San Luis Obispo entrepreneur returns to his roots
Buying his old company back last year was a business decision, but James Whitaker admits pride had something to do with it. Quickcondoms.com — as the name suggests, the company sells condoms online — was struggling. Whitaker started the business as a 19-year-old Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student and sold his half to his Read More →
Whole Foods thinks local as tri-county products land on shelves
Whole Foods Market has been in expansion mode for the better part of two decades. As it has opened stores in the Tri-Counties, entrepreneurs have worked to get their products on the stores’ shelves. Beth Bailey is a Santa Barbara mother of two who founded The Kiddo Co. The company makes all-natural, all-organic “squeezies,” Read More →
Public, private hospitals expanding in Ventura
With the completion of its new $50 million replacement clinic in the fall, Ventura County Medical Center will finally put the capstone on its new campus. In 1994, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors approved the county medical center’s “consolidation project,” a massive effort to replace and upgrade facilities. Since then, the public medical center’s inpatient Read More →
Limoneira shares climb in Nasdaq debut
Shares of Santa Paula-based Limoneira Co., the largest citrus grower in the Tri-Counties, gained nearly 7 percent in their first day trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The company’s stock was formerly traded on the Pink Sheets, an over-the-counter exchange. Moving to the higher-visibility Nasdaq on May 27 was part of a plan Limoneira announced Read More →
Another stop on the Green Coast tour
When German solar panel manufacturer SolarWorld took over the former Shell Solar plant in Camarillo in 2006, the early signals were not exactly encouraging. First, SolarWorld planted its North American headquarters flag not in Ventura County but in Hillsboro, Ore., where it acquired an empty computer chip factory and built a solar panel plant that Read More →
