Orange County’s recovery has gone from the Great Recession to a moderate recovery and onto a leading place in Southern California’s return to economic health over the past year.
Expect more of the same in 2016, which looks poised to blend enough job growth and consumer demand with an impressive lineup of key industries to keep the local recovery on track as the regional pacesetter.
There will, of course, be the trends within that larger trend, with any of the economy’s various segments—or companies and key executives within them—being a potential newsmaker.
We give an overview of what to expect and pick some companies and people who bear watching on our inside pages of this last edition of the year.
