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.
Teenage powerhouse revolutionizes cinemas for hearing impaired
Valedictorian will be an afterthought on resumes for Alexandra Kukoff, a half-deaf, 15-year-old Thousand Oaks-native who is attending high school and college simultaneously, working towards her associate’s degree in women’s history.
End of the road: Family business loses bus contract
FATCO will end its current contract with Ventura County Transportation Commission in February, when MV Transportation, which currently serves the majority of Ventura County, takes over services for the Fillmore and Santa Paula area.
