Seventy towns wanted it. Davis won.
In 1905, the Davisville Business Association reorganized itself as the Davis Chamber of Commerce with a single, audacious mission: to win the new University Farm for their small railroad town. Seventy other towns wanted it too.
Davis won. That farm became the globally recognized UC Davis, and the decision rewrote the future of the entire region. More than a century later, that partnership still defines us, a university town where research, talent, and local business have always grown side by side.
One hundred and twenty-one years later, the work is the same: champion the businesses that make Davis, Davis.
It is also an agricultural town at heart, surrounded by some of the most productive land in the world. Here, farm-to-fork is not a trend. It is simply how things have always been done, and how we have always done business: grown, not rushed, tended through relationships and a community that looks after its own.