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Deals of all sizes and significance take place every day of the week in Los Angeles. They are the result of many things: Companies and properties change hands. Family businesses [...]

THE PACESETTER CERTIFIED GROCERS OF CALIFORNIA Most Angelenos may not be familiar with L.A. County's largest private company, but they've probably seen its trucks around town. Certified Grocers of California [...]

Guy Avagliano CONSULTING ACTUARY MILLIMAN & ROBERTSON INC. SPECIALTY: PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE Guy Avagliano works in the rarefied world of property and casualty insurance actuaries. In fact, he is [...]

Ranked by number of attorneys in L.A. County offices The 50 largest law firms in L.A. County added 335 attorneys to their combined payrolls last year. The healthy economy is [...]

Ranked by the number of sleeping rooms EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Financial crisis in Asia or not, tourists are flocking to Los Angeles. Hotel occupancy rates are at a record level, and [...]

ECONOWATCH L.A. COUNTY GENERAL INDICATORS % + from Latest Previous previous Year period period period ago Employment (000's) (Nov.) 4,573 4,550 +0.5% 4,452 Unemployment (000's) (Nov.) 241 245 -1.6 270 [...]

ALTHOUGH it's still early in the game, there are indications that the new management team at Mattel Inc. is steering the company in the right direction. The troubled toy manufacturer [...]

Thanks to California's worsening energy crisis, a small company in Chatsworth could see a tremendous windfall. Capstone Turbine Corp. builds micro-turbine power systems, essentially versatile, mini power generators, which can [...]

Marvel of Engineering Eases Traffic Logjam At Redondo Junction A manual switching station dating from the first half of the last century still controls the intersection of tracks at the [...]

A broad spectrum of Los Angeles companies is suffering the ill effects of the national economic slowdown, and that's bringing busy times to local restructuring consultants, bankruptcy attorneys, opportunistic investors [...]

Foosball is out. Discipline is in. In a desperate scramble for survival, dot-coms are being forced to play by corporate rules. Not even a year ago, Stamps.com Inc. in Santa [...]

Forecasters expect the local defense industry to shore up Los Angeles' economy this year, as a nationwide slowdown is in the making. Although the defense and aerospace industry in L.A. [...]

Pre-Strike Shooting Surge Is Taking Place Elsewhere As the threat of major Hollywood strikes continues to hover over the local economy, there's no indication that the stockpiling of content by [...]

The surprise cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board may offer scant relief to potential homebuyers out kicking the tires in Los Angeles County. Homes are scarce and [...]

It may be the hottest new car to come out this year, but chances are you won't be driving a 2002 Ford Thunderbird any time soon. Local dealers expect that [...]

As nervous investors keep dumping technology stocks, sectors that are viewed as safe harbors are enjoying an influx of cash. And chief among those perceived safe harbors are real estate [...]

In the recent Hollywood movie "Proof of Life," a daredevil professional hostage negotiator, played by Russell Crowe, rescues a kidnapped American executive in Latin America. It's an action picture that [...]

AECOM Technology Corp. - the parent of architecture and engineering giant Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall and already one of Los Angeles' largest privately owned companies - is going through [...]

THE coming year could bring a historic labor agreement to the L.A. waterfront, where employers and dockworkers are in the early stages of developing a compromise solution to modernize the [...]

STRIKES, U.S. SLOWDOWN COULD KEEP L.A. FROM BUILDING UPON SUCCESS No one disputes the fact that the Los Angeles economy is finishing up a stellar year. The only question is [...]

With its planned acquisition of Litton Industries Inc., Northrop Grumman Corp. is poised to retake its place as one of the top-ranking defense contractors in the U.S. And if things [...]

As head of the massive Alameda Corridor rail project, James Hankla is breaking new ground by being within budget and on schedule to deliver the critical cargo link SINCE August [...]

If the nationwide downturn has some bite to it, the international trade industry in Los Angeles could be one of the first sectors to feel the impact, according to local [...]

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THE international ties that bind are a major asset for the Chinese- and Korean-American banks in Los Angeles. That's largely because such institutions are courting countless small- and mid-sized L.A.-area [...]

IN the years ahead, demographic changes in the Asian population in Los Angeles will pose new challenges to Chinese and Korean community banks that have built their business on serving [...]

Los Angeles-based employers are getting more cautious when it comes to hiring new workers, according to new survey results and regional economists. For local employers, general uncertainty about the economic [...]

The ubiquitous Korean grocery and liquor marts that have become a fixture of the L.A. landscape may soon become a thing of the past. A recent report shows that a [...]

What's in a name? Well, for starters, a lot of money if the name is a naughty four-letter word and you are in the Internet pornography business. Kevin Lawrence, a [...]

The major car manufacturers have found ways to improve the paintjobs on their vehicles considerably in recent years, which is welcome news for consumers. It's bad news for Earl Scheib [...]

Mirroring the changing face of the ocean freight industry, the Pacific Maritime Association has announced its first major reorganization in more than 50 years. The association hopes that the new [...]

The white-hot Westside housing market has suddenly cooled, and the fire driving L.A. home prices is spreading to some surprising places. Think Downey, Canoga Park, even Palmdale. "The highest rates [...]

LAST year, Superior Industries International Inc. couldn't get any respect on Wall Street. Despite consistently strong earnings quarter after quarter, investors were infatuated with tech stocks and barely noticed the [...]

WITH the possible exception of the sturdy-but-dowdy Volvo, it might have seemed that station wagons were a vanishing breed on Los Angeles streets and freeways. First, they were endangered by [...]

The volume of exports leaving local ports is ramping up, even as the national economy is cooling down, according to statistics released last week. "It's another piece of evidence that [...]

WHEN the UCLA Medical School created the Department of Human Genetics two years ago, a crucial element in securing the success of the new department was to recruit one of [...]

STRONG demand for top-of-the-line industrial space in the Mid-Cities market has not escaped the notice of institutional investors and real estate investment trusts, which became active buyers of such properties [...]

THEY may not be going the way of the dinosaurs anytime soon, but big-box and superstore retail outlets will have to adapt and find ways to survive in a changing [...]

With mountains of cargo landing every day at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, terminal operators are getting increasingly desperate to install new technologies to speed the cargo-handling process. [...]

There's a chance that new federal legislation could bring Los Angeles one step closer to landing the largest defense contract in history. On the other hand, the bill requiring the [...]

ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE CRITICAL FOR TRAINING FUTURE WORKFORCE THE inadequate K-12 public school system in California may be responsible in part for the sorry state of the local workforce, [...]

Bank of America, long characterized as a leader in SBA loans, has suddenly and dramatically curtailed its lending to that crucial small-business sector of the Los Angeles and California economies. [...]

One of Los Angeles' most venerated, old-school companies, Korn/Ferry International, has embraced the new economy with a vengeance. The executive recruiting firm has expanded its scope and incorporated the Internet [...]

Senior Vice President, Emerging Growth Division Imperial Bank FROM his perch at Imperial Bank, Daniel Styles oversees a client base of approximately 100 start-up companies. In the best of times, [...]

It's been a little over two months since the "new" Styleclick Inc. was formed through a merger of the original Styleclick.com with Internet Shopping Network (ISN), a subsidiary of USA [...]