Frank Olea, vice president of Olea, at the kiosk maker's office in Artesia. |
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| TRUCKING - Port businesses fear they are falling behind in obtaining federal security clearances for their workers. |
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| RETAIL - Glendale Galleria gussies up with glitzy shops to counter the draw of its new neighbor, Americana at Brand. |
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| INSURANCE - Falling workers’ comp premiums and increasing competition are crunching business insurer Zenith National Insurance. |
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| PAGE 3 - Famed UCLA quarterback Cade McNown is trying his hand at the real estate game. McNown, who led the Bruins to 20 straight wins in the late 1990s and became UCLA’s all-time leader in passing, had a brief career in the NFL before hanging up his cleats in 2003. |
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| SPORTS - Major League Soccer club Chivas USA has kicked off a campaign to add Anglo fans to its Latino fan base. |
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| TOURISM - The Santa Monica Pier will be rolling out a new Ferris wheel in time for Memorial Day weekend crowds. |
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| LAW - Litigation firm Gareeb Pham has crafted a cost-efficient process that allows apparel companies to pursue the makers of knockoff duds. |
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| RETAIL - Dial-up Internet service provider United Online has expanded into flower delivery with the acquisition of FTD. |
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| DEVELOPMENT - Robert Freilich walks from his Century City condo to his office nearby. He’ll even walk to Beverly Hills with his wife for dinner. The exercise is great, but he’s got a point to prove, too. |
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| MANUFACTURING - Manufacturing employment in Los Angeles County has been on the decline for the past two decades, but there may be some signs of a turnaround – even if only temporary. |
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| HEALTH CARE - The Herbalife Ltd. president and chief operating officer who resigned last week following charges that he had hyped his academic credentials was a longtime colleague and personal friend of Chief Executive Michael Johnson. |
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| REGULATION WATCH - Importers already slammed by the plunging dollar now have a new concern: a proposal by Customs to do away with a rule that has been saving them lots of money on import duties. |
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| ADVERTISING & PR - Kastner & Partners, a German ad agency with U.S. headquarters in L.A., has won the account for a brand unfamiliar to U.S. consumers – MBT, a Swiss manufacturer of therapeutic athletic footwear that the agency will sell as the “Anti-Shoe.” |
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| RETAIL - While it is fairly easy to line up luxury retailers as tenants in an upscale mall, Americana at Brand had a bit of a different challenge: It wanted to establish itself as upscale at the same time it incorporated a few regular retailers that would be useful to the many residents who will live there. |
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| MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT - The 78-year-old Hollywood Reporter’s facelift could help it step into the spotlight. |
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| INNOVATION - An increasing number of churches today are putting their collection plates aside and asking their members instead to pull out their debit cards. |
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| TECHNOLOGY - Holograms – yes, those 3-D images Darth Vader used to communicate in “Star Wars” – are coming to Latino grocery stores in L.A. |
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| INTERVIEW - Steve Bellamy, who scored success with the Tennis Channel, is taking on the great outdoors with the Ski Channel. |
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| FEATURED NEWSMAKER - Gali Begim. |
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| NEWSMAKERS - Hrings, promotions and kudos. |
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| LAW - A Westwood protest at Occidental Petroleum’s headquarters underscores how multinational corporations are increasingly facing challenges from activists. |
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| LAW - London’s calling at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. Since March, the Los Angeles-based firm has brought three entertainment lawyers on board, and two are from London. |
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| REAL ESTATE - Watt Cos., a Santa Monica-based developer, is bailing out an Irvine-based builder that ran into trouble with a 130-home development in Riverside County. |
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| COMMENT - There’s a good reason for many businesses in Los Angeles to be frightened. They are being hassled, fined and may be shut down, at least temporarily, because of the intensified crackdown on illegal immigrants in the workplace. |
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| ENERGY - With $4-a-gallon gasoline making teeth grind and cascading nearly everyone into an even tighter economic bind, is there an overlooked, albeit partial, solution that continually gets a cursory drive-by without a fuller examination? |
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| EDUCATION - Anyone committed to improving California’s educational system had to be heartened by February’s news that Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Co., had awarded one of the largest private gifts ever to an after-school program. |
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