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New Fluke parent named Fortive, a technology company, will employ 20,000 people worldwide and will be on the Fortune 500 list. By Jim Davis The Herald Business Journal
EVERETT — And now the new company has a name. Danaher Corp., based in Washington, D.C., is spinning
off 22 brands, including Everett’s Fluke Corp., into a new company to be headquartered in Everett called Fortive. Fortive will employ 20,000 people worldwide. Its subsidiaries had $6 billion in revenue
in 2014, and, when combined, are big enough to land it on the annual Fortune 500 list. The company is seeking to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. “Fortive takes its name from the Latin root ‘fort,’ meaning strong. Combined with a mark symbolizing forward momentum, growth and progress, the
Fortive brand reflects the strength of our company — a company built on a foundation of success and geared for growth and outperformance,” said James A. Lico, a current Danaher executive vice president and future president and chief executive officer of Fortive, in a news release. See FORTIVE, Page A5
Business is in the black Arlington’s Penway Media boosted by adult coloring book trend
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John Peeters displays coloring books for adults that were printed by his company, Penway Media. The Arlington business has gotten a boost from the new fad for adults. “It was a wonderful experience,” Peeters said after the company printed nearly 100,000 books for Costco for Christmas sales.
By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — Penway Media was busy this past fall printing tens of thousands of adult coloring books for the holiday season. Printing copies of “Color Me Your Way 4” gave a boost to the small print and design company in Arlington. Penway Media owner John Peeters said he is looking beyond paper to continue growing, though. The company’s graphic
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designers, technical innovation and focus on quality are key to future success, he said. That focus on quality helped it win the work printing ”Color Me Your Way 4.” The book’s author and publisher, Pam Smart, found out about Penway through a friend who lives in Snohomish County. Smart actually spent six years living in Everett and east of Oso before moving to Idaho about 20 years ago. “I cried when I left” Washington, she said. She started working on her
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first book in 2010. It was supposed to be an alphabet book for young kids. But Smart realized she did not have time to color in all of the book’s intricate images, she said. So, after her husband, Ken, won $250,000 with a scratch-off ticket, they decided in 2011 to self-publish a few hundred copies as a coloring book. A local bookstore in Caldwell, Idaho, where the couple lives, was the first to carry it. Then Costco started selling it. While the book was originally meant for kids, adults started
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picking it up for relaxation, as creative outlets and even as art therapy, she said. “It started with a prayer,” Smart, 58, said. From there, “it took off pretty quickly.” She’s published four books in the “Color Me Your Way” series, and expects sales to break one million copies “any day,” she said. Across the Atlantic, a Scottish designer, Johanna Basford, tapped into this new market around the same time with her
Police try new way of training Instead of conquering and controlling, the new method aims to teach officers peaceful methods to de-escalate risky situations. By Kimberly Kindy The Washington Post
BURIEN — The police recruits arrived in pairs in the woods outside Seattle. For days, they had been calming their minds through meditation and documenting life’s beauty in daily journals. Mindful and centered, they now faced a test: a mentally ill man covered in feces and mumbling to a rubber chicken. The feces was actually oatmeal and chocolate pudding, the man was another recruit and the goal of this mock training exercise was to peacefully bring him into custody. The first recruits approached gingerly, trying to engage the man in conversation. When that failed, they moved in and wrestled him to the ground. “We needed to find a way to help him. He obviously had a screw loose,” said Aaron Scott, a cadet from Bellevue. Scott briefly considered using his baton, he said. “But I thought that might be too much.” For the past three years, every police recruit in the state has undergone this style of training at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, where officials are determined to produce “guardians of democracy” who serve and protect instead of “warriors” who conquer and control. Gone is the militaryboot-camp atmosphere. Gone are the field exercises focused on using fists and weapons to batter suspects into submission. Gone, too, is a classroom poster that once warned recruits that “officers killed in the line of duty use less force than their peers.” “If your overarching identity is ‘I’m a warrior,’ then you will approach every situation like you must conquer and win,” said Sue Rahr, the commission’s executive director. “You may have a conflict where it is necessary for an officer to puff up and quickly take control. But in most situations, it’s better if officers know how to de-escalate, calm things down, slow down the action.”
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The Buzz “I didn’t know if I was in the courtroom at the United States Supreme Court or at a Donald Trump rally.” Page A2
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