Area auto dealers stave off slow sales
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 2nd, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Area auto dealers stave off slow sales
For someone driving along Highway 101 in Ventura County, it might look like the auto industry is still running on fumes. It’s easy to misinterpret the big, empty lots on either side of the freeway as a sign of dwindling business, but a few dealers beg to differ. Kevin Todey owns and operates three dealerships: Read More →
Where sales are hot
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, November 2nd, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Where sales are hot
Sales are taking off at Hi-Temp Insulation. The Camarillo company makes heat shielding and soundproofing for the aircraft and spacecraft industries. Its products protect against fires in the engines of Boeing 777s, wrap U.S. missiles in blankets to keep them warm in Alaskan silos and prevent the space shuttle’s wings from burning up when it re-enters Read More →
Granada leasing is tall order
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, October 26th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Granada leasing is tall order
Santa Barbarans like to think they live the good life. They feel like they’re on top of the world. And now they have the chance to claim space atop the city’s tallest building. The Granada Theatre spent the past few years wrapped in a cocoon of scaffolding and tarps before emerging as a fully restored Read More →
Small banks caught in regulation crackdown
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, October 26th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Small banks caught in regulation crackdown
[Editor’s note: A clarification regarding Community West Bank’s profits has been added at the bottom of the story.] Two banks with tri-county operations have received orders from federal regulators to raise capital. The parent companies of Solvang-based Los Padres Bank and Woodland Hills-based Western Commercial Bank both now face a series of deadlines to boost Read More →
Bernanke at Bacara
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, October 26th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Bernanke at Bacara
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped through a Santa Barbara conference on Oct. 19, warning that Asia’s new export policies could lead to renewed trade imbalances if the U.S. doesn’t work with trade partners across the Pacific. During the invitation-only Asian Economic Policy Conference at the posh Bacara Resort & Spa, Bernanke said that low Read More →
Bernanke warns against trade imbalances at Santa Barbara event
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, October 19th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Bernanke warns against trade imbalances at Santa Barbara event
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned a gathering in Santa Barbara on Oct. 19 that Asia’s new export policies could lead to renewed trade imbalances if the U.S. doesn’t work with trade partners across the Pacific. In an event under tight security wraps at the Bacara Resort & Spa, Bernanke said that low interest rates Read More →
Thousand Oaks builder counts on tech
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, October 19th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Thousand Oaks builder counts on tech
The past year nearly demolished some construction firms in the Tri-Counties, but one Thousand Oaks general contractor that carved out a niche building laboratories and other high-end projects has eked out gains. Wesely-Thomas Enterprises has built or remodeled for Amgen, Teledyne Technologies and facilities for California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, among other tri-county clients. Read More →
