{"id":12917,"date":"2013-09-25T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/king-county-presents-small-business-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T21:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T04:00:38","slug":"king-county-presents-small-business-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/king-county-presents-small-business-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"King County presents Small Business Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Two Kent businesses and another from Auburn were finalists in the third annual King County Executive&#8217;s Small Business Awards program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The winners were announced at a breakfast-hour ceremony at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue on Wednesday. More than 200 people from local chambers of commerce, cities, and small business organizations watched as winners were announced:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Keeney&#8217;s Office Supply | Redmond<br \/>Finalist: Magnum Print Solutions | Seattle<br \/>Finalist: POP! Gourmet Popcorn Company | Kent<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Minority Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: TokuSaku Consulting | Seattle<br \/>Finalist: Greater China USA | Bellevue<br \/>Finalist: Magellan Architects | Redmond<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Woman Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Equinox Business Law Group | Bellevue<br \/>Finalist: Artitudes Design, Inc. | Issaquah<br \/>Finalist: LPD Engineering | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Exporting Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Pacific Valley Foods | Bellevue<br \/>Finalist: Measurement Technology NW | Seattle<br \/>Finalist: Oppenheimer Camera Products | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Green\/Sustainable Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Green Canopy Homes | Seattle<br \/>Finalist: EWC Group, Inc. | Tukwila<br \/>Finalist: Full Circle Environmental, Inc. | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Workforce Development Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Dry Soda | Seattle<br \/>Finalist: Golden Steer Restaurant | Kent<br \/>Finalist: Ron Wright and Associates | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Rural Small Business of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>WINNER: Growing Things Farm | Snoqualmie APD*<br \/>Finalist: Canter-Berry Farms | Auburn, Upper Green River APD*<br \/>Finalist: Fox Hollow Family Farm | Near Issaquah<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>* Agriculture Production District<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nominations were made from May through July. More than 100 nominees were narrowed down to three finalists in each of seven award categories. To qualify, businesses must have 50 employees or less and been in business for at least three years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/exec\/constantine\/BusinessAward.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">www.kingcounty.gov\/exec\/constantine\/BusinessAward.aspx<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kent businesses and another from Auburn were finalists in the third annual King County Executive&#8217;s Small Business Awards program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}