Airing it out: Business leaders look for new Santa Barbara-San Jose carrier
UncategorizedIn June, the South Coast lost its direct air travel connection to Silicon Valley, a route that business leaders say is important to the region’s competitiveness. Business groups are taking action to restore it and say they need the business community’s input. The Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Barbara Airport and Citrix Online, Read More →
Kids' clothes, grown-up businesses
Small BusinessAny parent can tell you that children can be an endless source of joy, tears, laughter and stress. For two Santa Barbara County moms, they’re also a source of business inspiration. In Solvang, children’s clothing company Lollybean has seen steady growth since owner Amy McConnell started the business in 2007. With the clothes she designs Read More →
Limoneira
ColumnsSanta Paula-based Limoneira Co. has come a long way since its early days as a family-owned lemon grower. Today, it’s traded on Wall Street and enjoys tens of millions of dollars in sales each year. And it’s not just a citrus business — Limoneira is now one of the largest players in the tri-county real Read More →
With Towbes, L.A. takes notice of our region
ColumnsFor the past five years, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards — aka the Oscars of business in Los Angeles — have followed an annoyingly familiar script. Really cool South Coast companies get named finalists and they look good in awards videos. But they haven’t exactly lit a fire under the judging Read More →
Editorial: Pacific Capital deal moving along
OpinionThere are signs that the $500 million investment by Ford Financial Fund into Pacific Capital Bancorp is inching forward. An increased offer to bondholders has met, we understand, with positive responses from a large group of investors. The expiration of TARP funding this fall means the U.S. Treasury might be highly motivated to swap its Read More →
Editorial: Small business is the real key to fixing state
OpinionA California Forward meeting for Ventura and Santa Barbara business leaders on June 16 provides a useful marker for how far California has come toward real reform — and how far it needs to go. Over the past several years, voters have overhauled the state’s method for drawing districts and, thanks in part to Lt. Read More →
Making cement green: Oxnard firm leads the way
UncategorizedJim Price, president of Oxnard’s Diversified Minerals, has entered a range of businesses with his 26-person company, but it all adds up to single-minded focus: greener cement. Diversified Minerals builds giant cement silos, runs a railroad spur and blends specialty cements for projects like dams and levies. But its main thrust is to remanufacture Read More →
