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 | Friday, August 17th, 2012

								
Smaller players become heavyweights at Terravant Wine

								Columns, Wine & Viticulture								
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 | Friday, August 17th, 2012

								
CEC wants to put solar on 1,000 roofs for South Coast nonprofits

								Columns, Real Estate								
 The Community Environmental Council is rolling out a pilot power-purchase solar program for nonprofits.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, August 17th, 2012

								
CKE chief: Corn, Obamacare scuttled IPO

								Banking & Finance, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies								
CKE Restaurants has pulled the plug on a deal that would have made it a public company again and raised as much as $213.3 million for the Carpinteria-based fast-food operator. All sides agree investors ultimately balked because of bad timing. But analysts also lay part of the blame on the heavy debt load CKE incurred Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, August 17th, 2012

								
Hold the politics: Chick-fil-A franchisees caught in flap over exec’s comments

								Features, Real Estate, Small Business								
  Craig Goettsche just wants to serve Southern-style chicken sandwiches and waffle fries to his customers. Keep the pickles — hold the politics. But like other Chick-fil-A franchisees across the country, Goettsche has found his business caught in the midst of the kerfuffle surrounding anti gay-marriage statements made by the company’s president, Dan Cathy. The Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, August 10th, 2012

								
Anchor grocery store deal caps turnaround at Dos Vientos mall

								Columns, Real Estate								
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 | Friday, August 10th, 2012

								
$100M Nesbitt hotel portfolio files Chapter 11

								Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism								
Santa Barbara hotelier Patrick Nesbitt has placed a portfolio of eight Embassy Suites hotels into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing at least $100 million in debts. The bankruptcy filing, which gives Nesbitt’s companies protection from creditors while they restructure their debts, arises from a dispute with a lender over a $187.5 million loan used to refinance Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, August 3rd, 2012

								
Fresh selection: Low-priced grocers move in to region

								Features, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy								
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