Business Notes

Bank helps buy car seats for families
Comerica Bank in Santa Cruz has partnered with the Santa Cruz County Community Counseling Center to raise money to buy 200 children’s car seats and provide safety education for families in the center’s Head Start program.
Every year, Head Start gives more than 100 seats to low-income families in the area. Thirty families are waiting for safety seats, and the list continues to grow.
Head Start serves 621 children countywide and continues to accept new enrollees. The program is federally funded and was created to serve low-income families and promote school readiness.
For information: www.scccc.org.
SV company merges, prepares move to Colorado
Scotts Valley-based Steed Technology announced that it has merged with Highvac of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Steed makes thermal processing equipment and gas abatement systems, and Highvac is the leading U.S. supplier of vacuum pumps, accessories and related equipment and services. Both companies primarily serve customers in the semiconductor, LED and solar industries.
Steed will move to Highvac’s 45,000-square-foot facility in Colorado Springs, but the combined company will use the Steed Technology name.
The main focus of the merger, according to Steed officials is to ramp up sales channels, both in the U.S. and abroad, and focus on new customers in regions with stricter air-quality restrictions.
Avian exhibit in local banks
A new art exhibit, titled “Birds of a Feather,” opened Friday, July 15, at all Santa Cruz County Bank branches, including the bank at 4604 Scotts Valley Drive.
The exhibit features more than 100 pieces by seven local artists that pay tribute to the seventh annual Monterey Bay Birding Festival, which will be Sept. 22 through 25.
Works may be viewed during regular bank hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, through September.
Local credit union honored
Bay Federal Credit Union recently received a Gold MAC Award at the 25th anniversary Marketing Association of Credit Unions Annual Conference.
The MAC Awards recognize outstanding marketing achievements within the credit union industry.
Bay Federal won the top award in the Product/Service Brochure category for its newly designed product cards.
Instead of posting numerous brochures in Bay Federal branches, the marketing team used a minimalist approach to create seven 5½-by-8½-inch “cards” featuring local photographs from Santa Cruz County and brief descriptions of credit union services.
Cards were printed on recycled paper by a Santa Cruz printer.
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