Sacramento Bee: Business
- SolarCity launches public offering of solar bonds
Wednesday - 10/15/2014 - 02:18 PMSolarCity Corp., which employs more than 500 in the Sacramento area, on Wednesday launched what it calls the nation’s first registered public offering of solar bonds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McClatchy offers to buy back $406 million in debt
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 07:03 PMSacramento newspaper chain using proceeds of Cars.com sale to whittle down debt
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawlor named to key financial posts at UC Davis
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 03:44 PMDave Lawlor, who held a senior finance post at George Washington University in the nation’s capital for the past seven years, has been named chief financial officer and vice chancellor of Finance and Resource Management at UC Davis.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - $50,000 Wells Fargo grant goes to Sacramento jobs program
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 02:10 PMWells Fargo has awarded a $50,000 grant to The Get A Job Kit overseen by Women’s Empowerment, the Sacramento nonprofit that helps homeless women find employment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - East Sacramento arson burns 2nd restaurant linked to same woman
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 01:27 PMAn arson fire on Monday burned an East Sacramento restaurant that has links to a woman whose Freeport Boulevard eatery burned at the hands of an arsonist 18 months ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cathie Anderson: El Dorado Hills firm to use 3D printer in manufacturing
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 03:05 AMIt’s showtime for 3D printers. Once used to make simple product prototypes, the devices are now being used for larger manufacturing runs by companies such as El Dorado Hills’ SlideBelts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cathie Anderson: Co-founder of Roseville architecture firm retires
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 05:37 PMJim Williams is retiring from Williams+Paddon, the Roseville-based architecture firm he co-founded in 1981, but he isn’t retiring from civic involvement.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fountains at Roseville shopping complex signs four new tenants
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 02:35 PMThe Fountains at Roseville shopping complex has signed four new tenants, including nationally known women’s apparel retailer Lane Bryant, and will be near 100 percent capacity in early 2015.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Claudia Buck: Get free financial advice in West Sacramento
Sunday - 10/12/2014 - 03:00 AMNearly 300 individuals turned out last year at the annual Greater Sacramento Financial Planning Day, a free event for anyone to get walk-in help on taxes, retirement, debt, investing and a host of other financial topics.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Rancho Cordova’s GenCorp sees sales gains, but quarterly loss
Friday - 10/10/2014 - 08:26 PMGenCorp Inc., the Rancho Cordova-based rocket engine manufacturer, saw a year-over-year improvement sales revenue in this year’s third quarter, but its bottom line was affected by a couple of significant sector losses.
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- Amazon pop-up kisok headed to Sacramento
Wednesday - 10/15/2014 - 10:51 AMAmazon has confirmed that Sacramento is one of two locations for pop-up retail stores.
Diana Brooks, left, president and CEO of Sotheby's, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., pose for photos after a news conference at Sotheby's in New York, Wednesday June 16, 1999.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frisch to step down as managing director at Cornish & Carey’s Sacramento office
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 07:08 PMJohn Frisch, who has served as regional managing director of commercial real estate firm Newmark Cornish & Carey since 1992, will step down from that post at the end of this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sacramento home market warmed up in September
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 05:21 PMSacramento County saw a slight uptick in the median price of resale homes and a greater number of homes sold in September versus August, when the market was more or less flat, CoreLogic DataQuick reported Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sacramento's SynGen moves into new HQ on Howe Avenue
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 02:22 PMSynGen Inc., the Sacramento medical device company specializing in cell separation and cord-blood-processing products, has moved into a new, larger corporate headquarters at 100 Howe Ave., Suite 185N. It previously operated on 19th Street in midtown Sacramento.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Auburn considers ordinance to regulate Airbnb home-sharing services
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 11:33 AMThe city of Auburn is creating an ordinance that would regulate home-sharing operations like Airbnb – a popular platform on which residents rent private rooms for money – making it the first jurisdiction in the Sacramento region to attempt oversight of the budding industry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California’s 529 college savings plan pulls out of Pimco fund
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 09:02 PMDeparture of Pimco founder Bill Gross prompts California’s 529 college fund to withdraw $262 million from a Pimco fund.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gas prices fall another nickel in Sacramento area
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 03:40 PMSacramento-area gasoline prices edged down for the 14th consecutive week, and analysts believe the cost-lowering streak will continue well into November.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review site Yelp battles against extortion claims
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 02:49 AMFirst the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bankers to Obama: Inversion action band-aid on wrong wound
Saturday - 10/11/2014 - 07:57 PMNEW YORK Congress and the president regularly decry companies moving headquarters abroad for tax benefits but two top Wall Street bankers said Friday that lower taxes do not drive the deals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California wines gaining popularity in China
Friday - 10/10/2014 - 01:42 PMEyeing China’s burgeoning middle class, California wineries are exploring how they can better tap into what’s becoming a major potential market.
Lab technician Sydney August draws a sample of pinot noir juice from an oak barrel at Black Stallion Estate Winery in Napa on Wednesday.
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- CalPERS board member stripped of leadership posts for campaign finance infractions
Wednesday - 10/15/2014 - 01:05 PMCalPERS board member Priya Mathur was removed from board leadership positions today because of her latest campaign-finance disclosure infractions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MontBleu casino at Lake Tahoe getting makeover
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 08:01 PMThe $24 million renovation follows conversion of Horizon into Hard Rock resort
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AAA: Jurisdictions statewide see sharp monthly declines in gas prices
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 04:57 PMNorthern California saw a double-digit drop in gas prices for a third straight month, according to the latest monthly AAA statewide gas price survey released Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rancho Cordova's Cesca signs deal with N.Y. cord blood bank
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 03:02 PMCesca Therapeutics Inc., the Rancho Cordova-based medical equipment firm, says it has a contract to provide its cord blood and cell storage technology to a major cord blood bank in Syracuse, N.Y.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sacramento underestimating downtown arena traffic, lawyers say
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 12:40 PMLawyers challenging Sacramento’s handling of its downtown arena project argued in court Friday that the city is grossly underestimating the number of people who might show up for an event and the resulting traffic congestion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cathie Anderson: El Dorado Hills firm to use 3D printer in manufacturing
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 05:37 PMIt’s showtime for 3D printers. Once used to make simple product prototypes, the devices are now being used for larger manufacturing runs by companies such as El Dorado Hills’ SlideBelts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California’s 529 college savings plan pulls out of Pimco
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 05:54 PMCalifornia’s college savings plan has pulled out of a bond fund run by Pimco, the troubled Newport Beach investment firm.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On the Move: New jobs and promotions
Sunday - 10/12/2014 - 03:00 AMSacramento-area businesses announce job moves.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Business Calendar: Sacramento-area events for the week of Oct. 12, 2014
Sunday - 10/12/2014 - 03:00 AMHere are this week's business events in the Sacramento region.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ohio trust acquires Commonwealth Square retail center
Friday - 10/10/2014 - 12:44 PMAn Ohio real estate investment trust announced this week that it has acquired the Commonwealth Square shopping complex in Folsom.
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