BUSINESS
October 24, 1996 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A voracious global appetite for computers and other electronic products pushed Silicon Valley ahead of rival Los Angeles-Long Beach in the dollar value of exports in 1995, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The home of Apple, Intel and other U.S. high-technology giants boasted $26.82 billion in exports last year, an increase of 34.5% over the previous year, making San Jose the fastest-growing major export area in the country.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 9, 1995 | DEBORAH SULLIVAN
Hoping to encourage Asian investment here, a group of city officials leaves today on a trade mission to South Korea. "We already have the Korean community here, so basically we have a little bit of a hometown atmosphere here for them," said Mayor Bruce A. Broadwater, who will be traveling with Councilman Ho Chung, Assistant City Manager Mike Fenderson and several members of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and the Korean-American Assn.
BUSINESS
May 26, 1995 | CHRIS WOODYARD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Aviation Distributors built its business around the sale of spare parts to airlines. But the Irvine company scored a coup last year by dealing in bigger commodities: whole airplanes. The company, without help from a foreign intermediary, bought two used Boeing 707 freight jets from Air China and, in turn, sold them to Jordan. That $6-million deal, combined with a upsurge in export sales, earned Aviation Distributors an award Thursday night from the World Trade Assn. of Orange County.
BUSINESS
October 16, 1994 | JOHN O'DELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Cotton isn't grown in Orange County, but about 2,000 metric tons of the fluffy white stuff--packed in bulging, 600-pound burlap-wrapped bales--was shipped overseas last year by a Santa Ana exporter from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cotton shipped by R.W. Zebrowski Inc. came mostly from mills in central California, Texas and Oklahoma--the nation's major cotton-growing regions.
BUSINESS
October 16, 1994 | JOHN O'DELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Armor All Products Inc. regularly ships hundreds of tons of its automotive cleaners, polishes and degreasers to countries in Europe and Asia and maintains a network of outside distributors as well as a 15-person international sales staff to market its goods overseas. But Orange County has few businesses the size of Armor All--companies that can afford their own export units.
NEWS
February 17, 1994 | CHRIS WOODYARD and DEAN TAKAHASHI and JOHN O'DELL, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
When trade relations between Japan and the United States get chilly, an icy breeze blows through Orange County. Japan is Orange County's largest export destination, taking about $1 billion in computers, medicines and other goods produced locally every year. And Orange County is the home of U.S. headquarters for Japanese companies like Mazda, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Ricoh, which provide thousands of jobs locally. So it hit home Wednesday after U.S.