North Bay Business Journal

  • Q&A: BEST Executive Director Carolyn Stark

    February 13th, 2012

    SONOMA COUNTY — Carolyn Stark had already spent several years helping to foster economic success and vitality in communities before becoming the executive director of the Building Economic Success Together, or BEST, program late last year. Most recently, Ms. Stark helped develop a plan to bring 8,000 jobs to Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs, and her work as CEO of the Austin Technology Council has brought more than 150,000 new jobs to the region since 2004. Under the umbrella of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, BEST’s goals include creating 4,100 total jobs in five years.

  • Q&A: Napa Mayor Jill Techel

    February 13th, 2012

    In the following interview, Mayor Techel talks about drivers and challenges for Napa’s economy, ways city government is trying to help local businesses while balancing community needs, and next steps in urban land-use planning, specifically the Napa Downtown Specific Plan, whose draft environmental-impact report is under public comment through March 15, and next phases for the Napa River flood-control project.

  • Lagunitas explores own wastewater plant

    February 6th, 2012

    PETALUMA — Lagunitas Brewing Co. wants to build its own process-wastewater treatment plant to handle the expected growth of its brewery in the next several years, and Petaluma and business leaders are exploring whether additional industrial wastewater treatment capacity is needed to accommodate current food and beverage companies as well as attract more.

  • FTC reviewing online advertising rules

    February 6th, 2012

     The rules of online advertising are about to change.  On Aug. 10, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission’s public comment period closed on its revised guidelines for Internet advertising. Now the difficult process of updating the guidelines begins and anyone who advertises or sells on the Internet should pay close attention to the FTC’s actions and [...]

  • Food production incubator considered for Petaluma

    January 30th, 2012

    PETALUMA — Creators of artisan food products who are challenged to find a place to take their businesses to a new level may be able to find such help in a food manufacturing incubator being considered in southern Sonoma County.

  • Printers GPM, Northwestern merge to create third largest

    January 30th, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — GPM of Rohnert Park and Impress Northwestern of Santa Rosa have merged, creating the third-largest commercial printer in the North Bay.

  • People: Week of Jan. 30, 2012

    January 30th, 2012

    Click here for photo gallery Health Care The Northern California Center for Well-Being has hired Annette Zucconi as its new operations manager as part of its leadership team. Ms. Zucconi has dedicated over 20 years to non-profit community education work and brings a breadth of curriculum development, contract and program management experience to the Center [...]

  • Schaffner to leave Sonoma County Alliance

    January 19th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Lisa Wittke Schaffner plans to step down after seven years as top executive of the Sonoma County Alliance, a 380-member political action group.

  • SRJC wines to be the taste of The Wineyard

    January 16th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Junior College’s Shone Farm Winery, part of the community college’s winemaking and viticulture training program, has teamed up with a new collective tasting room in the city to provide a higher-profile venue for the school’s award-winning wines and eventually other planned packaged agricultural products from the 365-acre west Sonoma County property.

  • Craig Nelson named CEO of Nelson Family of Companies

    January 13th, 2012

    SONOMA — Craig Nelson will become chief executive officer of Sonoma-based The Nelson Family of Companies as a result of its recent sale of the WorkForceLogic division to Orlando-based ZeroChaos.

  • Business News: Week of Jan. 30, 2012

    January 13th, 2012

    Public Relations Jay and Janet Silverberg, long-time Petaluma residents, have established Silverberg Communications, a public policy, media and crisis communications response firm. Mr. Silverberg served 11 years as a senior vice president for Xenophon Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based firm, during which he managed multiple projects for clients such as The Salvation Army, Airbus, Rolls Royce, [...]

  • On airport, business makes voice heard

    January 12th, 2012

    Call it a tipping point or an epiphany, but business has found its voice on the critical public policy issues of the day.

  • New PD Media Lab offers Internet marketing solutions

    January 9th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — PD Media Lab, formed from the team behind the websites PressDemocrat.com, Towns and Watch Sonoma County, is a new full-service digital marketing and advertising agency for local businesses.

  • Sonoma County airport traffic up 9.8%

    January 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Passenger volume at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport was up by 1.2 percent in December compared to last year, while 2011 ridership overall increased nearly 10 percent from the year before, according to airport figures released today.

  • 2012 – The year of economic development

    January 2nd, 2012

    SONOMA COUNTY – Swiftly enacting a five-pronged strategic plan and partnering with existing economic development efforts will be some of the hallmarks of Sonoma County’s Building Economic Success Together or BEST group in 2012, said the organization’s newly appointed Executive Director Carolyn Stark.

  • BEST forms task forces to tackle employment issues in 2012

    January 2nd, 2012

    The newly formed economic development effort will partner with other groups during the year.

  • Business news: Week of Dec. 19, 2011

    December 19th, 2011

    Solano County’s chambers of commerce recently honored local businesses and community members, such as Meyer Corp. and Travis Credit Union, for their contributions to the community at the Spirit of Solano luncheon. … Fairfield-based MV Transportation, Inc. announced the opening of its new Dallas location in the well-known and centrally located Premier Place Building at 5910 North Central Expressway. … Napa Valley Vintners, a nonprofit trade association representing more than 420 wineries in the appellation, announced that the country of Thailand has recognized Napa Valley with Geographic Indication (GI) Status that will protect the American wine region from misuse of its name in wine labeling in that country.

  • Wells Fargo Center rolls out red carpet for web visitors with redesign

    November 21st, 2011

    Visitors can expect a more user-friendly and informative experience when purchasing tickets or donating online to the nonprofit Wells Fargo Center for the Arts after the organization lifts the curtain over its new Web site on Monday.

  • Inaugural ‘Flavor’ celebration of Napa food, wine

    November 7th, 2011

    NAPA — A star-studded, four-day wine and food festival will soon take place in the Napa Valley, marking the first time the region synonymous with fine dining and wine will hold a gathering of such significance on its own turf.

  • Santa Rosa chamber names executive director for BEST jobs effort

    November 1st, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — The Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce today announced the appointment of Carolyn Stark as executive director of the Building Economic Success Together program, a countywide economic development organization created to spur job growth while making Sonoma County more economically competitive.

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