Global Entertainment Corporation (“Global” or “GEC”) is an integrated event and entertainment company that is engaged, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, in sports management, multipurpose events center development, facility and venue management and marketing, and venue ticketing.  We are primarily focused on projects located in mid-size communities.

We were organized as a Nevada corporation in August 1998, under the name Global II, Inc.  In April 2000, Global II acquired all of the outstanding shares of Western Professional Hockey League, Inc. (WPHL) from WPHL Holdings, Inc., a British Columbia, Canada corporation.  Contemporaneously with the acquisition of WPHL, we changed our name to Global Entertainment Corporation.

Our current operating subsidiaries are Western Professional Hockey League, Inc., Global Properties I, International Coliseums Company, Inc., Global Entertainment Marketing Systems, Inc., Global Entertainment Ticketing, Encore Facility Management and GEC Food Service, LLC.

Pursuant to a joint operating agreement between us and Central Hockey League Inc. (CHL, Inc.), WPHL operates and manages a minor professional hockey league known as the Central Hockey League (the League), which currently consists of fourteen (14) teams expected to play in the 2011-2012 season) located in mid-market communities throughout the Central, Western and Southern regions of the United States.