Boutique opens at South Coast Plaza...

Boutique opens at South Coast Plaza

Blisslabs, a new beauty boutique, opened in Macy’s at South Coast

Plaza earlier this month.

The boutique, located in a 350-square-foot section of the

department store, offers triple oxygen facials, hot milk pedicures,

ginger rubs and other cosmetic treatments.

The company was founded in 1996 by noted cosmologist Marcia

Kilgore.

Company names new executive

Resources Connection Inc. has announced the hiring of Lisa Okimoto

as its new director of client service.

The company, based in Costa Mesa, hired Okimoto for its Honolulu

office. The announcement came Friday.

“We are very pleased that Lisa will be heading up our client

service efforts in Honolulu,” said Tanja Cebula, regional managing

director of the company’s Western region.

Okimoto is a former client and associate of the company and a

Certified Public Accountant. Okimoto served in various financial

management positions, including a job with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Resources Connection is a professional services firm that provides

its clients various services including finance, human resources,

information technology and performing internal audits.

The company was founded in June 1996 and went public on Nasdaq,

under the symbol RECN, in December 2000. The stock closed Friday at

$19.80.

Newport S&L; offers dividend

Downey Financial Corp. has joined a slew of other companies in

declaring a stock dividend, following President Bush’s proposal to

eliminate taxes on the payments to investors.

On Wednesday, Downey, which is based in Newport Beach, said its

Board of Directors has decided to offer a cash dividend of nine cents

a share each quarter.

Investors who own the stock, which trades on the New York Stock

Exchange under the symbol DSL, on Feb. 6 will receive the dividend.

It will be paid out on Feb. 21.

DSL shares closed Friday at $39.53.

Downey is the parent company of Downey Savings and Loan Assn.,

which owns 163 branches in California and two in Arizona. The

company, a mortgage lender, has $12 billion in assets.