Ex-Joint Chiefs of Staff to Head South Bay Firm

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Pelican Products Inc., the Torrance maker of heavy-duty cases and flashlights, appointed former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace as company chairman in a move designed to shore up military business, the firm said Wednesday.

Pace, who serves in a non-executive role, will provide "additional strategic oversight" for Pelican with military, defense and federal government customers, the company said.

Pace's appointment will complement Pelican's "aggressive global expansion plans," which include developing technologies and products to benefit U.S. and allied militaries, Lyndon Faulkner, Pelican's president and CEO, said in a statement.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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