Its privately held businesses include Little Caesars Pizza, the National Hockey League (NHL) Detroit Red Wings, the Major League Baseball (MLB) Detroit Tigers, Olympia Entertainment, Olympia Development, Olympia Parking, Blue Line Foodservice Distribution, Champion Foods, 313 Presents, the Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraising Program, Hockeytown Cafe, and a variety of venues within these entities.

A complementary business, Blue Line Foodservice, was soon started to supply ingredients and other products to the growing restaurant chain.

Ilitch, executing his long-term Detroit business conglomerate plan, also purchased Olympia Stadium Corporation that year.

[4] Purchasing the Tigers led him to sell the Drive in February 1994 given the leagues' overlapping schedules.

[9] After the death of Mike in March 2017, Chris took over management of the sports teams per the established succession plan.