Business

Competitors grab a turkey, pick up spare

OLYMPIA - Drew Rickman "bowled" a perfect strike Saturday on Aisle 10 at Bayview Thriftway and took home a frozen turkey for his efforts.

Can makers recall days of 5-cent raise

OLYMPIA - About 150 current and former employees of Crown Beverage Packaging celebrated 50 years of manufacturing metal beer and soft-drink cans Saturday at the company's plant on Fones Road.

Are mommy bloggers corporate shills?

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – On most days, Andrea Deckard can be found in her home office, digging through stacks of coupons and grocery receipts for money-saving tips and recipes that she can share with readers of her MommySnacks blog.

CASINOS: Little Creek gets new chief executive, GM

Lyle Mitchell Corbine is the new chief executive and general manager of the Little Creek Casino Resort, the Squaxin Island Tribal Council announced Friday.

Company to reopen rail car facility

One of the nation's largest railroad services companies plans to reopen a Tacoma Tideflats locomotive and rail car repair and rebuilding facility that closed last summer because of the recession.

New Boeing plant 'all about competitiveness'

The Boeing Co. could get as much as $400 million in incentives to build its new 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford said in an interview Friday.

Investors again faced with wall of worry

Investing is never easy.

Port ordered to pay activists

OLYMPIA - The Port of Olympia must pay about $56,000 in legal fees and costs to activists who sued for records related to a contractual agreement to bring Weyerhaeuser's log-export business here a few years ago, a judge ruled Friday.

INDUSTRIAL SPACE: : Real estate broker plans quarterly reviews

Beginning this week, commercial real estate broker GVA Kidder Matthews will be reviewing the quarterly state of industrial space in Thurston County.

EARNINGS: Smucker nearly triples profit

J.M. Smucker Co. nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee gave a jolt to its lineup and lower commodity prices fattened its profit margins.