Montecito Bank & Trust tops $2B in assets
Montecito Bank & Trust’s assets grew by almost half a billion dollars in the past year, with strong deposit and loan growth, the bank said in its May 6 first-quarter earnings release. The Santa Barbara-based bank is the largest financial institution based in the tri-county region. Its assets topped $2 billion at the end of Read More →
Lori’s Lemonade wins gold
Lavender Lemonade, a product by Ventura-based Lori’s Original Lemonade, won a gold award in the Specialty Food Association’s 2021 sofi Awards. The lemonade was one of 130 winners across 49 categories, announced May 5. There were almost 1,500 entrees, and the entrees were judged in an anonymous sampling for taste, ingredient quality and innovation. Lori Read More →
MIT to drop affiliation with Central Coast Enterprise Forum
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum Global will be closing its program effective June 30 and is asking all of its affiliated chapters, including the Central Coast chapter, to discontinue all association with the brand. The news came in an April 30 email to Enterprise Forum chapters from the CEO of MIT Technology Review, Read More →
Inogen reports big drop in losses in Q1
Inogen, a medical device company specializing in portable oxygen concentrators, saw a slight dip in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, but shrinking losses and continued growth in its new focus area of device rentals. The Goleta company reported its first quarter earnings after the markets closed May 4, and highlighted revenue for the Read More →
Arcutis shares down after earnings report
Westlake Village-based Arcutis Biotherapeutics suffered a net loss in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, but continues to hold a strong financial position with $446.5 million in assets. According to earnings released May 4, Arcutis lost $36 million in the first quarter, or 76 cents per share, compared to a loss of $28 million, Read More →
Atara beats estimates with loss in Q1
Atara Biotherapeutics had a net loss of $78.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, slightly higher compared than same quarter a year earlier, when the company had a loss of $73.5 million. Despite this, Atara, an immunotherapy biotech company based in South San Francisco with some of its major operations in Thousand Read More →
Fienup: A long road to get economy out of ‘crisis mode’
Ventura County’s economy was in a rougher place than previously understood when the pandemic started, and rebuilding it in a way that benefits everyone is going to take a lot of careful work. That was the message from Matthew Fienup, the executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University, Read More →
