Briefly In Business

Volunteers sought from business community

Volunteers are needed for a Burbank Business Partners program that sends participants into area schools to discuss their professions.

Participants will travel to schools and deliver presentations about their careers and businesses to students studying finance and business at Burbank and John Burroughs high schools.

For more information, contact Sheri Rang at (818) 846-3111.

Longtime Warner Bros. executive set to leave

Warner Bros. officials announced that industry veteran Ruud Lamers — who steered the company through the distribution of VHS, DVD and high-definition formats as managing director of Warner Home Video — will leave the company on April 30.

During 25 years with the studio, Lamers saw the company through changes in distribution of home entertainment and headed the first video rental system in the Netherlands in 1981, according to company officials.

Lamers has also been an anti-piracy advocate, promoting public awareness to thwart piracy in Europe as chairman of a Dutch anti-piracy committee.

Burbank credit union recognized as No. 1

Burbank-based Lockheed Federal Credit Union was ranked No. 1 in the medium-sized business category of the “California’s Best Places to Work” program for 2007.

The announcement came Friday at a ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel, sponsored by the Employers Group, an independent employer and human resources advocate.

The credit union was considered along with 400 other companies, which were scored based on responses to surveys that covered work-life balance, turnover employee voice and workplace culture and community involvement.