The United States Basketball League (USBL) operates an association of professional basketball teams that play a 30-game schedule from April through June. The league encompasses a half dozen teams, including the Brooklyn Kings, the Dodge City Legend, and the Kansas Cagerz, which compete with 11 players each. The USBL generates revenue mostly through franchise fees and marketing sponsorships. It is intended to be a development league for recent college graduates and international players to showcase their skills for scouts from National Basketball Association teams. The founding Meisenheimer family controls about 90% of the USBL.

With exciting vessels ranging from cozy and custom-designed to the 3 largest dining yachts on the West Coast, Hornblower welcomes guests for classic sightseeing and dining cruises, corporate outings, weddings, special events, environmental tours and film shoots. The company sails from seven California ports and serves as the National Park Service concession of ferry service to Alcatraz Island, the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. Hornblower Cruises and Events provides sightseeing, dining, and wedding cruises via its fleet of 35 yachts sailing from about a half dozen California ports, including Berkeley, San Diego, Newport Beach, Marina del Rey, and San Francisco. Regularly scheduled tours include lunch, dinner, dance, and concert cruises.

Pubs and bars are in full bloom at this company. The Orchid Group is a leading operator of pubs, bars, and restaurants in the UK with about 300 locations. Its portfolio includes a large number of local bars and pubs operating under a variety of different names, as well as such chains as The Living Room, Prohibition Bar & Grill, and the Dragon Pub Restaurants. Orchid also owns about a dozen Asian-themed restaurants operating primarily in London (the Oriental Restaurant Group). The company was founded in 2006 with backing from private equity firm GI Partners.

The manufacturer of Live-Call Bingo™ the top-earning, bingo based Class II gaming platform for Native American casinos, VGT’s gaming platforms are known for their reliability, service and un-matched player appeal. Driven by innovation, VGT’s accomplishments continue to set the standard in the competitive Class II and Skill-based markets. Working closely with our Native American and emerging market partners, VGT has created exciting game titles that generate intense customer loyalty and record-setting gaming revenues.

TableMAX lets casinos take video blackjack to the MAX. TableMAX Corporation (formerly CJPG) manufactures multi-player video gaming machines that allow up to five people to play games of blackjack and different variations of poker. A single monitor and optional side bets encourage players to interact and make the games feel more like a live table game. Its gaming software allows the machines to be networked within and across casinos for large progressive jackpots. TableMAX sells directly and through distributors. TableMAX Corporation acquired CJPG, previously known as Casino Journal Publishing Group, through a reverse merger in 2008.

Sceptre Leisure has grown successfully since 1998, providing excellence not only through products supplied, but also through unrivalled customer service standards. Our service is now well recognised throughout the UK with regional brewers, pub companies, free trade customers, and various leading chains counted amongst our customer base. The Group’s principal activities are centred around the provision of gaming, lottery, and leisure equipment to the licensed trade. Our well structured and vastly experienced management team has allowed us to forge strong links with major machine manufacturers, ensuring that we keeping ahead of the changing needs of our market. This allows us to ensure that only the most profitable machines are sited on our customer’s estates.

The National Hockey League is one of the four major professional sports associations in North America, boasting 30 professional ice hockey franchises in the US and Canada organized into two conferences with three divisions each. The NHL governs the game, sets and enforces rules, regulates team ownership, and collects licensing fees for merchandise. It also negotiates fees for national broadcasting rights. (Each team controls the rights to regional broadcasts.) In addition, five minor and semi-pro hockey leagues also fly under the NHL banner. The league was organized in Canada in 1917.

USISL operates as United Soccer Leagues (USL) overseeing a collection of soccer divisions that compete in North America. Its USL First and Second Divisions feature a total of about 20 professional teams that compete in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. The USL also runs amateur leagues (Premier Development League and W-League) and youth soccer leagues (Super-20 League and Super Y-League). It is affiliated with the US Soccer Federation, along with Major League Soccer (MLS). USL began as the Southwest Indoor Soccer League in 1986; it was formed by president Francisco Marcos.

Mandarin Oriental International Limited is the parent company of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is an international hotel investment and management company with hotels, resorts and residences around the world. The Company operates, or has under development, 41 hotels representing over 10,000 rooms in 26 countries, with 17 hotels in Asia, 13 in The Americas and 11 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. In addition, it operates, or has under development, 13 Residences at Mandarin Oriental, connected to its properties. It operates in four regions: Hong Kong and Macau, Other Asia, Europe and The Americas. In addition, it has two business segments: hotel ownership and hotel management. The Company’s subsidiaries include Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group International Limited, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Limited, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong Limited, Excelsior Hotel (BVI) Limited and Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Limited.

Pubs and beer come together at Cains. Formerly Honeycombe Leisure, Cains Beer Company is a leading operator of managed pubs in the UK, with more than 100 locations mostly in the north part of the country offering brews and other beverages. Its estate also includes a small number of inns offering accommodations, as well as bars and entertainment venues. In addition to public houses, Cains is a leading UK brewer with a portfolio of popular labels including Cains Finest Lager and Cains Dark Mild. It also produces beers under contract for wholesalers and supermarkets.

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