Archive: Business

Big sale starts today then the Brand Boulevard shop will move online.

The Belmont Shore booksellers have been in business together for 23 years in different locations.

The family-owned store that opened in 1957 was sold just five months ago. Lots of other changes coming to Westwood Village soon.

NPR series looks at aerospace jobs and the garment industry.

The last military transport to be made in Long Beach flew off Sunday, symbolically ending the era of aircraft manufacturing here.

He bought MGM three times, owned Las Vegas hotels and at times was the richest man in Los Angeles.

Take that, haters. Alba really is more than a pretty face and the Internet's favorite bikini body.

Just as the Expo Line will be arriving, Nordstrom will be relocating to a much bigger space a few miles east.

The only question is how bad. A Texas newspaper says many of the jobs appear headed to West Plano, outside Dallas.

The site at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard, just west of the Beverly Hilton hotel, would come fully approved for construction of a luxury condo project, says the LA Times.

Kimi Yoshino succeeds Marla Dickerson, who left the Times for the Wall Street Journal.

Photographers are noting the abrupt closure today of Calumet's Hollywood store, along with the shutdown of all other American stores in the Chicago-based photo supply chain. An LA photog explains why it matters.

I cherry pick some of the more interesting rankings from the Los Angeles Business Journal's annual book of lists.

The trouble began when Trader Joe’s allegedly switched suppliers, cutting out Aliso Viejo’s Maxim Marketing in favor of giant ConAgra Foods. Maxim has not gone quietly.

Restructuring Occidental Petroleum will give up its longtime home at the busiest intersection in Los Angeles. “Energy companies feel very welcome in Houston and in Texas,” says the head of the LA Chamber of Commerce.

The former NBC 4 reporter will host a monthly show on the economic life of Southern California on PBS SoCal. The first episode airs Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m.

The Miracle Mile office tower formerly named for Variety (and before that for People's Bank) is getting a new top-floor occupant: SBE, the lifestyle and hospitality company headed by Sam Nazarian.