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Guitar man: High-end instruments, made in Oxnard

By   /  Monday, October 11th, 2010  /  Features, Small Business  /  Comments Off on Guitar man: High-end instruments, made in Oxnard

The first things you notice when you meet Jean Larrivée, the founder of high-end guitar maker Jean Larrivée Guitars, aren’t the test instruments leaning against the wall of his office, the tool chest in the corner or the small bottles of wood stain that dot the windowsill. It’s the giant red banners bearing Cyrillic script, Read More →

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A weekend to Savor: Festival puts spotlight on SLO food, wine

By   /  Monday, October 4th, 2010  /  Features  /  Comments Off on A weekend to Savor: Festival puts spotlight on SLO food, wine

The inaugural Savor the Central Coast promises to bring more than 8,000 food fanatics to San Luis Obispo County, filling up hotel rooms, putting the area on the map as a major culinary destination and extending the county’s tourist season. The four-day food and wine festival is hosted by Sunset Magazine and the San Luis Read More →

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All grown up: These SLO entrepreneurs have come a long way

By   /  Monday, September 27th, 2010  /  Features, Small Business  /  Comments Off on All grown up: These SLO entrepreneurs have come a long way

San Luis Obispo’s startups are growing up fast. Thirteen years ago, two San Luis Obispo high school students started their own company because they couldn’t find part-time jobs to fit their busy student-athlete schedules. That business, Meathead Movers, has since grown into a flourishing moving and storage empire that helps some 180 college students put Read More →

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Teledyne on another buying spree

By   /  Monday, June 21st, 2010  /  Features  /  Comments Off on Teledyne on another buying spree

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies is back in acquisition mode. This month, the defense conglomerate made up of dozens of companies has bought two more: Optimum Optical Systems, a Camarillo firm that will complement Teledyne’s infrared imaging systems for unmammned aerial vehicles; and Intelek, a United Kingdom mini-conglomerate that makes electronic systems for satellite communications. Teledyne Read More →

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A good sign: C&D Zodiac thriving in Santa Maria

By   /  Tuesday, May 25th, 2010  /  Features  /  Comments Off on A good sign: C&D Zodiac thriving in Santa Maria

If you’ve ever flown in a Boeing jet and adjusted the air nozzle above your head or rang for a flight attendant, there’s a good chance you’ve touched a product made by C&D Zodiac in Santa Maria. C&D’s factory in Santa Maria employs 475 and is one of 15 facilities owned by the company, a Read More →

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Paso Robles: growing between the vines

By   /  Monday, December 21st, 2009  /  Features  /  Comments Off on Paso Robles: growing between the vines

Paso Robles touts itself as the wine capital of the Central Coast, and area wineries have done everything they can to uphold that image in the past year, adding thousands of square feet in expansions and remodels. In fact, construction at the wineries surrounding Paso Robles may soon outpace growth in the city itself. A Read More →

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No restaurant blues at EP Koberl

By   /  Monday, December 21st, 2009  /  Features  /  Comments Off on No restaurant blues at EP Koberl

The restaurant business is a notoriously tough one to succeed in, but Erich and Patricia Koberl must have had a secret recipe when they struck out on their own almost five years ago. EP Koberl at Blue, a stylish little restaurant nestled in the corner of the historic J.P. Andrews Building in downtown San Luis Read More →

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