🤝Pact fails, AA sues JetBlue; Lottery suit a jackpot of charges; Modules in, suit Terminal C fine.

Southlake-based Sabre has a definitive sale agreement with Fort Worth-based TPG for its Hospitality Solutions Unit. The price is $1.1 billion through TPG Capital, the firm's U.S. and European private equity platform. TPG will have Hospitality Solutions as a stand-alone business.

Lottery ticket reseller Lotto.com has sued the Texas Lottery Commission because of recently contemplated rule changes that ban the online sale of lottery tickets. The online lottery company is also upset about investigations into its operations and state limits on the number of machines allotted to retailers, which were capped at five in early February. Texas Scorecard has the story. 

D-FW International Airport has reached a key milestone in its $3-billion Terminal C overhaul, successfully moving six massive modules into place, including one weighing 1,200 tons and measuring 204 feet by 68 feet. Modules have pre-installed mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems.

American Airlines has ended partnership talks with carrier JetBlue Airways and filed a lawsuit seeking damages. A court dissolved their Northeast Alliance in 2023, ruling it violated anti-trust laws, and the two airlines had been in talks to form a new partnership aimed at strengthening its network and loyalty program.

Illinois-based McMaster-Carr, a supplier of hardware, tools, raw materials, industrial materials and maintenance equipment, will start construction on a $100-million investment project. It is part of the company’s 2023 announcement about investing more than $360 million in its 117-acre site just east of Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport. 

Fort Worth-based Simpli.fi, an advertising platform providing programmatic advertising and workflow software to agencies, brands, and media companies, has partnered with Bombora, a leading provider of B2B data solutions for a similar market.

Fort Worth-based Higginbotham has teamed with Construction Casualty Insurance of St. Petersburg, Fla., to serve high-risk clients nationally through Higginbotham’s Day Two Services and CCI’s CompCorrect proprietary AI platform.

Bell Textron has sold its first Bell 505 in the Netherlands to Gerrit Verwijs, owner of Verdegro Group, a Dutch public safety infrastructure manufacturer.

Fort Worth-based Creative Solutions in Healthcare and CoreCare have launched Pre-Admit, an AI-powered solution that evaluates skilled nursing facility referrals in under a minute. 

Fort Worth-based AZZ Inc. announced it has resumed stock repurchases in its $100 million Share Repurchase Program. AZZ has approximately $53.2 million of shares available for repurchases.

Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns, an agricultural investment platform connecting investors and agri-businesses, launched its second Private Credit Fund. The fund aims to address the demand for flexible financing within the agricultural sector and will provide investors the opportunity to generate regular, risk-adjusted income streams.

Four Southlake Carroll Senior High School classmates are preparing for the American Rocketry Challenge, the largest student rocket competition. Of 1,000 entrants, the team is among the 100 to make it to the finals, and the only team from D-FW. 

The zany, crazy Dude Perfect guys' YouTube channel gets a thumbs up from a Christian father of two boys. 

Notable and quotable: “There’s a little piece of grandma in every jar… not literally.” —Mrs Renfro’s President Doug Renfro’s note in gift boxes.

Daily digit: 1,200+ used tires collected by Fort Worth residents for proper disposal. All are given new life by All-American Tire Recyclers, a 100% green tire recycling facility.

Announcements:

• Fort Worth City Attorney: Promotes Senior Assistant City Attorney Leslie L. Hunt to Section Chief over Real Estate and General Services in its transactional division. 

• TechFW: Hires Caitlin McMinn as Managing Director. 

• TimelyCare: Appoints Nicole Bump as Chief Customer Officer and Ray Akhavan as in-house General Counsel. 

• UNTHSC: Names Christopher Ray SVP and Provost. He had been interim Provost and succeeds Charles Taylor, a full-time, tenured faculty member in the College of Pharmacy.

• JTaylor: Promotes CPA Charly Perez to Manager.

• John Paul Mitchell Systems: Names Elaine Jeffcoat Vice President, Sales. 

• Innovation Ops Tech Strategies: Launched by Kira Wilson.

• Cooksey: Hires Shawn Paul Wood to lead agency’s professional services practice group.

• RJ Williams & Co. Names Nate Galata Managing Director-Commercial Brokerage.

• Custom Care Home Health & Hospice: Adds Alyssa Buck as Director of Business Development.

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