North Bay Business Journal

  • Forecast: Wine, grape prices to rise in 2012

    January 25th, 2012

    SACRAMENTO — The prices of wine on U.S. store shelves could start rising this year because of an “emerging shortage” of winegrapes and wine plus a sales and marketing “blitz” last year, according to experts speaking at a major wine industry trade event this morning.

  • Marin, Sonoma unemployment lowest in three years; Napa’s rate rises

    January 20th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Unemployment rates across the North Bay in December edged downward slightly or remained at essentially the same high levels as in November, and Marin County’s jobless rate fell below 7 percent for the first time in nearly three years.

  • Bulk-wine inventory hits 12-year low

    January 19th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The tightest inventory of top varieties of wine available for purchase in bulk in a dozen years and a dwindling supply of those winegrapes could extend the rise in pricing for those fine-wine components into this year, but wineries are hard-pressed to pass those cost increases to consumers who are continuing to look for discounts, according to experts at a major local wine industry seminar this morning.

  • Growers gear up to fight new frost rules

    January 16th, 2012

    Local growers in the Russian River watershed in Mendocino and Sonoma ounties, titled Russian River Water Users for the Environment, filed a lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) on Oct. 20 in the Sacramento Superior Court for an unprecedented regulation targeting winegrape growers’ use of water for frost protection purposes.

  • 2011 top stories: New hospital, tech advances define year of the economy

    January 2nd, 2012

    The national and local economy was on everyone’s mind in 2011. But as the Business Journal editorial staff set out to develop its Top Ten Stories of the Year, it quickly became clear that the North Bay was blessed with multiple economy-boosting projects and new commitments job creation.

  • Health Care: BloodSource leases space for permanent facility

    December 19th, 2011

    BloodSource, a Sacramento area-based blood supplier of hospitals in Central and Northern California, has leased nearly 7,200 square feet at 3505 Industrial Drive in Santa Rosa, which will be the company’s permanent location for Sonoma County. … OffSiteCare, a telemedicine company founded by Sebastopol physician Dr. James Gude, has opened a central hub in San Francisco, where it it intends to provide nighttime hospitalist and specialist consultations for seven Northern California Hospitals, including several in the North Bay, the company said. … Daymon Doss, the current executive director of the Northern California Health Care Authority and former Petaluma Healthcare District CEO, has taken a three-month consulting job as interim executive director of the Mt. Diablo Health Care District in eastern Contra Costa County. … Marin Commuinty Clinics was awarded $460,000 by the Marin County Board of Supervisors to help adults suffering from the onset of serious psychiatric illness, along with other mental health services. … Napa County has selected San Diego-based McAlister Institute to operate a short-term residential and detox center on the campus of Napa State Hospital.

  • North Bay unemployment rate continues decline in November

    December 16th, 2011

    [Updated Dec. 20] Unemployment rates in the North Bay either dropped slightly or rose incrementally in November, reaching the lowest rates in the past two years but remaining at high levels, according to figures released by the Employment Development Department.

  • REACH Air merges with Oregon ambulance company

    December 2nd, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — REACH Air Medical Services and Cal-Ore Life Flight today announced they have merged, creating what they describe as a “comprehensive network of medical air and ground transportation in the Western United States.”

  • Vineyard pond project taps law to ‘dedicate’ water to fish

    November 28th, 2011

    HOPLAND — Conversions of former pear orchards in Mendocino County to grapevines is nothing new and construction of sizable off-stream ponds to collect winter stream runoff for spring vine frost protection is gaining momentum with new state and local rules, but one major North Coast winegrape grower’s project to do both adds a new element, dedicating a majority of historical water rights back to the stream.

  • Important legal changes for wine, alcohol in 2012

    November 28th, 2011

    Important laws and regulations affecting members of the California wine and alcohol beverage industry in 2012 include clarification on third-party marketing and promotions, a new direct-to-consumer wine retail license, permission for on-premise infusion of wine and spirits with flavors, a change in the definition of “distilled spirits” for taxation purposes, new state Russian River frost-protection water rules and agricultural union elections law changes.

  • Leases and sales: Week of Nov. 21, 2011

    November 21st, 2011

    Commercial real estate leases and sales for the north San Francisco Bay area.

  • People: Week of Nov. 21, 2011

    November 21st, 2011

    People news for the north San Francisco Bay area

  • Pauli elected to lead statewide winegrape group

    November 18th, 2011

    Longtime Mendocino County winegrape grower Bill Pauli was elected chairman of the California Association of Winegrape Growers at its Nov. 10 board meeting.

  • Jobless rates: Marin, 7.2%; Napa, 8.3%; Sonoma, 9.3%

    November 18th, 2011

    Unemployment rates across the North Bay dropped slightly in October, with some counties posting job gains and others essentially flat, according to figures released this morning by the California Employment Development Department.

  • Scott Setterlund: Getting to that 12-to-1 return on wellness

    November 14th, 2011

    Scott Setterlund, employer relations specialist for Sutter Health, has been promoting wellness for over 20 years. In his current role, Mr. Setterlund is responsible for incorporating wellness and work site strategies for mid size to large employers, for all of Sutter’s network in San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties, a region that includes hospitals as well as the Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation.

  • Leases & sales: Week of Nov. 14, 2011

    November 14th, 2011

    Commercial real estate transactions in north San Francisco Bay counties

  • Business news: Week of Nov. 7, 2011

    November 7th, 2011

    Agriculture American AgCredit, the nation’s 8th largest Farm Credit cooperative, has agreed to donate $25,000 to the California Farm Bureau Federation to support efforts to overturn the recently‐adopted Russian River Frost Regulation, passed on Sept. 20 by the State Water Resources Control Board.  According to the regulation, beginning March 15, 2012, through May 15, 2012, [...]

  • Leases and sales: Week of Nov. 7, 2011

    November 7th, 2011

    Commercial real estate leases in the north San Francisco Bay Area

  • People: Week of Nov. 7, 2011

    November 7th, 2011

    Banking and Finance North Valley Bank appointed Terrance Davis as senior vice president and business banking officer at the company’s Santa Rosa branch.  Mr. Davis has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years, including eight years as president of Summit State Bank. He was also executive vice president and chief operating officer [...]

  • Lenders, legal experts caught off-guard in fed’s crackdown on pot dispensaries

    October 31st, 2011

    NORTH BAY — As the federal government moves to disrupt or disband medicinal marijuana dispensaries across Northern California — many of which operate legally according to state laws — an unlikely target has been thrust into the cross hairs of the sticky legal battle: banks and lenders.

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