BUSINESS
May 28, 1987 | MARIA L. La GANGA, Times Staff Writer
The idea came to Rich Hagan with a bang. It was 1982 and Hagan was the owner of a two-man firm called Golden Gate Bottling Co., which refilled glass-and-metal seltzer bottles. "I had been filling a glass seltzer bottle when it blew up in my hands," said Hagan, now 37. "When they explode, they go off like a hand grenade. And I started thinking that there had to be a better way."