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| Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Mission Linen names new CEO

Latest news

Mission Linen Supply, one of the largest privately held companies in the region, has named a new president and CEO following the retirement of executive Karl Willig. Santa Barbara-based Mission Linen, a linen and uniform rental service with about 2,500 employees across the U.S., said July 25 that John Ross is its new president and Read More →

| Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Calient raises $27M, hires new CFO

Technology

Santa Barbara-based photonics firm Calient Technologies has raised $27 million in venture capital and hired a new chief financial officer to lead growth. The firm said July 24 that it raised the round from a combination of new and existing investors and that the funding will be used to enhance its portfolio of 3D micro Read More →

| Monday, July 15th, 2013

Ceres loses $9.3M, missing estimates

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

Thousand Oaks-based agricultural biotech firm Ceres’ third-quarter net loss widened to $9.3 million, or 38 cents per share, on revenue of $1.4 million, it said July 11. The energy crop firm attributed the higher loss to added expenses from expanding business operations in Brazil and higher-than-expected variability in how much fuel its crops can produce. Read More →

| Thursday, July 11th, 2013

Neighborhood Clinics get funds to continue operation

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Nonprofits, Tri-County Economy

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics will not close its doors on Monday, thanks to hundreds of thousands of dollars in community support. The nonprofits clinics, which serve low-income and uninsured residents on the South Coast, has been struggling financially and said in May that it would be forced to shut down if it couldn’t find the Read More →

| Thursday, July 11th, 2013

JM Holliday Associates and De Vicente Mills Architecture to merge

Latest news, Real Estate

Santa Barbara architecture firms JM Holliday Associates and De Vicente Mills Architecture are merging. The two firms, which have been working closely together in the same office space, will officially merge to become DMHA Architecture & + Interior Design. “Our new team more than doubles the size of our existing firms and dramatically increases our Read More →

| Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Yardi acquires apartment research company

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Yardi Systems, a Santa Barbara-based technology company focused on designing products for real estate and property management, said July 3 that it has acquired a company that compiles and publishes data on the apartment industry. Pierce-Eislen is an online technology company that provides up-to-the-minute data to the commercial multifamily housing industry. The company researches and Read More →

| Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

RRM Design Group merges with Peikert Group Architects

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San Luis Obispo-based RRM Design Group and Santa Barbara-based Peikert Group Architects announced July 1 that the two architecture firms are becoming one. In the wake of the merger, PGA will continue to operate in Santa Barbara as an RRM company under the name of Peikert+RRM Design Group. RRM, for its part, will continue to Read More →