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Nature’s Best, Other Family Businesses Honored

A big distributor of vitamins and other health products as well as four real estate-related companies were honored last week at the annual Family Owned Business awards luncheon put on by the Business Journal and California State University, Fullerton’s Family Business Council.

Brea-based Nature’s Best, a seller of vitamins and health foods with yearly sales of $300 million, won the large business award. The company, started in 1969 in El Segundo by a group of health food retailers, eventually was bought out and built up by the Lindberg family. Today Jim Beck, brother-in-law of former chief executive Randy Lindberg, runs Nature’s Best.

Irvine’s Rohl LLC, which came up with the pull-out kitchen faucet, won the medium business award. Founder Ken Rohl runs the company with several family members.

Mission Viejo Glass Inc., a provider of glass for showers, windows, doors and other household uses, won the small business award. The company, run by Karen and Jim Byrne and other relatives, recently gave glass fencing and mirrors to a local family on “Extreme Home Makeover.”

Preferred Hotel Group, which is based in Chicago and run from Newport Beach by John Ueberroth and family, won the up and coming award. The company offers sales, marketing and operational help for 300 luxury hotels and resorts worldwide.

Newport Beach-based Robert Mayer Corp., developer of Huntington Beach’s Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort, Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa and other projects, won the longevity award. Robert Mayer started the company more than 50 years ago and now works with his son and other relatives.

Keynote speaker Anthony Moiso, chief executive of Rancho Mission Viejo LLC, told fellow family businesses to plan beyond the current generation and include younger members in operations. Having them work to learn the value of what they stand to inherit is key, he said.

Moiso’s family traces its roots in OC back to 1882 and is the second largest landowner here after The Irvine Company. Rancho Mission Viejo plans to develop 22,000 acres of the family land with homes and businesses.

Look for more coverage on the honorees in the Nov. 27 edition of the Business Journal.

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