Orange County Business Journal back issues from February 2007:
SUNNY DAY BUSINESS
Feb 05, 2007; ... Tropitone: Big in Backyard; $100M in Sales Tropitone Furniture Co.'s Irvine lobby is straight out of the backyard-puffy casual chairs and weatherproof tables on a faux-brick floor, a green-canvas umbrella overhead. The company isn't making a statement. Stylish outdoor furniture ...
Kids Clothes Maker Looking to Mexico
Feb 05, 2007; ... Apparel Roundup: Tweens, Swimsuits, ASR Tamed Growing older hasn't been easy for Santa Anabased Cachcach, a maker of upscale baby and kids clothes. The 23-year-old company continues to tweak production to counter rising costs, including from the usual litany: medical insurance, ...
Wyndham Condo Plan Goes to City Planners
Feb 05, 2007; ... REAL ESTATE: Plan would reduce rooms, add 120-condo tower Newport Beach-based Makar Properties LLC is moving on plans to turn its Wyndham Orange County in Costa Mesa into a boutique hotel and condominium tower that could run more than 20 stories. Makar filed plans with the city ...
Annual Apparel Party ASR Gets Sober Start
Feb 05, 2007; ... The start of the Action Sports Retailer Trade Expo in San Diego last month had a more sober vibe. Usually, loud music, packed aisles and girls in tiny bikinis kick off the annual party for surfwear and other apparel makers. But at the start of this show, walkways were easy to ...
Swimsuit Maker Tyr Eyes Olympics Gain
Feb 05, 2007; ... Huntington Beach-based Tyr Sport Inc. is looking to make a splash in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The maker of swimsuits, goggles and other water gear just signed a multimillion dollar sponsorship contract with iwo-time Olympic medallist Amanda Weir. The company is ...
Rudy, Pataki Love OC; UCI's Role In Climate Report
Feb 05, 2007; ... OCInsider New Yorkers sure love to visit Southern California this time of year. If it's not nice weather they're after, it's campaign cash. In fact, presidential aspirants George Pataki and Rudy Giualiani have scheduled visits here on the same day, Feb. 15-the former guv at the Center ...
Corrections
Feb 05, 2007; ... The Jan. 22 story on CoCaLo Inc. should have said CoCaLo acquired assets from Newport Beach's Kimberly Grant Inc. in 2002. We urge you ...
San Juan Land Sold for Business Park
Feb 05, 2007; ... Irvine-based Centra Realty Corp. has paid $20 million for a 19-acre site in San Juan Capistrano with plans to develop a 241,000-square-foot business park. Centra expects to start construction in the fourth quarter. The project, called Ventanas Business Center, should take a year to ...
Epicor Software's Big Acquisition Bears Q4 Fruit
Feb 05, 2007; ... TECHNOLOGY: Retail arm spurring sales growth, hiring A year ago, Irvine-based Epicor Software Corp. placed a $121 million bet. In late 2005, the business software maker acquired CRS Retail Systems Inc., a Newburgh, N.Y.-based maker of software for retailers. The deal was Epicor's ...
Yearly Roth Party, Er, Stock Confab: Togas, Ludacris
Feb 05, 2007; ... FINANCE: Conexant, I-Flow to present; 3,000 attendees To-ga! To-ga! To-ga! Roth Capital Partners LLC's yearly stock conference, known as much for its afterhours entertainment as for presenting companies-is set to treat investors and analysts to an "Animal House"-style ...
Tim DeCinces Finding Own Way With Homes, Southern Barbecue
Feb 05, 2007; ... Tim DeCinces sees the pitch a mile off. It's the one they always throw at him. How could it not, being a DeCinces, an exballplayer and now developing Orange County real estate? "I don't know what it would be like if it were different," DeCinces said of his famous name. "I try to ...
Business Groups Want Fast Rollout of Greenhouse Law
Feb 05, 2007; ... Cargo Handlers Have to File Emission-Cut Plans; Employers Have to Report Injuries, Illnesses REGULATION WATCH If you can't beat them, join them-fast. After mounting a fierce but futile fight against passage of a state law cracking down on greenhouse gas emissions, ...
Argyros, Hopkins La Habra Retail Project Gets Started
Feb 05, 2007; ... Hinkelman Switches to Cushman's Local Office; Edmunds on His Three Irvine Condo Towers REAL ESTATE COMMERCIAL The first big local project in several years for George Argyros-head of Costa Mesabased real estate investor and developer Arnel & Affiliates-is starting to ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Feb 05, 2007; ... This past week's news from www.ocbj.com and other sources * TECHNOLOGY Irvine's Epicor Software Corp. reported record fourth-quarter sales last week, though profits were off and the business software maker warned about net income for the current quarter. Revenue for the fourth ...
Dealers: If You're Not a Brand, You're a Commodity
Feb 05, 2007; ... Expanded Jaguar Land Rover Mission Viejo Opens; David Wilson's Toyota Dealerships Expand. MARKETPLACE Fletcher Jones, Longo, Norm Reeves. The three come to Cheril Hendry's mind when she thinks of dealers that have created brands. Branding usually isn't done at the dealer ...
Archie's Ice Cream: Hip With Surf Crowd, Celebrities
Feb 05, 2007; ... Sunglasses for Babies From Eyes Cream Shades; Fullerton Buddies Start Wireless Gear Seller SMALL BUSINESS When the Keuilians reminisce about childhood, they think about tow trucks and the ice cream man. The Armenian brothers meshed the two to create a business where they ...
Office Dominates Construction Activity
Feb 05, 2007; ... Despite a slight dip in activity at the end of 2006, the Orange County office market still is positioned for a positive and exciting year of continued investment, development and leasing activity. For investors, OC continues to be one of the top three markets for large financial ...
McCluney: Emulex Diversifying, Still Generating Cash
Feb 05, 2007; ... Jury Clears Broadcom in Qualcomm Patent Suit, Part of Running Battle Between Chipmakers TECHNOLOGY Four months into Jim McCluney's chief executive role at Emulex Corp., he's floating high. "I'm feeling OK," he said. "Lots of wind in our sails here." The networking ...
Wet Seal Looking to Revamped Arden B. for Growth
Feb 05, 2007; ... Pacific Communications Adds More Allergan Work; Local.com Buying Online Yellow Pages MEDIA & MARKETING It's the moment of truth for Foothill Ranch-based Wet Seal Inc. The company spent the past year revamping marketing and styles for its Arden B. stores, which go ...
Valentine's Day Possibilities: Fondue, Necklace Giveaway
Feb 05, 2007; ... Restaurants Offer Special Menus, Roses, Treats; Anaheim White House Adding Jewelry to Mix EXECUTIVE DINNING Are you wondering where to dine for Valentine's? You should make your reservations now as this is one of the busiest days of the year, and last-minute reservations usually ...
PEOPLE
Feb 05, 2007; ... Hirings, promotions and other moves at local businesses ADVERTISING Pacific Communications in Costa Mesa promoted Kristal Babbs to vice president, management supervisor. Babbs formerly was the group account supervisor for Zymar, an Allergan Inc. product. She has been with the ...
Valeant Finishes Options Accounting, Ratings Affirmed
Feb 05, 2007; ... Edwards Nixes Device, Shifts Jobs; Bone Graft Maker Sells Products, Isotis Trades on Nasdaq HEALTHCARE Aliso Viejo drug maker Valeant Pharmaceutical s International has come up with its bill to correct misdated stock options. Valeant restated earnings for 2003, 2004 and ...
Marion Knott Studios
Feb 05, 2007; ... A Dream Come True lor Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts When Marion Knott Studios, the state-of-the-art studio building that houses Chapman University's Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, officially opened for classes last fall, it was a ...
Storytelling at Dodge College
Feb 05, 2007; ... If you look at Chapman University, you'll see that the different schools and colleges are each formed around a common theme," says Sob Bassett, dean of the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. "And the lingua franca here at Dodge College is story." Although Chapman's Dodge College of ...
STORY ON FILM: Selected Dodge College Student Films
Feb 05, 2007; ... Son Up, written and directed by Andrew Shearer Andrew Shearer's film Son Up, a regional finalist in the Student Academy Awards, was based partially on his experiences teaching at a juvenile hall detention center. "What I found there contradicted every stereotype I have ever learned about ...
The Dodge College Faculty Snapshots
Feb 05, 2007; ... Talent and industry experience make up the professional team. David Garcia: The Producer Films aren't made in dreams; they're made on the set, on a soundstage or on location, and even the simplest student film often requires coordinating dozens of crew members and actors. It's ...
Dodge College Students Win Prestigious Awards
Feb 05, 2007; ... Emily Wilson: The $25,000 KTLA-TV College Audition One day you're a senior in college hoping to work as a reporter for a news station after graduation; next you're on television receiving a check for $25,000 and making connections that could launch your career. That unlikely story ...
Student Housing Trends Foster New Partnership
Feb 05, 2007; ... MVE Institutional and Chapman University Expand Vision for On-Campus Housing Researchers forecast that in the next two decades enrollment for full-time students at colleges is expected to dramatically increase. This follows a similar rise that occurred between 1994 and 2004, when the ...
ABACUS Lends Professional Project Expertise to Chapman University's New Marion Knott Studios
Feb 05, 2007; ... Founded in 1990, ABACUS continues to take the lead providing Program/Project/Construction Management Services on a day-to-day basis assisting our clients with their new projects. We recently completed The Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts on behalf of Chapman University ....
Bastien and Associates, Inc. Architecture and Planning Designs State-of-the-Art Marion Knott Studios
Feb 05, 2007; ... Bastien and Associates, Inc. Architects and Planning of Tustin, Calif., headed up the stellar design team for Chapman University's new Marion Knott Studios, the nucleus of the university's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Gary L. Bastien, lead architect on the project, founded the firm in ...
Fuscoe Engineering in the Spotlight
Feb 05, 2007; ... From time to time, civil engineering firms are fortunate to be selected for work on projects that are truly unusual as well as significant. Chapman University's Marion Knott Studios project, recently named California Construction Magazines Best of 2006 Merit Award Winner - Higher Education ...
Hospital City
Feb 05, 2007; ... Orange's Home to Four Hospitals, 1,177 Beds, 9,700 Workers There's a hospital bed for every 117 people in Orange. The city of 138,000 people is the county's hospital hub with four facilities, including three top 10 hospitals. They have 1,177 beds among them. Neighboring ...
DEVICE ENTRY
Feb 05, 2007; ... Hospitals Use Buying Groups, Panels to Bring In New Products For medical device makers, the hospital is the place to be. Their size, number of patients and role in breaking in new medical gear makes hospitals critical to medical device makers. Sure, doctors' offices and surgery ...
Hospital Revenue Grows, Income Lower; Hoag No. 1
Feb 05, 2007; ... Scarce Nurses, Technology Bring Higher Costs; Bed Count Starts to Tick Up With Expansions There's a new No. 1 hospital in Orange County. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach tops our annual list of the largest hospitals here ranked by patient revenue. Hoag ...
Hospital Officials Vary on Governor's Healthcare Proposal
Feb 05, 2007; ... Universal Healthcare isn't what you'd expect from a Republican governor. But in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's move to the center-or to the left, some might argue-he's proposed spending $12 billion annually in public and private money to provide health coverage- to 6.5 million uninsured ...
Transport Your Events to Italy at Il Fornaio
Feb 05, 2007; ... When you are searching for the ultimate Italian dining experience, step inside II Fornaio in Irvine and take a culinary journey through Italy. Early mornings bring rustic, crisp crusted bread hot from the oven accompanied by the scent of freshbrewed espresso. During lunch and dinner hours, ...
The Balboa Bay Club & Resort
Feb 05, 2007; ... Celebrate Valentine's Day with Champagne, Music and a Maserati I be Balboa Bay Club & Resort will win hearts and indulge passions this February with two memorable Valentine's packages that includes romantic bayside views, luxurious accommodations, nightly dancing, special gourmet ...
Ambitious But Flawed
Feb 05, 2007; ... Viewpoint Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has introduced an ambitious plan that would make health insurance coverage mandatory in California. At an annual cost of about $12 billion, he proposes to cover about 5 million of California's estimated 6.5 million uninsured residents, including ...
SPEAK
Feb 05, 2007; ... Quotes from this week's Business Journal "I'm right on the cusp where profitability can easily turn to losses." On making clothes in Orange County. Paul Kohne, see story page 1 "It's one of the toughest places to develop, but there's a passion we both have for the ...
REVIEW
Feb 05, 2007; ... MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN'S "HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU" At Irvine Spectrum Center IMAX Theater through March 8 When filming began for "Hurricane on the Bayou," Greg MacGilllvray envisioned a Cajun-inspired wild ride through the wetlands of Louisiana along with a warning about what effect ...
Growing Vizio Triples Space in Move
Feb 12, 2007; ... TECHNOLOGY: Seller of cheap flat TVs projects $2 billion in sales this year Like 93 million other people, Jeff Schindler spent Super Bowl Sunday watching the big game, cheering on his team. But Schindler wasn't pulling for the Chicago Bears or even the Indianapolis Colts. He was ...
Inside Edwards
Feb 12, 2007; ... Mussallem Plays Big Role; Core of Team Formed Before Spinoff, Others Hail From J&J, Startups Corner Offices The most striking thing about Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s executive team: the consistency of its members and the preeminence of Chief Executive Michael ...
Nature's Best: Chino Lease; Brea HQ to Stay
Feb 12, 2007; ... REAL ESTATE: Company putting 350,000 square feet on tight market Nature's Best, a distributor of vitamins, supplements and health foods, has settled plans to move its warehouse to Chino and leave about 350,000 square feet of industrial space in Brea. The company has signed a $25 ...
Lender CashCall Strikes Big Sublease in Anaheim
Feb 12, 2007; ... REAL ESTATE: Company taking entire building from Ameriquest Growing consumer lender CashCall Inc. has signed one of the larger office leases here in lhe pasl year. The Fountain Valley-based company, which offers loans quickly over the phone or online, just signed a deal to lease ...
OC's GOP-Prez Scorecard; Commie Girl Reality Show?
Feb 12, 2007; ... OCInsider OC's big money and key operatives are choosing up sides in the GOP presidential scramble. For Mitt Romney-Had! Makarechian (who's throwing a Romney fund-raiser March 16 at the St. Regis), Larry Dodge, Scott Baugh and Mike Schroeder; for John McCain-Donald Bren, George Argyos ...
Corrections
Feb 12, 2007; ... Our Jan. 22 law firms list should have listed Brell Williamson, Newport Beach office managing partner, as the top local official for O'Melveny & Myers ...
First American Logs Biggest Buy Yet
Feb 12, 2007; ... REAL ESTATE: $100M buy prompts spinoff speculation Santa Ana-based First American Corp.'s $100 million acquisition last week of a Sacramento company that helps mortgage lenders and investors vet loans is the company's largest yet. Chief Executive Parker Kennedy said. First ...
Cushman Lures More Trammell Workers
Feb 12, 2007; ... Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.'s buy of Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. is turning into a big hiring opportunity for the local office of Cushman & Wakefield Inc. The commercial real estate company just lured away workers from the Southern California capital markets ...
Vans Readying HQ; Set for 300 Workers
Feb 12, 2007; ... APPAREL: OC building set to house design, sales, marketing Vans Inc. is gearing up to make its move to Orange County from Santa Fe Springs. The shoe and clothing maker, owned by Greensboro, N.C.-based apparel maker VF Corp., is busy designing its new headquarters, which is slated ...
Power Play
Feb 12, 2007; ... Maker of Surge Protection Systems Doubling Space in Irvine Move Orange-based Marway Power Systems Inc., a maker of surge protection gear for aerospace companies, is doubling its space in a move to a plant in Irvine. Marway's 45 local workers are sel to move to a ...
Catering Truck Yards Squeezed by March of Redevelopment
Feb 12, 2007; ... The preferred term is mobile food preparation units. But they're better known as catering trucks, or, more pejoratively, "roach coaches." They could be a dying breed in Orange County. Catering trucks have serviced the county's construction sites, factories, office buildings and ...
Triple Net, Big in Office Buying, Forms Unit to Acquire Medical Space
Feb 12, 2007; ... Santa Ana-based Triple Net Properties LLC, known for buying office buildings, is looking to healthcare for its next venture. Triple Net's NNN Healthcare/Office REIT Inc., a new real estate investment trust, last month said it made a couple of deals for medical buildings in a pair of ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Feb 12, 2007; ... This past week's news from www.ocbi.com and other sources TOP STORIES Irvine-based mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp. shocked Wall Street last week with a warning for the recently ended quarter, a big projected drop in loans this year and plans to restate most 2006 ...
Newport's Island Hotel: New Name, Familiar Face in Jacobi
Feb 12, 2007; ... In an industry known for turnover, hotelier Ray Jacobi has turned the tables, coming back for a second stint at the same hotel. The upstate New York native was named general manager of The Irvine Company's Island hotel last summer. He first managed the hotel from 1991 to 1996, when it ...
Upstate to OC
Feb 12, 2007; ... Ray Jacobi's come a long way from his childhood days in upstate New York. One of six kids, he grew up in upstate Rochester, where his father was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Base. Tired of wearing hand-me-downs, Jacobi at 15 got a job at Rochester's Mardi Gras Restaurant, ...
SNOW DAY
Feb 12, 2007; ... Lamborghini Offers Owners Winter Driving Course A Lamborghini is all about fun in the sun. Just the thought conjures up images of the super sleek, super fast car making its way along the Italian Rivera. The biggest U.S. seller of Lamborghinis is in Santa Ana, in the ...
Insurance Commissioner Poizner Staking Middle Ground Early On
Feb 12, 2007; ... As state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner gets settled into office, some insurers are looking to him to soften or even undo some of the moves of predecessor John Garamendi. Auto and property/casually insurers want Poizner to roll back regulations they say will increase costs for ...
AROUND THE COUNTY
Feb 12, 2007; ... Economic development and other activity in cities in and around OC * ANAHEIM Construction continues on downtown's Harbor Lofts on the Promenade, with plans for 129 one- and two-bedroom lofts. The project, on Center Street Promenade next to the Anaheim Ice skating rink, is a ...
GIVING
Feb 12, 2007; ... Fund raisers and charitable donations from companies and people The Orange County affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, gave $1 million to 18 breast cancer support groups in Southern California. The grants will help the groups ...
Lexus Expansion Nearly Done as Brand Rivals Mercedes
Feb 12, 2007; ... Honda Civic Most Searched Auto for 2006 at Autobytel; Furniture Dealer Expands Showroom MARKETPLACE Lexus of Westminster is about to get bigger. A new two-story showroom on Beach Boulevard, slated to open in a couple of weeks, will have all the upscale trappingsplasma ...
Hospitals Still Working on Last Mandate: Earthquakes
Feb 12, 2007; ... Allergan Takes on Botox Typecasts as Rival Looks to Corner Long-Term Wrinkle Smoothers HEALTHCARE Deal with quakes first. That's the retort of some hospital executives to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed healthcare coverage plan. Hospitals are in the throes ...
Bank Consolidation
Feb 12, 2007; ... FINANCE: Banks could look to continue big buying sprees There could be another buying binge in store this year for banks. With a healthy slock market, big banks may just keep spending as they did in 2006, according to executives and banking watchers. "The historical ...
Banking Pulse
Feb 12, 2007; ... Bankers Discuss Consolidation, Industry Regulations, Prospects for Growth When bankers look into their crystal balls for 2007, they see more consolidation in store for the sector. "Yes, this will be a tough year for banks and those not doing well or growing will probably have to ...
Enclave Banking
Feb 12, 2007; ... Hispanic Startups Join Asian Counterparts; Big Banks Stand Their Ground If you're looking to start a bank or other financial institution in Orange County, odds are the signs will be in Spanish and you'll look in Santa Ana. Hispanics, who make up a third of OC's 3 million people ...
Deep Deposits
Feb 12, 2007; ... Local Thrifts' Gain in Deposits Outshines Commercial Bank Counterparts Deposits at the county's largest local thrifts outdid their commercial bank counterparts during the past year. The 15 largest savings and loans in Orange County posted a 14% gain in local deposits to $19.8 ...