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Your Weekly Economic Development Update
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Stay current on the economic pulse in the Tri-Cities region by visiting our website.
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Ted Baseler, President & CEO, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
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TRIDEC's 53rd Annual Meeting
"Building a Brighter, Smarter Viticulture Industry"
March 30, 2016 | Noon-1:30p
Join TRIDEC for our 53rd Annual Meting, highlighting the successes of 2015, recognizing outgoing board members, and introducing the 2016 Board of Directors.
The Keynote Presentation "Building a Brighter, Smarter Viticulture Industry," will be given by Ted Baseler, President & CEO, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.
Ted Baseler is a regarded leader in the U.S. wine industry who has dedicated his career to building Washington State into one of the top wine producing regions in the world.
As President & CEO of the critically-acclaimed Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, where he has been an executive for more than 30 years, Ted is the architect of the company's expansion throughout Washington, winery acquisitions in California and Oregon, and the development of an imported wines portfolio which includes prestige wineries from Italy, Spain, Chile, France and New Zealand.
Prior to working at the winery, Ted had a successful career as a creative marketer of consumer packaged goods at ad agencies J. Walter Thompson, Chiat Day and Cole & Weber. Throughout his career, Ted has been equally committed to community service. He has held board positions for the Washington Business Roundtable, Challenge Seattle, Washington State Wine Commission, Wine Market Council (Napa-based), Washington Wine Institute and Seattle Children's Hospital. As one of Washington's leading higher education advocates, Ted has earned gubernatorial appointments to the Washington State University (WSU) Board of Regents where he has served since 2006, including a year as its chair. Most recently, he has led the campaign to build a world class enology and viticulture institution at WSU, including raising $23 million in private and government support. Ted also founded Ste. Michelle's scholarship program benefiting students in need which has granted more than $3 million in scholarships in recent years.
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Tri-Cities Area Employment Market Hits 34 Months of Growth
By Wendy Culverwell, Tri-City Herald
The Tri-City economy recorded its 34th consecutive month of growth in January as the civilian labor force hit a record high of almost 132,000.
The local unemployment rate of 8.4 percent, while high, was the lowest seen in the month of January since 2010, according to figures released Tuesday by the Washington Employment Security Department.
TRIDEC's Adrian said he's pleased to see growth spread across a variety of sectors and not concentrated on the Hanford cleanup.
"It's really pretty balanced growth. That demonstrates a healthy economy," he said.
Read more here:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article66257117.html#storylink=cpy
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James Carville, Mary Matalin, Carl Adrian at the IAMC Spring Professional Forum |
"Where in the World is Carl Adrian"
The first edition of Where in the World Is Carl Adrian takes us to The Big Easy and the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) Spring Professional Forum.
The Industrial Asset Management Council is the leading association of industrial asset management and corporate real estate executives, their suppliers and service providers, and economic developers.
In addition to networking with the leaders in site selection, Carl had the pleasure of meeting International Political Consultants and Best-Selling Authors,
Mary Matalin and James Carville.
Each year, TRIDEC sponsors the closing breakfast of the forum, giving Carl the opportunity to share about the benefits of locating a business in the Tri-Cities.
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In Case You Missed It (ICYMI)
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News from the Tri-Cities Community
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Technical Assistance for Clean-Tech Businesses
Small, clean-tech businesses can request assistance worth up to $300,000 from U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories in Round 2 of the Small Business Vouchers Pilot.
The deadline to request assistance is April 10, 2016, 11:59 EDT, at
www.sbv.org . Businesses that were not selected in Round 1 can request assistance again in Round 2.
More information, including a list of the 33 projects that DOE selected for nearly $6.7 million in Round 1 funding, is available at
www.sbv.org. Feedback from Round 1 that you may find useful is available in a
webinar. Small businesses will have one more opportunity to request assistance in Round 3, later in 2016. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state is a participating lab; contact Gary Spanner at
[email protected] or
(509) 372-4296
(509) 372-4296.
Learn more about the results of Round 1 of the Small Business Vouchers Pilot:
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Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE - Nation's Top Chapter for 2015
Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE today received their highest accolade in its' history when PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) confirmed with the National SCORE Office in Washington D.C., that the highest level of client engagement and success of mentoring was scored and evaluated out of the SCORE Chapter in Kennewick, WA.
"This is a tremendous acknowledgement for our Chapter, the hard work we did to become successful, and speaks highly of the volunteers that have served this Chapter over the past couple of years," says Vice Chair P. Simon Mahler. "I don't think people will understand the magnitude of this accomplishment. We finished ahead of the largest markets in our country by being the most innovative of the 307 Chapters that exist," Mahler notes.
"This is truly a labor of love. We have worked very hard to grow this local Chapter so that people in the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas who have a passion and a dream, have a place they can depend on to help them grow and launch it" says Mahler. For months now the Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE Chapter has ranked number one in the State of Washington for mentoring and overall performance, staying ahead of large market chapters that are triple in size of volunteers that include Seattle, Olympia/Tacoma, and Spokane. "It will be interesting to see how many businesses actually started last year from our mentoring, and more importantly, how many jobs were created as a result of our mentoring to get those businesses opened in the first place, but that report comes out next month," says Jean Peterson, Administrative Executive for the local Chapter. "We have some remarkable mentors who have put in a lot of time to help people become successful," says Peterson.
Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than ten million aspiring entrepreneurs. Each year, SCORE provides small business mentoring and workshops to more than 375,000 new and growing small businesses. More than 11,000 business experts volunteer as mentors in 307 chapters serving local communities with entrepreneur education to help grow one million small businesses annually. The Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE Chapter currently provides resources and services in 15 counties covering three states, (Idaho, Oregon, & Washington), making it the largest Chapter in the country in terms of miles served.
For more information about starting, operating, or growing an existing small business, call to schedule an appointment with a Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities SCORE mentor at 509-735-1000
509-735-1000 Ext 235 or visit Tri-Cities SCORE at
www.midcolumbiatricities.score.org.
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