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Laguna Yachts
Laguna Yachts was an American boat builder based in Stanton, California. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. The company was founded by Bill Downing in 1973. History The first designs produced were the Windrose 18 and the Windrose 24, both as 1974 models. In his 2010 book, ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', author Steve Henkel praised Laguna Yacht's Windrose 18 in particular as "a showpiece" of Shad Turner's California sailboat design aesthetic, that emphasized "avante garde" modernist styling, something that was not seen on east coast boats in the same period.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 66. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. In 1981 the company bought out Coastal Recreation Inc. of Costa Mesa, California. It continued to builder some Coastal Recreation models, adapted others into new models and ceased production of other models. Laguna Yachts ceased business in 1986, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |