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The Winners: 2017 Seattle Business Magazine Community Impact Awards
Celebrating companies, organizations and individuals committed to doing good.
Gauging an organization’s heart is often the truest measure of success. Meet the winners of the 2017 Seattle Business magazine Community Impact Awards. Lifetime Achievement Award: Dan Evans & Nancy Bell Evans Youth Development (Large Companies): Gold: BECU Youth Development (Small Companies):Gold: Juma Ventures Workforce Development:Gold: Washington StemSilver: The Coffee Oasis Green Products/Services:Gold: Unienergy TechnologiesSilver:…
The 10 Amazon HQ2 Gimmicks and Pitches Worth Your Attention
Amazon's deadline for HQ2 proposals has come and gone. So which cities are making bids worthy of a closer look?
Time is officially up for every North American city that has put together a proposals to bring Amazons coveted, $5 billion, 50,000-employee HQ2. At this point, its anyones guess where the second headquarters might land. No, really; everyone is guessing. And now Amazon has more than 100 cities to choose from as it sorts through…
By the Numbers: The Growth of Amazons Seasonal Hiring
The e-commerce giant more than doubled the number of employees it hires for the holiday season since 2012.
In less than a decade, the number of temporary employees in the U.S. that Amazon hires each holiday season has grown from zero to more than 120,000, according to company records. Last week, the Seattle-based mega-corporation announced that during this coming holiday season, it would match its 2016 total of 120,000 seasonal employees, while expanding…
Why Amazon is a Good Neighbor to Seattle and Why HQ2 is a Problem
Amazons community impact isnt always salubrious, but consider the alternative.
Amazon sent shock waves through Seattle in September when it announced plans to spend $5 billion to build HQ2, a second Amazon headquarters, to house 50,000 employees in another probably distant city. Our prospects for becoming a global metropolis suddenly seemed much diminished. Like Boeings decision to move its corporate headquarters to Chicago and build…
New Jersey Offers $7 Billion Tax Break for Amazon’s HQ2
Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Cory Booker and other New Jersey politicians to pitch Newark as the destination for Amazon's second headquarters.
Amazons Oct. 19 deadline for HQ2 proposals is rapidly approaching, and this week is sure to see a flood of activity from cities and regions and states lining up their bids. We just saw Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Missouri, review 1,000 products on Amazon as part of his citys effort to get into…
Kansas City Mayor Reviews 1,000 Amazon Products in Awesome HQ2 Pitch
Mayor Sly James is reviewing Amazon products and tweeting about it as part of the city's creative pitch to get in the mix for HQ2.
With the proposal deadline a mere week away, cities all over the continent are lining up their pitches to be the next home for Amazons HQ2. Weve already seen some ideas to get Amazons attention that have been pretty, um… creative. Tucson, Arizona, sent a 21-foot saguaro cactus. Georgia city Stonecrest is offering to change…
Executive Q&A: Laura Orvidas, Amazon Head of Consumer Electronics
Laura Orvidas, a woman executive likely to join the top group at Amazon, reflects on tech, service and fulfillment.
ALWAYS LEARNING: Laura Orvidas likes to be outside. I mountain bike, I run, I ski, she says. And I just started taking sailing lessons. Amazon doesnt have many women in its senior management ranks. Among those likely to crack the top group one day is Laura Orvidas, whose tenure at Amazon features a remarkable breadth…
Size Matters: Could Amazon Attract the Attention of Antitrust Regulators?
When some companies get too big, the government gets nervous. Why is that?
Antitrust Law has figured prominently in Washington business for almost as long as theres been a Washington state. In the Northern Securities case of 1904, the Supreme Court told James J. Hill that while he might control the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington Route, merging them was a violation of antitrust law…
Analysis: What Does HQ2 Mean for Amazon and Seattle?
Breaking down what Amazon is doing, why they're doing it, and why moving beyond Seattle was inevitable. Plus: the four most likely cities for the company's "second home."
Amazons surprise HQ2 announcement last week has prompted many questions about what this means for the company and for Seattle. Seattle Business magazine contributor and former Microsoft executive Kevin Schofield has answers on what Amazon is doing, why theyre doing it, the most likely cities to host the companys second home, and what this means…
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods
$13.7 billion agreement likely to close later this year.
Amazon.com is buying Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Heres the news release: Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market ranked #28 and Amazon ranked #2 on Fortunes 2017 list of Worlds Most Admired Companies SEATTLE & AUSTIN, Texas Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM) today announced that they have entered into…
Amazon Spheres Get Their First Resident
Triple orbs, scheduled to open next year, will house plant 400 species.
Dignitaries, workers and schoolchildren donned hard hats and safety goggles Thursday to welcome the first plant an Australian tree fern to the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle. King County Executive Dow Constantine, Seattle City Councilwoman Sally Bagshaw and Amazon VP John Schoettler joined about 150 workers and media people at the pormotional event. Scheduled to…
Retail’s High-Tech Renaissance
Its all about catering specifically to you and you and you.
Welcome to the You Decade. Retailers have a much better understanding of what it takes to get you to open your wallet. Theres much more data available about your shopping habits and interests, from prior purchases to todays online searches and posts and even to the psycho-demographic profile of your neighborhood. Deploying data analytics, artificial…
The Amazing Rise of Amazon Studios
A few years ago, no one was streaming new content from the retail giant. Roy Price has changed that dynamic.
When the 89th Academy Awards celebration begins on February 26, Roy Price is sure to be in the audience. If early predictions are accurate, he will be anticipating an award or two for Manchester by the Sea, a film thats been the smash hit at all four major North American film festivals this season. A…