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Meet the 2023 Fastest Growing Companies!

By   /  Monday, October 2nd, 2023  /  Central Coast, Economy, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Special Sections, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy, Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Meet the 2023 Fastest Growing Companies!

The 2023 chapter of the Pacific Coast Business Times’ Fastest Growing Companies special report is here! This year, the company that’s shown the most revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 is Pashion Footwear, a company the Pacific Coast Business Times knows well. We’ve been following the story of CEO Haley Pavone since 2017, when she Read More →

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2023 Spirit of Small Business Awards winners

By   /  Monday, July 31st, 2023  /  Latest news, Small Business, Special Sections, Top Stories, Top Story  /  Comments Off on 2023 Spirit of Small Business Awards winners

The Pacific Coast Business Times created the Spirit of Small Business Awards in 2003 to honor small business leaders along the Central Coast. We partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to show off the region’s best and brightest, and over the years, we’ve given out 174 awards to small business advocates, pioneers, families and Read More →

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2023 Latino Business Award winners and event

By   /  Thursday, June 29th, 2023  /  Latest news, Special Sections, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on 2023 Latino Business Award winners and event

The Pacific Coast Business Times is pleased to present the winners of our 12th annual Latino Business Awards. Since 2011, the Business Times has recognized a major part of the Central Coast economy: Latino business leaders. We’re glad to continue this tradition with a celebration on July 20th at the Limoneira Ranch in Santa Paula. Read More →

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Come celebrate Central Coast businesses!

By   /  Tuesday, May 30th, 2023  /  Latest news, Special Sections, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy, Workforce  /  Comments Off on Come celebrate Central Coast businesses!

Central Coast Best Places to Work is one way that Pacific Coast Business Times takes the pulse of the workplace across the region. We take a keen interest in knowing which organizations are performing best for their employees, and what those employers are doing that others can learn from. In 2023 we added a new Read More →

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Join our Legacy/Business Hall of Fame event!

By   /  Thursday, April 27th, 2023  /  Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Special Sections, Top Stories, Top Story  /  Comments Off on Join our Legacy/Business Hall of Fame event!

Our 2023 Hall of Fame and Legacy special report celebrates the incredible career of Janet Garufis, the chairman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust, the biggest locally-based bank in the region. Garufis, who has been in the banking industry for more than 50 years, started out as a teller and rose through the ranks. Read More →

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 Humor us: How Central Coast Comedy clubs pivoted during pandemic

By   /  Thursday, December 15th, 2022  /  Features, Small Business, Special Sections, Top 25 lists, Top Stories, Top Story  /  Comments Off on  Humor us: How Central Coast Comedy clubs pivoted during pandemic

By Mark Miller Special to The Business Times Laugh and the world laughs with you. Maybe. Own a comedy club and you struggle during a pandemic.  Perhaps no small businesses depend more on tightly packing large numbers of customers into small spaces and mightily attempting to provoke them to forcefully aspirate into the air than Read More →

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Estate Planning Panel

By   /  Sunday, November 27th, 2022  /  Personal Finance, Special Sections  /  Comments Off on Estate Planning Panel

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