Message from the Chairman of the Board
LARRY HALVORSEN
2024 marks the 110th year the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce has succeeded in promoting economic vitality while connecting our members with the community and government.
As we prepare to exit 2024 and head into 2025, the Torrance business community has a lot to look forward to. We can finally put behind us the election cycle, high inflation, high interest rates and a tight labor market. This gives us an opportunity to work with our fellow business leaders to grow an even stronger economy in the South Bay. I can’t wait to see what opportunities the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics bring to our business community.
I am honored to serve as your chairman and work alongside our dedicated Board and staff, who all share the same vision: business growth and a healthy community environment.
On behalf of our partners in business, community and government, I welcome you to the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce. As a Chamber partner, you directly contribute to the growth of an outstanding business climate.
Message from the President & CEO
DONNA DUPERRON
Growth, change, research, technology, and many other factors challenge us daily to adjust our lifestyle, confront new opportunities, and meet greater demands. The Chamber is committed to track and record economic growth, keep pace with the changes of marketing and consumer habits, and assist its members with their needs – providing programs and benefits to enhance their facility, operation, administration and personnel, or general welfare.
The Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce is your voice for issues and actions affecting business and industry. We are working to preserve the free and competitive enterprise system, promoting growth and development, and making the Torrance area a better place to live, work, learn and conduct business. I would urge you to support the businesses listed within these pages as they too are supporting our goals to make our community a better place.
Membership in the Chamber provides unparalleled opportunities to connect with peers, current and prospective clients, and partners up and down our supply chains. The Torrance Area Chamber stands out as our area’s premier business-enabling and business-advocacy organization.
Regular meetings, conferences and other activities provide extraordinary opportunities to grow your networks and gain new insights for addressing the common challenges facing all of us in business today. By working together as Chamber members, we have a much stronger voice with our elected leaders as they contemplate policy revisions and new rules and regulations that create greater certainty and an improved environment for business in Torrance.
Although it may sound cliché, there really is strength in numbers. I think that’s especially true with the Chamber. This Chamber and your business community need you! Renew, join anew, and reach out and encourage the companies you do business with regularly to join as well.
A major goal this year is to increase the value of your Chamber membership to you and your business. The Chamber staff and Board of Directors want to increase your awareness of what your Chamber does for the business community and therefore create avenues which stimulate more two-way communication.
I hope you will use the online Chamber tools as your go-to source for information about the many businesses providing goods and services in and around Torrance. I challenge each resident, business, and even visitor to become an active part of our community heritage of involvement and to spread the word that Torrance is a great community in which to do business.