Here are the top 10 jobs for 2007, as offered by the state Employment Security Department: veterinary technologists or technicians, architects, interviewers, surveying and mapping technicians, security guards, surveyors, landscape architects, architectural and civil drafters, veterinary assistants and lab animal caretakers, and physical therapy assistants.
First Choice orders four more 787s
First Choice Airways has exercised options to order four more Boeing Co. 787-8 Dreamliners, bringing its total order to 12, Boeing said Wednesday. Back in July 2004, First Choice became the European launch customer for the 787 with an order for six Dreamliners. The carrier’s new order makes it the largest 787 customer in Europe.
Port handling more cargo this year
Ship visits at the Port of Everett are on par with last year, but the amount of cargo is up. So far 25 ships and barges have visited the port in 2007, the exact number that arrived in the first two months of last year. But the port has handled 24,622 tons of cargo coming in, nearly twice the amount that arrived last year. Port operations director Carl Wollobek said the port got several shipping lines to make regular calls last year and that they’re boosting cargo this year.
Bothell’s Nastech loses $10.7 million
Nastech Pharmaceutical Co. of Bothell lost $10.7 million, or 50 cents a share, during the fourth quarter of last year, compared with an $8.9 million loss for the same quarter in 2005. Despite that, the developer of nasally inhaled medications reduced its full-year loss from $32 million in 2005 to less than $27 million last year. That was due to a fast climb in revenue, from $7.4 million in 2005 to more than $28 million last year, thanks to partnership deals with Procter &Gamble Pharmaceuticals and others. But research and development expenses also went up.
Sales still growing for Zumiez Inc.
Zumiez Inc., the Everett-based seller of action-sports-related clothing and accessories, saw February sales soar nearly 44 percent, to $20.7 million, compared with February 2006. Sales at stores open at least a year rose more than 12 percent, with the second and third weeks of last month providing the biggest year-to-year lift. Brenda Morris, Zumiez’s chief financial officer, said sales of men’s clothing was particularly strong.
Bothell biotech partners with UCLA
Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. of Bothell said Wednesday the University of California at Los Angeles will participate in the phase 2 clinical trial of the company’s brain cancer treatment, DCVax-Brain. So far, one patient at UCLA has undergone surgery in preparation for the experimental treatment. That followed recent clinical trial surgeries at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital. Patients should be enrolled in nine other sites by the year’s end.
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