Inside Technology, pg 17 Real Estate, pp 23 Human Resources, pg 32 Special Focus Banking and Finance pp 6-15
Special Focus Golf and Recreation pp 25-29
Kingston Chamber of Commerce pg 16
Environment, pg 33 Automotive, pp 34, 35 Editorial, pp 36-38 Home Builders Newsletter,
May 2012 Vol. 25 No. 5
The Voice of Kitsap Business since 1988
pp 19-22
Bremerton entrepreneurs expand portfolio with Harvey’s purchase Alliance pitches Kitsap County’s aerospace potential to Cantwell
By Rodika Tollefson Scott and Stacy Ryan are the type of entrepreneurs who are hard pressed to turn down a new idea. The couple, who own six
Hallmark stores including three in Kitsap County, always have their ear to the ground for new opportunities. Their latest one was too good to pass up.
After all, it involved a well-known local business located just a few miles away from where both of them grew up. Last December, the Ryans became the new owners of Harvey’s Butter Rum Batter, a business started in Bremerton in the early 1960s by the late Harvey Hudson. The renowned brand is a common sight at area grocery stores during the winter holiday season and is also shipped all around the country. “My folks used to have it in their refrigerator,” Scott said. “I grew up just a few miles from the company.” Stacy, too, has a bit of a personal connection — her grandmother and uncle once worked with Hudson at a local Darigold dairy plant where he originally produced the batter after hours, using the Ryan, page 5
By Tim Kelly, Editor When the region’s aerospace industry that has Boeing as its epicenter expands, Kitsap County hopes to get a piece of the action by promoting the resources it has to offer here on the west side of Puget Sound. That’s the mission of the Kitsap Aerospace and Defense Alliance (KADA), which assembled a couple dozen boosters to tout the area’s potential to U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell when she participated in a roundtable discussion April 13 at Bremerton National Airport. The airport was an apt setting, since it’s on a 1,200-acre expanse of land that’s available for manufacturing development in the Port of Bremerton’s South Kitsap Industrial Area. “We have the largest single piece of real estate for aviation development in the Puget Sound area,” port CEO Tim Thomson told Cantwell. When Boeing was looking at possible new sites last year for building its 737 MAX outside its main Seattle-area plants, the port offered SKIA for consideration, but that longshot bid didn’t get off the ground. It wasn’t the end of Kitsap’s efforts to position itself for a role in aerospace expansion, though. “Our opportunity was to support the supply chain,” noted Thomson, who is cochair of KADA along with John Powers, Aerospace, page 17