Apeel CEO steps down, mission remains same
Feb 28, 2024 · Apeel Sciences founders, from left: Jenny Du, James Rogers and Louis Perez. Rogers won the Entrepreneur of the Year award. (courtesy photo) When James Rogers founded Goleta-based Apeel Sciences in 2012, he believed the hardest part of steering the company would be finding new ways to coat each fruit to help the …
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Two aerospace firms fly into Thousand Oaks
Sep 29, 2023 · Frontier Aerospace's new Thousand Oaks facility. (Mike Harris / PCBT Staff) Two aerospace companies are opening new research and development facilities in Thousand Oaks. HRL Laboratories, based in Malibu, is expected to move into its new campus, a 120,000-square-foot building at 3500 Willow Lane, perhaps starting …
Jordano’s Foodservice expands Goleta footprint
Jan 13, 2023 · For the first time in three decades, Jordano's is expanding its footprint in the region with an additional 27,000 square feet of warehouse space. (courtesy photo) Goleta-based Jordano’s Foodservice, a family-owned broad line foodservice distributor, announced Jan. 11 that the company has increased its cooler distribution center. With the …
Community West, Central Valley Banks complete merger
Apr 12, 2024 · Community West Bank in Santa Barbara. (courtesy photo) Central Valley Community Bancorp has completed its merger with Community West Bancshares, the parent company of Community West Bank headquartered in Goleta. The deal’s finalization was announced April 1, some six months after the intended merger was made public. Central Valley Community Bancorp is the parent company
Bravery in early Santa Barbara banking | Pacific Coast Business Times
May 30, 2023 · David Spainhour, who played a lead role in the rise of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust to become the region's dominant banking institution in the 1990s and early 2000s, died in Santa Barbara on May 28. He was 91. David Spainhour, an influential part of Santa Barbara's banking history, died on May 28. Spainhour, a
Sansum, Sutter Health finalize partnership | Pacific Coast Business …
Sep 29, 2023 · Ransohoff, Thomas, other key executives, physicians and community members gathered on Sept. 29 at Sansum’s 4151 Foothill Rd. campus, celebrating the fact that Sansum Clinic is now a member of Sutter Health. (courtesy photo) A deal more than a decade in the making came to fruition on Sept. 29, when CEOs for both Sansum Clinic
U.S. Bank’s $8B deal to buy Union Bank could make it region’s …
Sep 21, 2021 · Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted Sept. 21 and updated Sept. 23 with more reporting about the pending bank merger. Union Bank’s 29-branch network in the Tri-Counties will become part of U.S. Bank in an $8 billion deal that will give Union Bank’s Japanese parent a nearly 3% stake in Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp.
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The Pacific Coast Business Times’ collection of Top 25 lists represents data on thousands of companies in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, collected by our reporters and researchers.. We offer a new list each week ranking the top companies, employers and people operating in one of the many industries that compete in the Tri-Counties.
Amgen lays off another 450 workers | Pacific Coast Business Times
Mar 16, 2023 · Amgen's new research and development facility in San Francisco. (courtesy photo) For the second time this year, Amgen is cutting hundreds of jobs in an effort to curtail expenses in the face of an uncertain economy. Amgen, the largest employer in Ventura County, announced on March 16 that it would be laying off 450 workers,