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Article: Rock millers' profits peak on pebbles' popularity. (Calico Rock Milling Inc. and Brubaker-Mann Inc.) (Company Profile)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 4, 1991
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Scenic background to some, tests of endurance for others, mountains instead are money in the bank to the folks at Calico Rock Milling Inc., a Santa Monica-based company that has turned peaks into pebbles for profit for 38 years.
The company, owned by Santa Monica-based investment firm Palisades Group, uses giant crushers to churn out 70,000 tons of rock per year that end up in driveways, roofs, gardens and a myriad of other uses across the Southland and beyond.
If you find a large, decorative rock in front of a building somewhere, there's not a bad chance that it came from Calico Rock.
Calico's finest come from 13 dusty, deserted and disappearing ...
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