Mr. Ali: The company was formed around the 1987 time frame to be a franchisor in the food and beverage operations at a major mall in San Diego. We soon realized the franchising business was not lucrative and around the 1989, 1990 time frame the company focused on establishing itself in the captive audience market, and with the captive audience market, the airport was on the top of the list. So by the grace of God we were successful in penetrating into the airport market in the 1989 time frame. Since then we have grown into 24 different airports across the United States. So our company essentially conceptualizes, develops and operates the airport concession spaces.
TWST: You're in 24 airports with how many operations?
Mr. Ali: We classify them as concessions. We have approximately 90
different concessions at 24 different airports.
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