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Honoring Our Business of the Year: Webco Industries


The Venango Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to recognize Webco Industries as the 2019 Business of the Year. One of Venango County’s largest employers, the company has continued to make significant investments in its local operations. This past year marked Webco’s 50th anniversary. In 1969, F. William “Bill” Weber started the company, which manufactures Read More…

Honoring Our Partner in Business of the Year: Oil City Main Street Program


The Oil City Main Street Program will be recognized as the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce 2019 Partner in Business. The Program, embarking on its eighth full year of operation, follows the Main Street approach, a comprehensive, volunteer-driven strategy used to revitalize older and historic downtown and neighborhood business districts across the country using four Read More…

FYI Newsletter – February 2020


For young professionals, by young professionals. This monthly newsletter is published by Future Leaders & Entrepreneurs Exchange (FLEX), the young professionals group of the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce. Click the image below for a PDF of the full newsletter. Find articles from the FLEX FYI on the Chamber’s blog.

January 2020 Young Professional Profiles: Ryan Boshaw & Matt Slagle


Ryan Boshaw recently joined the team at Northwest Bank in Oil City as Assistant Manager. He has lived in a variety of places starting in Illinois for about eight years, the west coast of Oregon for 12 years, seven years in Pennsylvania, and one year in South Carolina, then returned to Pennsylvania where he has Read More…