Family Business Awards
Video Recap: 2017 Seattle Business Magazine Family Business Awards
Congratulations to all of this year's winners!
The 2017 Family Business Awards celebrated family-owned businesses from all over Washington. Characteristics like grit, determination, communications and strategy are common to family businesses putting their stamps on industries ranging from agriculture to boatbuilding across the state. The event celebrated small businesses like Kristoferson Farms, mid-size firms like Hewes Marine Company, along with transforming companies…
The Winners: 2017 Seattle Business Magazine Family Business Awards
See the winners of this year's awards here.
Grit. Determination. Communication. Strategy. All are characteristics common to family businesses putting their stamps on industries ranging from agriculture to boatbuilding across the state of Washington. At the same time, these legacy companies make concrete commitments to transferring ownership to succeeding generations. This year, Seattle Business magazine celebrates 11 recipients of Family Business Awards for…
2017 Family Business Awards, Business Transformation: Twin Brook Creamery
Lynden-based Twin Brook Creamery has been owned by the Stap family since 1910.
FANS OF JERSEY GIRLS: Larry and Debbie Stap own Twin Brook Creamery with their daughter, Michelle Tolsma, and Michelles husband, Mark Tolsma. Photo by Hayley Young. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. A decade ago, Twin Brook Creamery stopped supplying raw commodity milk to Darigold…
2017 Family Business Awards, Business Growth: Cascade Gasket & Manufacturing
Kent-based Cascade Gasket has parts on every Boeing plane built after 1946.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED: From left, sibling co-owners Carol Terry, Marsh Terry, Lee Terry (holding a photo of sister Allison), with Chief Business Officer Ted Pilot. Photo by Hayley Young. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Growth continues to take off for Cascade Gasket & Manufacturing,…
2017 Family Business Awards, Community Involvement: Dynamic Language
Seattle-based Dynamic Language has been involved with assisting immigrant and refugee populations, fundraising and donating their own time and money.
TRANSLATION STATION: Cofounder and CEO Maria Antezana is flanked by her children, partners Rick Antezana and Sandy Dupleich. Photo by Hayley Young. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Linguist Maria Antezana first worked teaching Spanish to English speakers and assisting executives doing business in Latin…
2017 Family Business of the Year (Midsize Firms): Hewes Marine Company, Workpointe, Burgermaster
Colville-based Hewes Marine Company is the winner of the Gold Award.
FULL SPEED AHEAD: Dave Hewes, right, and Bill Hewes with Bills wife, Launa, on the production floor of the Hewescraft factory in Colville. Photo courtesy of Hewescraft. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Known simply as Hewescraft, this rural Colville company builds heavy-gauge, all-welded aluminum…
2017 Family Business of the Year (Small Firms): Kristoferson Farm, Claar Wine Group, Washington Shoe Company
Kristoferson Farm is the Gold Award winner at the Family Business Awards.
CULTIVATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Members of the Kristoferson clan gather in front of the century-old barn where gourmet community dinners now take place. Photo by Hayley Young. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Kristoferson Farm has cultivated beyond agriculture. Visitors can zip line over its forests…
Joshua Green Corporation is the Winner of the Heritage/Legacy Award at the 2017 Family Business Awards
The Family Business Awards salute Washington state companies that demonstrate outstanding stewardship of legacy enterprises.
LONG-TERM INVESTMENT: Board Chairman Jay Green, center, with CEO Stan McCammon, standing, and Joshua Green descendants, from left, Laura Brisbane, Leslie Hawkins and David Burnett. Photo by Hayley Young. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. The 2017 Family Business Awards will be held Dec. 7…
2016 Family Business Awards: Heritage/Legacy Award
Winner: Bartell Drugs
WINNERBartell DrugsLocation: Seattle Sometimes, the best course for a family business managing succession is to reach outside the family for expertise while it prepares for the next generation to assume leadership. This happened to Bartell Drugs in 2015. With third-generation family leaders George Bartell and Jean Bartell Barber retiring and the five fourth-generation Bartells mostly…
2016 Community Impact Awards: Growth
Gold: Bellmont Cabinet Company
GOLD AWARDBellmont Cabinet CompanyLocation: Sumner Bellmont Cabinet set a new course after 2009, when annual revenue plunged to $12.6 million, less than half of what it had been the year before. A strategy to bring affordable, contemporary, frameless Eurostyle cabinets to market worked, helping the companys revenues soar to $60 million by 2015. President Steve…
2016 Family Business Awards: Transition
Gold: Continental Mills
GOLD AWARDContinental MillsLocation: Tukwila Continental Mills has a staple of tried-and-true brands such as Krusteaz and Alpine Cider Mix, but to reach millennials it has devised new brands such as WildRoots trail mixes and Buck Wild natural snacks. The snacks are available at many retailers, from Starbucks to Walmart. Third-generation President Andy Heily, 44, who…
2016 Family Business Awards: Business of the Year, Large Firms
Gold: R.D. Merrill Company; Silver: Peninsula Truck Lines
GOLD AWARDR.D. Merrill CompanyLocation: Seattle in the 1890s, Richard Dwight Merrill built a business based on timber. Six generations later, the company he built, R.D. Merrill, has 1,700 employees and operations in timber, retirement homes and property development. Merrills great-great-grandson (and the companys current chairman), Charlie Wright, took the first step toward diversification in 1993…