North Bay Business Journal

  • 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 [...]

  • Amorim buys south Napa land for expansion

    December 12th, 2011

    In another expansion move by Portugal-based Amorim Group cork distributors in Napa Valley this year, Amorim Cork America purchased 3.36 acres of land between Devlin Road and Highway 29 just north of Napa Valley Gateway Business Park. Pedro Fernandes, general manager, declined to comment on plans for the property. Industry sources point to the property [...]

  • Winery Exchange revamps Echelon with North Coast grapes

    November 14th, 2011

    After acquiring the Echelon Vineyards brand from Diageo Chateau & Estates Wines early this year, Novato-based Winery Exchange has revamped the brand inside the bottle and out. … Boisset Family Estates, whose U.S. portfolio of brands includes DeLoach, Buena Vista and Raymond, formed a “strategic partnership” with 75,000-case-a-year Lockwood Vineyard in Monterey County. … Part of the makeover of the Main Street Exchange building at 1040 Main St. in downtown Napa, are tenant improvements to accommodate 22 employees of Huneeus Vintners. The Huneeus family wine company plans to relocate accounting, sales administration and marketing personnel from the Quintessa winery in St. Helena to 5,800 square feet in Napa around the beginning of next year … What started as a novel packaging idea to distinguish their 400-case-a-year Rua wine brand has turned into a business in its own right for Windsor-based wine sales and marketing veterans Máire Murphy and her husband, Walt Averill. In the past year since launching CapaBunga — a surfer-esque play on “capsule” and wine barrel “bung” — they’ve sold 117,000 of the stretchable food-grade silicone bottleneck capsules. … Tony Linegar, 46, Mendocino County agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures for nearly three years, will move to that role in Sonoma County on Jan. 3. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved his appointment Tuesday. … With harvest mostly over in the North Coast, it’s the start of wine business conference season.

  • Phillips family named Napa Valley Grower of the Year

    March 30th, 2011

    NAPA — The Napa Valley Grapegrowers today announced the selection of the Phillips family, longtime Oakville winegrape growers, as the 2011 recipient of the Napa Valley Grower of the Year award.

  • 44-mile bike, pedestrian path under way

    August 30th, 2010

    NAPA — A 44-mile mixed-use path for pedestrians and cyclists that would run the length of the Napa Valley and eventually connect to the ferry terminal in Vallejo is under way, and funding efforts are being ramped up as the proposal aimed at luring tourists and providing alternative transportation routes gains traction.

  • Napa supervisors back some changes to winery ordinance

    March 8th, 2010

    NAPA — The Napa County Board of Supervisors tentatively agreed last week that provisions of the Winery Definition Ordinance should be amended to ease marketing restrictions, which would include business meetings, potentially clearing one more hurdle for individual wineries to target visitors more aggressively.

  • Wine: Vintage buys minority stake in Kunde

    February 22nd, 2010

    Foster’s reports ‘premiumization’ showing some gains

  • Groups examine winery event rules

    November 23rd, 2009

    NAPA – Napa Valley Vintners, a trade group representing more than 350 local wine producers, is working with related organizations – Winegrowers of Napa County, Napa County Farm Bureau and Napa Valley Grapegrowers – to present the Napa County Board of Supervisors with a thorough analysis of the 1990 Winery Definition Ordinance by late January. [...]

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