Deckers CEO: Company culture is what counts
In a globalized world, vision and culture are the keys to creating and marketing successful new products. That’s the message Deckers Outdoor Corp. CEO Angel Martinez brought to about 250 Central Coast business leaders at the Feb. 2 Corporate Leaders Breakfast at California Lutheran University. “Our mission is to find niche brands and turn them Read More →
Inphi taps new CEO after profits fall 93%
Inphi Corp., the Santa Clara-based chip firm with a large engineering force in Thousand Oaks, ousted its CEO on Feb. 1 as it announced that profits plummeted by 93 percent in 2011. Inphi designs chips aimed at packing more memory into Internet servers and increasing bandwidth in the Internet backbone. The company announced that Ford Read More →
PCBC reports $70.5M in 2011 profits
[wikichart align=”center” ticker=”PCBC” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” rollingdate=”6 months” width=”390″ height=”245″] Pacific Capital Bancorp, the largest bank based in the region, earned $70.5 million in 2011, its first full calendar year under the ownership of a Texas-based private equity group. The parent company of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust saw its fourth-quarter profits drop 39.8 percent to Read More →
Under scrutiny, First California targets South Coast
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Big California banks see 2011 earnings bounce
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Ceres to debut at $21 to $23 per share
Thousand Oaks-based energy crop developer Ceres has plans to make its debut on the Nasdaq on Feb. 8 under the symbol CERE and raise $132 million. Shares in the company, which uses genetic marking technology to speed the development of non-food energy crops such as drought-resistant switchgrass, are expected hit the markets at between $21 Read More →
