Spring 2008 Issue
Washington Manufacturing Appreciation
Genie Industries
Posted: September 15, 2008
Up from the Basement
Genie Industries possesses one of the best founding stories in the business history of the Pacific Northwest. The company came to life in the basement of the north Seattle home of Bud Bushnell, who figured out how to use the power of a single bottle of carbon dioxide to power a contraption that he called a Genie Hoist. The name derived from the I Dream of Jeannie sixties sitcom.
Today, Genie is a world-class manufacturer of lift equipment. The company has more than 3,000 employees at ten plants around the world and its lines of lift trucks and other lift equipment are now available in more than 70 countries.
Genie’s keys to success will be described by the company’s Vice-President of Operations Paul Caldarazzo at the keynote lunch program for the 6th Annual Washington Manufacturing Appreciation Symposium on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at Emerald Downs. Based in Redmond, Washington, Genie was recognized as the Washington State Manufacturer of the Year for 2008 by the Association of Washington Business.
The lunch program will be preceded by a morning workshop, “Supply Chain Boot Camp,” and lunch will be followed by an afternoon program, “The Boom Next Door,” about export opportunities created by the oil boom in Alberta, Canada.
The all-day June 3, 2008 event will be preceded by a reception on the evening of June 2, 2008 in Seattle at Salty’s on Alki, where the U.S. Department of Commerce will present its annual Export Achievement Awards to Washington companies. The reception will include a seafood buffet and no-host bar.
Washington Manufacturing Appreciation is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing Puget Sound (CAMPS), the Greater Kent Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Washington Business, and the Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle in partnership with KeyBank and Moss Adams.
