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The Winners: 2019 Leaders in Health Care Awards
Saluting the administrators, researchers and healers
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Each year, the Leaders in Health Care Awards honor a remarkable assortment of compassionate people doing heroic work in Washington state. Seattle Business magazine offers its heartiest congratulations and heartfelt gratitude to this years honorees. The Honorees Lifetime Achievement…
Why Seattle’s Attempt to Grant Collective-Bargaining Rights to Uber and Lyft Drivers Is Likely Headed to the Supreme Court
The ordinance that was passed by the Seattle City Council in 2015 is currently in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is contemplating the fate of Seattles ordinance granting TNC drivers collective bargaining rights. That ordinance, passed in 2015, allows drivers to elect to be represented by a qualified driver representative. If a representative…
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…
The 2017 Washington Manufacturing Awards: Nonprofit Manufacturer of the Year
Gold: Skills Inc., Auburn
GOLD AWARD Skills Inc., Auburn Skills describes itself with a one-two-three mnemonic: one mission (creating a stable, rewarding workplace for people with disabilities), two bottom lines (financial and social) and three paths to achieve its goals (employing people with disabilities, offering vocational programs and serving as a role model/resource to the community). It could add…
The 2017 Washington Manufacturing Awards: Sustainability
Gold: Feed Commodities, Tacoma; Silver: Composite Recycling Technology Center, Port Angeles
GOLD AWARD Feed Commodities, Tacoma Bakeries often have leftover ingredients and finished goods that are past their sell-by date. Feed Commodities turns these cereal and grain-based bakery byproducts into animal feed in a certified safe-feed facility. From a small operation launched in 1996, the company has grown to more than $12 million in annual sales…
The 2017 Washington Manufacturing Awards: Innovation
Gold: Gear Aid, Bellingham; Silver: Sterlitech, Kent
GOLD AWARD Gear Aid, Bellingham Outdoor gear takes a beating in rugged conditions. Gear Aid makes the adhesives, tapes, water repellents, cleaners, lubricants and deodorizers to restore camping equipment and sporting goods to prime condition. In recent years, the company added accessories, such as towels, knives and portable lights. Formerly McNett Corporation (after the name…
The 2017 Washington Manufacturing Awards: Manufacturer of the Year Midsize Firms
Gold: Accrafab Inc., Liberty Lake; Silver: Vaupell, Seattle
GOLD AWARD AccraFab Inc., Liberty Lake AccraFab needed room to expand its contract manufacturing and machine-shop operations. It scouted possible locations in Washington and across the state line in Idaho. The decision? Stay put in Spokane County, which is good news for the state and the region. AccraFab already has 180 employees and expects to…
The 2017 Washington Manufacturing Awards: Manufacturer of the Year Small Firms
Gold: AeroGo Inc., Tukwila; Silver: Aeroforge, Puyallup
GOLD AWARD AeroGo Inc., Tukwilia Moving something big and heavy like a nuclear-reactor pump, a boat or an entire spacecraft can be tough even with wheels. So why not let compressed air do the job? AeroGo built a company off the novel idea of air casters, in which a tiny layer of compressed air does…
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 Millennial Movement
A generation now larger than the boomers will reshape America economically and politically.
Millennials are pejoratively referred to in the popular press as the Me Generation, described as being self-absorbed, irresponsible and lacking a work ethic. The statistics tell a radically different story. Millennials face unprecedented economic challenges. For possibly the first time in history, more Americans believe that their children will be worse off than their parents….