title: Carlson Companies
Presidential Council (Benin)
Regina Hopper
Ignite!
Gotham Entertainment Group
Prasco Laboratories
Victoria's Secret
The Pantry
Hubert Joly
Tim Leiweke
sentences: Carlson (often referred to by its previous name Carlson Companies) is an American privately held international corporation in the hotel and travel industries.
 Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, Carlson brands and services, including franchised operations, employ more than 175,000 people in more than 160 countries and territories.
 The company's 2012 sales, including those from franchised operations, totaled $37.6 billion.
 It is one of the largest family-held corporations in the United States.
The Presidential Council (French: "Conseil Présidentiel" ) was a triumvirate system of government in the Republic of Dahomey (present-day Benin) from 7 May 1970 until 26 October 1972.
 The Presidential Council included Hubert Maga (former president from 1960-1963), Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin (former prime minister from 1964-1965), and Sourou-Migan Apithy (former president from 1964-1965) as equal members of a council which held all legislative and executive power in the state of Dahomey.
Regina (Blakely) Hopper is the former President and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
 She is also the former President and CEO of America's Natural Gas Alliance, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, and she was previously the executive vice president of the United States Telecom Association.
 Immediately prior to joining the Telecom Association, Hopper was senior vice president of litigation communications at Weber McGinn.
Ignite!
 Learning, Inc. is an educational software and hardware company co-founded in 1999 by Texas businessman Neil Bush and a year later Ken Leonard.
 Neil is a brother of Former President George W. Bush and Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
 Alan Davis resigned as the President and CEO in November, 2009.
 Ken Leonard is the current acting CEO.
Gotham Entertainment Group LLC was a US-based company established in 1997 to establish a leadership position in the Indian comic magazine and children's book market.
 The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J. Walter Thompson-Asia Pacific.
 Gotham's CEO, Mr. Sharad Devarajan, is an entrepreneur with prior media experience at MTV Networks, Ford Modeling Agency, Elektra Entertainment, and DC Comics.
Prasco is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and founded in 2002 by E. Thomas Arington, former Chairman and CEO of Duramed Pharmaceuticals and former president of the healthcare consulting firm MarketMaster.
 The company remains privately held.
 It specializes in the field of authorized generics, generic drugs manufactured by the branded innovator company but marketed under a private label.
 According to IMS Health, the pharmaceutical industry auditing service, Prasco is one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in the industry, in terms of relative growth and prescriptions dispensed for the years 2005 and 2006.
 Although it does not release financial data, $150 million in sales were tracked by an independent consulting company during 2005, reportedly doubling the previous years' figures.
Victoria's Secret is an American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of women's premium lingerie, womenswear, and beauty products.
 With 2012 sales of $6.12 billion, it is the largest American retailer of women's lingerie.
 Victoria's Secret is wholly owned by L Brands, a publicly traded company.
The Pantry, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTRY ) was a publicly traded convenience store chain based in Cary, North Carolina that operates Kangaroo Express stores.
 The Pantry was founded in 1967 by Sam Wornom and Truby Proctor, Jr.
 The company has been publicly traded since June 1999 and owned by investors since 1987, when then investor Montrose Capital purchased controlling shares from Wornom and Proctor.
 Recent CEOs have included the former Chairman of the Board and interim CEO Edwin J. Holman, who took over after Terrance M. Marks, the former President and CEO, resigned in December 2011.
 (Marks had replaced the longtime former CEO Peter Sodini who had held office since 1996 until retiring in September 2009.)
 Dennis Hatchell is the current CEO of the company as of 2012.
Hubert Joly (born 11 August 1959) is the Chairman and CEO of Best Buy and a member of its Board of Directors.
 He was the former President, CEO and a former director of Carlson, a global hospitality and travel conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.
Timothy J. Leiweke (born April 21, 1957) is an American sports executive who is the chief executive office of Oak View Group.
 Leiweke was the former president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) and former President and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG).
 Leiweke held roughly a 4% stake in AEG as of 2012, and is well known for his relationship with notoriously reclusive AEG founder and Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz, whom he has known since the early 1990s.
 Since November 2015, Leiweke has served as the CEO of the Oak View Group, "a global advisory, development and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries".

Question: Question: What were the 2012 sales of the company for which Hubert Joly was a former president, CEO, and director? 

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 Carlson (often referred to by its previous name Carlson Companies) is an American privately held international corporation in the hotel and travel industries.
 Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb, Carlson brands and services, including franchised operations, employ more than 175,000 people in more than 160 countries and territories.
 The company's 2012 sales, including those from franchised operations, totaled $37.6 billion.
 It is one of the largest family-held corporations in the United States. 

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 The Presidential Council (French: "Conseil Présidentiel" ) was a triumvirate system of government in the Republic of Dahomey (present-day Benin) from 7 May 1970 until 26 October 1972.
 The Presidential Council included Hubert Maga (former president from 1960-1963), Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin (former prime minister from 1964-1965), and Sourou-Migan Apithy (former president from 1964-1965) as equal members of a council which held all legislative and executive power in the state of Dahomey. 

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 Regina (Blakely) Hopper is the former President and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
 She is also the former President and CEO of America's Natural Gas Alliance, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, and she was previously the executive vice president of the United States Telecom Association.
 Immediately prior to joining the Telecom Association, Hopper was senior vice president of litigation communications at Weber McGinn. 

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 Ignite!
 Learning, Inc. is an educational software and hardware company co-founded in 1999 by Texas businessman Neil Bush and a year later Ken Leonard.
 Neil is a brother of Former President George W. Bush and Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
 Alan Davis resigned as the President and CEO in November, 2009.
 Ken Leonard is the current acting CEO. 

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 Gotham Entertainment Group LLC was a US-based company established in 1997 to establish a leadership position in the Indian comic magazine and children's book market.
 The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J. Walter Thompson-Asia Pacific.
 Gotham's CEO, Mr. Sharad Devarajan, is an entrepreneur with prior media experience at MTV Networks, Ford Modeling Agency, Elektra Entertainment, and DC Comics. 

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 The Pantry, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTRY ) was a publicly traded convenience store chain based in Cary, North Carolina that operates Kangaroo Express stores.
 The Pantry was founded in 1967 by Sam Wornom and Truby Proctor, Jr.
 The company has been publicly traded since June 1999 and owned by investors since 1987, when then investor Montrose Capital purchased controlling shares from Wornom and Proctor.
 Recent CEOs have included the former Chairman of the Board and interim CEO Edwin J. Holman, who took over after Terrance M. Marks, the former President and CEO, resigned in December 2011.
 (Marks had replaced the longtime former CEO Peter Sodini who had held office since 1996 until retiring in September 2009.)
 Dennis Hatchell is the current CEO of the company as of 2012. 

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 Hubert Joly (born 11 August 1959) is the Chairman and CEO of Best Buy and a member of its Board of Directors.
 He was the former President, CEO and a former director of Carlson, a global hospitality and travel conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. 

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 Timothy J. Leiweke (born April 21, 1957) is an American sports executive who is the chief executive office of Oak View Group.
 Leiweke was the former president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) and former President and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG).
 Leiweke held roughly a 4% stake in AEG as of 2012, and is well known for his relationship with notoriously reclusive AEG founder and Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz, whom he has known since the early 1990s.
 Since November 2015, Leiweke has served as the CEO of the Oak View Group, "a global advisory, development and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries". 

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Answer: $37.6 billion