Neetish Basnet

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Neetish Basnet

Running for decades, family businesses tend to deliver higher returns on investment compared to their private equity and publicly traded counterparts. Families are big business in Washington, and they are thriving. The 83 largest companies on the Business Journal’s Family-Owned Companies List generated $18.21 billion last year. Over one-third have a net profit margin of over 15%, according to Business Journal research. About 10% reported a healthy profitability between 11% to 15%.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Neetish Basnet

Cochran has played a role in some of Seattle's most iconic structures, including the Space Needle, the Amazon Spheres, Climate Pledge Arena and the Columbia Tower. In the parking lot of Cochran Inc.’s 150,000-square-foot headquarters in North Seattle sits hundreds of employee cars, several utility trucks and one sleek Newell Coach motor home. Former owner Gordon Cochran constantly conducts maintenance work to bring the motor home into shape for summertime travels with his wife.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Neetish Basnet

Estate planners and wealth managers in the Seattle area and nationally are increasingly fielding digital assets-related queries from their clients. Nathan Watson’s father is in his late 70s, long retired from his teaching job at the Seattle Public Schools. He uses the internet to find information on things inside and outside the house, but his method of password management is jotting them down on a piece of paper.

1 month ago | bizjournals.com | Neetish Basnet

By submitting your information you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and User Agreement . Join the Puget Sound Business Journal to unlock even more insights!The Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area grew by more than 110,000 new residents in the past two years. New U.S. Census data released Thursday corroborates what many in Seattle are noticing – more people. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area added 66,666 new residents last year, the 10th-largest increase among all metro areas in the country.

2 months ago | bizjournals.com | Neetish Basnet

Credit unions in Washington are stepping up and gaining more ground in a precarious commercial lending market. Commercial loan portfolios at Washington-based credit unions rose 10% year over year to $11.99 billion in the third quarter of 2024, according to a Business Journal analysis of the latest available data from the National Credit Union Administration.