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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 25th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Pharma shakeups put pressure on top brass at Amgen to perform
With activist investor Bill Ackman pushing to buy Botox maker Allegran in a bid with upstart Valeant and restructurings under way at pharma giants GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly & Co. and Novartis, it’s logical to question whether biotech giant Amgen will be next. So far the answer seems to be “not yet” — with one big Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Saturday, April 19th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Without fishermen, region’s harbors and bistros would be poorer
Fishing is really at the leading edge of the tourism culture. Just ask Ventura Harbor and Morro Bay, which have been trying to rebuild their tourism cred in part by reinvigorating their commercial fishing appeals and playing up their local seafood.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 11th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Paso Robles wine pioneer sets out in pursuit of the $100 bottle
Paso Robles winemaker Daniel Daou is pursuing the holy grail of California vintners: A cabernet sauvignon or Bordeaux that can reliably fetch $100 a bottle.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Banking & Finance, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Select Staffing to shed debt, relinquish family control in Ch. 11
The reorganization will reduce the ownership stake held by the Sorensen family and ends a years-long search for a solution to the heavy debt load Select Staffing took on at the height of the credit bubble.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Business lessons learned from region’s largest corporate bankruptcy
At least in terms of revenue, Select is the largest company in the history of the Tri-Counties to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors.
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Columns, Opinion / Comments Off on Limoneira could lead water-efficiency push in California drought
One of the cool things about covering business in the Tri-Counties is that at least once a year we get a pretty close look at what’s happening at one of the region’s largest agribusiness holding companies. That’s because Santa Paula-based Limoneira Co., founded in 1893, happens to be a publicly traded company. The company began Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 21st, 2014 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on After seven years, the financial crisis quietly ends for area banks
“Even the pessimists were thinking three years,” Community West CEO Marty Plourd told me. “No one expected the low-interest-rate environment to last this long,”
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