T.P. Food Processing in Westminster is expanding its product line.

The company, founded in 2009, manufactures Vietnamese cooking sauces and soup mixes. Owners Anh Truong and her son, Phillip Ma, are adding Vị Quê Premium Fish Sauce to their lineup. Other products made by the company include Shrimp Satay Sauce, Satay King Sauce, Lemongrass Satay, Ground Chili Paste, Ground Chili and Garlic Paste, Thai Suki Soup, Vietnamese Sour Soup, and Tamarind Sauce.

The company will host a ribbon cutting at noon Friday, Feb. 2 to celebrate the expansion. There will be a warehouse tour and food tasting at 12:25 p.m.

T.P. Food Processing got critical financing and business guidance from the Orange County Small Business Development Center.

“The SBDC helped us a lot with getting small loans, certifying our new products, and marketing them,” Ma said in a statement. “The paperwork for the loans and for the certification was very difficult. Their partnership helped us jump over many hurdles in time to launch our new fish sauce at many New Year expos.”

Since 2000, SBDC said it has helped start 545 businesses which created/retained 7,372 jobs. The organization also has facilitated more than $231 million in contracts for small, minorities/women/veteran-owned businesses.

For more information about the Orange County SBDC, contact 714-564-5200 or got to ocsbdc.org.

T.P. Food Processing address: 14822 Moran St., Suite A, Westminster.

Ephesoft, a software firm in Irvine, is expanding into new digs. The company has a new lease and newly remodeled offices at 8707 Research Drive. The lease was negotiated by CBRE. (Photo collage courtesy of CBRE)

Adela Generally has been named general manager of the Orange County Market Place in Costa Mesa by its new management company, Spectra.

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Tania King is the chief legal and employee experience officer, a newly created position, at Irvine-based Alorica. Since January 2017, King has served as chief legal and compliance officer for Alorica, while also overseeing the companys human resources team as interim chief human resources officer for the past six months.

Clare Venegas has joined Curt Pringle & Associates in Anaheim as vice president. Most recently, she served as president of Obria Medical Clinics and served as executive director for the Lincoln Club of Orange County.

Paul Simonds, vice president, previously was a public affairs manager with Southern California Gas Co. has joined Curt Pringle & Associates in Anaheim as vice president.



Jesse Ramirez, account executive, most recently the information officer for the Board of Equalization Fourth District, has joined Curt Pringle & Associates in Anaheim as an account executive.

Credit Union of Southern California, with assistance from the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce, has opened a full-service branch at Costa Mesa Courtyards, 1835 Newport Blvd.

John’s Incredible Pizza Company will host a hiring fair Feb. 15-18 at Westminster Mall as it prepares to open an new location in March. The 41,000-square-foot Westminster venue will be the companys 14th location. (Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)

New ventures

Ephesoft, a software firm in Irvine, is expanding into new digs. The company has a new lease and newly remodeled offices at 8707 Research Drive. The lease was negotiated by CBRE. Ephesoft has 130 employees with 45 of them at its Irvine headquarters. The firm, which engineers document capture technology to help organizations streamline their paperwork, is hiring several key new positions to support its “rapid growth,” according to a statement. For more information, go to ephesoft.com

Credit Union of Southern California, with assistance from the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce, has opened a full-service branch at Costa Mesa Courtyards, 1835 Newport Blvd. CU SoCal in a statement said it has more than $1.1 billion in assets and more than 90,000 member-owners.

On the move

Curt Pringle & Associates in Anaheim, a public relations and government advocacy consulting firm, has added three new public affairs professionals to its team. Paul Simonds, vice president, previously was a public affairs manager with Southern California Gas Co. Clare Venegas joins as vice president. Most recently, she served as president of Obria Medical Clinics and served as executive director for the Lincoln Club of Orange County. Jesse Ramirez, account executive, most recently served as information officer for the Board of Equalization Fourth District.

Tania King is the chief legal and employee experience officer, a newly created position, at Irvine-based Alorica. Since January 2017, King has served as chief legal and compliance officer for Alorica, while also overseeing the company’s human resources team as interim chief human resources officer for the past six months. In her new role, King will continue to report directly to Andy Lee, CEO and Chairman of Alorica, to lead Alorica’s employee experience initiatives.

Adela Generally has been named general manager of the Orange County Market Place in Costa Mesa by its new management company, Spectra. Previously she spent eight years with Spectra Food Services and Hospitality at the Orange County Fairgrounds as an assistant general manager.

Deputy District Attorney Craig Cazares of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office was named chair of the Orange County Bar Association’s Criminal Law section for 2018. Cazares was chair-elect in 2017. The OCBA Criminal Law section serves as a forum for open discussions, networking, and continuing legal education for the practice of criminal law.

Coming up

John’s Incredible Pizza Company will host a hiring fair Feb. 15-18 at Westminster Mall as it prepares to open an new location in March. The 41,000-square-foot Westminster venue will be the company’s 14th location. More than 150 jobs are available at the indoor family entertainment center, including pizza cooks, prep cooks, cashiers, guest service representatives, buffet attendants, fun world attendants, and John’s loveable mascot IncrediBear. The jobs fair will take place in the lower level of the Mall from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. All interested applicants must apply and pre-register for an in-person interview via John’s hiring website, johnspizza.com/westminsterjobs.

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