Teledyne buys Canadian firm
Teledyne Technologies said Feb. 27 that it has purchased a Canadian firm that makes electronics products for the oil and gas industry. Teledyne, a Thousand Oaks-based conglomerate of defense and industrial brands, has been rebalancing its portfolio away from defense companies and toward commercial and industrial products as the U.S. cuts defense spending as it Read More →
Deckers steps up sales to $1.4B
[wikichart align=”center” ticker=”DECK” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”23-08-2011″ enddate=”23-02-2012″ width=”390″ height=”245″] Goleta-based Deckers Outdoor Corp., parent of the Ugg Australia boot brand, increased its sales 38 percent to nearly $1.4 billion in 2011 and boosted net income 25 percent $201.8 million. In an earnings release on Feb. 23, Deckers said it notched a huge boost in international Read More →
K-Swiss shares tumble on higher Q4 loss
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:KSWS” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”17-08-2011″ enddate=”17-02-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Athletic shoe company K-Swiss stumbled into another unprofitable quarter, reporting a $25.2 million loss that came to 71 cents per share, despite higher sales. Shares of K-Swiss dropped 10.7 percent to $3.35 on Feb. 17 after the earnings announcement. In the fourth quarter of 2010, the Read More →
Ceres delays again, warns of Brazilian drought
Ceres, the Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm, has delayed its initial public offering again. It also said Friday that its existing investors might buy as many as a fifth of the shares slated to hit the market and that a drought in Brazil could hurt it sweet sorghum yields. The pushed back its planned initial Read More →
Ceres delays its IPO, slashes price
Thousand Oaks-based energy crop maker Ceres has drastically lowered expectations for its initial public offering and delayed it for a week, according to regulatory filings and investment banking sources. The company was set to raise as much as $132 million on the Nasdaq when shares hit the markets under the name CERE on Feb. 9. Read More →