Sunderland Ltd. owns and operates the Sunderland Football Association Club, which plays in the English League. Known to supporters as The Black Cats, the team was started in 1879 and plays host at the Stadium of Light. A consortium of Irish businessmen known as Drumaville, led by chairman and former Arsenal player Niall Quinn, has controlled the team since 2006.

Kangwon Land has polished one diamond of a business out of a former coal mine. Located in the Gangwon province of South Korea, Kangwon is the country's only legal casino facility, featuring more than 130 tables and some 960 slot machines. Constructed atop a closed coal mine, Kangwon broke ground on the resort facility in 1999 and has since expanded to include two hotels, a theme park, 18-hole golf course, and an 18-slope ski resort. Kangwon Land Corporation even has its own ice hockey, judo, and ski teams. In concert with the opening of its casino, Kangwon additionally opened several gambling clinics to help prevent and treat gambling addictions.

My Gym Enterprises wants to be your gym or, at least, your kid's gym. The company owns and franchises more than 200 My Gym Children's Fitness Centers in the US and 24 other countries. The company's facilities offer physical fitness and educational activities to children from three months of age to nine years old. Programs include age appropriate infant to three-year old classes where parent's play too and a series of increasingly complex gymnastics and general sport skills classes for older children. My Gym emphasizes positive reinforcement and a non-competitive environment. The company was founded in 1983 by William Caplan and husband and wife Yakov and Susi Sherman.

Batavia Downs Casino is a Video Gaming Center owned and operated by Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation in association with the New York Lottery. Western OTB is a public benefit corporation in the State of New York. Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation operates a telephone betting center with almost 40 branches in western New York state. The branches simulcast both thoroughbred and harness racing from across the US. It also owns and operates New York's standardbred harness racetrack, Batavia Downs. In addition to horse racing and off track betting, Bativa Dows offers two restaurants and nearly 600 video gambling machines so that patrons can lose their money in a variety of ways.

The Texas Lottery Commission hopes to have the eyes of Texans watching the lotto jackpot. The Texas Lottery Commission oversees one of the country's largest state lotteries, which has pumped more than $15 billion into state coffers since its inaugural in 1991. More than 60% of lottery sales are paid out in prize money, while almost 30% goes to the state's Foundation School Fund; the remainder goes to retailer commissions and administrative costs. The lottery offers numbers games and several instant-win games sold through grocery stores, gas stations, and convenience stores. In addition, Texas participates in Mega Millions, a multistate lottery game.

Banyan Tree Holdings Limited is a manager and developer of resorts, hotels, and spas worldwide. As of December 31, 2008, the company managed and/or had ownership interests in 25 resorts and hotels, 68 spas, 65 retail galleries, and 2 golf courses. Segments The company’s segments include Hotel Investments, Hotel Management, Hotel Residences, Spa Operations, Property Sales, and Gallery Operations. Hotel Investment: The company owns and manages luxury hotels under its own brands, as well as hotels that are managed by other operators. Hotel Management: The company manages properties under the Banyan Tree and Angsana brands for other owners as well. Hotel Residences: Properties are primarily sold under the brand name Banyan Tree Residences, which is part of the company’s hotel operations. Spa Operations: The company manages spas within its own resorts and also resorts owned by other hotel/resort operators. It also manages the tropical garden spa concept. Property Sales: Properties are sold by the company’s subsidiary company Laguna Resorts & Hotels and its subsidiaries.

Michigan Bureau of State Lottery, better known as the Michigan Lottery, operates games of chance offering payouts to winning players while returning money to state education coffers. Lottery games include both instant-win and number games. Michigan Lottery also oversees club games (Club Keno and Pull Tabs) offered at bars and restaurants throughout the state. Proceeds from lottery games are used for the School Aid Fund, which finances a number of public education programs. Michigan started its lottery in 1972.

Deep Sea Leisure owns and operates two public aquarium visitor attractions. Deep Sea World located in Fife, close to Edinburgh opened in 1983 and Blue Planet Aquarium located in Ellesmere Port near Chester opened in 1998. Deep Sea Leisure plc is majority owned by the Aspro Group which was created in 1991 with the aim of becoming the leading European leisure and entertainment consortium and is currently regarded as one of the top three operators.

TCA Holdings includes subsidiaries such as the Tennis Corporation of America (develops and licenses tennis products and programs), Midtown Athletic Clubs (manages about a dozen sports and fitness clubs), Proactive Partners (manages corporate centers and wellness programs for such companies as McDonald's and General Motors), and Columbia Equities (a real estate and health club investment company). The family-owned company was established by chairman Alan Schwartz and his father Kevie when they opened the Mid-Town Tennis Club in Chicago in 1969.

Herbst Gaming operates about 15 casinos, hotels, RV parks, and slot routes in Nevada and the Midwest. Its flagship property, Terrible's Sands Regency hotel and casino in downtown Reno, Nevada has more than 800 hotel rooms and some 600 slot machines, as well as table games such as blackjack, craps, and roulette. It also houses restaurants, lounges, a gift shop, and a video arcade. Other Herbst properties are located in smaller towns throughout Nevada, including Henderson, Dayton, and Primm (where its Primm Casinos subsidiary operates). In addition, the firm has a handful of locations in Iowa and Missouri. Herbst Gaming is owned by brothers Edward, Timothy, and Troy Herbst. In 2009 the company filed Chapter 11.

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