North Bay Business Journal

  • 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.

  • Nurses, NUHW hold daylong Kaiser strike

    January 31st, 2012

    NORTH BAY — The National Union of Healthcare Workers is holding a day-long strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout Northern California, including hospitals in Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Vallejo and Vacaville, as the union negotiates a new contract with the health system.

  • 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.

  • Assets reach all-time high at Community First

    January 29th, 2012

    Community First Credit Union’s net assets reached $130 million at the end of 2011, the highest-ever value for the 51-year-old institution.

  • Summit State Bank earnings rise 23 percent in 2011

    January 26th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA – Summit State Bank (NASDAQ: SSBI) today reported net income increased 23 percent in 2011 from 2010.

  • Supervisors sign off on airport plans

    January 24th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County Supervisors today officially signed off an $84 million safety upgrade and expansion of Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport but tabled a proposed health and noise study on the project. Construction could start in August if the Federal Aviation Administration OKs the plan by April as anticipated.

  • 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.

  • Horizon to add San Diego flights; Vegas out

    January 18th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Seattle-based Alaska Airlines announced today that it is adding daily nonstop service from San Diego to Santa Rosa, but will discontinue service between Santa Rosa and Las Vegas to support the new route. The decision to halt service to Las Vegas came from Alaska Airlines, and the Sonoma County Airport will seek other potential carriers to replace the route, according to an airport spokeswoman.

  • Raydiance weighs Petaluma expansion

    January 16th, 2012

    Raydiance, developer of next-generation laser technology, is considering a major expansion in Petaluma this year. Other items in this commercial real estate column: Santa Barbara-based multifamily property investment firm Nevins Adams Lewbel Schell, or NALS, purchased the 292-unit Rolling Oaks luxury apartment complex at 3700 Lyon Road in Fairfield for $52 million, or about $178,000 a dwelling. … Prima Fluer Botanicals of San Rafael signed a five-year lease for the 14,400-square-foot warehouse and offices at 23 Pimentel Ct. in Novato. … An affiliate of San Francisco-based industrial real estate investor Lowenberg Corp. purchased a 101,700-square-foot warehouse in American Canyon, Lowenberg’s ninth North Bay holding. … As part of planned projects around the Bay Area, San Ramon-based gym chain 24 Hour Fitness has been upgrading its North Bay facilities.

  • 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.

  • Supervisors OK $84 million airport upgrade

    January 10th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an $84 million upgrade to Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport that will enhance safety, add a new passenger terminal, provide longer runways and allow mid-sized commercial jets to land at the airport.

  • 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.

  • American AgCredit grows to sixth in nation after merger

    January 5th, 2012

    American AgCredit, the farm lending giant headquartered in Santa Rosa, has merged with Colorado-based Farm Credit Services of the Mountain Plains.

  • Cotati company acquires International Wine Accessories

    January 4th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA [updated 6:06 p.m.] — Cotati-based Sonoma Wine Accessories today announced it acquired the assets of International Wine Accessories, a catalog and online seller of glasses, chillers, bottle racks and other items, and part of the Santa Rosa-based Vintage Wine Estates portfolio.

  • TricorBraun acquires Trilogy Glass

    January 3rd, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — As the TricorBraun WinePak division relocates early this month to a much larger, automated warehouse in Solano County, its St. Louis-based parent company today said it acquired wine container competitor Trilogy Glass and Packaging, Inc. of Santa Rosa.

  • City experiment with same-day TI permitting makes perfect sense

    January 2nd, 2012

    At the Business Journal’s Impact Sonoma conference last October, Santa Rosa Vice Mayor and supervisorial candidate John Sawyer said the city’s is gauging progress on reforming permitting processes by the declining number of applicants at the counter who exclaim in frustration”You have got to be kidding?” Mr. Sawyer ran through a litany of overly picky [...]

  • People news: Week of Jan. 2, 2012

    January 2nd, 2012

    News about north San Francisco Bay area professionals

  • Rick Laws joins Pacific Union

    December 23rd, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Pacific Union International announced that Rick Laws, previously managing broker of Coldwell Banker’s Santa Rosa office, has joined the real estate brokerage.

  • Amy’s Kitchen to revamp local operations as East Coast plant delayed

    December 20th, 2011

    PETALUMA [updated Dec. 21] — Amy’s Kitchen, maker of prepared natural and organic foods, plans to reconfigure its Santa Rosa and Oregon operations as the planned opening of a $63 million East Coast production facility has been pushed back “a few years.”

  • REACH expanding Texas base partnership

    December 19th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — REACH Air Medical Services and Methodist Healthcare announce the expansion of their partnership providing emergency helicopter service to include a second base in Pearsall, Texas, called Methodist AirCare 2.

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