{"id":6059,"date":"2014-08-07T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/showtime-at-pirtek\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:45:45","slug":"showtime-at-pirtek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/showtime-at-pirtek\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime at Pirtek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Pirtek, a growing company that specializes in manufacturing, repairing and replacing hydraulic hoses, hosted a customer appreciation event at its Kent repair shop last Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Representatives from several local construction and manufacturing companies, factories and other crews were treated to lunch, demonstrations, pictures with visiting Sea Gals cheerleaders and a drawing for Seahawks tickets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event drew more than 200 people from different industries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all about thanking our customers &#8230; and to have lunch on us,&#8221; said Erin Gilliam, who co-owns the business, now in its eighth year, with her husband, Gabe. &#8220;Our business has picked up and our economy has been really improving. That makes a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pirtekusa.com\/kent\" target=\"_blank\">www.pirtekusa.com\/kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>=====<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>PHOTO BELOW:\u00a0Sea Gals Bianca, left, and Kylie talk to Dannis Robinson, of Binford Metals, a Pirtek customer, who was cooking up barbecue chicken. <em>MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;border: .5px solid black;margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/webpapersadmin.bpnewmedia.com\/portals\/uploads\/kent\/.DIR288\/IMG_6408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"264\" \/><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><span><\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirtek, a growing company that specializes in manufacturing, repairing and replacing hydraulic hoses, hosted a customer appreciation event at its Kent repair shop last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":6060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059"}],"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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}