Sweet success – Chocolatiers set up on South Coast
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, August 1st, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Sweet success – Chocolatiers set up on South Coast
What do you get when a French chef falls in love with a business savvy California native? World-class chocolate in Carpinteria. After two decades of living and operating a restaurant in Burgundy, France, Jill-Marie and Jean-Michel Carré recently returned to Jill-Marie’s home state of California to open a chocolaterie, called Chocolats du CaliBressan. Just seven Read More →
LED leader – Professor invents efficient lights
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 25th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on LED leader – Professor invents efficient lights
Shuji Nakamura loves ideas. One idea he followed – the invention of blue, green and white light-emitting diodes, or LEDs – is revolutionizing lighting and electronic displays. Today’s standard lights use about 20 percent of the world’s energy, but convert as little as 5 percent of the energy they consume into light. Already Nakamura, who Read More →
Ventura
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, July 18th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Ventura
Kevin Costner is test driving downtown Ventura’s newest restaurant. The Watermark embodies the culmination of 18 months worth of work and 62,000 pounds of steel. Costner will host the premiere of “Swing Vote” in Ventura on July 26 with the first public event at Watermark, a high-end restaurant and bar at Chestnut and Main streets. Read More →
Businesses feel the heat – Blackouts dim stores, restaurants
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, July 11th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Businesses feel the heat – Blackouts dim stores, restaurants
Smoke, ash and recurring power outages caused by the Gap Fire have hurt commerce on the South Coast, cutting into sales, forcing early closures and leaving business owners weary of white flakes and flickering lights. In Goleta, the area hardest hit by the fire, Kristen Amyx, president and chief executive officer of the area’s chamber Read More →
Why we love organic
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Why we love organic
When Albertsons decided to remodel one of its two Goleta supermarkets in April, it focused on two areas: its produce section and a new, all-natural, organic foods aisle. Albertsons’ high-ups saw a trend that many tri-county vendors have observed in recent years – Central Coast and South Coast residents love buying fresh and often organic Read More →
McCain’s green agenda
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, June 27th, 2008 / Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on McCain’s green agenda
At times, it seemed like Sen. Barack Obama was talking to a group of some 150 guests at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on June 24, touting incentives to entrepreneurs who create zero-emission vehicles and replace the federal government’s vehicle fleet with fuel-efficient cars. But it was John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential Read More →
Dealing with drought – Tri-Counties feeling its effects
By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, June 27th, 2008 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Dealing with drought – Tri-Counties feeling its effects
It’s not easy being downstream. Much of Southern California relies on water piped from Northern California and the Colorado River. Dry years and a judicial action to protect endangered fish up north are acting as a dam to slow the flow southward, where voluntary water use reductions are touted as a way to stave off Read More →
