Announcing this year’s Central Coast Best Places to Work
The Pacific Coast Business Times sends out an annual survey asking employees about their workplaces, and the following report is this, the Central Coast Best Places to Work. This year’s report features a lot of new faces, and for good reason: response to this year’s survey was among the highest we’ve seen in the years Read More →
Meet the 2023 Fastest Growing Companies!
The 2023 chapter of the Pacific Coast Business Times’ Fastest Growing Companies special report is here! This year, the company that’s shown the most revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 is Pashion Footwear, a company the Pacific Coast Business Times knows well. We’ve been following the story of CEO Haley Pavone since 2017, when she Read More →
2023 Spirit of Small Business Awards winners
The Pacific Coast Business Times created the Spirit of Small Business Awards in 2003 to honor small business leaders along the Central Coast. We partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to show off the region’s best and brightest, and over the years, we’ve given out 174 awards to small business advocates, pioneers, families and Read More →
2023 Latino Business Award winners and event
The Pacific Coast Business Times is pleased to present the winners of our 12th annual Latino Business Awards. Since 2011, the Business Times has recognized a major part of the Central Coast economy: Latino business leaders. We’re glad to continue this tradition with a celebration on July 20th at the Limoneira Ranch in Santa Paula. Read More →
Come celebrate Central Coast businesses!
Central Coast Best Places to Work is one way that Pacific Coast Business Times takes the pulse of the workplace across the region. We take a keen interest in knowing which organizations are performing best for their employees, and what those employers are doing that others can learn from. In 2023 we added a new Read More →
Join our Legacy/Business Hall of Fame event!
Our 2023 Hall of Fame and Legacy special report celebrates the incredible career of Janet Garufis, the chairman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust, the biggest locally-based bank in the region. Garufis, who has been in the banking industry for more than 50 years, started out as a teller and rose through the ranks. Read More →
