Retail
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 7th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Retail
Independent retailers from Thousand Oaks to Paso Robles are breathing a sigh of relief as they tabulate their Black Friday sales results. The traditional post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy never quite materialized for tri-county merchants — who mostly managed to break even despite big box competition and cautious consumers — but it could have been worse. A Read More →
QAD results hint at tech sector rebound
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, December 7th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on QAD results hint at tech sector rebound
QAD, the Santa Barbara-based maker of enterprise software, has turned in a strong performance for its third quarter ended Oct. 31, signaling early signs of a turnaround for an important business segment in the region. QAD’s shares hit a 52-week high on the Nasdaq after it reported Nov. 24 that it had earned 13 cents Read More →
San Luis Obispo jet center breaks ground
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 30th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on San Luis Obispo jet center breaks ground
A San Luis Obispo-based aviation company that provides private jet charters has broken ground on a $10 million corporate jet center near the regional airport. Aviation Consultants, a private company that runs the San Luis Jet Center, is building a massive new facility near the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. The nearly 80,000-square-foot project includes Read More →
Atascadero on the rise
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 30th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Atascadero on the rise
For years now, the city of Atascadero has retained a strong resemblance to the mudhole for which it was named. Dominated by construction zones, detours and piles of dirt, the core of the city is usually one storm away from being a muddy mess. But one development — the Colony Square Project — could provide Read More →
REC Solar soaks up wine, stimulus dollars
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 30th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on REC Solar soaks up wine, stimulus dollars
Wine profits and stimulus money are helping fuel expansion at one of the fastest-growing renewable energy companies on the Central Coast. San Luis Obispo-based REC Solar has expanded from 20 employees in 2005 to about 500 today and will install 1,700 solar systems this year. The company predicts that business in the agriculture sector — Read More →
Big changes in store for area chambers
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 23rd, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Big changes in store for area chambers
Ventura Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Officer Zoe Taylor is stepping down, marking the latest — but not the last — shift in the way chambers do business in the Tri-Counties. Taylor’s resignation comes on the heels of an exceptionally bad year for the chamber of commerce industry. With membership slipping, the regional Read More →
City still waits for wind firm
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 23rd, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on City still waits for wind firm
Continental Wind Power has made big promises to the people of Santa Paula, but there are signs that the young company is struggling to meet its self-imposed deadline for a new assembly plant. On June 30, Continental President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Winsayer stood before a crowd at Santa Paula’s City Hall. He said Read More →
