San Diego’s regional success story stems from the contributions of many successful companies, people and events through the years. Contact us at contact@sddt.com to get more involved.
Timothy Meissner and Jerry Jacquet, principals of the commercial property management firm that bears their surnames, enjoy an easy camaraderie of two men celebrating 20 years in business together and looking forward to spending another 20 doing what they love.
In 2011, Charco Construction Co. Inc. founder and President Chuck Swimmer gave a valued employee the freedom to create a parallel company based on the same ethic but a different focus.
As president of Poway-based TFW Construction Inc., Ted F. Weeks, III presides over a company whose construction industry roots go back 70 years to Connecticut, and the Ted F. Weeks and Sons Construction Company run by his grandfather.
When Conrad Prebys came to San Diego in 1965 he had $500 to his name. Today, he owns 7,000 apartments in San Diego and has become one of the most generous philanthropists the region has known.
It is never easy when the face of a successful company dies, but N.N. Jaeschke Inc. found a way to recreate itself with a new face and the return of some family blood.
Now 28 years after first crossing paths, Dennis Otsuji and Patrick Caughey have joined forces and merged their companies into Wimmer Yamada and Caughey ONA.
When financial times get tough, often vacationers save money by sleeping in a tent on top of a mountain, instead of staying in a fancy resort by the sea.
They say word of mouth is the most honest and influential kind of marketing. That may be part of the reason why renowned singers all over the world are interested in performing at San Diego Opera.
The Navarra family has been in the furniture business for more than 60 years, and as the third generation takes the reins of Jerome’s Furniture, no one is more proud than Jerry Navarra.
The Village Club Card Room in Chula Vista is the oldest operating card room in San Diego County, and its owner, Harvey Souza, has seen it through its 65-year legacy.
Charco Construction, a leader in the home remodeling business for over 46 years, has built more beautiful kitchens, bathrooms, family rooms, second-story additions and master suites than any other contractor in San Diego County.
In 2011, the owner of Charco Design & Build Inc., Armando Flores, took his love for lines to a new level when the company made for itself a new and more elaborate foundation from the building blocks of what Flores had been doing for years at Charco Construction Co. Inc.
Five words are printed on the back of George Rogers' business cards and those of every staff member at Carlsbad-based RQ Construction (RQ): Safety. Ethics. Innovation. People. Teamwork.
The words of the 30th U.S. president and the availability of free WiFi at Starbucks might, to most, seem like improbable contributors to the success of a business, but not to Jody James Watkins.
Friends and business don't mix, it's often said. But Scott Dennis and Alex Kunczynski, principals of Rancho Bernardo-based D&K Engineering, convincingly debunk that commonly held belief.
When in 1938, LeRoy Neville Baker paid $4,000 to purchase the Dietrich Electric Shop in Escondido, he could hardly have imagined that the company he founded, Baker Electric Inc., would still be thriving nearly three-quarters of a century later, with his great-grandson, Ted Baker, its president and CEO.
In the early '80s, a government employee named Rod Tuttle was working for the U.S. Navy in Pt. Loma in the infancy of what is now known as the Naval Tactical Data System. NTDS is a computer-to-computer information system that, essentially, informs a Navy commander what's going on around his ship and enables him to make strategic and tactical evaluations and decisions, rapidly and accurately.
Oceanside's North County Transit District is shaking things up in the transit industry. A new business model, new buses, lower fares, customer improvements, and a lean and mean, forward-thinking board of directors and management team are combining to create more riders and more revenue for the transit district which operates COASTER trains, SPRINTER light rail and BREEZE buses.
If necessity is the mother of invention, there is perhaps no greater necessity than the health of human beings and the eradication of disease, worldwide. To this end, scientists regularly invent drugs to treat a wide range of maladies and bring them to market, hopeful for a multimillion-dollar acquisition by a large pharmaceutical company.
Riddle me this: What bank is the second largest bank headquartered in San Diego, has great customer service, yet only one branch location? And what bank has no ATMs, yet offers its customers fee-free access to every ATM in the United States?
Offhand, not many people would equate the responsibilities of the managing director of a major law firm with those of the general manager of a professional football team.
Charco's legacy: Great design transcends time and style
