Business

Nominations for the 2019 Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards will be accepted through Aug. 1, with the annual gala award center scheduled to be held Nov. 13 at the Riverside Convention Center. The awards, which are presented by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino, recognizes …

Ontario International Airport welcomed nearly 2.6 million passengers during the first half of 2019, a 6.5 percent increase compared with the first six months of last year, airport officials reported. More than 2.4 million traveled within the United States, while the remaining 148,000 traveled internationally, year-over-year increases of 4.5 percent …

In 2016, Pomona businessman Glenn Todd started EZER, a business modeled on Uber. Like Uber, EZER operates exclusively by smart phone. Unlike Uber, EZER moves things, not people. The original idea was to help people move items they couldn’t fit into their car – maybe something they bought at Home …

A division of Konica Minolta Inc., the Japanese multinational technology company, is coming to Riverside. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. will become part of the city’s recently formed Innovation District, bringing with it 75 corporate, administrative and technical staff, according to a statement released Thursday by the city. “We are …

A Watsonville-based company will build a $21 million maintenance and storage facility for the Redlands Passenger Rail Project. Granite Construction expects to begin construction this summer and complete the facility during the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a statement. The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, which is building the …

IKEA is coming to Ontario. After nearly one year of speculation, the Swedish furniture store chain has announced it will build a 330,000-square-foot store at the southwest corner of Inland Empire Boulevard and Archibald Avenue, said Brad Gates, Ontario’s business operations director. IKEA closed escrow on the 19-acre site, which …