Business
Superior Industries International Inc., a Van Nuys supplier of aluminum automotive wheels, said it has finalized plans to build a $32-million aluminum wheel chrome-plating facility next to its Fayetteville, Ark., wheel plant.
Nov. 30, 1993
A Canyon Country woman filed suit Friday against a Newhall company charging that she was illegally fired after she complained that the firm may be shipping defective parts for automotive air bags that would prevent the bags from inflating in a crash.
July 24, 1993
California
A California judge ruled Wednesday that the Port of Los Angeles and a national railroad company failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of a $500-million freight yard they want to build next to low-income, mostly minority neighborhoods.
March 30, 2016
World & Nation
RADIO Expanding the Airwaves: American Public Radio announced plans Monday to become more international in focus, starting with a name change July 1 to Public Radio International.
Dec. 14, 1993
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.
May 7, 1996
KEY TO ROSTER--The corporate name of each company is followed by its founding or incorporation date in parentheses.
June 7, 1987
Travel & Experiences
Erwin Smith, a retired engineer, and his wife, Betty, were 7,500 miles from home on the Indonesian island of Bali in October as part of a 29-day vacation.
Dec. 19, 1989
While many Valley-based businesses are reeling from the recession, a few are basking in record profits, thanks largely to places like Arkansas, Illinois and Maryland.
March 22, 1994
To members of Congress who are seeking to protect American manufacturers from what they regard as unfair competition from abroad, the massive trade law they enacted last year stands as a monument of hard-nosed realism.
June 18, 1989
With expectations ranging from the unexceptional to the strongly upbeat, Orange County computer companies’ sales forecasts for 1990 are as diverse as the industry itself.
Dec. 28, 1989