Family-owned businesses are a hardy and wide-ranging lot, filling many of the niches and doing much of the heavy lifting in Orange County’s economy.
A sellout crowd of 440 packed into the Four Seasons-Palm Garden (formerly Twin Palms Restaurant) in Newport Center last week to recognize such businesses, and see five of them selected from a field of 79 nominees to receive the first Family-Owned Business Awards. This inaugural of what is expected to be an annual event was co-sponsored by the Orange County Business Journal and California State University, Fullerton’s Family Business Council.
