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Limoneira readies for Wall Street

By   /  Monday, March 29th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Limoneira readies for Wall Street

Santa Paula-based Limoneira is ready to put a sour year behind it as it gears up to become a fully publicly traded company in coming months. In mid-February, the citrus and avocado giant filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to begin trading its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The move to Wall Read More →

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Dining dilemma

By   /  Monday, March 29th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Dining dilemma

Fine dining is a tough business in downtown Santa Barbara. Even a helping hand from a Hollywood star sometimes isn’t enough to pull a family business through. Consider Epiphany Restaurant & Bar. After eight and a half years in business and backing from onetime co-owner Kevin Costner, the Academy Award-winning actor who maintains a villa Read More →

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Banks bring $100M in capital into region

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Some $100 million in new capital has poured into tri-county banks in recent weeks, providing a potential new flow of credit to businesses. But how fast that new cash translates into loans depends on the remaining fallout from the recession and what regulators are willing to allow as commercial real estate bottoms. While economists called Read More →

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Products power Semtech growth

By   /  Monday, March 22nd, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Products power Semtech growth

Camarillo chipmaker Semtech Corp.’s $180 million, all-cash acquisition of an Orange County firm is paying off with profits and a new product mix analysts say sets the semiconductor company up for steady, high-margin growth in coming years. In December, Semtech, which has a market capitalization of about $1.1 billion and makes chips for consumer products Read More →

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Storm water rules go back for revision

By   /  Monday, March 22nd, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Storm water rules go back for revision

Bowing to protests from builders and property owners, state water regulators have reopened the debate on new stormwater rules that could substantially increase the cost of  new commercial construction in Ventura County for decades to come. On March 11, the Los Angeles Water Board agreed to a request from state regulators to hold a new Read More →

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Heritage Oaks gets $60M

By   /  Monday, March 15th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Heritage Oaks gets $60M

Forty-eight hours after the release of a memorandum of understanding with regulators, Paso Robles-based Heritage Oaks Bank slammed the door on further proceedings when it announced it was raising $60 million in new securities. The infusion of preferred and convertible stock will make Heritage Oaks, with $947 million in assets, one of the best-capitalized banks Read More →

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Bound for China

By   /  Monday, March 15th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Bound for China

While the U.S. auto industry recovers from dismal domestic sales in 2009, thousands of American-made vehicles are flowing through the Port of Hueneme each month bound for a booming Chinese market. The cars are being made in the Midwest, shipped by rail to Southern California and trucked to the port. From there, they go to Read More →

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