Mission Produce CEO a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year
Steve Barnard, the CEO of Mission Produce in Oxnard, is a finalist in the 35th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2021 Greater Los Angeles Award, the accounting and consulting firm announced June 17. Barnard is one of 31 finalists, all of them were selected by an independent panel. The virtual award ceremony Read More →
UCLA Health continues northward march
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Home prices skyrocket in region
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Trade Desk shares up 5% after split
The Trade Desk’s previously announced 10-for-1 split of its common stock took when the market opened on June 17. The Ventura advertising technology company’s stock closed at $590.02 on June 16 and, after the stock split, shares opened at $59.14 the next morning. Shares were up about 5% during the first few hours of trading, Read More →
Scenes from the reopening: lottery winners, maskless customers
The doors of the region’s businesses were fully open on June 15 for the first time in 15 months — and two Central Coast residents became millionaires — as California lifted nearly all of its COVID-19 restrictions. The state appears to have the upper hand on the virus, with new cases down to around 1,000 Read More →
CSUCI, SBCC get multimillion-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott
Amazon billionaire MacKenzie Scott gave away another $2.7 billion on June 15, including $20 million for Santa Barbara City College and $15 million for CSU Channel Islands near Camarillo. Scott announced the new round of gifts with a blog post that lists all 286 recipients, most of them public institutions and private nonprofits in higher Read More →
Mission Produce earnings up, buoyed by rising avocado consumption
Rising avocado sales helped Mission Produce turn a profit in the second quarter of 2021 after posting a loss a year earlier. The Oxnard-based avocado distributor generated earnings of $7.4 million, or 10 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ended April 30, the company announced on June 10. In the same quarter last year, Read More →
