SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash.—When much of the world seems to have been in a holding pattern, BumbleBar, a Spokane Valley-based business that has been making organic, gluten-free, high-energy snack bars since 1996, has been on the move. In their 25th year of operation: They are launching new BumbleBar flavors that capitalize on Pacific Northwest signature products […]
RICHLAND, Wash.–Joselyne Hernandez and her father, Jorge Hernandez, started The Black Woodpecker construction company in 2018, a goal Jorge had been working toward for nearly a decade. In the late 1990s and 2000s, Jorge had been a foreman at one of the biggest construction companies in Arizona, but when the recession hit he was out […]
ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Nurturing young children and their community of families has been a calling for Melissa Gillaspy since at least 2008, when she and her husband, Jacob, “fell in love with and remodeled” a charming building in a pastoral setting into Jack and Jill’s House Preschool. But when the Covid-19 pandemic closed the school […]
SEATAC, Wash.—It makes sense that a business called “Restoring Eden” might do well during a pandemic. “Most people have never tasted home-grown fruit ripened on a tree,” said Troy Picou, owner of Restoring Eden, a nursery and landscape design company specializing in edible fruit trees and shrubs. At a time when so much in life […]
EDMONDS, Wash. – Traveling abroad six years ago, Kris and Kali Kelnero encountered canned cocktails and thought, “we could do that.” After years of work and planning, the couple opened Kelnero cocktail bar in downtown Edmonds in February 2019 and, eight months later, contacted business advisor Janet Toth for help with their next step: Kelnero […]
WASHOUGAL, Wash. – Family-owned Green Flush Restrooms builds flush restrooms in efficient, environmentally sound, accessible modules. Over 10 years, father and son Ken and Kyle Earlywine likewise have fashioned the components of good business practice into a company that continued to provide work for its three employees and associated supplier businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic […]
Disaster Field Operations Center West Fecha: 9 de Febrero de 2021 Contacto: Richard A. Jenkins, (916) 735-1500, Richard.Jenkins@sba.gov Número: WA 16869-01 Síguenos en Twitter, Facebook, Blogs & Instagram SBA Ofrece Asistencia de Desastre a los Negocios y Residentes del estado de Washington Afectados por los Incendios Forestales y Vientos Rectilíneos Se Abren Centros de Recuperación Virtuales el […]
There are surges and there are tsunamis. When the Washington State Department of Commerce (WA Commerce) opened the online portal for the Working Washington 3 small business grant applications, their website got more than 150,000 hits in less than three days. Over the next 10 days that the portal was open, that translated to nearly […]
Location: Economic Development Council for Island County Address: 180 NW Coveland St. City: Coupeville State: WA Zip Code: 98239 Telephone: (833) 492-7232 (Washington SBDC) Email: washington@wsbdc.org View on Map Kristina joins the Washington SBDC network of advisors with nearly 20 years in business administration, human resources, small business consulting and communications. She began her career as […]
When people describe entrepreneurs and small business owners as resilient, there has never been a time when that has been truer than the past six months. As businesses deal with a new reality and “business as usual” takes on an entirely new meaning, most businesses need to rethink and retool how they do business in […]
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