business adjusted to issues of future growth and development, SXSW added conferences and festivals for the film industry (SXSW Film) as well as for the blossoming interactive media (SXSW Interactive Festival). Now three industry events converge in Austin during a Texas-sized week, mirroring the ever increasing convergence of entertainment/media outlets.

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.

The New England Patriots professional football franchise is one of the more popular teams in the NFL, boasting three Super Bowl championship seasons between 2001 and 2004. The team's success on the field has translated into sell-out crowds at the team's Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The franchise was founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots of the American Football League before moving to Foxborough and changing its name in 1971. Robert Kraft purchased the Patriots in 1994 and owns the franchise through his family holding company The Kraft Group.

Broadmoor Hotel is a luxury hotel resort located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 700-room hotel surrounds a lake on 3,000 acres at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It has nearly 20 restaurants and bars, three pools, a spa, some 185,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, and 25 retail stores. Its tennis and golf complexes are regularly ranked among the nation's best, with camps run by Hall-of-Fame member Dennis Ralston. The Broadmoor is also where President George W. Bush is said to have consumed his last drink, while wildly celebrating his 40th birthday at the hotel in 1986. The Broadmoor is owned by Oklahoma Publishing Company, publisher of the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

This company's empire stretches from surf to turf to Fremont Street. Landry's Restaurants is a leading full-service restaurant operator with more than 170 locations in about 30 states, mostly in Texas and Florida. The company's estate of eateries is anchored by its flagship Landry's Seafood House chain; other concepts include Rainforest Cafe, Saltgrass Steak House, and the upscale Chart House. In addition to casual dining, Landry's owns and operates the iconic Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, along with a number of other entertainment properties, including aquariums, hotels, and other tourist attractions. CEO Tilman Fertitta, who owns a 55% stake in the company, has agreed to take Landry's private.

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.

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