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Flynn Group is the largest franchise operator in the United States, focusing on multi-brand restaurant and retail operations. Founded in 1999 by Greg Flynn, the company has expanded significantly from its beginnings as a single-market Applebee’s operator. It now manages a diverse portfolio that includes well-known brands such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Panera Bread, and Arby’s, with over 2,500 locations across the country. The company specializes in franchise management, acquiring and optimizing underperforming locations to enhance operational efficiency and drive sales growth. Flynn Groups acquisition strategy has led to substantial growth, including the recent addition of 45 Pizza Hut locations in 2025, bringing its total to over 1,000. With a people-first approach, Flynn Group emphasizes employee training and retention, ensuring consistent customer experiences across its various dining segments.
Greater Iowa Credit Union (GICU) is a member-owned financial cooperative established in June 1932 by a group of Iowa State University employees. It has grown to serve over 36,000 members across a 33-county area in Central and Western Iowa, managing assets between $624 million and $667 million. GICU is federally insured and state-chartered, emphasizing its commitment to the financial well-being of its members and the communities it serves. GICU offers a range of financial services typical of credit unions, including banking services like checking and savings accounts, loans for personal, auto, and business needs, and possibly investment services. The credit union operates nine branch locations in cities such as Ames, Ankeny, and Des Moines, providing localized service. GICU is also dedicated to community engagement, having received recognition as the Best Credit Union in Crawford County and Story County multiple times.
HAIMER is a family run, medium sized company located in Igenhausen, Bavaria near Munich, Germany. We design, produce and sell innovative, high precision products for metal cutting as well as for other branches including automotive, aerospace, energy, rail and general machining. In addition to our large offering of tool holders in all popular interfaces and lengths, including our shrinking and balancing machines, as well as our 3-D Sensors and solid carbide cutting tools, our product offering also includes tool presetting machines of HAIMER Microset. Out of approx. 800 employees worldwide, 500 work at our main production facility in Igenhausen together with the most modern of machines and a high level of automation. At our second HAIMER production site in Bielefeld with around 50 employees, HAIMER Microset presetting machines are manufactured. Our experienced, dynamic and highly qualified employees guarantee the well-known and highest quality "made by HAIMER." As an active apprenticeship company with almost 50 apprentices and a high internal acquisition rate, HAIMER is able to secure its future skilled employees and to fulfill its contribution to further educate young adults, as well as securing the future of our German manufacturing location. As the European market leader in the area of tool holding technology, with a daily capacity of max. 4,000 tool holders, keeping the technological edge of our products is very important to us. Because of this, every year we invest between 8 and 10% of our revenue in research and development. Every day we desire to be better and that works perfectly with our corporate philosophy: Quality Wins Imprint Provider/Responsible for the Haimer GmbH website: Haimer GmbH Weiherstr. 21 D-86568 Igenhausen E-mail: haimer@haimer.de Web: www.haimer.com Also: Youtube Xing CEO: Franz Haimer, Claudia Haimer, Andreas Haimer Corporate headquarters: Igenhausen Commercial register: Amtsgericht Augsburg, HRB 8679 VAT ID number: DE 127333346