Otak, Inc., an award-winning engineering, urban design, architecture and planning firm, announced recently that Adam Isaacson, Matt Cupp and Kevin Evans have joined Otak and will be working out of the firm’s Redmond office.
Centric Consulting — which launched the Seattle Business Unit in Redmond this year and now has more than 70 employees — has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2016.
Rita’s Italian Ice, the world’s largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores, continues its expansion into the fourth quarter, awarding four new development deals for Washington — including Redmond — Idaho, Hawaii and Ventura County and San Jose, Calif., respectively. The company opened 2015 with a renewed focus on growth at home and abroad, and as a result has opened more than 55 stores and awarded eight area development agreements in one year alone.
Redmond’s EndoGastric Solutions (EGS), a leader in incisionless procedural therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), announced that it has secured additional new financing of up to $50 million, led by CRG (formerly Capital Royalty L.P.) and existing EGS investors including Advanced Technology Ventures, Canaan Partners, Chicago Growth Partners, Foundation Medical Partners and Radius Ventures.
Redmond’s SolutionsIQ, Inc., the leader in enterprise Agile transformation consulting, announced that it has acquired Davisbase Consulting, an Agile consultancy and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) services firm based in Charlotte, N.C.
Redmond’s Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, applauds President Obama who signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) into law. This law recognizes the right of U.S. citizens to own asteroid resources they obtain and encourages the commercial exploration and development of resources from asteroids.
Terex Aerial Work Platforms (AWP), a leading global manufacturer of Genie aerial lifts, will open the doors to its new Redmond facility in December. Already located in Redmond, the manufacturer will consolidate buildings to provide more than 100,000 square feet of work space for its 400-plus team members. This move extends the deep history of the Genie team in the Northwest, as the company was started in Kirkland in 1966.
Otak, Inc., an award-winning engineering, urban design, architecture and planning firm, announced recently that John Velimesis, Jeff Gray, Eva Ho and Joe Schober have joined the firm and will be working out of its Redmond office.
Redmond’s MediaAlpha, an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms for vertical search media, is ranked 13th on the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
Redmond’s DrinkSpace has signed an agreement with The Renegade Wine Co. of Walla Walla.
The agency for boutique alcohol beverage producers was founded by wine industry veteran Thomas Vogele, formerly of Michael Mondavi’s FOLIO Fine Wine Partners, and marketing/advertising veteran Steve Reed.
Redmond’s EndoGastric Solutions (EGS), a leader in incisionless procedural therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), announced that industry veteran Michael K. Burke has been named chief financial officer. Burke is a seasoned financial executive with more than 30 years of experience.
Redmond’s Global Inflight Products (G.I.P.) recently won the Best of Show again at the airline industry’s premier event APEX-IFSA EXPO 2015 at Portland’s Convention Center.
Redmond’s Fleetzen, the same-day delivery service for oversized items, and McLendon Hardware are teaming up to reduce some of the hassle and expense of the Christmas holiday.
ABODA, a corporate housing firm, has consolidated its operations from several buildings in Redmond to a sole headquarters in Woodinville.
Frontier Communications announced 2FASTSM symmetrical broadband with equal upload and download speed is now available to business customers across the company’s FiOS footprint in northwestern Washington.
Comcast Business announced a substantial network expansion to the Redmond-Woodinville business district, bringing a full range of Ethernet services to nearly 100 businesses in the 150th-170th block of Woodinville/Redmond Road.
Moving across the country for a new job with one’s family can be a stressful and sometimes chaotic experience, but ABODA, Redmond’s corporate housing firm and one of the industry’s largest, launches a new communication platform to help make its guests “feel right at home.”
Redmond’s DrinkSpace announced it has appointed Chris Zehner as national sales manager for the organization.
The owners of the Mayuri Family of Food businesses, a leader in specialty foods in the Seattle area, have closed their popular Bellevue restaurant and moved to a freestanding building a few blocks away at 2115 Bel-Red Road in Redmond.
After nine years, Diggs & Dwellings is leaving its Redmond location in late October. While a new location is being determined, owner Sandy Nakatsu will continue to support its Eastside clients’ custom furnishing and interior design needs via in-home consultations. For more information, contact info@diggsanddwellings.com.
