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25 Years Ago in the Business Journal



From the

San Diego Business Journal


of Sept. 15, 1980:


Digest

Four San Diego firms showed up in this month’s “California’s 100,” a listing by

California Business Magazine

of the 100 fastest growing corporations in the state.

The highest ranking San Diego firm was Topaz, which manufactures power conditioners for computers. Topaz, which ranked 20th, had a compound annual growth rate of 69.1 percent. Revenues last year totaled $14.9 million, and earnings per share increased from 20 cents in 1977 to 74 cents in 1979.

Three La Jolla firms also showed up on the list. Kratos turned up number 22, while Intermark ranked 56 and Science Applications tied for the 83rd spot with Lee Pharmaceuticals of South El Monte.


Overcrowding Plagues Business School at SDSU

As the bell sounded for the fall semester at San Diego State University, students streamed onto campus in record numbers, re-enacting the yearly battle for parking spaces, spots in the book store’s long lines and coping with the typical anxiety which greets returning and incoming students.

But this year a new and potentially explosive dilemma surfaced. Thousands of business majors have found that required classes in their subject field are closed, thanks to a record 33,000 registered students and a ballooning number of business majors.

As of last week, there were nearly 14,000 enrollees in 450 business classes, with thousands more clamoring unsuccessfully to get in.


Companies Are Turning Trash Into Bucks by Recycling Everything From Paper to Oil

It makes dollars and sense to take a second look at what’s thrown into that dumpster.

Big Bear Markets are involved in a public awareness program. All of their shopping bags carry a message about recycling. Posters on the windows and throughout the store inform the public that products packaged in recycled paperboard are identified with shelf tags carrying the recycling symbol: three arrows which form a circle.

Big Bear’s Jim Johnston said it has not been his experience that products with the symbol sell better. “I saw someone from another chain quoted as saying that anytime you stick any kind of tag under a product it sells better. If it said ‘Do not buy this product,’ it would probably sell better.”


Conventions

More than 7,500 persons are expected to attend 38 conventions scheduled in San Diego this week.

This week’s list of conventions, compiled by the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, includes:

Bendix Corp.

September 14-17

Hotel del Coronado, 300.

Tandem Computers Inc.

September 14-18

Islandia Hyatt House, 400.

FedMart Corp.

September 16-18

Hanalei Hotel, 75.

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