Styling success: Santa Barbara salon owner starts kids hair-care line
A Santa Barbara salon owner and mom has combined those two passions to create Glop & Glam, a fast-growing kids hair care products line that is sold in more than 500 high-end retail stores around the country. Glop & Glam, started by Santa Barbara hairstylist Andrea Ridgell, recently hired its first director of sales, a Read More →
El Encanto owner reports $8.3M loss
Orient-Express Hotels, the Bermuda-based luxury travel firm that owns and operates the newly-reopened El Encanto hotel in Santa Barbara, reported an $8.3 million loss on revenue of $103.2 million for the first quarter. That’s a slight improvement over a $14.4 million loss during the same time period last year, and officials said in the May Read More →
Op/ed: Making affordable health insurance for California small businesses and workers a priority
But because of the Affordable Care Act, California’s small businesses and their employees are getting better choices.
Op/ed: Immigration reform can move our economy forward
By Daniel Grossman and Mick Hellman on May 10, 2013 From the business parks of Silicon Valley to the fields of the Central Valley, immigrants help fuel California’s economic engine. Unfortunately, our nation’s immigration policies resemble a badly tuned carburetor, restricting the full participation of immigrants in our system, choking them and us of oxygen Read More →
Editorial: To become tech magnet, region should think big
We’d encourage UCSB to think bigger when it comes to the longterm effects of the startups it spins out and embrace a broader role along the entire Highway 101 corridor.
The real deal: Fashion Forms founder builds an intimates empire
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Vasquez: Navy’s pivot to Pacific benefits Ventura County
An additional 700 military personnel will come to Naval Base Ventura County to operate a unit of the Navy’s first large drone system, the base commander told a gathering of business leaders in Thousand Oaks on Thursday. Capt. Lawrence Vasquez talked about the economic impact of the naval base at a Corporate Leaders Breakfast at Read More →
