wine industry
We recognize wineries' needs to integrate facility operations with on-site events and retail sales and understand the issues and long-term needs of your business.
Retail Sales and Events on Premises
The integration of wine production with retail sales and events has increased the complexity of a winery's overall facility operations. Meeting the needs for physical accessibility, health, safety and security are integral to maintaining your facilities.
Operating a successful tasting room is fundamental to a loyal customer base. Events bring people to taste your wine and subsequently buy it. Therefore, the tasting room is extremely important for the small to medium-sized winery. Approximately 60% of profits come from 30%-35% of tasting room sales. Offering events, following up with print and internet marketing and establishing an online store all play into keeping these loyal customers.
Facilities Strategy
We take into consideration both the long-term as well as the immediate effects on the present and future operations of the winery. Future scenarios are developed which represent probable events that could effect the winery's operation. If you do not plan for prospective future events, you will be reacting when they occur and that can become costly. Being proactive minimizes your long-term costs, keeping you from paying dearly in the event of an emergency.
Planning and Project Development
We look at the requirements of the project, your goals and the relationships of individual tasks. We plan for maintainability as well as functionality.
Our Real Estate Master Plan is a 5-year strategy based on market information, where the winery wants to be positioned within the industry, planned upgrades or modifications and the resourses involved. We look at potential surprises and changes in regulations and compliance issues and financial contingencies for countering adverse situations. Compliance and regulations include: ADA, air quality, asbestos, crime, earthquake, environmental dumping or seepage, flooding, lead-paint, life safety code compliance, noise and other regulatory issues. We help you identify these issues early on, so you can have an open tasting room and events happening regularly with your facilities up to code.