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Net income at American Riviera Bank increased in both the fourth quarter and full year of 2020, on the back of high loan growth and other positive factors, the bank announced Jan. 28. The Santa Barbara-based bank said its annual unaudited net income was up 15% from the previous year. In 2019, American Riviera Bank Read More →
EDITOR’S NOTE: Business Times subscribers can read our 2014 profile of Dave Power here. James David “J.D.” Power, whose name came to symbolize quality rankings in autos and other consumer products, has died at age 89. He passed away of natural causes on Jan. 23 in Thousand Oaks, according to a statement from the family. Read More →
Restaurants are open outdoors again, as California is back under the county-by-county tiered reopening system after more than a month under a stay-at-home order that split the state into five regions. Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties are all again in the state’s purple tier, the most restrictive one, as cases in the Read More →
Teledyne Technologies beat analysts’ expectations when it announced its fourth quarter results Jan. 27, with a slight decrease in revenue but a bump in net income compared to the same quarter a year earlier. Teledyne, a Thousand Oaks-based industrial and scientific conglomerate, reported earnings per share of $3.48 for the fourth quarter of 2020, up Read More →
Plant-based meal replacement producer Kate Farms saw a new backer join its series B funding round when it announced Jan. 26 that Main Street Advisors joined Goldman Sachs and Kaiser Permanente Ventures to invest $9 million, closing the round at $60 million. Kate Farms, which is headquartered in Santa Barbara, has told the Business Times Read More →
Inogen, a medical device company in Goleta that makes portable oxygen concentrators, named a new president and CEO on Jan. 27. Nabil Shabshab, 56, will lead the company starting Feb. 8, Inogen said. He has spent the last nine years with the medical technology company Becton Dickinson and Company, including the past three and a Read More →