by Wagner Dotto
We know it’s already fall when we start working on the annual Business Guide. It means we’re in the last leg of the year.
Like in the past, the new edition — the 2026 Business Guide —will provide detailed information on more than 400 of the largest companies in Oswego County, Central and Northern New York.
This will be our 32nd edition.
The annual guide is one of a kind and most use it as resource material. It’s different from the book of lists that business journals across the country publish. For one, it’s in a magazine format, all glossy and colorful. It also ranks employers in four counties — with emphasis on Oswego and Onondaga, but with a good amount of information about Cayuga and Jefferson.
It’s an ambitious project, one that involves a great deal of research, phone calls, checking and double-checking information, writing and design work. In a few words, it requires a lot of work. We’re glad to tackle the challenge.
The Business Guide carries detailed descriptions of local businesses, including latest developments, employment and background information. It also carries profiles of business owners, general managers, small business owners and CEOs and their comments on the local economy and their industries.
A series of graphics shows the largest employers by region, top public employers, manufacturers, auto dealers, home improvement, healthcare and others.
It’s widely distributed among business and professional people in Central New York. We’re also glad that Operation Oswego County, Oswego County’s economic development agency, uses it extensively as part of its marketing strategies to attract outside businesses to the region.
The guide is an excellent chance for companies to highlight their growth, expansion, feature new products, whatever new they have to share.
For readers, the guide provides a great snapshot of companies located in the region and what they do and who is in charge.
The guide will be published in mid-November. Paid subscribers to Oswego County Business will receive the publication as soon as it’s published. We will also make some free copies available throughout the region.
We welcome companies to place advertisements in the publication. Cost to advertise is fairly low and advertising in the guide is a great way to showcase their products, services and their presence in the region.
Wagner Dotto is the editor and publisher of Oswego County Business Magazine.
