{"id":4040,"date":"2013-09-05T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/two-kent-businesses-named-finalists-for-regional-award\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T16:20:29","slug":"two-kent-businesses-named-finalists-for-regional-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/two-kent-businesses-named-finalists-for-regional-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kent businesses named finalists for regional award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A pair of Kent businesses \u2013\u00a0POP! Gourmet Popcorn Company LLC, and Golden Steer Restaurant \u2013 were among 21 finalists for the King County Executive&#8217;s Small Business Awards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Winners in seven categories will be announced at the third annual Small Business Awards program on Sept. 25, from 7:15 to 9:00 a.m., at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>King County Executive Dow Constantine \u2013 in partnership with award sponsors KeyBank, Microsoft Corporation, the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County, and the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County \u2013 recently named the finalists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The awards program recognizes small businesses throughout King County that best demonstrate innovation and excellence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The nominees are:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Keeney&#8217;s Office Supply | Redmond<br \/>\u2022 Magnum Print Solutions | Seattle<br \/>\u2022 POP! Gourmet Popcorn Company LLC | Kent<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Minority Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Greater China USA | Bellevue<br \/>\u2022 Magellan Architects | Redmond<br \/>\u2022 TokuSaku Consulting | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Woman Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Artitudes Design Inc. | Issaquah<br \/>\u2022 Equinox Business Law Group PLLC | Bellevue<br \/>\u2022 LPD Engineering, PLLC | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Exporting Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Measurement Technology Northwest | Seattle<br \/>\u2022 Oppenheimer Camera Products | Seattle<br \/>\u2022 Pacific Valley Foods | Bellevue<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Green\/Sustainable Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 EWC Group, Inc. | Tukwila<br \/>\u2022 Full Circle Environmental Inc. | Seattle<br \/>\u2022 Green Canopy Homes | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Workforce Development Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 DRY Soda | Seattle<br \/>\u2022 Golden Steer Restaurant | Kent<br \/>\u2022 Ron Wright &amp; Associates | Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Rural Small Business of the Year finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Canter-Berry Farms | Auburn<br \/>\u2022 Fox Hollow Family Farm | Issaquah<br \/>\u2022 Growing Things Farm | Carnation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Learn more and register online for the award ceremony:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/SmallBusinessAwards\" target=\"_blank\">www.kingcounty.gov\/SmallBusinessAwards<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Kent businesses \u2013 POP! Gourmet Popcorn Company LLC, and Golden Steer Restaurant \u2013 were among 21 finalists for the King County Executive&#8217;s Small Business Awards.<\/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-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040"}],"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=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}