2013 Family Business & Closely Held Companies honorees announced
Congratulations to the 2013 Family Business & Closely Held Companies award winners. The section published Friday, Feb. 22 and is available with the print edition of the Business Times. This year’s winners are: Family Business Titan: Gills Onions, an Oxnard-based onion processing company owned by brothers Steve and David Gill. Legacy Family Businesses • Green Read More →
lynda.com buys Austrian video training firm
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated at 11:30 a.m. to correct a quote attribution.] Fast-growing online education company lynda.com, which last month raised $103 million in its first round of outside financing, has acquired an Austrian video training platform. Lynda.com said Feb. 14 that it purchased video2brain, a video training site that offers courses in Read More →
Clipper sued for $60M amid layoffs
Carpinteria-based Clipper Windpower faces a $60 million lawsuit from a wind farm developer shortly after it laid off 174 people. First Wind Energy, a Boston-based wind farm developer with projects in New York, Hawaii and several other states, filed suit on Sept. 4 in Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Most of the complaint is sealed. Read More →
200 area jobs in limbo as UTC dumps Clipper
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