by Admin | Nov 18, 2020 | Companies
KIND North America, based in New York City, isn’t a broad company. It makes eight lines of snacks, most of them granola bar type products marketed at people who are concerned about health and sustainable foods. The company, founded in 2004, built its...
by Admin | Nov 11, 2020 | Companies, News, Technology
Amazon is an absolute giant of a company, with more assets than many countries and over a million employees worldwide. The company’s revenue in 2019 is estimated to equal approximately 1% of the United States’ entire gross domestic product. It has extended from...
by Admin | Nov 9, 2020 | Companies, News
Dunkin’ Donuts, which was founded in Quincy, Massachusetts 70 years ago, is one of the largest coffee and pastry chains in the world, with nearly 13,000 locations in 42 countries. The brand, which also owns ice cream icon Baskin-Robbins, is currently in the process of...
by Admin | Oct 28, 2020 | Companies, News
Early Wednesday, October 28th, Boeing announced that they would be cutting 7,000 more jobs due to COVID-19-related downturns in the air industry. This is Boeing’s second major staffing cut in three months: In July, they announced that 19,000 workers were being...
by Admin | Oct 21, 2020 | Companies
The businesses that reach into our homes, entertain us, and keep us company have been the only real winners of the current pandemic crisis, and Netflix is one of the leaders of that pack. The streaming service reported a whopping 2.2 million new subscribers in the...
by Admin | Oct 14, 2020 | Companies
Back in March, when Microsoft sent the vast majority of their workforce to work from home, commuter traffic in cities like Bellevue and Seattle became eerily light. Only a small percent of the tech giant’s workforce has come back to the office since then, and...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Companies, News
Bartell Drugs was founded in 1890, in Seattle’s Central District. That first store, opened by ambitious 21-year-old George Bartell Sr, became 69 stores over the ensuing 130 years, spread across three Washington counties. Today, George Bartell III and his sister Jean...
by Admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Companies, News
March of this year saw the Disney parks close, one by one, all over the world. In May, the company reported that their second quarter revenue, the majority of which comes from the parks, was down from $5.4 billion in 2019 to a mere $475 million in 2020. Still a...
by Admin | Sep 28, 2020 | News
Prosper Portland is, according to the organization’s website, the economic and urban development agency for Portland, Oregon. It is overseen by a board of volunteer citizens appointed by the city’s mayor, and by the City Council. It gives the agency flexibility,...
by Admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Companies, News
Apple retail employees have won a class-action lawsuit against their employer. A three-judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Apple responsible to pay employees for the uncompensated time they had to wait for security screening “bag checks” before...
