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Eiki International Inc. is moving from Lake Forest to Rancho Santa Margarita

Audio-visual product maker Eiki International Inc. has started moving from Lake Forest to Rancho Santa Margarita with modest plans to grow its 50-person operation in the next year.

Eiki paid $2.5 million for a 24,161-square-foot building at 30251 Esperanza,next door to the headquarters of memory products maker Viking Components Inc. Eiki plans to add about five wokers in the next year, the company said.

In spite of the economic slowdown, said Bill Blair, Eiki’s director of operations, “we’re seeing a slight increase in sales right now compared to last year partly because of our niche in the educational sector.”

While the technology slowdown has hurt Eiki’s corporate sales,computer companies until recently had been the main customers for Eiki’s products,Blair said growth in other sectors has more than offset the falloff.

The company’s customers include companies, public school districts, post-secondary educational institutions and churches. Eiki’s products are used to make presentations.

Eiki’s educational sector users include the Houston Independent School District. GM Hughes Electronics Corp. is a major corporate user. The company’s OC headquarters handles product development and distribution, while manufacturing is done in Japan.

Eiki already has started consolidating the three buildings it now leases in Lake Forest as well as space it has been leasing at the port in Long Beach. The Lake Forest and Long Beach facilities total about 30,000 square feet. Eiki will continue to use some space in Long Beach, Blair said.

“We don’t need quite as much space since we’ve long since discontinued some of our older and bulkier products,” he said.

Those discontinued products include 16mm film projectors that were the company’s bread-and-butter during the 1970s and 1980s.

Times have changed. Now liquid-crystal display projection screens have replaced the venerable film projector as one of the company’s mainstay products. Eiki’s main competitors include Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. n

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