Business

Jennifer Lin has a pitch she likes to repeat, and it usually gets a laugh: think of it as the antidote to the Amazon gift card. Lin runs the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce, and this spring she helped launch a community-wide gift card built...

Tana Duncan began her catering company, Salt & Stone, in 2017, and has been serving hungry mouths from Napa to Big Sur ever since. She’s no newcomer to working in the food and beverage industry. Twenty-two years ago, Duncan started working as a short-order...

Los Gatos resident and Assistant Winemaker at Testarossa, Katie Abelson, has called Los Gatos home since she was 8 years old. She’d lived in Switzerland and Belgium prior until her engineer father moved the family to the Bay Area town she has grown fonder...

Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company, the artisan roastery that serves as a community hub, was founded by Teri Hope more than 45 years ago. That makes it the longest-running coffee roaster in Silicon Valley. But the enticing smell of roasting beans has been absent...

Toni Kent, the owner of Los Gatos Farms, reignited her summer camp for kids ages 3-12 on June 15, after being on hiatus for the last six years. The 30 acres that make up Kent's estate have served primarily as a horse stable for...

The parking lot of the David Bruce Winery on Bear Creek Road above Los Gatos was nearly filled on Saturday afternoon: something I’d not seen in 26 years. Club members, wine lovers and media had come out to partake in a day-long celebration of...

For Los Gatos residents David and Danielle Stanton, good health is a way of life. Easier said than done, though, with the busy lives we lead. David, a registered gastrointestinal nurse, grew up in East Texas as the son of a compounding pharmacist, and...

There is no single formula for how local companies can succeed amidst economic uncertainty, but many Los Gatos business owners point to a common theme that keeps their doors open: the niche, whether of business format, or product category. Online shopping continues to reshape consumer...

“There’s Instacart for groceries, DoorDash for food. Where is the laundry solution that is as fast as doing it yourself or better?” asks Matt O’Connor, co-founder and CEO of Texas-based NoScrubs, an upstart seeking to disrupt the clothes-cleaning business.  Having recently launched across Silicon Valley,...

Anyone who grows anything knows working with nutrient-deficient soil is like trying to start a truck with a dead battery. As with the atmosphere above (the air we breathe), the earth beneath our feet has a huge impact on what—and whether—we can grow crops that...