An estimated 52,150 California businesses incorporated in 1997 - the most this decade and an increase of 6.2 percent over 1996 levels.
More than 40 percent of the incorporations were in Los Angeles County, which posted a 2.7 percent increase over the year-earlier figures. according to CDB Infotek, a Santa Ana-based public records database service.
"The California economy has really turned around in just about all areas," said Fred Main, vice president of the California Chamber of ...