Biz News: Car auction posts $6.4 million in sales
Russo and Steel’s fourth annual collector car auction, held June 10-12 in Newport Beach, totaled $6.4 million in sales, according to a news release.
The figure was down from last year’s $7.2 million.
The top two sellers were 2006 Ford GTs that went for $292,600 and $275,000.
Coming in third was a 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLR at $225,500.
Turnip Rose to open cafe in Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa-based Turnip Rose Elite Catering will open a stand-alone cafe in town Wednesday.
The location is in the Shops at Mesa Verde (formerly known as the Mesa Verde Center) at 2701 Harbor Blvd.
Turnip Rose serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with fare including bagel sandwiches, quiche, salads, grilled paninis, tacos, burgers and hot dogs.
For more information, visit turniprosecafe.com.
Floyd’s opening second shop in Costa Mesa
Floyd’s 99 Barbershop plans to open a second location in Costa Mesa in July.
The store will be at 124-126 E. 17th St.
Floyd’s other Costa Mesa store is at 2900 Harbor Blvd., near Village Way. It replaced a KFC.
Skin care clinic opens in Newport
SkinLIV, a skin care clinic owned by licensed esthetician Leslie Joy Dammer, recently opened in Newport Beach.
The center near John Wayne Airport is at 4001 Birch St., Suite C.
The clinic also features artwork that clients can buy.
Astro Pak acquires Florida company
Astro Pak Corp., a Costa Mesa-based company that offers precision cleaning services, recently acquired Florida-based Chemko Technical Services Inc.
Terms were not disclosed.
Chemko, based near Cape Canaveral, provides precision cleaning and testing of components and systems for aerospace, medical and industrial businesses, according to its website.
Honey & Butter opens at Irvine Spectrum Center
Honey & Butter, which makes macarons with pop culture characters on them, recently opened its first brick-and-mortar store at the Irvine Spectrum Center near Old Navy.
Prices start at $2.
“Our macarons are made with love, experience and great quality ingredients,” co-owner Leanne Pietrasinski said in a statement. “We use butter cream as opposed to white chocolate in our fillings, and because of that our flavors are less sweet and more pronounced. We also have our own recipe for our macaron shells, which contain less sugar than other recipes.”
Irvine business leaders earn awards
Ernst & Young recently announced the winners of its 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Members of the Irvine business community receiving awards were Stuart McClure, president and chief executive of Cylance Inc.; Dr. Andrew Abraham, CEO of Orgain Inc.; and Jerome Fink and David Kim, managing partners of The Bascom Group.
2 honored for charitable works
A.G. Kawamura of Irvine-based Orange County Produce and Sarah Middleton of the Newport Beach-based Pimco Foundation were recently recognized by the Community Action Partnership of Orange County during its awards gala in Santa Ana.
Kawamura, a former California secretary of agriculture, was noted for his support and donations to the Orange County Food Bank and advocating for low-income families.
Middleton, the Pimco Foundation’s executive director, was credited with developing Pacific Investment Management Co.’s employee volunteer program and related corporate-responsibility initiatives, according to a news release. The foundation was noted for its Share the Harvest event, which gave 16,000 food boxes to families during the holidays.
The foundation also received the Community Action Partnership’s Impact of the Year Award.