Robert E. Weil

The Group's principal activity is to provide regional scheduled passenger services. It is a holding company for Mesaba Aviation, Inc. It has an airlines services agreement with Northwest Airlines, Inc. With this agreement, the schedules are coordinated with those of Northwest to facilitate interline connections at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Airport and the Memphis International Airport. It provides its services under the name Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Airlink or Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Jet Airlink. It operated flights to 102 cities in United States and Canada from Northwest's hub airports.

Restaurant Technologies, Inc. provides frying oil management and oil recycling solutions. It offers total oil management, portable oil systems, fryer filtration monitoring, and automist. The company founded by John M. Ruelle, Paul L. Plooster, Lisa J. Merryfield, Bradley J. Schoenbauer in 1997 and is headquartered in Mendota Heights, MN.

Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA) provides air transportation services. It together with its subsidiaries engages in the business of transporting passengers and cargo. It has a fleet of about 450 aircrafts. It flies to more than 230 cities worldwide from hubs in Amsterdam, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis and Tokyo. Its domestic partners Pinnacle Airlines and Mesaba Airlines provide regional services to destinations under the Northwest Airlink banner. The carrier also has extensive alliances with Continental Airlines and Dutch airline KLM. It has joined SkyTeam, a marketing alliance led by Delta and Air France. Its principal subsidiaries are Northwest Airlines, Inc., MLT Vacations Inc. and Northwest PARS, Inc. It was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Sharps Compliance Corp. engages in the provision of healthcare waste management services including medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous. It focuses on developing management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated by small and medium quantity generators. The company was founded in November 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.