Vermont Business Magazine The brews will flow once again as the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce and Hopridge Farms partner together to produce the thirteenth Homebrew Festival and competition. Saturday, April 29th at the Bennington Sports Center in downtown Bennington, brewers will go head-to-head to be named the best homebrew in the land.
Read MoreBennington County hugs the New York State line so closely that it has, in the past, sort of suffered an identity crisis: Is it part of Vermont or a suburb of Albany? Perhaps this is no longer a question. Post-COVID, Bennington appears to be flourishing. And flourishing with it is the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, in no small part because of its executive director, the extremely young and popular Matt Harrington.
Read More“This year, through the generosity of our lodging partners, the Holiday Inn Tours raised a little over $5,000,” comments John Burnham, executive director of the Manchester Business Association and producer of the event. “It was a year of firsts and records being broken. It was the first time offering online ticket sales and sixteen lodging properties participating from Dorset to Bennington. Records were broken in the number of guests welcomed over two consecutive weekends and the most money raised exceeding $5,000 which will go to food cupboards and shelves across the region. We couldn’t have done any of this without the support of our local lodging partners.”
Read MoreThe area’s biggest event of the year went off without a hitch, as the neighborhood just south of Bennington’s “Four Corners” on Main Street was transformed into Garlic Town U.S.A. from Saturday morning into the early evening hours.
Read MoreOn Saturday, September 3rd Bennington, Vermont will once again transform into “Garlic Town, USA” in celebration of all things garlic and agriculture! Garlic Town, USA, formerly known as the award-winning Garlic Fest and produced by the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, announced that the festival will return to downtown Bennington for the 2022 Labor Day weekend.
Read MoreIn coordination with the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce and HireAbility, May Job Fest: Bennington will take place on the lawn at Deer Park
Read MoreThe Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce will dedicate the Chamber Memorial Park on Wednesday, May 25, at 5:30 p.m. The community is invited to join.
Read MoreThe Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Berkshire Bank, will host the inaugural Women In Leadership Luncheon at the Wilson House in Dorset on Wednesday, May 11 from 12 to 2 p.m.
Read MoreSpring cleaning isn’t just for your windows and your garage. Let this time of year inspire you to tune up your business as well! Implement these ten tips, tactics, and tools to freshen up your online marketing and coast into year-round business success.
Read More85% of businesses and organizations indicated they were either optimistic or very optimistic for their business in 2022 according to a recent Southwestern Vermont Chamber poll.
The Chamber’s annual membership meeting, promoted as the biggest night for businesses in the region, took place digitally on Thursday January 27, 2022 and featured a dazzling array of musical performances, wine sabering, annual awards, a digital sparkling wine toast, virtual door prizes every 15 minutes, budget approval and visionary speeches by both President of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director.
Read MoreThe Vermont Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (VACCE) held their annual conference this year with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training. Twenty-nine chamber directors from across the state attended the education conference and completed more than eight hours of training.
Read MoreThe Shires of Southwestern Vermont Destination Marketing Organization (DMO), in partnership with the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, will launch a fun, scavenger-hunt-like social media challenge for travelers and residents alike this upcoming holiday season. #dashingthrutheshires
Read MoreThe Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce wraps up another year of Vermont’s Stay To Stay Program this December with over 200 families registered, 50 plus people participating in Zoom meetings and 8 families moving to Southwestern Vermont.
Read MoreOn Thursday, September 23rd at 5:30pm, the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce will dedicate the Chamber Memorial Park and invite the community to join.
Read MoreArticle originally in The Bennington Banner (September 5, 2021) written by Makayla-Courtney McGeeney // Thousands of garlic lovers descended on downtown Bennington on Saturday for Garlic Town, USA. This year’s single-day Labor Day weekend tradition follows the scaled down version of the annual Southern Vermont Garlic and Herb festival that hosted roughly 3,000 attendees in 2020. The reimagined event combined a variety of free activities and entertainment hubs as well as ticketed “cloves” where garlic vendors, artisans and food trucks resided.
Read MoreThe Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce hosted their second golf tournament, the Spring B2B Golf Classic, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at the Manchester Country Club in Manchester, Vermont.
Read MoreOn Saturday, September 4th Bennington, Vermont will transform into “Garlic Town, USA” once again in celebration of all things garlic and agriculture!
Read MoreBennington has long been an innovation and entrepreneurial community. Whether it’s the small Mason jar — often called a lightning jar — created by Henry Putnam or world-renowned pottery, once featured in the White House, from Bennington Potters, Bennington has often punched above its weight in famous innovation, design and production for generations.
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