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...anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman Marcus. "Dealing with change in a family business--everything's personal. It's about money-equals-love, and who threw up on the piano when you were...
...phenomenal trajectory of growth that tripped up El Paso Chile. Formed in 1980, when Park Kerr and his mother Norma sold decorative strings of chile peppers on the street in El Paso, Texas, the company within a decade was selling $1.5 million annually of food products such as salsas. But operations were tilting out of control, so mother and son brought in Kerr's brother-in-law Sean Henschel, a management consultant, to run things. Park's sister Monica also came to work in the company...
Rockers who run their own labels are often in search of the Next Small Thing--acts that can appeal to cult audiences first, and if they go on to something bigger, fine. At the Drive-In hails from El Paso, Texas, and is slowly building a larger--though not necessarily large--following. The group's new CD, Relationship of Command, released on the rap group Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, deftly combines punk ferocity with artful though sometimes inscrutable lyrics. Like heavyweight champs, the band works the head and the body and scores points in both areas. Drummer Steve Shelley...
...without a grand plan to support that aim, moves are afoot to tinker with the existing situation. By next year, large regional transmission organizations (RTOS) will be in place across North America to remove some of the jurisdictional clutter. "Right now, if you want to ship power from El Paso [Texas] to B.C., you have to settle 10 or 12 different contracts," says Dennis Eyre, executive director of the Western Systems Coordinating Council in Salt Lake City, Utah, an organization that groups producers and suppliers in 14 Western states, plus British Columbia and Alberta, and Baja California in Mexico...
...fanatic, Rivas named his dogs Ruger and Beretta. His previous robberies exhibited the meticulous planning expected of a sometime engineering student at the University of Texas in El Paso. Rivas would use disguises and lies to gain entrance to stores, often posing as a security guard or a store employee. Until the murder of the policeman last month, he never resorted to bloodshed--just psychological violence. Rivas would tell store employees, for example, that he knew their car licenses and could track them down if they gave the police too much information...