The Oregon vineyard begins 2025 with a seek for a candidate to function its Chief Govt Officer with founder Jim Bernau persevering with to function President
Jan. 6, 2025 (Salem Hills, OR) —Willamette Valley Vineyards (NASDAQ: WVVI, WVVIP) is happy to announce that the corporate has determined to start a search to herald further high management into the vineyard group by separating the roles of president and chief government officer (CEO).
“The wine market is altering quickly and I consider we’d like the extra horsepower of a brand new CEO and extra discipline gross sales workers,” stated Jim Bernau, the corporate’s founder, president, and present CEO.
“I can’t be stepping away from the corporate as I intend to stay as president and chair of the board of administrators as soon as we rent a brand new CEO, however I consider having the management of the corporate held by two separate individuals will assist invigorate our model with distributors, retailers and eating places throughout the nation and assist set up new markets the world over,” stated Bernau.
The seek for a CEO is a part of Bernau’s succession plan, and it relies on future circumstances and efficiency. The vineyard additionally intends to fill openings for key account results in assist the vineyard’s gross sales worldwide.
“After greater than forty years at Willamette and at 71 years of age, I have to share the rigorous market journey required,” Bernau defined.
Since Bernau based the vineyard in 1983, it has grown to over 260,000 instances in annual manufacturing and from 15 acres of vines within the Salem Hills of Oregon to over 1,000 acres of property vineyards. The corporate employs over 350 devoted craftspeople, wine professionals and hospitality workers, together with over 40 managers who oversee 10 tasting room areas, gross sales, manufacturing and winery care. Willamette’s 10 tasting rooms are in Oregon, Southwest Washington and Folsom, California.
Bernau’s distinctive imaginative and prescient of organizing wine fans as house owners resulted within the first “crowdfunding” in America in 1989, ensuing years later in a cloth of state and federal legal guidelines permitting entrepreneurs to boost capital publicly from non-accredited buyers. The vineyard now has over 26,000 wine fanatic house owners and 11,000 wine membership members.
events within the CEO place could ship resumes to Vice President of Human Assets Brittany Galego at brittany.galego@wvv.com.
About Willamette Valley Vineyards
Based in 1983 by President Jim Bernau with the dream of making world-class Pinot Noir whereas serving as stewards of the land, Willamette Valley Vineyards has grown from a daring concept into one of many area’s main wineries, incomes the title “One among America’s Nice Pinot Noir Producers” from Wine Fanatic Journal. As well as, all of the vineyards have been licensed sustainable by LIVE (Low Enter Viticulture and Enology) and Salmon-Secure packages. With 1,000 acres beneath vine, Willamette farms its Property vineyard within the Salem Hills, glowing vineyard Domaine Willamette within the Dundee Hills, pioneering Tualatin Property Winery close to Forest Grove and Elton Winery within the Eola-Amity Hills. The vineyard has expanded not too long ago to incorporate 10 tasting rooms in Oregon, Washington and California – progress made attainable by the inventory possession of many wine fans.
