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Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks

Assistant Business Editor at Los Angeles Times

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  • English
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  • Finance & Banking Services
  • Business

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Recent Articles

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Marshall Field's vs. Mrs. Fields in Name Wars : Retailer and ... - Los Angeles Times

Marshall Field’s of department store fame is upset with Mrs. Fields of cookie fame. Claiming that use of the Fields name “is likely to cause confusion or to cause mistake or to deceive the public,” Marshall Field & Co. has asked the government to cancel Mrs. Fields Cookies’ trademark registrations. Debbi Fields on Thursday expressed “surprise and disappointment,” while a Marshall Field spokesman said that Mrs. Fields officials started the dispute. The tempest in a cookie jar is the latest additi…
almost 38 years ago
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Women Business Owners Thriving in the Southland - Los Angeles Times

To some it was a very encouraging sign. At the recent Governor’s Conference on Women in Business held in Los Angeles that drew nearly 2,000 women, hardly anyone was wearing “the uniform”--the ubiquitous dark business suit with a white blouse and bow of the late 1970s and early 1980s. “I was delighted,” said Lee Eiseman, a color consultant who conducted seminars on dress and color at the fourth annual conference. “To me it reflected the fact that there are a lot of women who are getting away from…
about 37 years ago
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Growth Market : Smart & Final Celebrates 125 Years in a Big Way - L...

Smart & Final has a funny name. And its products are a little on the gigantic side--9 pounds of potato salad with a 1-gallon fruit-punch-concentrate chaser, anyone? But the Vernon-based warehouse-style grocer has done extremely well over the years--125 years, in fact, of selling really big stuff to local businesses and consumers in one of the nation’s most competitive retailing markets. J.S. “Jim” Smart and H.D. “Phil” Final were in the business long before Price even thought of a club or Sam of…
almost 30 years ago
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Arco Kicks Off Cutbacks With a High-Level Shake-Up - Los Angeles Times

Atlantic Richfield Co., poised to begin a major cost-cutting campaign that includes layoffs, started at the top on Wednesday by announcing a management overhaul that includes the retirement of the Los Angeles oil company’s president and another senior executive. Arco, which last week said it is developing a plan to slash costs throughout the company, also will be reducing capital spending and refocusing its efforts on markets where it can be the dominant or near-dominant player in exploration, p…
about 27 years ago
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Texaco Cuts Jobs in 'Critical Period' - Los Angeles Times

The oil industry will endure at least another year of anemic prices leading to layoffs, such as those announced Thursday by Texaco Inc., and reductions in capital spending, executives said at an industry gathering in San Francisco. “This is a critical period for the industry,” Peter Bijur, Texaco’s chief executive, told fellow oil executives at this week’s annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s trade group. “Perhaps at no time in a half-century have we faced the chall…
about 27 years ago
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Hidden Enron Deal to Aid in Prosecution - Los Angeles Times

A secret Enron partnership that engineered the bogus sale of wind farms in California--and escaped detection for five years--now looks to be a critical piece of evidence in the expected prosecution of former Enron executives. The partnership, called RADR, was the handiwork of former Enron finance executive Michael J. Kopper and his mentor, fired Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew S. Fastow, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Kopper pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felony counts relat…
over 23 years ago
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Gasoline consumption falls in California - Los Angeles Times

California drivers are keeping their feet on the brakes, with gasoline demand falling for eight months in a row. Gasoline consumption in California totaled 1.23 billion gallons in October, down 1.8% from the 1.26 gallons used the previous October, according to a report released Tuesday by California State Board of Equalization Chairman Jerome E. Horton. The last time gas use increased was in January 2011, when consumption rose 2.7%. Consumption was flat in February. “High gas prices appear to be…
almost 14 years ago
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Home builders Standard Pacific, Ryland Group agree to 'merger of eq...

Southern California home builders Standard Pacific Corp. and Ryland Group have agreed to merge in a stock transaction, creating a company that would have an equity market capitalization of about $5.2 billion and would operate in 17 states. The combined firm, which hasn’t been named yet, would own or control about 74,000 home sites. The two companies’ operations delivered more than 12,600 homes and had combined revenue of $5.1 billion in the 12 months that ended March 31. The merger would enable…
over 10 years ago
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday shopping hours list - Los Angeles Times

As Target puts a permanent end to Thanksgiving in-store shopping, plenty of other retailers are open. And Black Friday shopping starts early.
about 4 years ago
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California's high gas prices have a little-known ingredient: Russia...

Banning Russian oil will affect West Coast gasoline prices more than those in other parts of the country because the West Coast uses more Russian oil.
almost 4 years ago