Placer County Economic and Demographic Profile 2012
Placer County Economic and Demographic Profile 2012 Prepared for: County of Placer Office of Economic Development 175 Fulweiler Avenue Auburn, CA 95603-4543 530/889-4016 Prepared by: 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2500 Sacramento, CA 95814 916/491-0444 FOREWORD Foreword Placer County, one of California’s fastest growing counties and a key component of the Sacramento Region’s economy, offers many attractive features to businesses and residents including strong economic and demographic growth, a healthy business climate, developed infrastructure, and excellent quality of life. The County has benefited from expansions in its transportation infrastructure and the location of prominent businesses such as Hewlett Packard, Oracle Corporation, Ace Hardware, and PRIDE Industries. One of the County’s most noted gems, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, provides abundant recreational opportunities to its residents and visitors from around the world. All of these aspects have made Placer County a desirable location to live, work, and play. Placer County has developed a number of high technology industry clusters since 2000. These include biotechnology/bioscience, hardware, medical device manufacturers, networking/system integration, and software. The software sector, in particular, has grown substantially since the early 2000’s with many small firms joining Oracle Corporation in South Placer County. Such firms include UK-based Sage Software, Abso in Roseville, and privately-held Revionics which has received national attention for its price-optimization software development. In 2008, Kodak Imaging announced the establishment of a branch software and engineering development operation in Auburn. Kodak joined other relatively new or expanded technology-based firms in the Auburn airport area including ioSafe, Tahoe RF Semiconductor, Miltenyi Bio-Tech, and Sierra Precision Optics.
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