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No. 35 WineCommune

Oakland, CA

Year	2007
Industry	Food & Beverage
Founded	2002
Growth	2,708.4%
2003 Revenue	$328,056
2006 Revenue	$9.2 million
Employees	19
Website	www.winecommune.com

Ranked No. 1 in the Top Companies in Food & Beverage
Ranked No. 4 in the Top Companies in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

What it does: Sells wine online. It also runs several wine-related websites, including WineCommune.com, an auction site for the wine industry, and develops websites and inventory management systems for wine retailers.

Why it's growing: WineCommune was founded to offer small wine retailers a wide array of services and tools, but most wine stores wouldn't pony up for all of them. In 2004, the company decided to use its technology to sell wine itself and launched its own online retail store, J.J. Buckley Fine Wines. Now more than 90 percent of the company's revenue comes from its wine sales.

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