Torn Ranch to move to Petaluma
April 13th, 2011 | by Mitchell Bennett |
PETALUMA Torn Ranch, a manufacturer of gourmet treats with thousands of retail and wholesale customers throughout North America, will move from Novato to Petaluma.
The 10-year-old company now occupies two buildings and wants to consolidate its operations, according to Dean Morrow, Torn Ranch president.
Mr. Morrow, citing the highly competitive nature of gourmet food manufacturing, was close-mouthed about the size of his staff and company revenues. Torn Ranch is thought to employ about 100.
The company will occupy just over 50,000 square feet on both floors of a Mrs. Grossman’s Paper Co. facility on Cyprus Drive in Petaluma.
He operates Paragon Label and the sticker- and scrapbook-making company founded by his mother, Andrea Grossman.
In 1995 Mrs. Grossman’s doubled its space, essentially adding a second building next to the first.
The label and sticker printing operations never occupied the entire 105,000 square feet. Then Mr. Grossman decided to downsize, freeing even more space.
He’ll make the extensive upgrades necessary for a food-making facility, although he declined to mention the amount of the capital investment. Torn Ranch hopes to be in its new quarters by June or July, he said.
Torn Ranch started life as a retailer of cashew nuts in San Rafael. It was acquired by its present owners in 1999.
The company currently makes chocolate, jelly beans, roasted nuts, dried fruit, biscotti, cookies and other treats. It assembles trays and gift baskets for spas, corporate gifts, hotels, retailers, wholesalers and gift basket makers.
Torn Ranch sells through its website and wholesale catalogs, according to Mr. Morrow.
The new space will be green-certified, according to Mr. Buck. Mrs. Grossmans has received the PG&E Innovative Leadership Award multiple times for energy conservation and received the Sonoma County Business Environmental Alliance Best Practices Award in 2009.
Steven Leonard of Cassidy Turley and Mr. Buck represented Mrs. Grossmans in the lease.
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