Biz News: Boutique to host grand opening Saturday
C Dobbs, a high-end fashion boutique, will host a public grand-opening celebration Saturday for its new location at 2823 E. Coast Hwy. in Corona del Mar, the former site of the Francis Orr stationery store.
The event, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will include refreshments, live music and giveaways.
C Dobbs, formerly known as Carol Rachelle, moved from its former space at East Coast Highway and Goldenrod Avenue.
The store, named after its owner, Carol Dobbs, will offer women’s clothing from Italy, France, Denmark and the United States, plus a men’s clothing line set to launch at the grand opening. It also will display works by local artists and is working to stock popular items from the stationary store, whose owner, Francis Orr, retired recently after 50 years in business.
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Job fair for military members, veterans set in Newport
The Open Hearts for Purple Hearts Foundation and VerdeWatts LLC will present a job fair for current military members, veterans, reservists and their spouses from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Newport Beach Civic Center.
Refreshments will be provided, and admission and parking are free.
Employers attending the job fair will include Toshiba, Apria Healthcare, the city of Newport Beach, Hoag Hospital, the Irvine Co., JPMorgan Chase, Microsemi, Time Warner Cable and the Newport Beach and Santa Ana police departments.
For more company information, open positions and registration details, visit openheartsforpurplehearts.org/register-veterans-job-fair.
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Local tech company honored at innovation awards
Syspro, a developer of business software that has its U.S. office in Costa Mesa, was named Private Outstanding Technology Company at the Orange County Tech Alliance’s High-Tech Innovation Awards at a gala Oct. 8 in Costa Mesa.
“Syspro embraces technology in everything we do,” Joey Benadretti, president of Syspro USA, said in accepting the award. “We are about creating a culture of innovation, one that motivates our people to think and make the impossible possible. Innovation itself has to have a purpose, and Syspro’s mission is to give its customers the ability to be more competitive in a vastly changing market.”
Syspro’s enterprise resource planning software is designed to help manufacturers and distributors increase profits by enhancing operating efficiency, controlling inventories and achieving sustainability goals.
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Costa Mesa firm acquires GE heat-capture assets
Probe Manufacturing Inc. of Costa Mesa announced that it has completed the purchase of the assets of General Electric’s Heat Recovery Solutions business at GE’s facility in Costa Mesa.
The Heat Recovery Solutions system captures waste heat from a variety of sources and turns it into electricity that users can use or sell to the grid.
“This acquisition meets several of our long- and short-term strategic objectives and is designed to reinforce our strategy of utilizing our engineering and manufacturing expertise to develop and acquire energy-efficiency and other clean technologies,” Kam Mahdi, chief executive of PMI, said in a statement.
The company also announced that it is changing its name to Clean Energy Technologies Inc.
—From staff reports