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Langer investing in Santa Rosa for Sonoma label

February 6th, 2012

SANTA ROSA — The Langer family of Southern California, who acquired a sparkling juice bottling plant in Healdsburg three years ago, is making a multimillion-dollar bet on Sonoma County with a more than four-fold larger bottling plant with three times as much production capacity to support its new Langers of Sonoma brand.
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.
Barbara’s to leave Petaluma

January 19th, 2012

PETALUMA — Weetabix North America, owner of the Barbara’s brand of Puffins breakfast cereals and other snacks, today announced plans to relocate its local operations to Massachusetts in the next six months, affecting 24 jobs.
Lifehouse to relocate in Marin, expand services

January 16th, 2012

SAN RAFAEL — Lifehouse, a nonprofit organization that assists the developmentally disabled in Marin and Sonoma counties, is relocating from its existing Smith Ranch Road location to a 5,880 square-foot space at 899 Northgate Dr. in San Rafael, a move that will accommodate three years of continuous growth.
BioMarin to move ‘several hundred’ to San Rafael

January 6th, 2012

SAN RAFAEL — Novato-based BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN) today said it plans to relocate several hundred employees from its Bel Marin Keys headquarters plant to downtown San Rafael by the end of this year.
Marin’s MMPC expands space as service needs grow

December 19th, 2011

NOVATO — With continually rising health care costs, independent physician practices and groups are searching for more efficient, money-saving tools to help them manage their businesses and comply with government regulations, and a Marin County company is enjoying rapid growth providing a high-tech solution.
TricorBraun wine group packs for Fairfield

November 14th, 2011

BENICIA — The wine division of St. Louis-based packaging supplier TricorBraun plans to move its Northern California distribution facility to a larger, automated distribution facility in Fairfield early next year.
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.
Bedrosians to remodel ex-lumber yard into showplace

October 31st, 2011

SANTA ROSA — Bedrosians Tile & Stone plans to refurbish a former lumber yard in southwest Santa Rosa into a high-end design center and showroom that will be a model for the company’s locations nationwide.
Fairfield’s Copart to make Texas its corporate headquarters

October 10th, 2011

FAIRFIELD — Copart, Inc., (NASDAQ: CPRT), one of the nation’s leading resellers of salvaged vehicles with an online auction service listing more than 50,000 vehicles per day, is relocating its corporate headquarters to Dallas, Texas, by the end of 2012. No date for the final move has been announced.
G3 expands Ukiah capsule plant

September 19th, 2011

UKIAH — The cluster of wine bottle capsule plants is expanding again. G3 Enterprises installed a new polylaminate closure line at its production facility in Ukiah. Sparflex will relocate production to Benicia upon completion of a capsule facility there.
Venture-backed LumiGrow moves to Novato

September 12th, 2011

NOVATO — Backed by its first round of venture funding, LumiGrow Inc. relocated from San Francisco’s Treasure Island to Novato to further develop its line of specially tuned LED grow lights for food science research and commercial greenhouses.
Mood Bender Tea moves to Napa, adds bottling plant

September 12th, 2011

NAPA — Mood Bender Tea, Inc., a startup with a vision to create a market for a new line of unique hybrid tea beverages freshly brewed in the Bay Area, is moving from an office at 201 Spear Street in San Francisco to a new location in Napa that will become the firm’s headquarters and bottling plant.
Sutter to relocate northwest Santa Rosa thrift store

September 5th, 2011

SANTA ROSA — Sutter Care at Home, which recently changed its name from Sutter VNA & Hospice, is relocating its Piner Road thrift store to a larger, more visible space in northwest Santa Rosa this month.
DH Wine Compliance expands

August 22nd, 2011

Starting her own wine sales compliance firm in January 2010, Drea Helfer plans to expand DH Wine Compliance next month with a larger office and two other compliance specialists on board by year-end.
Laffort USA relocates to Petaluma

July 11th, 2011

SONOMA — The U.S. distributor of one of the world’s largest winemaking supply companies is expanding to Petaluma.
Natural Comfort to move to Petaluma

June 27th, 2011

PETALUMA — Novato-based bedding importer Natural Comfort Co. LLC has taken advantage of the rapidly changing Petaluma commercial real estate market to secure better-configured space for a growing company.
George Petersen Insurance to consolidate offices

June 27th, 2011

SANTA ROSA — George Petersen Insurance, the North Bay’s second largest property and casualty insurance agency, will soon relocate headquarters from its current 627 College Ave. location to another, larger building at 175 West College Ave.
A new image for Santa Rosa: ‘Liquid Image’

June 20th, 2011

SANTA ROSA — A Sacramento-area company that is enjoying rapid sales growth worldwide for a line of sports masks and goggles with built-in cameras for image and video capture is relocating to Sonoma County to be closer to the founders’ roots.
Dharma Trading Co. to move order-fulfillment to Petaluma

June 13th, 2011

SAN RAFAEL — Dharma Trading Co., which has been selling supplies for decorating yarn and fabrics since the late 1960s, plans to relocate its growing mail-order and e-commerce business under one larger Petaluma roof this year.