Apr 19, 2001

Radiant Communications

Radiant Communications, a Canadian Internet services company serving the business market, has taken its first step into the U.S. market by opening an office in Seattle. Patrick Smith leads the Northwest expansion. He recently served as both director of technology and general manager for Convergent Communications. The office, located at 3500 188th St., S.W., Suite 261, Lynnwood, opened March 15.

National Sign

Gary Sigler has joined National Sign as a sales associate in the Seattle location. Sigler has more than 16 years in the printing industry, developing corporate identity programs, and coordinating print materials with corporate marketing strategy.

Red Lion Hotels

Red Lion Hotels, a Vancouver-based hotel company, has named Marie Malloy, Arthur Sabo and Alex Chopra as directors of franchise development. Sabo is responsible for Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and North and South Dakota. He previously served as director of sales and marketing for the company's Jantzen Beach Hotel from 1988 to 1991.

Golf Savings Bank

Mountlake Terrace-based Golf Savings Bank has named Rob Fuller executive vice president and chief financial officer. Fuller has spent the past 14 years with US Bank of Washington, where he was vice president of Washington corporate banking. Golf Savings Bank became a full-service bank in June 2000 after operating for nearly 20 years as Lynnwood Mortgage Corp., a mortgage lending company.

Associated Grocers

Associated Grocers has signed an agreement to supply grocery items to its largest retail store, Brown & Cole Stores. The retailer-owned cooperative will provide food, general merchandise and services to 35 stores that make up the Brown & Cole regional chain. Based in Bellingham, Brown & Cole has stores concentrated in Central and Western Washington and does business under various trade names including, Food Pavilion, Cost Cutter and Food Depot

Wallace Properties

Itshak "Ike" Sarfati joined Wallace Properties of Bellevue as an associate specializing in commercial sales, leasing and acquisitions. Sarfati has 32 years of experience as a real estate professional.

Puget Sound Properties

The 14-agent, Bellevue-based commercial brokerage Puget Sound Properties created national and international links by forming a joint venture with Philadelphia-based Binswanger/CBB. The venture is called Binswanger/Puget Sound Properties.

Binswanger/CBB operates 160 offices worldwide with 5,200 employees. The "CBB" portion of its name came from its 1931 merger with a United Kingdom firm named Chesterton and its 1993 acquisition of the German company Blumenauer. Brokers Richard Peterson, Eric Postle and Steve Balkman formed Puget Sound Properties in the mid-1990s. They hired experienced industrial broker Arie Salomon's three-person team in 1998 and the firm now totals 14 deal makers.

"The venture gives Puget Sound Properties both an international platform to assist its locally headquartered clients as well as access to Binswanger's depth of resources in corporate real estate services," Puget Sound Properties said.

Keller Williams Realty

Karen McKnight became team leader for Keller Williams Realty in Bellevue. She will provide training, coaching and recruiting, said Carla Cross, the residential firm's Northwest regional director.

Windermere

Seven sales associates joined Windermere Real Estate's Seattle-Wall Street office: Anthony Vega, Deborah Atkinson, Erin Smith, Jon Paul Phillips, Richard Bennett, Sam Morley and Tom Knee.