May 14, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Inogen sees revenue growth, but stock declines after report

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Inogen, a Goleta-based medical device company specializing in portable oxygen concentrators, is starting to see its core business come back from the pandemic, and the company highlighted double-digit year-over-year growth in both earnings and revenue in its second quarter financial results, released Aug. 4. The company more than doubled its net income for the quarter Read More →

| Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Houweling’s Tomatoes will become state’s biggest cannabis greenhouse

Agribusiness, Latest news, right, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County

Houweling’s Tomatoes is closing its 125-acre Camarillo greenhouse and selling the facility to a cannabis grower — a deal made possible by a Ventura County ballot measure last year that was sponsored and supported by a company affiliated with Houweling’s. Houweling’s, an indoor tomato and cucumber grower that has been in the Camarillo area since Read More →

| Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

Houweling’s to close Camarillo greenhouse, lay off 486 workers

Agribusiness, Latest news, right, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County

Houweling’s Tomatoes, an indoor tomato and cucumber grower based in Camarillo, will lay off nearly 500 employees and will cease operations by the end of September, according to a notice filed with the state of California and county of Ventura. California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, requires companies to notify state and Read More →

| Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

Amgen reports Q2 earnings decline

Banking & Finance, Earnings, East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Amgen saw a 73% decline in net earnings in the second quarter of 2021, the company announced Aug. 3. Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies, reported earnings per share of 81 cents for the quarter ended June 30, down from $3.05 per share in the same quarter last year. According to Read More →

| Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Transphorm closes deal in Japan

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Goleta-based Transphorm announced the close of its acquisition of a Japanese-based water fabrication company on Aug. 2, alongside its new joint venture capital partner, JCP Capital. The facility, located in Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, is considered to be the premier wafer manufacturing fab in the world for high-voltage gallium nitride power semiconductors, according to a press Read More →

| Thursday, July 29th, 2021

Running shoe sales propel Deckers to profitable quarter

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, right, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Goleta-based Deckers Brands started its 2021-22 fiscal year strong, reporting huge increases in earnings and revenue in quarterly results released after the markets closed July 29. The parent company of Ugg, Teva and other footwear brands delivered earnings of $48.1 million in the most recent quarter, or $1.71 per share, much better than the same Read More →

| Thursday, July 29th, 2021

Teledyne shares rise after first earnings report since Flir acquisition

Banking & Finance, Earnings, East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Teledyne Technologies crushed analysts’ expectations July 28, delivering revenue in the second quarter of 2021 that doubled its total from the same quarter a year ago, thanks in large part to its acquisition of Flir systems, an Oregon based company with significant operations in Goleta. Teledyne, a Thousand Oaks-based industrial and scientific conglomerate, generated $1.12 Read More →