By Staff Report / Thursday, December 1st, 2011 / Latest news, Tourism / Comments Off on Magellan’s joins up with Colorado firm
Magellan’s Travel Supplies, a Santa Barbara company with a global footprint in the travel products business, is merging with Colorado Bag’n Baggage of Denver. The combined company will be headquartered in Denver and will be part of the retail and outdoor holding of the Gart Companies, one of Colorado’s largest family owned businesses. The two Read More →
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on Architects redesign State Street hotel as modern, affordable inn
Santa Barbara’s lower State Street and Funk Zone areas are experiencing somewhat of an architectural revival, thanks in no small part to the architects at AB Design Studio.
By Dana Olsen / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Finding the fitness fit: Santa Barbara firm inks distribution deal
A Santa Barbara businesswoman is flexing her entrepreneurial muscles as the fitness product she designed launches into the national market.
The international hotel firm behind El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara has received $45 million in construction financing for the project and plans to open the luxury hilltop villas by late 2012. When all is said and done, Orient-Express Hotels will have spent more than $90 million to buy and renovate a project it’s not Read More →
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Former tri-county business leaders pass away
The Tri-Counties lost two formerly prominent CEOs in November. A. A. “Bud” Milligan, the longtime leader of the Bank of A. Levy, the largest community bank in Ventura County until it was sold to First Interstate Bank in 1994, died on Nov. 3 in Santa Barbara. He was 94. Chris Edgecomb, co-founder and CEO of Read More →
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Mendi makes his move: Turkish jewelry store owner opens second location
A year after opening a small jewelry store in the Santa Ynez Valley selling handmade jewelery imported from his native Istanbul, Eyyup Mendi has opened a second store in Santa Barbara.
