Center Parcs Limited founded in 1968, is a subsidiary of private equity firm The Blackstone Group. Center Parcs company operates four forested holiday villages, which attract vacationers by offering such amenities as villas, swimming holes, lakes, restaurants, shops, and spas. The leisure company's properties are in the UK, in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, and Wiltshire. Each village sits on about 400 acres. All told, Center Parcs' holiday villages boast nearly 3,400 units in four categories ranging from standard villas to exclusive four-bedroom villas.

Life Time Fitness wants to help you keep your New Year's resolutions. The company operates more than 85 exercise and recreation centers in some 20 states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, and Virginia. Life Time Fitness facilities offer swimming pools, basketball and racquet courts, child care centers, spas, dining services, and climbing walls, in addition to some 400 pieces of exercise equipment. Most facilities are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and average about 100,000 sq. ft. in size. They target a membership of about 5,500 to 11,500, and are designed to serve as an all-in-one sports and athletic club, professional fitness facility, family recreation center, and spa and resort.

The San Diego Padres Baseball Club joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1969, the same year as the Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals), and the Seattle Pilots (later the Milwaukee Brewers). The franchise boasts two National League pennants, its first in 1984 and its last in 1998. San Diego fans attend baseball services at PETCO Park. A group led by CEO Jeff Moorad controls more that third of the team; BMC Software co-founder John Moores owns the rest.

The Biltmore Company doesn't need to build more. It oversees the Biltmore Estate, which includes the 250-room home (the largest privately owned in the US), as well as a hotel, a winery, restaurants and retail shops, and licensing rights for a line of home decor products. (Guests don't stay at the Biltmore House, but at the Inn on Biltmore Estate.) Some one million visitors tour the home and grounds each year. The house sits on 8,000 acres of land and encompasses four acres of floor space. It has 35 bedrooms, some 40 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces, and three kitchens. The Biltmore is family-owned by descendants of the Vanderbilts, and is one of the few National Historic Landmarks that is entirely privately funded.

Break for the Border is a super-pub, in that it is huge with a bar area, a night club and a restaurant. It's located on Stephen Street just around the corner from the Stephens Green Shopping Centre. There is a fun loving atmosphere inside with all the latest chart sounds being played. It is open late some nights of the week and entry is free. The 12 Panasonic Viera High Def TV's and Big Screens make Break for the Border the Best bar in Dublin to watch your favourite sporting event.We can simultaneously show up to 8 premiership games every weekend!You can book the latest Guinness and Carlsberg pour your own pint tables and choose what ever game you like right at your own table so you don't miss a minute of the action. You can also hire the PS3 and Nintendo Wii so you are never bored.

Premier Exhibitions, Inc. develops and tours museum quality exhibitions worldwide. The company creates, designs, markets, and presents educational and entertaining exhibitions; sells apparel, posters, and Titanic-related jewelry; publishes exhibition catalogs; and provides ancillary services, such as audio tours and photographs. The Exhibition, the exhibition that display multiple human anatomy sets, which contain a collection of whole human body specimens, single human organs, and body parts; and Dialog in the Dark that is intended to provide insight and experience to the paradox of learning to see without the use of sight.

Grévin & Cie operates the Parc Astérix (also the firm's former name) amusement park just north of Paris. Based on Astérix, a legendary French comic, the park offers a variety of attractions including a scale-model park France Miniature, wax museum Grévin, St-Malo's Grand Aquarium, and magic entertainment venue Bagatelle. In addition to its flagship location, Grévin & Cie has expanded aggressively and now owns about 20 parks in France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. Ski resort operator Compagnie des Alpes owns the company.

Triumph Hospitality owns and operates a small portfolio of luxury hotels in Manhattan that includes the Hotel Chandler, Hotel Belleclaire, the Iroquois New York, and the Washington Jefferson Hotel. Catering to both corporate and leisure travelers, the hotels are known for being both modern and welcoming, high class and comfortable. Several of the properties are New York City landmarks that have been restored and updated. President and CEO Shimmie Horn owns Triumph Hospitality, which he inherited from his grandfather.

The Resort Company was founded in 1998. The Resort Company operates more than 20 condo and hotel resorts in Vail, Beaver Creek, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Resorts include The Inn at Steamboat and the Lion Square Lodge. All properties offer restaurants, meeting rooms, and concierge assistance to book ski trips, shopping excursions, or fine dining. The Resort Company offers packages at many of its locations that include accommodations, skiing, meals, and other amenities; some are targeted to families with small children. In addition to regular hospitality amenities, the company also offers property management and condo association management services.

Keith Johnson saw how much his family enjoyed eating soft pretzels at a local farmers’ market and thought pretzels would be a great concept to franchise in malls. He worked at creating his own recipe for pretzels and, once the recipe was perfected, in 1992 opened the first The Pretzel Twister store in Naples, Florida. Mister Twister Pretzels operates the Pretzel Twister snack food chain, with about 40 franchised locations that specialize in soft pretzels. The eateries feature such pretzel flavors as Caramel Crunch, Cinnamon, and Toasted Almond; the company also sells flavored pretzel dips and smoothies. Its outlets are located primarily in shopping malls in Florida, North Carolina, and 10 other southeastern states. Founder Keith Johnson started the Pretzel Twister chain in 1992 after seeing families eat soft pretzels at a farmer's market.

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