The Orchard is a full service marketing and distribution company that specializes in music and video entertainment. The Orchard offer content owners and licensors a suite of custom marketing services, including promotions, analytical tools, business strategies, and the technology that drive content sales across our network of more than 660 digital storefronts and mobile carriers in 75 countries. The Orchard is headquartered in New York and London, with operations in 25 markets around the world. Our proven approach, combined with the power of the largest digital retail network, gives Orchard clients the competitive advantage that helps them achieve their business goals. The Orchard Enterprises Inc. offers V.E.C.T.O.R, a proprietary system that enables the digital encoding of content into multiple formats for distribution to digital entertainment services operating over the Internet, as well as over wireless, cable, and mobile networks.

Fitness Formula thinks it has the formula for a healthy, long life. The company owns and operates seven upscale health and fitness clubs in the Chicago area. Most locations include fitness classes (yoga, Pilates, aerobics, spinning, water aerobics), specialized training for marathons and triathlons, rock climbing walls, and all the usual machines, weights, and toned bodies. The company also operates two private clubs mostly used as corporate health facilities which include sauna and spa facilities. Fitness Formula was founded in 1984 by president and CEO Gale Landers.

The Melting Pot Restaurants wants its customers to bubble, bubble all their toil and trouble away over a pot of cheesy fondue. The company operates and franchises a chain of more than 140 restaurants in about three dozen states that specialize in themed, multi-course fondue meals for couples. Its dipping sauces range from cheeses, pestos, and teriyakis to flambeed chocolates. Each restaurant also offers an extensive list of wines, cognacs, and cordials. The first Melting Pot opened in Florida in 1975. CEO Mark and president Bob Johnston (brothers) opened the first franchised location in 1979 and bought the chain in 1985.

Namco Limited that brought the world the original Pac-Man, Namco now is part of Namco Bandai, after being acquired by toymaker Bandai (of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fame) in 2005. Namco is the core company of Namco Bandai's arcade and amusement facilities, which include some 1,700 parks in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and make up nearly 20% of Namco Bandai's total business. The company's popular NAMCO Wonder Park Hero's Base theme park in Japan has attracted more than 3.5 million visitors since it first opened in 2006.

Queenco Leisure International company owns and operates casinos in Greece, Romania, and Serbia. Its flagship Casino Loutraki (located near Athens) features some 1,000 slot machines; 80 gaming tables including baccarat, blackjack, and roulette; and a luxury hotel with 275 rooms, restaurants, bars, and other amenities. It also operates the Casino Rodos boutique casino-hotel on the island of Rhodes in Greece, which offers a private gaming room and 24-hour butler service. Queenco operates the Casino Palace in Bucharest, Romania and the Casino Beograd in Belgrade, Serbia. Director Yigal Zilkha controls about 45% of the company through holdings in Y. Z. Queenco and Yigal Muli.

Hoist a pint for the local! Heavitree Brewery operates some 100 pubs in the southwest of England. Operations include such pubs as The Bishop John De Grandisson in Teignmouth, The Ship Inn in Kingswear, and The Jolly Sailor Inn and the Royal Oak Inn, both in Newton Abbot. Although Heavitree Brewery operates some of its pubs, it leases the majority to tenant managers. Heavitree Brewery touts its strong presence in the communities where it operates. Heavitree Brewery was founded in 1790 and moved out of brewing operations in 1970. The company is controlled by the Tucker family, including executive director Nick Tucker, who owns more than 35% of the company's stock.

What's more all American than a buff body? All American Fitness Centers operates a chain of more than a dozen fitness and health facilities in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma areas. The centers offer the standard weight, walking, and cycling machines, as well as fitness classes. It also offers personal trainers who wrap everything into the company's Six Dimensional Training system, which includes nutritional guidance, cardio training, flexibility, core strength, resistance training, and professional guidance. Some locations have pools, spas, tanning booths, saunas, and child care.

Known as Barca, F.C. Barcelona plays football (soccer) at Europe's largest stadium, the 98,000-seat capacity Camp Nou. The club has won 18 Spanish Liga titles, four Cup Winner's Cups, and two European crowns. Current stars include the Argentine Lionel Messi and Spanish national team standouts Xavi and Andres Iniesta. F.C. Barcelona was founded in 1899 by Hans Gamper. As a club, not a company, Barca's funding comes from ticket sales, sponsors, and the Barcelona Foundation, a coterie of 122 private companies.

Juventus F.C. is one of the most popular soccer clubs in the Italy's Lega Nazionale Professionisti (National Professional League) as well as the most successful: Juve has won a record 27 Serie A league championships since its founding 1897. In European competition, it has won two Champions League titles and the UEFA Cup three times. Italy's Agnelli family, which started and continues to own 30% of automaker Fiat, has controlled the team since 1923. In 2006 Juventus was relegated to Serie B competition after an investigation into match fixing but returned to Serie A competition in the 2007 season.

When Nord Brue and Mike Dressell started Bruegger's in 1983, they actually founded the retail bagel concept. Up until that point, bagels were considered mostly an ethnic food and were not known much outside of New York. At that time, less than one-third of Americans had ever tasted a bagel! From their home base in Burlington, Vermont, Brue and Dressell pioneered a new concept that expanded the traditional bagel bakery into a quick service bakery with premium specialty cream cheeses, custom-made sandwiches, signature soups and exceptional coffee. They worked with a professional bagel baker from New York City for 2 1/2 years to perfect their recipe and baking process.

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