Video: Audio Visual Excellence outfitted Olympic security center
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Lance Henderson in Features
During the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the eyes of federal, local and state agencies were vigilantly focused on the Canadian border from a former warehouse near the Bellingham International Airport. What most people don’t know is that the warehouse was outfitted with state-of-the-art technology by Bellingham-based Audio Visual Excellence.
Reader’s Choice Awards 2010
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Isaac Bonnell in Features
The Bellingham Business Journal
The votes are in from our annual Reader’s Choice Awards. And the winners are…
Best new business
Joy of Pilates
Best customer service
Bellingham Automotive
Best Coffee Shop
The Woods Coffee
Best Restaurant
Scotty Browns
Best Contractor
Exxel Pacific
Best Networking Group
Sustainable Connections
Most Community-Minded Business
Village Books
Best Real Estate Agent
Mike Kent
Most Environmentally Responsible Business
Earth First Lawn Care
Best Place For Lunch
Scotty Browns
Business Person of the [...]
Meet Lance Clark, new executive director of BIAWC
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Isaac Bonnell in Features
The BBJ recently sat down with Clark to discuss the state of the home building industry and the issues affecting builders.
Cascade Creditors Service works to meet local creditor needs
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by ashleymitchell in Features
Owners Tom Wasley and Ron and Cynthia Pereira opened Cascade Creditors Service on July 1, 2009. The collection company established themselves as a local service to keep money circulating back into the county. Better recovery statistics and customer service are the two foundations of the company.
Made in Whatcom County Video: Totally Chocolate
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Lance Henderson in Features
By Andriy Semenyuk
Totally Chocolate, a custom chocolate manufacturer in Blaine, Wash., can put just about anything on a bar of chocolate. And from corporate logos to newspaper front pages — they have done it all.
The business was originally established by Jeff Robinson in 1989 down in Los Angeles. After several years Mr. Robinson relocated his [...]
Median home prices drop, sales up slightly in 2009
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Isaac Bonnell in Features
Brisk sales in the fourth quarter helped edge 2009 above the previous year, but the market in Whatcom County is expected to remain flat in 2010.
Boatbuilding in their blood
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Isaac Bonnell in Features
As teenagers, both Gary and Steve Nordtvedt worked at their father’s boatbuilding company, Uniflight, which occupied the entire Fairhaven Marine Industrial Park in the 1960s and ’70s. Decades later, the Nordtvedt brothers are once again building boats in Fairhaven.
IRS announces new standards for tax preparers
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Isaac Bonnell in Features
Starting in 2011, tax professionals will be required to pass a competency test and register with the government to ensure greater accountability in an industry that is largely unregulated.
Made in Whatcom County: Wood Stone still burning hot
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Lance Henderson in Features
Keith Carpenter launched Wood Stone in 1990 with co-founder Harry Hegarty with a desire to make wood-fired stone ovens that could meet the demands of a commercial kitchen. To date, Wood Stone has made almost 9,000 ovens and sold them in 75 countries.
Conversation: Roy Osing, author of “Be Different or Be Dead”
Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Lance Henderson in Features
In a time of so many business closures, it’s refreshing to hear someone talk about business marketing in dire terms. In his first book “Be Different or Be Dead,” Roy Osing relays ideas and experience gained over 33 years working with Telus, Canada’s second largest telecommunications company.
