USER NEWS.U-HAUL U-Haul International, Inc. is a North American equipment rental company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, that has been in operation since 1945. The company was founded by Leonard Shoen (1916-1999) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and CONTRACT: Agoura Hills-based Electronic Clearing House Inc. has won a bid to provide credit card processing for the independent dealers of U-Haul International. Electronic Clearing House will add the credit card functions to the software and hardware it has already provided for inventory processing and daily transactions at roughly 11,000 dealers in the U-Haul network. The company, which has served U-Haul for about seven years, specializes in information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. and serves more than 19,000 merchants and U-Haul dealers across the country. It also develops software and point-of-sale hardware. - Daily News FAST TOWN: The Valley was well represented last week when Deloitte & Touche unveiled its annual Fast 50 list of Greater L.A.'s fastest-growing tech companies. It was Camarillo Camarillo (kă'mərē`yō), city (1990 pop. 52,303), Ventura co., S Calif.; inc. 1964. It is the center of a fertile farm area where citrus fruits and flowers are grown. , however, that stole the show. The Ventura County city had more companies among the Fast 50 - which lists the 50 fastest-growing technology companies based on revenue growth over the last five years - than any other city in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, not named Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Camarillo had six companies on the list (compared to Los Angeles' 10 and Calabasas' 5). And a seventh - ACT Networks - moved to Calabasas earlier this year from Camarillo, giving the Ventura County city bragging rights for about 4-1/2 years of ACT's five-year growth. - Daily News |
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