BRIEFCASE PIZZA KITCHEN SET FOR LONG BEACH.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Los Angeles-based California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ: CPKI, known within the food industry as CPK) is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, will open its first restaurant in Long Beach next month. Opening to the public Tuesday, the new restaurant is California Pizza Kitchen's 39th location in Southern California. It is located in The Marketplace, a center of boutique shops, restaurants, salons and a cinema complex at Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
California Pizza Kitchen, founded in 1985, operates, licenses or franchises 129 restaurants, of which 100 are company owned and 29 operate under franchise or license agreements. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. hospital gets former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX exec James G. Terwilliger has joined USC University Hospital as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , it was announced Tuesday. The New Jersey native, who earned a master's degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , previously served as associate director of the UCLA Hospital System and vice provost for the UCLA School of Medicine. In his six years at UCLA, Terwilliger directed the operations for hospital departments at both the Westwood and Santa Monica facilities. USC University Hospital is a private, 293-bed research and teaching hospital staffed by the faculty physicians of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Confidence index drops on jobs view NEW YORK - Americans' anxiety about the jobs outlook helped pull down consumer confidence in February, suggesting continued volatility as the economy seeks to pull itself out of recession. The New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index Consumer Confidence Index A measure of consumer views regarding the current economic situation and consumer expectations for the future. Information for the index is compiled and released on the last Tuesday of each month by the Conference Board, an fell to 94.1 from 97.8 in January, below the 97 reading analysts had been expecting. The result reversed a two-month rise. The industry group's index, based on a monthly survey of some 5,000 U.S. households, is closely watched because consumer confidence drives consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the nation's economic activity. Federated shares up despite loss CINCINNATI - Federated Department Stores Inc., whose stores include Macy's and Bloomingdale's, lost $447 million in the fourth quarter as the terrorist attacks and the recession hurt sales and the company took a large loss for its impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. sale of its Fingerhut e-commerce business. But Federated slightly raised its earnings range forecast for this year, and its shares rose almost 7 percent, or $2.64 a share, to close at $41.66 in trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . The company's overall loss amounted to $2.23 per share for the three months ended Feb. 2 in contrast with a profit of $332 million, or $1.65 per share, a year earlier. Federated is trying to complete the sale of the Fingerhut business after suffering multimillion-dollar losses since buying it for $1.7 billion in 1999. EBay pulling plug on Japan market SAN JOSE - In a rare defeat for eBay Inc., the online trading leader said Tuesday that it will pull out of Japan, even as the company's international expansion continues with the purchase of a Taiwanese auction site. EBay entered the Japanese market in 2000, and never got close to Yahoo! Japan Corp., which is that country's No. 1 player in online auctions. It is co-owned by the Silicon Valley Internet company and Tokyo-based Softbank Corp. Although eBay does not charge Japanese users any fees - and did so only briefly - the site has just 25,000 items listed for sale, ranking it a distant fourth in the market. The site will close March 31; and 17 jobs will be cut. That is not the way eBay is accustomed to doing things. |
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