Family Business Awards: Business Transition Winner
Issue
December 2010
From this Issue
Family Business Awards: Growth Award Winner: Bargreen Ellingson
Family Business Awards: Cross-Generational Transition Winners (Tie): Canlis Restaurant and Dunn Lumber
We’d like to blame Qwest. We really would. Because we’re the phone company.
Microsoft’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on Xbox Live.
The worst performing stocks in the Seattle Business Washington 80 Index, ranked by total return, Sept. 30, 2009-Sept. 30, 2010.
At Frontier Bank, the fine print in your employment contract says, “This document doesn’t apply to you.”
Taco Del Mar gets sold off like so much distressed real estate.
Taking Classmates out back (and to court) for a lesson in deceptive marketing.
There will be more acquisitions of Washington companies by outsiders. You can bank on it.
More than 20 Washington companies were acquired by out-of-state buyers in 2010.
The best performing stocks in the Seattle Business Washington 80 Index, ranked by total return, Sept. 30, 2009-Sept. 30, 2010.
The Self-Sustaining Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction (Miller/Hull, Point 32, Schuchart, The Bullitt Foundation).
Apple goes mainstream; cuts out the sex. AppstoreHQ sees a market opening.
Least likely to run for public office, most likely to be applauded for it.
Spokane’s Magnuson Hotels taps the power of the internet to give independent hotels the marketing clout of international chains.
Shiraz Balolia has turned his woodworking hobby into a multimillion-dollar business: Grizzly Industrial.
The renovated Pickford Cinema may be the spark that revitalizes downtown Bellingham.
The University of Washington Foster School of Business' former home, Balmer Hall, was considered an unpleasant learning environment. And ugly.
Seattle startup NanoIce rolls out a better way of keeping fresh food fresh.
Regarding Bill Virgin’s column on SoDo (“The Old Industrial
Heart,” October 2010)—well, he got most of it right.
When we first launched our Family Business Awards earlier this year, I was a bit nervous. Despite two decades of business reporting, I knew little about family businesses.
Seattle’s pretensions as a world-class city haven’t panned out, but global health might put us on the map ... if we’re willing to work for it.
The new reality of the world of work is that finding productive work is often at odds with finding a job.
For-profit schools are facing criticism and scrutiny, some of which is necessary. But let’s not overreact: We need these schools.
How to improve your chances of collecting accounts receivable in a down economy.