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Business Pulse Magazine Available Online
The digital version of the latest edition of Business Pulse Magazine is now available online. Read it here.
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IMCO earns bid to clean up Hwy 530 from Oso slide
Ferndale construction company comes in millions under state estimate IMCO General Construction, co-founded in 1978 by former Whatcom Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Frank Imhof and his wife,...
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Northwest Business Expo & Conference
October 23, 2014, 12 – 7 p.m. Event Center at Silver Reef Join us at the biggest business to business networking and prospecting Expo of the year north of Seattle. There is no better opportunity to...
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Business Pulse Magazine Available Online
The digital version of the latest edition of Business Pulse Magazine is now available online. Read it here.
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2015 Business Person of the Year Awards Dinner
The 29th Business Person of the Year Awards Banquet SOLD OUT! Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 6 pm Event Center at Silver Reef Presented by Join the WBA Board of Directors and Members at the Biggest...
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New openings around town
My Garden, your neighborhood nursery, open on E. Bakerview in Bellingham. Seems like about everywhere you drive in Bellingham these days, you see construction on a business about to open. To name a...
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Imco Goes Ivy Leage – Harvard Session Steers transition
Story by Gerald Baron Photos courtesy Will Austin Photography Family-owned businesses often don’t succeed with their second generation. About 30 percent of companies make that leap successfully, and...
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A Tale of Resilience in Small Business
Becky and Larry Raney have no dollar bill framed and hanging on a wall from their first customer at Print & Copy Factory, circa 1992. “They didn’t pay us,” Becky Raney said with a laugh in...
View ArticleFeeding Fish to the Masses
This is a first. Our annual Whatcom Top 100 Private Companies listing features a husband and wife, Andy and Erin Vitaljic, with separate businesses. Hers, Fat-Cat Fish, buys from his, American Canadian...
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Personally Speaking… with Doug Ericksen
After 12 years (six consecutive terms) in Washington’s lower house as representative to the 42nd district, beginning as an upstart 28-year-old, Republican Doug Ericksen is in his second four-year term...
View ArticleIn the ‘Hood: Irongate & E. Bakerview—A Flip of the Coin Kick-Started It
In the heart of Bellingham’s Irongate area, hidden among industrial steel buildings, stands a wooden two-story office building the size of a house. Inside this little building at the corner of Alpine...
View ArticleSolar Forges into a Futuristic Now
Never mind our clouds and rain. The future of the solar power industry in Whatcom County is bright – pun intended – according to Karl Untershuetz. He’s the director of business development at itek...
View ArticlePersonally Speaking… With Paul Akers
At the starting point of this interview, Paul Akers, CEO of FastCap in Ferndale (a global enterprise with 900 products in 40 countries, estab. 1997) spoke from Shanghei with Managing Editor Mike...
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Putting extra ahh-h-h in the spa: Comphy Company creates luxurious linens for...
Comphy Company has found a sweet spot. They’re a leading provider of linens in the spa, hospitality, and retail markets, but they’ve upped the industry standards: Products that meet the highest...
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The missing link: Data-Link West provides high-end IT services centered on...
When you picture a tech company creating complex IT solutions, you might not picture a two-person team working in a small local office. But that’s exactly what you get with Data-Link West Inc....
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It’s all in the family: Lynden Sheet Metal surging in an upward spiral
Dealing with the usual pressures of running a business is hard enough: profitability, employees, taxes, regulations, etc. When you add issues that come with taking over a family business, those...
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Doubling space, technology, and the cloud, plus dedicated staff boosts Signs...
Last year’s main project was a familiar one for the crew of Signs Plus Inc. in Bellingham: convert to a new brand all of the interior signage and décor, plus all of the exterior signage of a...
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Lighthouse Mission Services fit career clergyman Buchinski’s life mission to...
If you think your business is challenging, consider what it’s like to operate one with these parameters: “A faith-based extension of voluntary local contributors providing 24/7/365 free services to...
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Don Fisher: 30-plus years of assisting seniors with comfortable quality of life
Don Fisher may not have realized how deep his roots in Lynden would plunge when he and his family moved to the community 32 years ago, bringing a background of project management of nursing homes....
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Henifin ‘perseveres’ overseeing family of companies
Second generation entrepreneur Lynne Henifin relishes working at the hub of family-owned business ventures, and she said she hopes her adult children realize they’re also capable of creating...
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