Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has intensified its focus on workforce development and talent strategy. Recruitment and retention of skilled, qualified and motivated workers has emerged as a key part of our region’s economic development future. Through meetings with workforce ...
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Zweigle’s, Rochester’s homegrown meat manufacturer, plans to build a 29,000 square-foot expansion and create 33 new job after gaining state support of about $1 million in tax breaks and outright grants. The expansion, due to be completed in late 2022, ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has teamed up with member Innovative Solutions to present the third annual ROC Tech Conference Sept. 12 at the Riverside Convention Center. The ROC Tech Conference is a full-day event featuring speakers from across the ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has gotten intensely involved in our region’s economic development initiatives over the past year. This is in addition to our core offerings of business advocacy, professional development, networking, promotion, human resources, and background screening and ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce was pleased to recently partner with Flower City Solutions to plan and host “CannaBusiness: Capitalizing on the Cannabis Economy,” an event that opened a community conversation on the emerging marijuana and hemp industries. While Rochester ...
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Since having the good fortune of becoming Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce president and CEO at the beginning of 2015, my team and I have supported the concept “ABC: Always Buy Chamber.” The spirit of the slogan is meant to ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Disability Rights have partnered to raise awareness of a recent rash of lawsuits targeting businesses over accessibility of their websites. These actions, brought by a small number of plaintiffs in the ...
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From a business and economic perspective, one of the most overlooked assets in our region is education. I recently had the honor of attending an A Community Together (ACT) for Education meeting with retired West Irondequoit Central School District Superintendent ...
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Early in this 2019, Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is reflecting on the past while planning strategically for the future. A great deal has changed here since the Industrial Management Council merger with the Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce formed ...
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I have a difficult time understanding the controversy surrounding New York State tax incentives that led Amazon to locate half of its East Coast HQ2 facility in Long Island City. I expect this development to create 25,000 jobs and have ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce recently celebrated its 32nd annual Rochester Chamber Top 100 Awards, recognizing our region’s fastest-growing, privately held companies. The Rochester Chamber Top 100 is the biggest business event of the year in our area, and it ...
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I recently had the honor of attending The Business Council of New York State’s annual meeting where Duke and Columbia public policy professor and retired IBM Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Stan Litow received the Corning Award. ...
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I recently had the pleasure of traveling with a delegation of Rochester-area leaders to Columbus, Ohio to meet with that region’s key economic development agencies. Our group consisted of representatives from Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, Greater Rochester Enterprise, University ...
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I have received a great deal of positive feedback on my Rochester Business Journal column from May, which was titled, “Now is the time to reinforce our civic and regional pride.” As a follow-up to that column, I want to ...
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has enjoyed a very strong, teamwork-driven relationship with Greater Rochester Enterprise and Empire State Development over the past year. I applaud GRE CEO Matt Hurlbutt, ESD Finger Lakes Regional Director Vinnie Esposito and their teams ...
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