Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce

Business is good
Apr 23rd, 2023

Greater Bakersfield Chamber has terrific benefits for members as its increases visibility within Bakersfield and surrounding Kern County. Helps to develop and create networking opportunities. Provides a voice in government. Ability to make more business contacts. Membership generates more business activity in the community. Customer referrals, promotion and publicity, events, and programs, etc. The GBC offers a 401(k) Multiple Employer Plan (MEP), which is a members-only benefit powered by investment advisory planning services through Moneywise Wealth Management. Highly recommend joining GBC as the opportunity is endless!
Apr 2nd, 2023

Calls are not returned. Hours around holidays are vague.
Dec 29th, 2022

There we go again! The chamber does not support local businesses like they claim! Makes you wonder what town are they supporting!! I mentioned a couple years ago they paid $10,000 dollars to an outside artist to do a mural downtown. Their are a lot of stuggling qualified, talented artists that would have loved to have to a least have been able to bid on that mural. The money would have stayed in our economy!! Shame, Shame on them!! Any one of our artists would have painted that simple artwork cheaper and as good!! They said, they used a well known artist from another area to draw attention! Now they supported another business out of our state! They spent $200,000 on a horrible logo for our city. Being a computer artist, I can tell, someone spent a least 20 minutes to come up with the most uncreative design I have ever seen representing Bakersfield. I'm sure that the are a lot of creative graphic artists and designers that would have loved to bid on that project. And, their is $200,000 that won't be spent back in our economy!! So, who is our Chamber representing? NOT US!
May 28th, 2020

$200,000 for a logo that looks like a ten year old designed it, using a computer from 1997. They even refused to hire local, and instead awarded it to some Tennessee based company which has a portfolio of nothing that resembles any amount of talent or eye for design. This city also refuses to do anything about the traffic lights that do nothing but impede traffic.
Apr 28th, 2020