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By Dana Olsen / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Finding the fitness fit: Santa Barbara firm inks distribution deal
A Santa Barbara businesswoman is flexing her entrepreneurial muscles as the fitness product she designed launches into the national market.
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Columns, Tourism / Comments Off on Can’t rent the whole roof? Santa Barbara venues pioneer party-shares
The more the merrier! For the first time ever, two popular Santa Barbara County venues are hosting holiday party-shares for small businesses. It’s not the traditional way for companies to throw holiday parties, but Canary Hotel and Rincon Beach Club say nontraditional holiday parties may be the new “in” thing this holiday season. Laura McIver, Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Top Stories / 1 Comment
DenMat, the maker of Lumineers dental veneers and a major Santa Maria employer, has a new owner and a new chief executive. Centre Partners, a private equity firm, and Mill Street Partners, a firm founded this year by dentistry industry veterans, took control of the company on Nov. 15. The acquisition comes four years after Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism / Comments Off on El Encanto gets $45M in financing, plans to open next year
The international hotel firm behind El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara has received $45 million in construction financing for the project and plans to open the luxury hilltop villas by late 2012. When all is said and done, Orient-Express Hotels will have spent more than $90 million to buy and renovate a project it’s not Read More →
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Dobyns named Mission Community Bank CEO
Tom Dobyns is the new CEO of San Luis Obispo-based Mission Community Bank. He was most recently president and CEO of American Security Bank in Newport Beach, prior to which he was with First Interstate Bank of California, Great Western Bank and Home Savings of America. His career started with Bank of America Corp., where Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Top Stories / 3 Comments
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated and corrected at 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 21. Scroll to the bottom for the correction.] The State Compensation Insurance Fund and the region’s biggest private company are taking off the gloves in a fight over a $50 million fraud judgment. At issue is whether an $80 million dividend paid Read More →
