Almost every week it seems that another San Leandro business is receiving positive press coverage for a new innovation or expansion. Please check back here periodically for links to some of these exciting stories.
The Registry - April 18, 2013
Harsch Investment Properties, a privately-held real estate investment, development and management-company, announces that SOS/Meals on Wheels has signed a lease for 4,916 square feet of space at Polvorosa Business Park. Moving from their current home in Hayward, Calif. will allow them to build a full kitchen, expand their territory and deliver more daily meals to local community members in need.
"We are very excited about our upcoming move to San Leandro. The continually increasing demand for senior nutrition in our communities and the disrepair of our current facility has driven the need for a larger and more efficient kitchen. Our Board of Directors and Harsch Investment Properties have worked hard to make this dream come true. Our mission is to take care of our homebound elders, which we consider to be an invaluable service that benefits everyone in our communities," said Connie McCabe, executive
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San Francisco Chronicle - April 14, 2013
On a Thursday night at Harry's Hofbrau in Redwood City, the counter staff in kitschy chef hats carve slabs of turkey and roast beef behind a cafeteria-style steam table. The line filing by is filled with shrieking babies and elderly couples, receiving mashed potatoes from an ice cream scoop, drowned in butterscotch-colored gravy.
Yet around the corner, in the bar, the scene is less Joe the Plumber and more Google: guys in their 20s sniffing tulip-shaped glasses of beer aged in bourbon barrels, their smartphones out to document the occasion.....
With the San Jose beer program successfully in place, Olcese turned his attention to Redwood City four months ago. Since overhauling that bar, he says, sales have jumped 47 percent from last year. San Leandro is next.
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San Francisco Business Times - April 8, 2013
Zinus Inc., a mattress and bedding distributor, took 116,017 square feet in the Fairway Industrial Center at 1951 Fairway Drive in San Leandro. The company plans to expand from its current 48,000-square-foot space at 30799 Wiegman Road in Hayward, which serves as its U.S. sales and marketing base.
Zinus, based in Asia, also has offices in Canada, China and Korea. It makes mattresses, pillows, sleep foundations and slippers sold in stores such as Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Sam’s Club and Walmart.
The company's San Leandro deal is one of the largest inked this year in the East Bay.
Read whole article here.
San Leandro Patch - March 25, 2013
This San Leandro destination makes the Bay Area A-list. The Englander Sports Pub was a finalist in its category. Eighteen other local outfits were contenders.
San Leandro's got a lot to brag about these days: an ultra fast fber optic loop, a new Kaiser Hospital and now the best place in the Bay Area to have coffee. Zocalo Coffeehouse won the 2013 Bay Area A-list in its category in a region-wide competition that that drew more than 42,000 total votes.
Owners Tim Holmes and Mitch Huitema have created a lovely space that draws neighborhood residents out for a cup, businesspeople making deals, students in study groups and parents letting their tots burn off steam
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San Francisco Business Times - March 22, 2013
San Leandro hopes to burnish its tech cred thanks to a unique deal to lay several miles of fiber optic cables.
The city of 85,000 people struck an agreement with J. Patrick Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft LLC, one of San Leandro’s largest employers, to set up a subterranean fiber network designed to attract businesses and give the municipality more bandwidth as well.
Under the deal, Kennedy agreed to pay $3 million to lay 11 miles of fiber cable by accessing a conduit through which the city already controls street lights and cameras. The city owns 10 percent of the 288 fiber optic strands laid and it can use those strands as it wishes for municipal needs. The rest of the cable is owned by Kennedy’s company, San Leandro Dark Fiber LLC.
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The Registry - March 22, 2013
Dan Bergen of Colliers International, represented Botner Manufacturing Company in a long-term Lease transaction for 900 Aladdin Avenue, San Leandro. This 31,800+ SF, Free-Standing Manufacturing Building on 1.62 Acres was previously F.W. Spencer & Sons.... Botner Manufacturing Company, a Precision Fabrication Contract Manufacturer, has been a San Leandro success story for over 32 years.
This new location will allow Botner to modernize their engineering and equipment/production areas, to better serve their clients. Botner Manufacturing recently sold their 10000 Bigge Street property to their expanding neighbor, Bigge Crane & Rigging Co. This is truly a retention success story for San Leandro’s manufacturing industry, a critical component of our San Francisco Bay Area Economy.
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San Francisco BusinessTimes-March 8, 2013
San Leandro plans to light up an enormous former Chrysler manufacturing plant with ultra-fast broadband fiber in the next 60 days, ushering in the next phase of the small city’s big plan to lure technology companies.
The hope is that tech firms and other ventures wanting lightning-quick Internet access will flock to the two-building complex, a 700,000-square-foot property known as Westgate Center that is anchored by Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Office Depot and Sports Authority
“Westgate can become the model for an advanced manufacturing center,” said Deborah Acosta San Leandro’s newly hired chief innovation officer, whose expansive vision for the site includes business incubators and co-working centers that will in turn produce independent companies.
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Yahoo Finance-February 7, 2013
Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG) is pleased to announce that it has won the 2012 Resources Award for its patented wastewater disinfection technology that generates renewable energy.
The internationally recognized Katerva Award is known as the "Nobel Prize of Sustainability." PTG was selected the overall winner in the Materials and Resources category of the Katerva Awards, beating out eight other phenomenal ideas and technologies from countries that included Brazil, India, the Philippines, Sweden and the United States.
"We are deeply honored to have won the Katerva Materials & Resources Award for our sustainable wastewater disinfection technology," said Greg Ryan, CEO and co-founder of Pasteurization Technology Group.
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San Francisco Business Times-December 7, 2012
Except for three spiral wind turbines and a solar panel tree planted in front, the building at 14600 Catalina St. in San Leandro looks like the other nondescript industrial structures that surround it. The former data center is taking on new life as one of few buildings in the region and state that will produce as much energy as it uses, or even more. An East Bay electrician’s union bought the 46,000-square-foot building in 2010 to house a training center for apprentices. Union leaders saw an opportunity to teach future electricians about energy efficiency, and create a center that embodies the most current and sustainable practices. “We were willing to spend more up front because we know we’ll recuperate the costs in savings over time,” said Byron Benton, training director for the Alameda County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee. “We wanted to do this also because this is what we train our apprentices for.”
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Oakland Tribune - November 25, 2012
In the low-slung basement of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, Nonny De La Peña, a documentary filmmaker, was fitting a helmet and goggles onto a woman dressed in a skirt and sweater. De La Peña carefully arranged the long cables extending like an umbilical cord from the oversized goggle headset to a computer.
The woman removed her glasses, ready to plug in to a virtual reality re-creation of a crisis at a food bank line where supplies run out. As a result, a man waiting for food goes into a diabetic coma.
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San Francisco Business Times - November 23, 2012
Build it and businesses will come. That was Pat Kennedy’s hope in building a $5.5 million public-private fiber network in San Leandro, where he founded and runs OSIsoft LLC, an industrial equipment and processes management software firm.
Now a new cleantech company called Power Factors LLC, which monitors vast arrays of solar panels domestically and abroad, has proven Kennedy right by locating in this East Bay industrial city. Power Factors is a six-person startup run by power industry veterans. It monitors the performance of 20 solar power plants, including three large ones in California and 17 in Italy, collecting data from hundreds of thousands of data points per second 24 hours a day.
The fiber network it will access is run by Lit San Leandro, a public-private partnership between Kennedy and the city of San Leandro. It offers data transmission speeds 2,000 times faster than the average U.S. connection at relatively affordable prices.
“That is a very compelling reason for us to locate our network operations center in San Leandro,” said CEO Steve Hanawalt.
Read whole article here.
South County Post - October 26, 2012
After four years of planning in partnership with the City of San Leandro and a group of citizen volunteers, Cal-Coast Development is readying a project submittal for a 50-acre mixed-use development along the San Francisco Bay in San Leandro.
"The Shoreline Development has the potential to transform the large and vacant asphalt parking lots next to the boat harbor in the Marina into a high-quality dining and commercial area with walk and bike paths for the public,” said Mayor Stephen Cassidy. “Thanks to the work of an incredibly dedicated group of citizens, we have developed a vision of this site for San Leandrans and visitors to our community to enjoy for decades.”
The project is slated to include a 200-room hotel and conference facility, new restaurants, up to 250,000 square feet of office space, a community building, and 188 residential units in a variety of configurations. The development includes a small boat launch ramp and aquatic center to promote hand powered watercraft as well as a waterfront promenade with pedestrian piers, bike lanes and new park space.
Read whole article here.
San Francisco Business Times - October 5, 2012
In 2010, US Superior Stone and Tile was paying over $40,000 a month in rent and reeling from a 40 percent drop in sales.
Two years later, the San Leandro-based supplier of granite, cabinets and tile is peddling its products in a sleek new showroom, and business has climbed about 30 percent.
The difference, manager Randi Siu says, was a roughly $8.39 million loan, about $3.73 million of which was backed by the Small Business Administration. The loan enabled the company to buy a larger facility in 2010. With all the space, US Superior can keep early twice as much merchandise on hand and has even taken on tenants to help with the mortgage payment, Siu said.
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San Francisco Business Times - October 5, 2012
As downtown San Leandro continues its urban makeover, developer Innisfree Cos. is set to start construction on a shopping center in early November.
The 28,000-square-foot Village Marketplace, a $9 million construction project, will eventually house tenants such as Fresh & Easy, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, AT&T and Chipotle.
"This will create a centerpiece for the downtown," said David Irmer, head of Innisfree.
The firm paid $2.25 million for the 1.7-acre site, at 1550 East 14th St., which previously had a Lucky grocery store. San Leandro’s former redevelopment agency purchased the land in 2007 for $6 million, but sold it for less because Innisfree paid to demolish existing structures.
The city council approved the project in May, but the deal had to be approved by the a state oversight board in charge of former redevelopment sites. Despite the backup, Irmerexpects his tenants to open their doors in a year. The contractor, Lusardi Construction Co., will complete tenant improvements as it builds the exterior.
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California Healthline - May 17, 2012
The San Francisco Bay Area is becoming something of an incubator for innovative, forward-looking health care delivery systems -- not really a surprise with Silicon Valley as the heart of technology and creative thinking.
Creating innovation-friendly "ecosystems" and fostering collaboration are woven into Bay Area strategies to encourage innovation and new ideas. Many of the same goals included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are echoed in Bay Area efforts to innovate -- using data to improve outcomes, managing health holistically, empowering patients, ensuring connectivity, lowering costs and delivering value.
The first -- and by many measures foremost -- of these Bay Area efforts is Kaiser Permanente's Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center, a living laboratory of mocked-up clinical environments where new ways of delivering health care can be tested. Kaiser launched the Garfield Center in San Leandro six years ago. The 37,000 square-foot facility may look like a Hollywood-style movie set, but its actors are very real physicians, nurses, patients, architects, engineers and technical experts.
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Wall Street Journal--Market Watch.com - May 17, 2012
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- OSIsoft today was awarded the Presidential "E" Award for Exports by U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary John Bryson at the White House in Washington, D.C. The "E" Awards are the highest recognition any U.S. entity may receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.
"Exporting continues to be a key component of our sales growth, and we are honored to receive the "E" Award," said J. Patrick Kennedy, OSIsoft's CEO and founder. "We have been doing business internationally since 1980 and have been exporting our product, the PI System, since 1986. Today we export the PI System to over 110 countries. Exports are a very important component of our growth and today represent over 50 percent of our business. Our employees are an important component of this growth; since 2007 we have added nearly 200 new positions in the U.S."
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San Leandro Times - April 5, 2012
The City Council unanimously approved a development agreement on Monday night that would bring in a large hotel, restaurants, and residential development to the marina.
The city first hired Cal-Coast developers to oversee the revitalization of the marina in the the summer of 2008. Since then, Cal-Coast President Ed Miller has met with the City Council and the Shoreline Citizens' Advisory Committee many times. Last summer he virtually begged for a decision to be made about the marina's future so he could begin attracting potential clients to set up shop in his new development.
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The Recorder - March 16, 2012
Pick just about any state political issue in the headlines these days and chances are Remcho, Johansen & Purcell is in the mix.
The battle over tax initiatives? The firm helped write rival school-funding measures, including one favored by the governor, headed for the November ballot.
Redistricting? The state Senate president hired the firm to pen an amicus curiaebrief supporting political maps drafted by a citizens commission.How about the new 49ers stadium in Santa Clara? Remcho, Johansen is in the game there, too, recently helping developers kill a referendum on a new $1 billion football palace.
It's a nice uptick in business for a political law firm that saw its litigation work ebb in a sour economy, said founding partner Robin Johansen.
"I've learned that when it's slow you should just enjoy it and the time off," Johansen said in a recent interview. "It's very hard to do, but I've gotten better at it because it's going to get crazy again."
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Wall Street Journal - March 14, 2012
Pat Kennedy believes high-speed communication is so essential to business that he is spending $3 million of his own money to build a fiber-optic loop in his hometown of San Leandro. The move is intended to help his software company expand and ramp up the technology industry in the East Bay.
Mr. Kennedy is chief executive of OSIsoft LLC, which does data monitoring for utilities, refineries and "anything with a smokestack." His company moves large amounts of data over the Internet each day and its data needs are growing.
Read the whole article here.
Atlantic Cities - March 14, 2012
Patrick Kennedy looked into the future, and he didn't like what he saw.
Kennedy is CEO of the software company OSIsoft, and he worried that his data-rich business would be increasingly limited by the capacity of his city's telephone-style internet infrastructure. What seemed fast enough today would most certainly be far too slow five years down the line.
So Kennedy took action. He lobbied city officials in San Leandro, California, to make the switch from copper wires to higher-speed fiber optic cables. The city had already dug up its streets to lay down conduits to link up all its traffic lights; snaking some fiber optic cables through wouldn't be too much more work, he argued.
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San Leandro Patch - February 21, 2012
"San Leandro is the ideal place to do business," founder says, citing location, transportation, other manufacturing and a city government that "makes it easy to operate here." A local startup has discovered how to disinfect wastewater without using toxic chemicals or costly electricity, while creating energy at the same time. Pasteurization Technology Group says it is the first and only company in the world to combine wastewater disinfection with renewable-energy generation. The San Leandro startup is getting attention. Last year PTG garnered the Popular Science 2011 "Best of What’s New" Award and the 2011 BlueTech® Go-To-Market Strategy award. It recently received a second $1 million infusion of capital from EIC Ventures to expand.
Now the company is ramping up staffing in San Leandro to keep up with the increasing stream of inquiries from prospective customers. PTG's patented technology uses digester gas (often referred to as biogas, a natural by-product of wastewater treatment) as fuel to drive a turbine that generates renewable electricity.
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San Leandro Patch - February 16, 2012
You’ve heard of hiding in plain sight. One of San Leandro’s largest industrial sites has been “hiding” at 14655 Wicks Boulevard for more than 40 years. The Coca-Cola Production & Distribution Center is a state-of-the art facility that employs more than 400 people who can Coke, Sprite and other carbonated drinks for sale throughout Northern California.
The local facility also plastic bottles Dasani water, which has been criticized by environmental groups, although the plant has won awards for waste reduction, as Patch has reported in the past.
Coke officials recently invited city and business leaders to tour the 500,000 square-foot plant (roughly the equivalent of eight football fields) to see their latest upgrade – the introduction of 56 fork lifts and pallet lifters that use hydrogen fuel cells to produce clean energy.
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Tech Company Touts Fiber-Optic Loop
San Leandro Times - February 9, 2012
San Leandro want to helps you get lit. An 11-mile fiber optic loop project know as "Lit San Leandro" was recently approved by the City Council. The loop will boost the industrial area with high-speed, high volume data transfers and the hope is that kind of capability will lure business to San Leandro that will pay to tap into the loop. On Tuesday afternoon tech company owner Patrick Kenndy hosted a workshop at his headquarters on Davis Street to hype the project. Lit San leandro is a public-private partnership between Kennedy's OSI soft and the city.
Read the whole article here.
San Leandro fiber optic loop begins with high hopes for a tech future
Daily Review - February 9, 2012
Optimism was high Tuesday at the Davis Street headquarters of OSIsoft, the company helping the city build a "fiber optic loop" that San Leandro hopes will be an economic boon to the city. Work crews have begun laying fiber optic cables in city-owned conduits under Davis Street and other thoroughfares as part of a project called Lit San Leandro. The project is a public-private partnership between the city of San Leandro and a company called San Leandro Dark Fiber, which was created specifically for the project by OSIsoft CEO Patrick Kennedy.
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Energy Recovery Inc Granted Record-Setting Number of New Patents
Wall Street Journal--Market Watch.com - Jan. 26, 2012
Energy Recovery Inc ERII -0.03% , a leader in the design and development of energy recovery devices and pumps for desalination and other industrial processes, today announced that it was granted four new patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011, the most approved in any one year in the Company's history. All of the patents were related to Energy Recovery Inc's (ERI) game changing PX(TM) Pressure Exchanger technology, including its application into osmotic power production.
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Lit San Leandro On KQED
KQED Radio - Jan. 18, 2012
Please click on the following link to listen to Patrick Kennedy in a KQED Radio interview about how Lit San Leandro works and why San Leandro's manufacturing history is an asset for this project. PatrickKennedyonKQEDradio
San Leandro builds 'fiber optic loop' in bid to become a high-tech hub
Daily Review - Jan. 16, 2012
Construction begins this week on an ambitious project to wire up San Leandro with a "fiber-optic loop" in the hopes of attracting to town the kinds of businesses that have turned Palo Alto and Santa Clara into high-tech hubs. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, annual global Internet commerce for 2011 totaled roughly $10 trillion. City officials hope to gain a piece of that pie once an infrastructure backbone of high-speed fiber-optic cables is completed sometime midyear.
Read the whole article here.
Peterson Tractor Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
San Leandro Patch - December 16, 2011
At the end of the 1940’s construction on Peterson’s large headquarters in San Leandro was complete and the business moved into its current location at 955 First Avenue (now Marina Boulevard) where it remains today.
With 19 locations, it now has over 1000 employees. Approximately one third of its employees work at the Marina Boulevard headquarters.
Back in 1960, Good Year's BIG Magazine wrote in its February edition that the Peterson facility in San Leandro dwarfed virtually every other equipment dealership in the nation and was functional down to the last square inch. Its expansive showroom area displayed an array of farming and industrial machines offered to customers, housed within a 25,000 square-foot building. Along with the showroom there were sales and administrative offices and a front parts counter. Adjacent to that was a 32,400 sq-ft parts warehouse which backed up to a Southern Pacific railroad spur for easy equipment delivery from the factory.
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Orinda's John Martin, a lawyer's son, follows own path to brewing business
Oakland Tribune, Inside Bay Area - December 8, 2011
Growing up in Orinda, John Martin hiked the hills, diligently following in his father's footsteps. When it came time for college, he chose pre-law, just like his father and his father's father before him. But one day, his father told him the straight-ahead truth. "He sat me down and said, 'You really don't have the killer instinct,' " Martin remembers. "It was liberating, really. I'm so glad he said that because it changed everything."
Well, almost everything.
What it didn't change was a family legacy of independence. In addition to being a lawyer, his father had owned Martino's, a Berkeley restaurant where Martin learned to appreciate the camaraderie of good food and, especially, great beer.
Read the whole article here.
San Leandro Jumpstarts Waterfront Plan
San Francisco Business Times - December 2, 2011
Cal Coast Development has designed a conceptual master plan to redevelop San Leandro's waterfront into a bustling office, hotel and conference center.
The City of San Leandro hired Cal Coast as the master developer for a 52-acre area near the city's marina that could include up to 290,000 square feet of office, a 200-room hotel with a 15,000-square-foot conference center, 188 units of housing and a new space for retail and restaurants.
Read the whole article here.
San Leandro Retail Project Seeks 2012 OK
San Francisco Business Times - November 25, 2011
After developing a 235,000-square-foot office plaza in downtown San Leandro, David Irmer of the Innisfree Cos. has set his sights on bringing in new retail. The developer is working on a 28,000-square-foot shopping center on 1.7 acres at East 14th Street that is slated to include a Fresh & Easy grocery store, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Chipotle, AT&T store and a full-service restaurant. The project, known as the Village Marketplace, will feature a large outdoor seating area and clock tower.
Read the whole article here.
CEO Wants "Dark Fiber" to light up East Bay City
San Francisco Business Times - November 18, 2011
J. Patrick Kennedy has grown OSIsoft LLC into one of San Leandro’s largest employers over the last three-plus decades, with 750 employees.
Now Kennedy wants to help the city where he lives and works reinvent itself and attract tech jobs. He is spending several million dollars of his own money to run more than 10 miles of fiber optic cables capable of transmitting mind-boggling amounts of data at incredible speeds through a municipal conduit that rings the city.
It is very costly to dig up the ground to lay fiber cables, and key to Kennedy’s plan is accessing a conduit through which the city controls street lights and cameras — something the city has already approved.
Read the whole article here.
Medshare Celebrates Shipment of 700th Container of Medical Supplies
San Leandro Patch - September 3, 2011
"MedShare marked a milestone Friday as volunteers, employees, board members and city leaders gathered to commemorate the shipment of the organization’s 700th container of surplus medical supplies.
MedShare’s program makes use of excess medical supplies from area hospitals and clinics that would otherwise go to a landfill.
These supplies are then sorted at the warehouse in San Leandro and are made available to organizations, clinics and medical personnel in the Bay Area and around the world.
The 700th shipment, a tractor-trailer-sized container, is on its way to Libya. It carries five tons of more than 1,000 items such as hospital beds, gurneys, exam lights, exam tables, a ventilator for pediatric and adult patients, surgical packs, syringes, gloves and oxygen masks."
Read the whole article here.
Energy Recovery Inc Consolidates Operations in San Leandro
BusinessWire - July 13, 2011
"Energy Recovery Inc, a leader in the design and development of energy recovery devices for desalination and other industrial processes, today announced the planned consolidation of its North American manufacturing operations. Under the plan, the company will move its operations in Michigan, where its pumps and turbocharges are currently assembled, and relocate those activities to its existing headquarters and production center in San Leandro, California. ERI expects the consolidation to significantly reduce costs, improve efficiencies and enhance research and development efforts, positioning the company to experience increased profitability in subsequent years."
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OSIsoft Announces Its Selection As Microsoft Sustainability Partner Of The Year
BusinessWire - July 10, 2011
"OSIsoft, LLC, the leader in real-time data infrastructure solutions, today announced its selection as a 2011 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award Winner. From nearly 3,000 partner entries submitted this year for the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2011 Awards program, OSIsoft's PI System was selected by Microsoft judges as the winner in the category, Sustainability Partner of the Year. This is the inaugural year for Microsoft to present the Sustainability Partner of the Year Award, a category which recognizes exceptional partners who have delivered software and technology innovations built on the Microsoft platform that help organizations around the world reduce their impact on the environment."
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Cleaire Wins Cleantech Award for Emissions Reduction Technology
San Francisco Business Times - June 17, 2011
"Cleaire filtration systems have been installed on 1,400 transit buses in San Francisco and some 10,000 vehicles across the state; no less than 80 percent of the company’s business is in California, providing “good jobs, all local jobs. You can’t export these jobs,” says Plummer, who now plans to expand sales across the Northeast, Southeast and Rustbelt regions where levels of particulate matter are especially high."
Read the whole article here.
Global Access Forum Helps San Leandro Businesses Reach New Markets
The Global Access Forum on Friday, May 20, at San Leandro's new Senior Community Center was attended by approximately 100 business and municipal leaders. The Forum brought together professionals from Ex-Im Bank, the SBA and the U.S. Department of Commerce to educate local companies on how to export goods and services to foreign markets. Attendees learned about federal financing mechanisms created to increase exports, and federal trade resources for identifying new markets. The panel of local business owners, including Hans Peter Michelet of San Leandro based Energy Recovery Inc., shared how they have used these programs and resources to increase their sales.
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