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Disney operates in three global business segments: entertainment, sports, and experiences. Entertainment and experiences both benefit from the firm’s ownership of iconic franchises and characters. Entertainment includes the ABC broadcast network, several cable television networks, and the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services. Within the segment, Disney also engages in movie and television production and distribution, with content licensed to movie theaters, other content providers, or, increasingly, kept in-house for use on Disney’s own streaming platform and television networks. The sports segment houses the ESPN family of TV networks and streaming services. Experiences contains Disney’s theme parks, cruises, and vacation destinations and also engages in merchandise licensing.

Live Nation is the largest live entertainment company in the world, serving as a concert promoter, venue operator, and ticketing platform. In addition, the firm generates revenue from sponsorships and advertising. With offices in 51 countries, Live Nation promotes concerts globally and it owned, operated, or had exclusive booking rights to more than 400 venues worldwide at the end of 2025, which the firm says makes it the second-largest operator of music venues globally. In 2025, Live Nation promoted nearly 55,000 events, drawing roughly 160 million fans. Ticketmaster is a dominant global ticketing service, selling nearly 650 million tickets in 2025.

Oriental Land is a prominent Japanese company primarily known for its ownership and operation of the Tokyo Disney Resort. It includes two theme parks, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, as well as hotels, shopping, and dining facilities. Oriental Land collaborates closely with The Walt Disney Company under a licensing agreement until 2076. This partnership has been instrumental in establishing Tokyo Disney Resort as one of the leading tourist destinations in Japan, attracting millions of visitors annually from domestic and international markets. Beyond its entertainment ventures, Oriental Land has also ventured into real estate development and operates Ikspiari, a retail and entertainment complex adjacent to Tokyo Disneyland.

Life Time Group Holdings is an American operator of premium athletic country clubs headquartered in Chanhassen, Minnesota, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as LTH. Bahram Akradi founded the business as FCA Ltd in 1990, registered it as Life Time Fitness in 1992, and remains chairman and chief executive. Its clubs are large multi-use centres combining fitness floors, studios, pools, tennis and pickleball courts, spas, cafés and childcare; it operated 189 centres in the US and Canada at the end of 2025 after opening ten that year. Revenue comes mainly from monthly membership dues, averaging $223 in late 2025, plus in-centre services such as personal training, spa and café sales; it had about 822,000 centre memberships. It also runs a free Life Time app, coworking and residential offerings, and athletic events such as the Leadville Race Series, Unbound Gravel and the Miami Marathon. In 2025 it reported revenue of $2.995 billion and net income of $373.7 million, with more than 44,000 employees. TPG and Leonard Green & Partners took the company private in March 2015 in a deal worth over $4 billion, and it returned to the NYSE in 2021.

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (MSG Sports) is an American professional sports holding company based in New York City that owns the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, together with their development affiliates, the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League and the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL. The business traces back to the Madison Square Garden Corporation, which created the Rangers in 1926 and was a charter member of the NBA with the Knicks in 1946. Cablevision spun off the Knicks, Rangers, Madison Square Garden and MSG Network as an independent public company in 2010; in 2015 its sports and entertainment assets were separated into a new Madison Square Garden Company, which in 2020 was renamed Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. and spun off its entertainment arm as Madison Square Garden Entertainment. MSG Sports earns revenue from ticket sales, local and national media rights, sponsorship, suites and merchandise, and reported revenue of $1.6 billion in 2018 as the predecessor Madison Square Garden Company. James L. Dolan is executive chairman and controls the voting stock.

Founded in 1932, Toho traces its roots to Kobayashi Ichizo's Takarazuka Revue enterprise, building the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater as its flagship stage for musical theater. Today, Toho is Japan's largest film distribution and exhibition company, operating the Toho Cinemas chain and best known for its Godzilla franchise. In 2012, Toho launched an in-house anime unit. Toho also runs a real estate segment, earning stable income mainly from office, retail, and hotel properties in prime central Tokyo locations such as Hibiya and Yurakucho.

Light & Wonder is principally an electronic gaming machine manufacturer, selling machines to pubs, clubs, and casinos. The firm is licensed in most jurisdictions allowing gambling globally. Light & Wonder is one of the three largest players in the space along with International Game Technology and Aristocrat Leisure. SciPlay, about one fourth of revenue, develops and distributes casual mobile games, principally in the social casino niche. The more nascent iGaming business sits between these two businesses, providing digital content and capabilities to real-money gaming providers.

Benefit Systems SA is a Polish provider of employee benefit programmes headquartered in Warsaw and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since April 2011, where it is a member of the mWIG40 index. Its best-known product is the MultiSport card, a subscription that employers buy for staff and their families giving access to more than 15,000 sports and recreation facilities in Poland and abroad and over 55 activities, with 1.6 million active users and about 35,000 corporate clients. It also sells MyBenefit, a cafeteria platform for managing non-wage benefits; Multi.Life, a well-being platform covering mental health, nutrition and personal development; BenefitLunch meal subscriptions; and vouchers for cinemas, theatres, museums and zoos. The company operates in Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey. It earns mainly subscription fees paid by employers and employees. Recent acquisitions include the online mental-health platform Wellbee in 2024 and Turkey's MACFit fitness chain, owned by Mars Spor Kulübü, in 2025.

Cinemark Holdings Inc is a geographically diverse operator in the motion picture exhibition industry in the United States. The company generates revenue from filmed entertainment box office receipts and concession sales, with additional revenue from screen advertising, screen rentals, and other revenue streams, such as transactional fees, vendor marketing promotions, studio trailer placements, meeting rentals, and electronic video games located in some of the theatres. Cinemark manages its business under two reportable segments: U.S. markets and international markets. The majority of its revenue is generated from the U.S. markets segment.

Planet Fitness Inc is a franchisor and operator of fitness centers in the United States. The company's reportable segments are Franchise, Corporate-owned stores, and Equipment. Franchise segment includes operations related to its franchising business in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico and Australia, Corporate-owned stores segment includes operations with respect to all corporate-owned stores throughout the United States and Canada, and The Equipment segment includes the sale of equipment to franchisee-owned stores in the U.S. The firm generates a majority of its revenue from the Corporate-owned stores segment.

Atlanta Braves Holdings Inc is a holding company. It operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, which is the owner and operator of the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball Club and the mixed-use real estate development, The Battery Atlanta, and is the operator of the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball Club’s stadium, Truist Park. The company predominantly derives revenue related to the Braves baseball franchise and Truist Park from ticket sales, concessions, local broadcasting rights, advertising sponsorships, suites and premium seat fees, retail and licensing revenue, shared MLB revenue streams, including national broadcasting rights and licensing, and other sources. The company's reportable segments include: Baseball which generates key revenue, and Mixed-Use Development.

Smartfit Escola DE Ginastica E Danca SA is a fitness club. The company provides physical conditioning services through gymnasiums, bodybuilding, dancing and swimming. Facilities offered by the company include SmartBox, free weight, gym classes, bicycles, smart bike, fitness equipment, and a running machine, among others. The Company is present in fourteen countries, namely Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, operating in the HVLP segment with the brand Smart Fit, in the Premium segment with the brand Bio Ritmo, and in the digital fitness segment.

Imax Corp is a technology platform for entertainment and events. Through its proprietary software, auditorium architecture, patented intellectual property, and specialized equipment, IMAX offers end-to-end solution to create superior, immersive content experiences for which the IMAX brand is globally renowned. The Company has two reportable segments being Content Solutions and Technology Products and Services. The Company leverages its proprietary technology and engineering in all aspects of its business, which principally consists of the IMAX film remastering and the sale or lease of premium IMAX theater systems.

AMC Entertainment is the world's largest movie theatre operator, headquartered in Leawood, Kansas, and trading as AMC Theatres. It runs about 860 theatres with roughly 9,600 screens, including 593 theatres in the United States and 353 in Europe, where it owns the Odeon and UCI chains. It earns revenue from ticket admissions and food and beverage sales at its cinemas. The company was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 20, 1920 by the Dubinsky brothers, whose chain became Durwood Theatres and later American Multi-Cinema. China's Wanda Group owned a majority stake from 2012 to 2018; AMC acquired Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas and Carmike Cinemas in 2016 to become the largest chain in the world, and Silver Lake invested $600 million in September 2018. During the COVID-19 closures AMC raised new financing, short squeezes in early 2021 led Silver Lake to convert its debt to equity, and Wanda's stake had been diluted to 0.002% by May 2021. The shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AMC.

OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd is an operator of health and wellness centers onboard cruise ships and an operator of health and wellness centers at destination resorts all over the world. It offers a suite of premium health, fitness, beauty, and wellness services and products. The services provided by the company include body, salon, and skin care services and products, fitness classes and personal fitness training and pain management, detoxifying programs, and comprehensive body composition analyses among others. The company has only one single segment of Maritime and Destination Resorts.

Toei Co Ltd engaged in the production of theatrical movies, TV dramas, direct-to-video productions, and anime, as well as a diverse range of businesses based on film production. The company releases both domestic and foreign movies, including its own films directly managed theaters and cinema complexes operated by the subsidiary T-Joy Co., Ltd. It also offers a digital cinema system providing packaged video software, such as DVD and Blu-ray discs. Its video distribution services engage in the sales of content to distribution media and the distribution of movies on iTunes in Japan. It operates more than ten official mobile websites via three major carriers namely NTT DOCOMO, au, and SoftBank.

Round One Corp engages is a Japanese company providing various leisure facilities. The firm principally engages in the management of indoor leisure facilities that mainly includes bowling, amusement activities, spotcher, airporin, spocha, shuttle bus, and karaoke. The company also has operations based in the United States.

Basic-Fit NV is in the business of operating fitness clubs. It follows a straightforward membership model with Easy, Smart, and Flex formats with different payment options and durations. In addition, the company is also engaged in the business of offering personal trainer services, selling energy drinks and nutritional bars, etc. It has five operating segments: the Netherlands, Belux (Belgium and Luxembourg), France, Spain, and Germany. A majority of its revenue is generated from France.

EVT is an Australian-based provider of entertainment, hospitality, and leisure-related services. The entertainment division consists of cinemas in Australia (Event Cinemas), New Zealand, and Germany, as well as the State Theatre in Sydney, complemented by various restaurants and bars. The ventures arm consists of development of the group's vast property assets and provision of hotel management solutions to third parties. The travel arm consists of the group's hotel operations (QT, Rydges, Atura), and the Thredbo ski and mountain-biking resort. The group generates the most of its earnings in Australia.

Melco Resorts & Entertainment is one of only six licensed casino operators in Macao. It operates Altira, a complex focused on premium customers; City of Dreams, an integrated resort in Cotai serving both mass-market and premium patrons; and Mocha Clubs' electronic gaming machines. The company also has a majority interest in Studio City, which opened in 2015. Outside Macao, Melco owns City of Dreams Manila in the Philippines and City of Dreams Mediterranean in Cyprus. The business mix in terms of adjusted EBITDA was about 84% from Macao, with the rest from overseas as of 2025.

Kinepolis Group NV is a diversified media company engaged in operating in the cinema industry. The business activities involve operation of cinema multiplexes: sale of tickets, confectionery, and beverages, sale of advertising space, event organization, etc. The company geographically operates in segments such as Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, France, the United States, Spain and Luxembourg. The Switzerland and Poland activities are combined in other segment. The company earns the vast majority of its revenue from Belguim Segment.

United Parks & Resorts Inc is an American theme park and entertainment company. Its core business is the operation of theme parks and entertainment facilities involving sea animals across the country under prominent brands such as SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, and Sesame Place. The company generates the majority of its revenue from selling admission tickets for its theme parks.

SkiStar AB operates resorts in Scandinavia. The company manages and operates mountain ski resorts in Hemsedal and Trysil, Norway, as well as in Salen, Are, and Vemdalen, in Sweden. It has an online system where guests can book accommodations, ski passes, ski school lessons, and ski rentals. SkiStar operates its business in the following segments; Operation of Mountain Resorts and Property Development. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Operation of Mountain Resorts segment which comprises the operation of ski resorts and the sale of all products and services in this area, such as SkiPass, accommodation, activities, skishop products, etc. The company also manages accommodation properties for hire and owns the land for development.

Daiichikosho Co Ltd is a Japanese electronics company engaged. It is engaged in the manufacturing, sale, and leasing of karaoke software and equipment. The company businesses include Professional karaoke business; Karaoke/restaurant business; Record label business; Elder business; Franchise business; Parking business; BGM broadcasting business; and Web business.

Leejam Sports Co is a Saudi Arabian company that owns and operates a network of sports and fitness centers in the Middle East and North Africa under the name Fitness Time. Its brands include Fitness Time Plus, Fitness Time, Fitness Time Pro, Fitness Time Junior, Fitness Time Ladies, and Fitness Time Ladies Pro. The company's operating segments include the Local region and International region. It generates maximum revenue from the Local region segment and also from Subscriptions and membership.

Shochiku Co Ltd is a diversified media company that primarily operates in the film and production industry. The company has four business segments, which include motion picture, theatre, real estate, and other. The motion picture business produces and distributes television and feature film content. Additionally, the company licenses content domestically and internationally. The theatre segment plans, produces, and promotes kabuki presentations. The real estate business segment owns and leases development properties. The other business largely focuses on merchandise sales. The company earns the vast majority of its revenue in Japan.

CDA (Compagnie des Alpes) is engaged in the operation of ski areas and leisure facilities in France. It operates mountain resorts in the Alps, leisure parks, hotels and residencies, organizes outdoor mountain activities, and is the co-leader in five-a-side soccer and the leader in padel tennis. The company also operates a network of real estate agencies in the Alps. Along with its subsidiaries, it operates in the following segments: Ski areas and outdoor activities, Leisure parks, and Holdings and support. The majority of the Group's revenue is derived from the Ski areas and outdoor activities business, which develops and operates ski resorts and organizes outdoor activities in the French Alps.

Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento is a Mexican live-entertainment and experiential-marketing company. It produces and promotes concerts, theatre, family shows, festivals and sporting events, and operates venues used for public and corporate programs. Through its marketing businesses, CIE designs brand activations, sponsorship programs, trade events and customer experiences for corporate clients. The group has also participated in amusement parks, ticketing, advertising and event hospitality businesses across Latin America. CIE serves consumers buying event admission as well as brands and institutions commissioning marketing programs. Its shares trade on the Mexican stock exchange.

Marcus Corp is engaged in two business segments, which are movie theatres and Hotels and Resorts. The movie theatres segment operates multiscreen motion picture theatres in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and others, a family entertainment center in Wisconsin and a retail center in Missouri; Hotels and Resorts segment owns and operates full-service hotels and resorts in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Nebraska and manages full-service hotels, resorts and other properties in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, Nevada, California, and North Carolina. It generates maximum revenue from the Theatres segment.

SATS ASA is engaged in providing fitness training services in the Nordics for both men and women. The company's training options include studio training for individual strength and cardio training, group training classes, personal trainers specializing in a wide range of areas, boot camps for smaller groups, out-of-club training for members' convenience, and retail shops providing members.

Six Flags Entertainment Corp is North America’s regional amusement resort operator with approximately 27 amusement parks, around 15 separately gated water parks, and nine resort properties across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It provides coasters, themed rides, thrilling water parks, resorts, and a portfolio of beloved intellectual properties such as Looney Tunes, DC Comics, and PEANUTS.

Xiamen Comfort Science and Technology Group Co Ltd is a China based company operating in the industries of health massage, health environment, home medical care, and others. The company is principally engaged in manufacturing massage healthcare product like massage chairs. It also offers products in the areas of healthy environment like humidifier, and health monitoring like weight analysis device. The company sells its products in China and other international countries. Some of the company's brands are Ogawa, Cozzia, Fuji, Fujimedic, and Medisana.

CJ CGV Co Ltd is a South Korea based company engaged in the activity of managing and operating movie theaters. The company also operates multiplex theaters under the brand name of Imax, Starium, Veatbox, Sweetbox, Star, Cine de Chef, Gold Class and Euroclass. Also, it offers advertising services, sale of movie tickets as well as food and beverage.

Hollywood Bowl Group PLC is principally engaged in operating ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres, supplying and installing bowling equipment, and developing new centres and related activities. The company operates brands including Hollywood Bowl, Splitsville, and Puttstars, with activities focused on leisure and entertainment venues offering bowling and mini-golf. It has two operating segments: i) the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres in the United Kingdom, and ii) the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres and the installation of bowling equipment in Canada. The majority of revenue is generated from the UK segment from the provision of activities like Bowling, Food and drink, Amusements and Others.

Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp is an operator of location-based entertainment. Across several locations in North America, the company provides experiential offerings in bowling, amusements, water parks, and family entertainment centers (FECs). It operates traditional bowling locations and more upscale entertainment concepts with lounge seating, arcades, enhanced food and beverage offerings, and more robust customer service for individuals and group events, as well as hosting and overseeing professional and non-professional bowling tournaments and related broadcasting.

Cineplex is a Canadian entertainment and media company headquartered in Toronto and the country's largest cinema chain, operating 158 theatres as of 2024 and accounting for about 75% of the domestic box office in 2019. Its theatres trade mainly as Cineplex Cinemas, with flagship Scotiabank Theatre sites and Galaxy, SilverCity, Famous Players and VIP Cinemas banners, and include IMAX screens. It also runs The Rec Room and Playdium family entertainment centres, film distributor Cineplex Pictures, digital advertising business Cineplex Media and the Cineplex Store, and co-owns the Scene+ loyalty programme with Scotiabank and Empire. It earns revenue from admissions, food and beverage, amusement and advertising, reporting CA$657 million of revenue in pandemic-hit 2021. The company was formed in 2003 when Onex and Oaktree combined Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations with Galaxy Entertainment, founded in 1999 by Ellis Jacob and Stephen Brown, then acquired Famous Players in 2005 and Empire Theatres locations in 2013. Cineworld agreed to buy it for $2.8 billion in 2019 but abandoned the deal in 2020, and an Ontario court awarded Cineplex damages in 2021. In September 2026 it named former Landmark Cinemas chief Bill Walker CEO and began a strategic review that could lead to a sale.

Curves Holdings Co Ltd is an operator of fitness club curbs for women.

Tivoli AS operates Tivoli amusement park, located in central Copenhagen. It provides services like rides, music, entertainment, food, and drink. Its amusement park includes a green park, a concert hall, a theatre, and a circus. The company operates in six business segments: Games, Food & Beverage, High-End, Enterprise Rental, Sales, and Culture. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Sales segment.

Koshidaka Holdings Co Ltd is engaged in Caves real estate management business karaoke bowling.

TWC Enterprises Ltd is a leisure services provider in Canada. Its core business is Golf club operations under the brand name ClubLink One Membership More Golf. The company's geographical segment includes Canadian golf club operations and United States golf club operations. It generates maximum revenue from the Canadian golf club operation segment.

Haichang Ocean Park Holdings Ltd is a leisure company focused on theme parks. The company operates several theme parks in China with ocean, adventure, and water themes. In addition to theme parks, Haichang owns ancillary commercial properties adjacent to its theme parks that offer complementary services. The company's theme parks and surrounding properties provide rides, sightseeing, entertainment, dining, and shopping. Ocean-themed parks, the style in which Haichang themes of its parks, focus on marine animal breeding and conservation. Its segments include Park Operations, Operation as a service, and Property Development. Nearly all of its revenues come from Mainland China.

Gym Group (The) PLC provides low-cost, 24/7 health and fitness facilities across the United Kingdom. The company offers flexible no-contract gym memberships, and it also ensures that all its sites have easy-access parking or are close to transportation hubs. The facilities include a wide variety of equipment as well to deliver value for the money for its members. It generates the majority of its revenue from Membership income.

Kuwait National Cinema Company KPSC is a Kuwait-based company operates in the entertainment industry. It focuses on the activities related to the cinema industry, entertainment, and cultural events. The segment in which the company operates includes Cinema division, Concession division, and Investments division. Cinema segment covers activities related to cinema shows; the Concession segment covers activities related to concessions supplemented to theaters, and the Investment segment represents investments in shares and funds, in addition to investment properties. It generates maximum revenue from the Cinema Division segment.

Falcons Beyond Global Inc. is a Company that provides a full range of theme park design, master planning, and experiential technologies for customers in the entertainment and attraction industry through its Falcon’s Creative Group reportable segment and develops and co-owns resort and theme park attractions through its Destinations Operations. The Company has four operating segments, Falcon’s Creative Group, PDP, Falcon’s Beyond Brands, and Destinations Operations, all of which are reportable segments. It earns the majority of the revenue from Falcon’s Creative Group segment.

Parken Sport & Entertainment AS is a Denmark based company engaged in the leisure and entertainment industry. The company manages PARKEN soccer stadium and operates the professional soccer club F.C. Kobenhaven. It also hosts rock concerts, car racing, and large conference. Geographically, operations are primarily functioned in the region of Denmark.

Tourism Holdings Ltd is a New Zealand-based company engaged in the design, manufacture, rental, and sale of motorhomes and other tourism-related activities. The company operates in the following segments namely New Zealand Rentals; Action Manufacturing; Tourism Group; Australia Rentals, sales and manufacturing; United States Rentals and corporate. It generates maximum revenue from Australia Rentals segment.

PT Nusantara Sejahtera Raya Tbk is a company that focuses on screening films and providing F&B to provide a high-quality entertainment experience. Its main business activities consist of cinema business activities, F&B sales, as well as organizing events and advertising. The company has two segments: Movie, food and beverages; and All other segments. It derives maximum revenue from Movie, food and beverages segment.

Wonderla Holidays Ltd operates amusement parks and resorts. The company operates three amusement parks in the Indian cities of Kochi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad under the brand name Wonderla. The company offers water rides, restaurants, and a range of facilities, including a swimming pool, recreational room, and kid's activity room. It operates in India and earns the majority of its revenue from the operation of the Amusement parks and resorts segment. The company operates in India as well as outside India.