Jennifer Pittman
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Soquel, CA, United States
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Fox Factory reports double shock sales for Q3
SCOTTS VALLEY >> Sales for high-end mountain bike and vehicle shocks continue to grow and Fox Factory Holding Corp. managed to beat earnings expectations for the third quarter.The topline increased about 18 percent to $106.2 million, said → Read More
Plantronics beats Q3 expectations but sees drop in profits
SANTA CRUZ >> Plantronics announced increases in some product areas driving its enterprise business, but said consumer product sales, especially in the U.S. suffered an unexpected bite from shifting trends in the second fiscal quarter. Poor fore → Read More
Granite Construction doubles Q3 profit from a year ago; shares climb $1.26
WATSONVILLE >> Granite Construction hailed an uptick in the heavy construction sector Monday, citing steady growth in the third quarter that included net income that was more than double from last year and a record project backlog of $3.1 billio → Read More
Business magazine makes its debut
SCOTTS VALLEY >> Two local business partners who envision a stronger regional economy launched this week the first issue of Regional Small Business Monterey Bay, a magazine aimed at business-to-business entrepreneurship in the Santa Cruz, Monter → Read More
Cheetah conservationist links successful efforts in Africa to local economic drivers and education
SANTA CRUZ >> A decades-long conservation effort to preserve cheetahs from extinction in the rural, southwest African country of Namibia has grown into a multi-faceted drive to transform both farming practices and the economy of the small Africa → Read More
Santa Cruz High alum to fly high to raise $1M for Navy SEALs, their families
SANTA CRUZ >> Santa Cruz High School alum and former U.S. Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf plans to don a wingsuit and drop from a plane at 37,265 feet in an attempt to break four world altitude and distance records in a single flight.The real missi → Read More
Local artists paint surfboards for ChangeBound auction
SCOTTS VALLEY >> ChangeBound, a co-working space for young entrepreneurs, has launched an online auction featuring six original, custom-painted surfboards by local artists.Proceeds from the sale of the unique boards will support the organ → Read More
Clean Oceans to bring plastics to fuel machine prototype to Santa Cruz Co.
SANTA CRUZ >> The vision of recycling thousands of tons of discarded plastic in Santa Cruz County to fuel local diesel vehicles is one step closer to reality thanks in part to veteran boat captain Jim “Homer” Holm, who has campaign → Read More
Santa Cruz area athletes open cryotherapy clinic
CAPITOLA >> “Chill out” takes on a whole new meaning at 110 degrees below zero Celsius, but it’s just the right temperature, according to a growing legion of athletes who say a few minutes of standing in a chamber chilled by → Read More
Monterey Bay Birding Festival draws more than 300 attendees
WATSONVILLE >> As the sun was rising Friday morning, bird lovers trekked to strategic feeding and nesting areas throughout the Monterey Bay, their eyes attentive to the skies and the unique wetlands that attract hundreds of avian species and the → Read More
Linda Gray urges businesswomen to welcome speed bumps of life
SANTA CRUZ >> Former United Nations goodwill ambassador and actress Linda Gray urged local women leaders to embrace the speed bumps in their lives and focus on the greater service they can contribute to the world at the 13th annual Santa Cruz Ch → Read More
UCSC professor studying hearts say Maverick’s surfer had highest recorded rate
SANTA CRUZ >> The suggested daily exercise regimen for humans is only a fraction of what it should be to offset heart disease concerns, according to Terrie M. Williams, a UC Santa Cruz professor who published research findings this month in the → Read More
Hospice of Santa Cruz County expands children’s camp with new grant
SCOTTS VALLEY >> Hospice of Santa Cruz County has received a $10,300 grant to expand its second children’s bereavement camp, the only camp of its kind on the Central Coast to combine zip-lining, archery, memorial luminary floats and profe → Read More
Horse sanctuary owner scrambles to pay bills, find homes for horses before surgery
LA SELVA BEACH >> Donations have kept hay in the stalls at Pregnant Mare Rescue, but the all-volunteer, nonprofit operation now faces its toughest financial struggle in nearly a decade — ju → Read More
Rainbow Light president receives Lifetime Achievement Award
SANTA CRUZ >> Linda Kahler, who has championed significant trends in the supplement industry as head of Santa Cruz-based Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems for three decades, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Business Journa → Read More
Applied Motion opens doors to local Digital NEST computer design students
WATSONVILLE >> After a week of designing catapults, jewelry and other small trinkets as part of a three-dimensional software design institute, young Digital NEST students watched one of the largest commercial 3-D printers in the country transfor → Read More
Granite Construction Q2 revenues drop nearly 3 percent, still up for 2015
WATSONVILLE >> A challenging start to the year and some dips related to accounting practices on major projects caused second quarter revenues to drop nearly 3 percent from a year ago, Granite Construction executives reported Thursday.Tota → Read More
Q2 sales and profits climb for West Marine
WATSONVILLE >> Stronger second quarter sales numbers show that business strategies to broaden its niche boater customer base are working, West Marine’s top executive said Thursday.“We’re making great progress in provi → Read More
Plantronics first quarter revenue, earnings slip
SANTA CRUZ >> The strong dollar and several other factors hampered sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, Plantronics executives reported Monday.Compared to a year ago, revenues were down slightly, profits dropped by 4.8 percent and e → Read More
Agroecology advocates meet at UCSC for international conference
SANTA CRUZ >> International researchers, farmers and community workers have toured Santa Cruz County farms and community gardens this week as part of a two-week intensive course to study the intersection of agriculture, ecology and the social an → Read More