Caffeinated growth: French Press to open in Goleta
French Press owners Julia and Todd Mayer opened their first location in downtown Santa Barbara in 2009.
SLO family gets Mark Cuban’s cash for Q-Flex expansion
What began as a daughter’s idea to help her ailing mother after 12-hour workdays has turned into a cameo on primetime television and a partnership with a billionaire businessman.
Seacoast Yachts plots expansion course
With sales running at their highest rate since the pre-financial crisis days of 2006, Santa Barbara-based Seacoast Yachts is now expanding to the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard.
Worth the weight: State Street venue features 250 million-year-old salt rocks
To build the one-of-a-kind structure, McCaskey imported 47 tons of pink Himalayan salt from Pakistan, regarded as the purest salt on Earth.
The business cycle: Leadership program helps Newbury Park entreprenuer
At the age of 25, Jeff Cayley has transformed a career in mountain bike racing into a booming cycling business that raked in nearly $3 million in sales this past year.
The dish on surviving a recession
After opening at the peak of the 2008 recession, downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Julienne has since managed to woo the likes of Anthony Bourdain and the Los Angeles Times.
