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Article: Playboy sends online staff to Los Angeles.(Playboy Online)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 9, 1998
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Playboy Online, which has been turning industry heads with its popular Web site, is taking some of its operations to Los Angeles.
"This move is to better work with Playboy's television unit and the Playboy Mansion's activities out there in Los Angeles," said Buford Smith, president of Playboy Online, a division of Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. "Both are significant assets for the new-media division, and we are repositioning our staff to better and more practically support them."
As early as January, several of the roughly 60 current Playboy Online employees will relocate from Chicago to Los Angeles - and up to 20 new employees will be hired ...