Meet, greet and click: Firm connects event planners, conference centers
Elite Meetings International is a company that started out aiming to make it easier for corporate planners to find a good luxury hotel but ended up helping those same hotels do more business by creating better booking software.
Budding trend: Region’s growers count on locavore movement
The $176 million tri-county cut-flower industry is hoping to woo Valentine’s Day shoppers, who are expected to spend $1.8 billion nationwide this year on blooms for their sweethearts.
Told Corp. closes three-for-one deal as large tenants expand
Camarillo-based Told Corp., one of the most prolific developers in the Tri-Counties, recently closed a three-way deal that added another industrial property to its portfolio and allowed it to retain two important tenants.
Resonant’s $13.8M IPO sets stage for push into iPhones
Resonant’s planned initial public offering is small at $13.8 million, but there’s a chance that the Santa Barbara-based company’s development deal with a major supplier to Apple’s iPhone and every other mobile handset-maker could become very large, very quickly.
Cruise control? Thirty ships slated to call on Santa Barbara in 2014
When 30 cruise ships float into Santa Barbara’s harbor this year, several will have poor-to-failing environmental grades. And all the ships will carry passengers that, on average, spend about a quarter of what day-trippers and overnight tourists do.
