Business
For all you corporate strategists out there plotting an assault on the Pacific Rim, the big accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand has some bad news: There is no Pacific Rim.
Oct. 24, 1988
Census: Number of businesses rose by 30% from 1992 to 1997. Most are in California, but they are growing in other regions.
May 22, 2001
Of 12 large Orange County companies included in a recent national survey, only seven include a woman on their boards of directors.
Nov. 16, 1993
Ranking Orange County’s leading public companies according to their return on investor’s capital provides a snapshot of successes by the score.
May 7, 1996
Several years ago, when image-less Security Pacific National Bank was groping for a slogan that would make consumers feel good, its advertising agency concocted this phrase: “Your bank for life.”
Aug. 13, 1991
Companies ranked by total number of employees worldwide in 1995 *--* Rank Company Employees 1 Safeway Inc. 114,000 2 Hewlett-Packard Company 102,300 3 BankAmerica Corporation 95,300 4 Rockwell Int’l Corp. 82,671 5 Walt Disney Company, The 71,000 6 Seagate Technology Inc. 65,000 7 Gap, Inc., The 55,000 8 Pacific Telesis Group 51,590 9 ABM Industries, Inc. 45,000 10 Pinkerton’s, Inc. 45,000 11 Hilton Hotels Corp. 44,000 12 Chevron Corporation 43,019 13 Dole Food Company, Inc. 43,000 14 Fluor Corporation 41,678 15 Consolidated Freightways 41,600 16 Intel Corporation 41,600 17 Northrop Grumman Corp. 37,300 18 Tenet Healthcare Corp. 35,000 19 Computer Sciences Corp. 32,900 20 Litton Industries, Inc. 29,100 21 Foodmaker, Inc. 25,785 22 Read-Rite Corp. 23,074 23 National Semiconductor 22,400 24 Atlantic Richfield Co. 22,000 25 Mattel, Inc. 22,000 26 Pacific Gas & Electric 22,000 27 Occidental Petroleum Corp 19,860 28 Wells Fargo & Co. 19,522 29 Southern Pacific Rail 19,089 30 Fleetwood Enterprises 18,000 31 Teledyne, Incorporated 18,000 32 Oracle Corporation 16,882 33 Edison International 16,434 34 Times Mirror Company NEW 16,310 35 Avery Dennison Corp. 15,500 36 Longs Drug Stores Corp. 15,500 37 Sizzler International 14,600 38 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 14,498 39 Great Western Fin.
Although many major companies and headquarters have left Southern California in recent years, small and mid-size firms are quietly filling in, creating jobs and generating taxes.
Feb. 13, 1997
In a deal that could be worth as much as $5 billion, one of Orange County’s preeminent corporations and the nation’s largest bond-fund manager is in talks to sell all or part of its assets to a European insurance giant.
July 8, 1999
Books
When Americans buy a cerebral book these days--and this unsuspected vice seems to be growing among us--its theme is apt to be black and gloomy: One way or the other, the country is going to the dogs.
Nov. 20, 1988
In an escalation of a takeover battle that has yet to be formally announced, Unocal Corp. on Tuesday sued its own longtime bank over loans the bank made to Unocal’s undeclared suitor, Texas oilman T.
March 13, 1985