PETALUMA — Rising sales for Windsor-based Revive Brands, maker of probiotic kombucha beverages, and for Rustic Bakery of Marin County have convinced each to expand to fill a 50,000-square-foot vacant production bakery in Petaluma in the first half of next year.
They are the latest of a string of expansions by food and beverage companies to and in Sonoma County’s second-largest city, an industry cluster that alone was recently figured to have a $1.3 billion impact on the local economy.
Revive has been needing to move for some time, passing on large orders because of production constraints. The craft brewery of a sort has flowed over into nine industrial incubator spaces totaling 9,000 square feet off Shiloh Road, forcing founder Sean Lovett and his crew to run forklifts through a parking lot in Shiloh Business Center. Now with 30,600 square feet of the former Barbara’s Bakery building at 3900 Cypress Dr., the 4-year-old company will be able to expand and automate production to slake the thirst of a growing distribution network.
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