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Editorial Department


| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Power-One rides solar to sales growth

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In the space of a month, Power-One has opened two factories in North America and become the second-largest maker of inverters for solar panels in the world. The Camarillo firm opened factories in Ontario, Canada, and Phoenix. Canadian production has already started, and production lines in Arizona are set to fire up in October, creating Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Solar firms go panel-to-panel in Oxnard

Columns

A school district in West Ventura County is the last place on Earth where you’d expect to find ground zero in the battle for global supremacy in the solar energy business.   But that’s precisely the scenario that’s unfolding in the wake of an Oxnard Union School District board vote earlier this month that gave Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

High-wireless acts: Row 44, Sonos capitalize on move toward WiFi

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The world is going wireless, and two tri-county firms have raised $62 million as proof. Westlake Village-based Row 44 and Santa Barbara-based Sonos are building businesses around consumers’ burgeoning demand to stay connected to their digital lives wherever they are. Row 44 operates an in-flight wireless Internet service and is installing it on Southwest Airlines’ Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Carpinteria

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Carpinteria is home to some of the largest private and public companies on the South Coast, including Clipper Windpower, CKE Restaurants and Lynda.com. But the small seaside city has seen its commercial real estate market stagnate over the past year, jumping up to a 14.6 percent industrial vacancy rate. Online software training firm Lynda.com started Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

Shades of green: Avocados power Calavo's record earnings

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Harvest season is around the corner, and the outlook for the region’s avocados is as healthy as ever. Santa Paula-based Calavo Growers, one of the largest avocado marketers in the world, recently reported record third-quarter profits and said the worldwide avocado industry is growing. The firm’s third-quarter earnings were up 141 percent to $5.9 million, Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

Editorial: Congrats, Clipper

Opinion

We’ll take a minute to recognize Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, once again the fastest growing company in the Tri-Counties. Partly due to timing and to the recession, which has taken the wind out of the revenue growth numbers for dozens of area companies, Clipper has taken top honors in the Business Times’ annual review of Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

Editorial: Three big deals could signal Conejo comeback

Opinion

The Conejo Valley stretch of the Highway 101 corridor is looking like an early winner as the economy emerges from the Great Recession. We’re basing our judgment on one key factor — capital flows. In just 10 days in late August and early September, capital raises worth more than $200 million were announced for the Read More →