Ventura startup aims to make real estate sales a social business
Ventura Home Team wants to put a socially responsible spin on real estate selling.
ATA growth leads manufacturing rebirth in Paso
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Ringing in retirement: Santa Barbara firms team up on baby boomer effort
You know what age you’d like to retire at, but you’ve probably averted your eyes from the horrors of your 401(k) in recent years. But when will you actually be able to retire? And what if the answer contains three digits? Those are the questions that FreeRetirementReport.com, the brainchild of veteran Santa Barbara asset manager Read More →
Amgen to buy Turkish firm in $700M deal
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen said it will acquire Mustafa Nevzat Pharmaceuticals, a major supplier of pharmaceuticals and injectable medicines in Turkey, in a deal that values the Turkish firm at $700 million. Amgen said that its focus on Turkey and the surrounding region is part of a broad international expansion strategy for the company. Amgen established Read More →
Teledyne’s profits rise in Q1
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies beat Wall Street’s expectations on April 25 when it reported first-quarter profits of $35.7 million on $494 million in sales. The profits work out to 96 cents a share, well above the 91-cent average estimate of six analysts, according to data from Thomson Reuters. Sales were 5.5 percent above the same Read More →
Amgen’s founding CEO dies
George Rathmann, the founding CEO of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, has died, the company said April 23. Born in 1927, Rathmann helmed what is now Ventura County’s largest private-sector employer from 1980 to 1988 and was the chairman of the board until 1990. He had been recruited by Bill Bowes, one of Amgen’s founders, to run Read More →
