After a series of branch consolidations and a strategic rethinking, Rabobank will focus its California lending on business banking, agribusiness and renewables in its core markets in the Central Valley and on the Central Coast. The Netherlands-based banking giant has set a goal to be the global leader in food and agriculture lending as Read More →
Goleta-based Deckers on July 30 reported a loss of $47.3 million in its fiscal first quarter and a loss of $1.43 on a per-share basis. Despite the per-share loss, the results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $1.51 per share. Deckers Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc. posted second-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates, driven by higher sales and lower operating expenses. The biotech also raised its revenue and earnings forecast for the year. Profit excluding one-time items rose to $2.57 a share, while analysts had predicted $2.43 on average. Revenue increased 3.7 percent to $5.37 billion, the Read More →
The Food and Drug Administration approved Amgen’s Kyprolis for second-line treatments of multiple-myeloma on Friday. Thousand Oaks-based Amgen’s new treatment for multiple-myeloma could pay off big for the company now that the treatment can be accessed by more patients in the second line of treatments. Kyprolis was approved for third-line treatments in 2012. The FDA’s Read More →
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Thousand Oaks-based Amgen announced Thursday that it submitted data comparing its new multiple-myeloma drug against a rival to the Food and Drug Administration. Kyprolis is Amgen’s new treatment for multiple-myeloma, which is a form of blood cancer that forms in plasma cells and typically grows in bone marrow. The drug was approved for third-line treatments Read More →
Teledyne Technologies won an out of this world contract Tuesday. Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne announced that it won a $15 million contract from NASA on Monday to build a hyper-spectral remote sensing imaging instrument that will be used on the International Space Station. Teledyne makes instrumentation, digital imaging products and software for aerospace and defense systems. Read More →
