Even with record unemployment, American Apparel’s chief, Dov Charney, can’t hire enough factory workers. He’s even walked the streets of Alhambra himself, handing out fliers printed in Chinese and Spanish, advertising for cuttting and knitting jobs that pay $8 to $18 an hour. Why the struggle? He lost 2,500 workers – more than half his [...]
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Open primary second step in business plan.
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2010
Last week’s passage of the open-primary initiative marked the second major victory in the business community’s three-pronged effort to fix state government through the ballot box. But business leaders now face battles on two fronts. They may have to wait until 2012 for their third step, which would be changing term limits, and they will [...]
IINC, CHP, LAPD and CTA Join Forces to Focus Attention on Highway Safety
Posted by admin on May 30th, 2010
When a big rig truck crashes with a passenger car, the laws of physics determine the outcome, and most often, the passenger car bears the brunt of the damage, according to the Insurance Information Network of California (IINC). In a release, IINC noted that the Insurance Information Network of California, the California Highway Patrol (CHP), [...]
Ducommun long-term contract from Boeing Co.
Posted by admin on May 26th, 2010
Ducommun Inc. on Tuesday said that a subsidiary had secured a long-term contract from Boeing Co. to furnish fin tip assemblies for the Boeing 777. The Carson company said that work of Ducommun AeroStructures would be performed at its Southern California plants in Monrovia, Gardena, and Orange, along with a facility in Guaymas, Mexico. The [...]
Overhauled Brokerage Beefs Up in Los Angeles
Posted by admin on March 18th, 2010
Since centralizing its business structure in December, Colliers International of Seattle has been busy hiring and promoting others within the company in Los Angeles. In January, Colliers hired top multifamily broker Kitty Wallace, who was formerly with Sperry Van Ness. It also has promoted Darrin Kennedy and Bret Hardy to newly created national managing director [...]
Tags: A Heaping Slice of Humble Pie
Posted by admin on March 18th, 2010
It’s not every day that a local business owner gets humiliated on national television for the way they run their business. But that’s what happened March 4 to Lisa Hemmat, owner of Italian restaurant Lido Di Manhattan Beach. Hemmat, 29, purchased the restaurant six years ago just after graduating from the USC Marshall School of [...]
