February 2012 | Seattle Business Magazine

Agriculture is a Growth Industry

Washington agriculture has weathered the recession better than most sectors, thanks to crop diversity and export value.

By: Bill Virgin

Dan Newhouse is a farmer, and thus possesses the farmer’s long-cultivated cautious attitude about assuming that good times in agriculture are permanent or that there’s no storm cloud—a literal or figurative one—just over the...

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Commentary

Who makes business sustainable?

How leadership drives culture and strategy for sustainable growth.

How Business Can Help Stop Diabetes

How businesses can help halt the diabetes epidemic and reduce health care spending.

Editor's Note: When Government Can Help the Economy

Do Weird Company Names Help or Hurt?

Finance

Funding Forecast Brightens

Small businesses and venture capitalists are cautiously optimistic.

The Infamous B&O Tax

Everyone hates the B&O, but there’s not much appetite for finding an alternative.

Green

Tackling Environmental Liability

How Bluefield Holdings is creating a financial and environmental future for the Lower Duwamish.

Law

Legal Brief: Where's the Juice

False-advertising litigation over pomegranate juice provides a classic study.

Executive Life & Style

One on the Isle

SAM’s Gauguin show emphasizes tropical influences.

Time Keepers

Buy one Shocking Goat watch and you’ll probably want another.

Boosting Spirits

‘Lady-made’ liqueurs cash in on the cocktail craze.

Ba Bar

No elephant in the room, but still plenty to notice.

Health Care
Technology

Low Cost Ultrasound Drives New Uses

A low-cost ultrasound system has promising applications in rural areas and the developing world.

Retail & Services

Will Tribes Lose Their Monopoly on Slot Machines?

Will Slot Machines Spread Beyond Tribal Casinos?

Licensing NFL Players

Website streamlines process for licensing images and autographs of national football league players.

Profiles

Michael Garvey, Founder, Saltchuk Resources Inc.

Since launching Saltchuk in 1982 by putting together a group of investors to acquire Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE), a Seattle-based shipping company, Mike Garvey has built a portfolio of 22 businesses—in everything from air cargo to trucking—that generated revenues of $2 billion in 2011.