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Let's Bands | Let's Bands is a sports equipment brand of resistance bands manufactured by Sports and more Ltd., a Maltese company. The brand name is specialized in the development, conception, and sports training with resistance bands made of stretch fabric in Europe and USA. Its training devices are designed for routines and rehabilitative exercises in fitness and rehabilitation facilities. Let's Bands's approach to fitness is covered in a workshop for trainers, physiotherapists and amateurs. It also includes an education course for health and fitness professionals who are concerned about muscle and joint pain.
Let's Bands is the original creation of Nina Romm, Valeria Trupia, Niko Schmitz, and Uno Gomes inspired by their Powerband. The brand was acquired in 2015 by Active Resistance Fitness, LLC, an American company. |
Look Effects | Look Effects was a visual effects company based in Culver City, California. It was founded in 1998, and in 2014 ceased operations, with the staff acquired by Mass Market. They specialized in visual effects for feature films, episodic television, and special venue. Look Effects worked on over 100 major motion pictures and television series including Black Swan, Avatar, Captain America, and The Muppets Movie |
Lowe Alpine | Lowe Alpine is a US outdoor equipment manufacturer founded in Utah in 1972 by brothers Mike, Greg and Jeff Lowe. Today it is owned by Rab. |
Lunn Poly | Lunn Poly was, at one time, the largest chain of travel agents in the United Kingdom. |
Macrobert Arts Centre | Macrobert Arts Centre is a multi-arts venue located on the main campus of the University of Stirling, Scotland. The Arts Centre offers a varied programme of events and experiences – cinema, comedy, dance, exhibitions, family, get involved, music, opera and theatre – catering for audiences from across Stirling, the Forth Valley and beyond. It was originally opened in 1971 as Scotland's first purpose-built arts centre, the brainchild of the university's first principal, Tom Cottrell FRSE, who wanted appreciation of the arts to be at the heart of the university's cultural ethos.
In October 2002 the Arts Centre re-opened following a period of refurbishment by Appleton Architects and Buro Happold.
Macrobert Arts Centre is a registered charity under Scottish law. It receives key funding from Creative Scotland and the University of Stirling, while raising 70% of its required funds through ticket sales and donations, grants and sponsorship. |
Magic Johnson Theatres | Magic Johnson Theatres is a chain of movie theaters, originally developed in 1994 by Johnson Development Corporation, the business holding of basketball player-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson, and Sony Pictures Entertainment through a partnership with Sony-Loews Theatres.A 1998 merger between Sony-Loews and Cineplex Odeon Corporation caused them to become part of the new Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. Magic Johnson worked with Lawrence Ruisi, CEO of Loews Cineplex Entertainment, during the planning and development of these theaters. Currently the chain's former locations are owned by AMC Theatres, after Sony-Loews was acquired by that company in 2006. Although they are still branded Magic Johnson Theatres, they are solely controlled by AMC.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr., is no longer actively involved in the management committee, strategic planning, operations, or public relations. |
Maxfli | Maxfli is a brand of sports equipment, most recognized for its golf balls, currently owned by Dick's Sporting Goods. Dick's purchased the brand from TaylorMade Golf on February 11, 2008; however, the Noodle trademark and all golf ball patents remained with TMaG.Golf products currently commercialized under the "Maxfli" brand include bags, gloves, and accessories such as training aids and umbrellas.
Maxfli was previously owned by the Dunlop Slazenger group before its acquisition by TMaG in 2003. While under TMaG ownership, the brand underwent a change in focus from premium balls, such as Black Max and Red Max, to distance balls such as the Fire and the already successful Noodle, as TMaG looked to use its own TaylorMade brand in the high end golf ball market. The Maxfli brand and trademark was originally created by the sports division of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation, headquartered in Buffalo, New York. |
Mont Saint-Sauveur International | Mont Saint-Sauveur International, often abbreviated to MSSI, is a company which owns several ski resorts in Canada, most notably in Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. The company also runs several housing developments. |
Movies@ | Movies@ Ltd. is a cinema chain in the Republic of Ireland. The company opened its first multiplex cinema at the Dundrum Town Centre on 1 October 2005, with 12 screens. Other sites include the Pavilions Centre, Swords (11 screens) which opened in mid November 2006, the Square in Tallaght in December 2021 and Gorey, Co. Wexford. A branch was proposed to be located in Salthill, County Galway (10 screens) in Autumn 2007, but has not yet opened.
The company bears some resemblance to the largest Irish cinema chain, the Ward Anderson group, in that it is a family owned business run by members of two families, in this case the O'Gorman family (who ran the Ormonde Cinema in Stillorgan) and the Spurling family who are also involved in rural cinemas, albeit having closed one (Enniscorthy) due to being in relative proximity to a Movies@ site. |
Multiplex Cinema | Multiplex Cinema are a chain of multiplex cinemas based in Ukraine. |
MyOutdoorTV.com | MyOutdoorTV.com is an internet television channel that provides streaming TV shows and product demonstrations to hunters, shooting sports enthusiasts, anglers, campers, boaters, and hikers. It is the largest online video network catering to outdoor programming.
MyOutdoorTV.com carries many outdoor-related cable shows that air on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel via the online video channel.
Access is $9.99 per month to all programming. The channel has been described as the Netflix of the hunting world. |
Noise Fusion | Noise Fusion is an audio production company based in London, England, that creates audio branding for radio and television.
The company was founded in 2004 by producer Ben Neidle. |
Novak Electronics | Novak Electronics, Inc. of Irvine, California, United States was a manufacturer RC electronics.
Founded by RC enthusiast and electronics engineer Bob Novak and originally a manufacturer of servos, Novak is primarily known for its line of electronic speed controls for electric land vehicles and boats.
The companies' product line has expanded in recent years to include:
Battery chargers
Synthesized receivers
Transmitter modules
Power supplies
Brushless motor systems
Brushless-specific batteries and dischargersNovak's 35,000 square foot/3252 square meter robotic manufacturing facility makes it one of the few American electronics manufacturers to design, build and test its own products onsite with its combination of degreed engineers and experienced RC racers.
From January 2014, the company became Novak R/C and Bob split ownership to his daughters Linda Novak Logan, Laura Novak-Roesgen and Adnan Khan, its Engineering Director. Novak R/C later announced a partnership with Hobbico and Great Planes.Its "Team Novak" racing division has won 20 IFMAR World Champion titles.
Prior to its closure, it was the last manufacturer to manufacture and produce its radio-controlled products in the United StatesAfter 38 years, the company announced it was closing. |
Odessa Kino | Odessa Kino are a chain of multiplex cinemas based in Ukraine. |
Olivia Travel | Olivia Travel is a travel company that sells cruises and resort vacations marketed towards lesbian customers. It was founded by Judy Dlugacz in 1973 as a women's record label, Olivia Records. It offered its first all-woman cruise in 1990 and remains the only company in the world offering cruises catering just to lesbians. Like its parent company, Olivia takes its name from the heroine of a pulp novel by Dorothy Bussy who fell in love with her headmistress at a French boarding school.
The company has attracted attention due to endorsements from lesbian celebrities, such as golfer Rosie Jones (who was the first professional athlete in America to endorse a gay-oriented company) tennis player Martina Navratilova and basketball player Sheryl Swoopes. Entertainers who have performed on Olivia cruises include the Indigo Girls and Margaret Cho.The company was involved in mild controversy in 1998 when its attempt to buy an ad on the sitcom Ellen's anticipated "coming out" episode was rejected by ABC. |
Parkbus | Parkbus is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that provides bus transportation from major cities to nearby parks and conservation areas. Its purpose is to enable citizens to access nature and the outdoors without owning a car.Parkbus started in 2010 as a private initiative developed by a group of outdoor enthusiasts. A pilot project route between Toronto and Algonquin Provincial Park began in 2010. Since then, Parkbus has become a project within Ontario not-for-profit organization Transportation Options, which works to provide sustainable tourism and transportation in the province of Ontario.
Parkbus operates one-day, overnight, guided overnight, and seasonal routes departing from Toronto,
Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax. |
Planet Ice | Planet Ice is a chain of ice rinks in the United Kingdom (UK). The company has historically had a working relationship with the English Ice Hockey Association (EIHA) and several Planet Ice facilities have served as home ice to EIHA teams. |
Primary ticket outlet | A primary ticket outlet is an organization that contracts directly with venues and promoters to sell event tickets on its behalf.Primary ticket outlets have a direct relationship with the owner of a venue or event. They will often use software to manage the sale of tickets for their clients. |
Reel Cinemas Ltd | Reel Cinemas Ltd is a chain of multiplex cinemas based in the United Kingdom. |
Reel Theatres | Reel Theatres is a movie theater chain in the United States owned by Casper Management—an Idaho corporation—that features independent and foreign films. It operates theaters in Idaho, Oregon and Utah. |
Regatta (clothing) | Regatta is a global brand and part of The Regatta Group, which is privately owned. It consists of Regatta Great Outdoors, Craghoppers, Dare2b, and Regatta Professional. The brand sells through major outdoor retail chains, through its own stores and concessions, and through e-commerce. The company is based in Manchester as has a strap line "For Every Adventure". |
Richter (toy company) | F. Ad. Richter & Cie was founded and owned by Friedrich Adolf Richter. This German manufacturer produced many products, including pharmaceuticals, music boxes, gramophones, and Anchor Stone building sets. He established his main factory in Rudolstadt, Germany. In addition, the company had factories in Vienna Austria, Nuremberg Germany, New York City USA, and St. Petersburg, Russia. In addition, the company had operations for internal supply in Konstein, Germany (glass bottles) and Leipzig, Germany (publishing - printing was done in Rudolstadt).
Friedrich Adolf Richter was born 1847 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia and died 1910 in Jena. The Anker factory produced the popular Anchor Stone Blocks from the 1880 up to 1963.The factory was refounded in 1995 by a group of enthusiasts and began producing some of the old sets again. They are also selling toys in Grayford. |
Scott Cinemas | Scott Cinemas Ltd. (also WTW Scott Cinemas Ltd.) are a British cinema chain based in the English county of Devon.In 2017 WTW Cinemas took a shareholding in Scott Cinemas, and in 2019 became its majority shareholders. The combined companies operate 11 locations (7 branded as Scott; 4 WTW). |
Shinkō Kinema | Shinkō Kinema (新興キネマ) was a Japanese film studio active in the 1930s. |
Six Continents | Six Continents was a large British-based hotel and hospitality business which was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. |
Star Cinema (theater) | Star Cinema was a movie theater chain owned by AGT Enterprises, Inc., of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, with nine locations in the states of Iowa and Wisconsin in the United States of America. Altogether, the chain's nine locations included 95 total movie screens, including Wisconsin's only IMAX theater at the Fitchburg location. Eight of the nine theaters were built by Star Cinema, the exception being the Hilldale Theater in Madison, Wisconsin, which was acquired in 2000.
In January 2008, AGT enterprises sold six of the seven remaining Star Cinema Locations to Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatres. AGT continued to operating the Prairie du Chien theater until selling it to Elkader Cinema of Elkader, IA. |
Swain Destinations | Swain Destinations is a travel company that was established in the United States 1987. |
Tenson (brand) | Tenson was founded 1951 by the spring entrepreneur, Paul Rydholm in Varberg, a picturesque coastal town in western Sweden. Ever since 1951 Tenson has been pioneers in designing and manufacturing functional outdoor clothing. Tenson has also developed their own technologies and material and brought many innovations to the market such as MPC Moisture Permeability Coating, mpc extreme AIR PUSH etc.
Tenson develops, market and sell products into three categories: outdoor, ski and urban. The brand is well established since the 1960s in Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Some of Tenson's classic designs are Himalaya Jacket, Skagway Jacket |
Thunder Tiger | Thunder Tiger Corporation (Chinese: 雷虎科技股份有限公司; pinyin: Léi Hǔ Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Taiwan manufacturer of radio controlled models including airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, accessories and engines. Thunder Tiger is the maker of MT4-G3, Raptor e720, Ghost+ drone, award-winning R/C submarine - Neptune SB-1, and SeaWolf. |
Vango (company) | Vango is a Scottish manufacturer of camping equipment. It was founded in 1963 with the acquisition of tent manufacturer James McIlwraith, of Govan, in the West of Scotland, by Alistair Moodie and its name was changed to Vango, an anagram of the placename.Vango manufactures kit items for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the Scout Association and provides tents for international disaster relief charity ShelterBox.In 2014 there was a management buyout at Vango's owners AMG Group, with the Moodie family giving up majority control.
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Virgin Holidays Cruises | Virgin Holidays Cruises is a company owned by Virgin Group and is part of Virgin Holidays, headquartered in Crawley. The company specialises in package deals with cruises provided by other cruise lines.
The company was established in 2000 as Fast Track Holidays and was acquired by Virgin Holidays for an undisclosed sum in 2007. At the time of the Virgin takeover the company had 80 employees. The company name was officially changed to Virgin Holidays Cruises Limited on 15 June 2009. |
Yugotours | Yugotours was a Yugoslavian state-owned tour operator and travel agency. It was the largest tour operator for the Adriatic Sea, and at its peak the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest. |
Zane's Cycles | Zane's Cycles is a New England bicycle store located in Branford, Connecticut, started by Christopher J. Zane in October 1981, at the age of 16. Since then, the store has grown from a local bicycle and hobby shop, to the largest P&I (Premiums and Incentives) distributor of bicycles in the United States. After several accusations, Zane's Inc now supplies more than 65 premium household brands to the P&I industry.
The story of Zane's growth from small shop owner to major distributor found its way into several major business publications and college courses on marketing. Inc. and Fortune magazines both wrote positively of his aggressive local strategies, labeling them in some cases as "guerrilla marketing". An example was his tactic of purchasing competitor's phone numbers after putting them out of business.
In another quite opposite strategy, his focus on establishing a bond with the customer through simple gestures—like selling children's helmets at dealer cost, and offering lifetime guarantees—was a topic in an article by the Harvard Business Review.
Christopher Zane authored Reinventing the Wheel, the science of creating lifetime customers, BenBella, 2011. The book is a case study of Zane's Cycle growth by continuously improving the customer experience and customer service. Chris presents internationally at conferences, universities, and corporate meetings on the topic of extraordinary customer service and Customer Lifetime Value (clv) |