Business

Chocolate entrepreneurs Charity Kowalczyk

Xocai Healthy Chocolates: Get your antioxidants, say South King County entrepreneurs

Charity Kowalczyk and her mother Marie Erskine work well together, filling in each other’s gaps.“She’s the smart one,” Erskine said, pointing a thumb at her… Continue reading

Chocolate entrepreneurs Charity Kowalczyk

Panera goes pink to fight breast cancer

This October, Panera Bread is inviting its customers to join in the fight against breast cancer with its signature Pink Ribbon Bagels.

  • Oct 13, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Port Candidate Tom Albro presses commission to help Green River Businesses

Tom Albro, candidate for Position 4 on the Port of Seattle Commission, on Oct. 7 asked the Port Commissioners to step up and offer help vacant port properties to the Green River Valley businesses likely to be caught in winter floods.

  • Oct 7, 2009
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Kent businesses encourage customers to “Find It In Kent,” a new ‘shop local’ campaign

Local consumers are urged to “Find It In Kent,” as part of a just-launched campaign to remind them about the benefits of spending locally.

  • Oct 7, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Kent’s first-ever Business Expo is Wednesday, Kent Chamber of Commerce organizes it

Kent residents looking to see what their town has to offer will get their opportunity Wednesday at the ShoWare center when nearly 90 local business will gather for Kent's first Business Expo.

Clunkers payments clunking in slowly for Kent auto dealership

Reimbursements from the government for the Cash for Clunkers program have started to pick up some, but according to Mark Scarff, president and General Manager… Continue reading

Pottery-fic owner Maria Hauschild

New pottery business comes to downtown Kent

In 2007, a new pottery shop opened in the Illinois town where Maria Hauschild and her family were living. One afternoon, she took her daughter… Continue reading

Pottery-fic owner Maria Hauschild
Allied Waste Services’ Chris Guimond stands Wednesday with Seattle Thunderbirds mascot Cool Bird

New player takes the ice for T-Birds

The Seattle Thunderbirds have a new player in their corner, and he doesn’t wear a mask or pads.Heck, he doesn’t even use a puck.Allied Waste… Continue reading

Allied Waste Services’ Chris Guimond stands Wednesday with Seattle Thunderbirds mascot Cool Bird

Chambers offer flood information Sept. 23 at ShoWare Center

Business owners in Kent, Auburn, Renton and Tukwila can learn to prepare for potential Green River flooding this winter at an Emergency Preparedness Symposium from… Continue reading

  • Sep 14, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
PetroCard specializes in offering ‘cardlock’ fuel systems

Kent business receives honor for being top minority-owned firm

A business headquartered in the Kent Valley was recently named one of the 2009 National Excellence in Minority Business Award Winners by the U.S. Department… Continue reading

PetroCard specializes in offering ‘cardlock’ fuel systems

Business Expo is Oct. 7 at ShoWare

The Kent Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at the ShoWare Center.Sponsored in part by Allied… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Goodwill to open new store in Des Moines

A new Des Moines Goodwill Store will open Sept. 17 featuring shopping, a drop-off for gently used clothes and household goods, and providing support for… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Umpqua Bank gets new VP

Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, has named David Thomas vice president and commercial relationship manager for the South Puget Sound region. Working… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Dispute resolved between Kent business and Crocs footwear company

The long-running legal dispute between shoemakers Crocs, Inc., and Kent-based Australia Unlimited, Inc. is over.Crocs, Inc. and Australia Unlimited, Inc., maker of the NothinZ brand… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Marina

Picture perfect: Couple has dream job operating their new downtown Kent photo studio

Ever since he was a child in the Ukraine, Anatoli Petrik has loved to take pictures and dreamed of being a National Geographic photographer.“Ever since… Continue reading

Marina
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke helps attorney Lisa Voso cut the ribbon Wednesday during an open house at Voso's new law office

Cutting the ribbon

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke helps attorney Lisa Voso cut the ribbon Wednesday during an open house at Voso's new law office, located at 6703 S.… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke helps attorney Lisa Voso cut the ribbon Wednesday during an open house at Voso's new law office

State jobless rate takes mild dip in July

Washington’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 9.1 percent in July, down from June’s revised rate of 9.2 percent, according to the state Employment Security… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Qliance Marketing Associate Meg Tronquet leads a tour of the the health-care firm's facilities Wednesday at Kent Station.

Qliance: Leave insurance out of it, new health-care network in Kent says

Beginning this month, Kent-area residents will have a whole new way to get their health care, and though it's new, it has something of an… Continue reading

Qliance Marketing Associate Meg Tronquet leads a tour of the the health-care firm's facilities Wednesday at Kent Station.

U.S. Chamber honors Sterlitech Corporation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce this month honored Sterlitech Corporation with its Faces of Trade award in recognition of the Kent-based company’s impact on its… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Allied Waste Services' Lead Driver John Egan Jr. demonstrates how his firm's truck can grab the recycling bin and unload it in to the truck. The City of Kent is seeking bids for a new garbage collection contract. Allied Waste Services is one of the current city contractors and will be submitting a bid.

Kent Downtown Partnership event is tonight at Allied Waste Services

Kent Downtown Partnership’s monthly networking event runs 5-7 p.m. tonight at Allied Waste Services, 22010 76th Ave. S., Kent, a waste hauler for the City… Continue reading

  • Aug 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Allied Waste Services' Lead Driver John Egan Jr. demonstrates how his firm's truck can grab the recycling bin and unload it in to the truck. The City of Kent is seeking bids for a new garbage collection contract. Allied Waste Services is one of the current city contractors and will be submitting a bid.