Seattle Area Business Service Providers
Seattle Area Business Service Providers
The following is a listing of selected local Business Service Providers vetted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The local BSP companies listed below can assist U.S. exporters and foreign investors in a variety of ways. If you would like to be included as a Business Service Provider on this site, please contact Director Diane Mooney at diane.mooney@trade.gov.
The BSP directory is intended to provide an additional resource to U.S. exporters doing business in this geographic area. The BSP directory is not comprehensive. Inclusion does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. We have performed limited due diligence research; but we strongly recommend that you perform your own due diligence investigation and background research on any company.
This directory contains information on service providers that can support U.S. exporters.
Upswept Creative
Email: ask@upsweptcreative.com
Phone: 971-338-9218 (voicemail only)
Website: www.upsweptcreative.com
Upswept Creative is an online marketing agency that specializes in web design, social media strategy, and email marketing. Based in Portland, Oregon, Upswept Creative is your go-to for authentic, stylish, and effective online marketing for your small business.
Upswept Creative’s web design services combine aesthetics with functionality to create websites that are not only visually appealing, but also user-friendly and SEO-optimized. We believe in the power of good design and content strategy to attract your ideal clients and grow your business, and we use our expertise to ensure your website will engage, inspire, and convert.
Our team also offers social media management and strategy services. We know that compelling content is at the heart of social media, and we take the time to understand your business, your goals, and your customers. Then, we use our insights to craft narratives that engage with your ideal audience, and boost engagement and conversions in a way that’s uniquely you.
Upswept Creative’s commitment to diversity and inclusion informs everything that we do. Our team is especially passionate about helping businesses led by women and marginalized communities, and we prioritize working with businesses and organizations that value diversity and are committed to creating a more inclusive world.
With Upswept Creative, you’re getting a partner who’s invested in your vision for your business. We’re here to guide you every step of the way, so you can grow your clientele and engage with diverse audiences, while capturing your voice and staying grounded in your roots.
Straw to Gold
Contact: Benjamin Ariff, Principal
Email: benjamin@straw-gold.com
Phone: 503.683.3328
Website: www.straw-gold.com
Company Description:
Straw to Gold is a full-service creative agency specializing in Branding, Creative, Digital & Technology, and Film Production. Founded in 2009, with hubs in Los Angeles and Portland, we are proud to deliver dynamic solutions for clients across the globe. Our team of world-class strategists, designers, developers, and filmmakers work collaboratively to help businesses create compelling brand experiences that drive measurable results.
At Straw to Gold, we can mobilize our global team to meet the unique needs of each project. Our worldwide network of creatives and industry professionals serve a diverse portfolio of clients from technology giants, entertainment leaders, non-profit organizations, and start-ups around the world. We’re proud of the strong, long-term partnerships we’ve built, helping our clients grow, scale, and succeed in their markets.
We believe that every brand has a story, and our mission is to bring that story to life in ways that resonate with your audience. Whether you’re looking to establish a brand from scratch, enhance your digital presence, or produce high-impact visual content, we have the expertise to get you there.
Let’s create something extraordinary together!
Our Key Services:
Brand Development:
We offer comprehensive brand strategy and development services that help businesses define their identity and communicate it effectively. From strategic positioning to identity design, visual systems, and naming, we ensure that every aspect of your brand is cohesive, compelling, and aligned with your goals. Our brand team also specializes in social media management, crafting campaigns that increase visibility and foster deeper engagement.
Creative Services:
Our creative team delivers everything from campaign concepts to print design and production, helping you communicate your message across multiple platforms. We also specialize in product design, prototyping, and activations that bring your brand to life in innovative and memorable ways. With expertise in motion design and animation, photography, illustration, and copywriting, our creative services ensure your brand stands out in today’s crowded marketplace.
Digital & Technology Solutions:
In the digital age, your online presence is everything. Our web design and development team builds responsive, SEO-optimized websites that create seamless user experiences. Whether you’re looking for a mobile app, digital destination, or a fully localized, multi-language website, we have the expertise to make it happen. We also specialize in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) solutions, offering cutting-edge technology to engage and excite your audience.
Film Production:
With an in-house film production team, we handle every aspect of visual storytelling, from pre-production and storyboarding to drone/aerial filming, color grading, and VFX. Whether it’s a promotional video, corporate film, or social media content, we produce high-quality films that capture the essence of your brand and engage viewers. Our services also include music scoring, voiceover, and post-production to ensure a polished final product that leaves a lasting impression.
Kings’ Kitchen Media
Contact: Kingsley Lincoln
Email: moe@kingskitchenmedia.com
Phone: 815.980.3421
Website: https://www.kingskitchenmedia.com/
Authentic branding is about staying true to your core values, mission, and identity. It’s about being transparent, consistent, and genuine in every aspect of your business—from the products and services you offer to the way you communicate with your audience. Here to be your soundboard, thought partner, creative influencer, and boldness enabler on your branding journey.
Your brand, to me, transcends beyond just a logo or a website landing page. It embodies the enduring flame of your ‘Why’ story. We all have reasons for starting our businesses; my role is to skillfully convey your narrative to your intended audience. The world eagerly awaits your unique creations—let’s collaborate to authentically amplify your brand’s presence and connect with your true audience.
Kings’ Kitchen Media offers tailored branding services for businesses, blending creative strategies with mindfulness techniques. Services include:
Happy Hour: A 60-minute brainstorming session for quick branding solutions.
Brand Messaging & Identity: A 90-minute session focusing on mission, vision, and brand storytelling.
Half VIP Day: A 4-hour session for comprehensive branding and funnel strategies.
Full VIP Day: An 8-hour session for complete branding and content planning.
For full website and logo designs:
Their process begins with a fit call, followed by a brandBRUNCH session to create a tailored strategy covering messaging, design, and content planning. Implementation options include the brandSNACK (1-day), brandBANQUET (2-day), or brandFEAST (3-4 day), each offering increasing levels of support like website design, logo creation, and automation setup.
Lighthill Trade
Contact: John Anwesen
Email: j.anwesen@lighthilltrade.com
Phone: (202) 465-8739
Website: https://lighthilltrade.com
Lighthill is a boutique law firm based in Washington, D.C., with a local presence in Eugene, Oregon, specializes in international trade and policy. Founded by John Anwesen, the firm is dedicated to guiding manufacturers, importers, and exporters through the complexities of global commerce, offering strategic legal support to help clients navigate trade regulations and achieve business success.
Lighthill’s expertise spans customs compliance, trade remedies, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas. From consulting and strategy development to implementation, compliance, and litigation, the firm delivers comprehensive solutions tailored to the unique needs of clients in the global marketplace. With a rigorous approach and strategic insight, Lighthill ensures each client benefits from thorough preparation, with the impact of its work often extending beyond individual cases.
Committed to client success, Lighthill helps businesses operate confidently, safeguarding interests and positioning them for growth. The firm’s mission is to provide proactive, high-quality legal support, empowering clients to stay ahead in a dynamic trade environment.
Westpac International Trade
Contact: Keith Meadowcroft
Email: keithm@westpacintl.com
Phone: USA: +1(509) 389.9969; Vietnam Office: +84.070.704.1150
Website: https://westpacintl.com/
P.O. Box 28973, Spokane, Washington 99228
Vietnam Address: 281 Nguyen Van Troi Street, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tax Code(MST) 0314609346
Westpac International Trade, LLC, is a Spokane-based export resource partner for brand holders seeking to begin or expand their export sales goals in Asia Pacific. We specialize in: Construction Materials, Agriculture, and Green Tech, but can adapt easily to most industries.
With a Vietnam-registered company office and team in Ho Chi Minh City, Westpac International Trade can bring centralized and fast response representation for your company sales and customer support in the Asia Pacific (APAC) regional country markets.
As an Export Management Company (EMC), we assist with getting your export programs enacted and successfully managed in New to Export or New to Market opportunities, according to your growth strategies.
We offer Go-To-Market Plans and Services, that help brand holders maximize speed to market, sales and profits, and minimize risk of unforeseen obstacles.
Expanding export sales can be highly rewarding to a company’s profits, but choosing the wrong country market, products, pricing or distributor, can be extremely expensive for the brand holder. Companies may want to use an EMC, when they don’t have the in-house expertise or resources to develop export sales.
Our Key Services in the navigation of the complexities of export, include:
- Strategic Planning and Research
- Distributor Engagement and Management
- Sales Negotiations and Closing
- International Marketing Management
- Transaction Financing Methods Advisory
After a successful program launch, we continue to support our clients to maximize their investment with tailored offerings. We help our clients consolidate their position with operations, and to develop a sustainable business with a growing and profitable customer base.
APAC offers tremendous opportunity for US manufacturers in many categories where they hold intellectual property, brand, and price advantage. SE Asia alone, where Vietnam is centralized, offers a market size of over 800 million consumers in 12 countries. It is forecasted to be the fastest growing global region for the next 50 years.
Sourcing
Aside from Export Sales Management, we can also offer services for Sourcing of products for private label programs. We also offer the ability to be a Sourcing Representative for brand holders wanting On-The- Ground resources for working with foreign manufacturers in Vietnam.
Our Vietnam office was opened in mid-2022, to take advantage of the major shifts in the Global Supply Chain needs for the US, diversifying to a Plus One strategy, away from China. Vietnam has emerged as an excellent sourcing country for manufactured goods in 1) Machinery 2) Construction Materials, 3) Tropical Agriculture, 4) Textiles and Garments, 5) Medical Products, 6) Electronics, 7) Plastics, 8) Packaging Materials, and 9) Handicraft.
Our services include Factory Identification and Vetting, Negotiations, Documentation Management, Quality Control Monitoring, Logistics Management. Ask us today how we might help you find and manage the right manufacturing partners and platform for sourcing or manufacturing your private label product lines in Vietnam.
Fast Track Global Services
Contact: Sam Samya
Email: sam@ftgs.us
Phone: 202-602-6651
Website: swiftdox.com, ftgs.us
Fast Track Global Services specializes in working with US companies to meet foreign market regulatory requirements. We can source certificates, documents and get the certificates or documents Certified, Apostilled, or Legalized for any country in the world. Basically, you can have a regulatory team whenever you need one.
Export Certificates: Get your export certificates on our website through any one of our chamber partners, you can apply for certificates from your laptop, tablet, or phone anywhere anytime.
Certificate of Origin (COO)
Certificate of Free Sale (CFS or FSC)
Certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
Regulatory Guidance: We can guide your team on the regulation requirements of foreign countries your company can meet the regulatory requirements of the importing country. Product and country regulations vary, so planning before shipment is the most important step in understanding how to meet the international regulatory requirements.
International Product Registration: When exporting internationally, products must be registered in the importing county so that the shipment can clear customs. We can work to source the right set of documents from the appropriate authorities in the US to create a registration dossier/file to register your products with the appropriate government agency in the importing country.
Document Authentication or Certification: We can Apostille or Legalize any certificate or document for any country from start to finish. The turnaround time to Apostille a document is 2 to 3 working days or legalizing a document is 30 to 45 days.
Compliance Specialty International Associates
Contact: Diane Peschka
Email: quotes@csiassoc.com
Phone: 503 482 9289
Website: www.csiassoc.com
Compliance Specialty International Associates, LLC, coordinates with manufacturers to obtain telecommunication regulatory approval, sometimes called type approval, and safety approvals in countries around the world for electronic and telecommunications products.
We currently offer approvals in 100% of the countries around the world (except North Korea and Cuba). CSIA also has multiple lab partners in the US to allow us to offer FCC Certification, CE Mark and ISED Canada approval.
Navis Pack & Ship
Email: OR11009@gonavis.com
Phone: (503) 384-2270
Website: https://www.gonavis.com/location/home/portland/or11009
Navis Pack & Ship of Portland specializes in professional international crating and exporting services. We create custom shipping crates to protect items including tech equipment, fine art, machinery, fragile antiques, medical and industrial equipment, large furniture, and more—ensuring their safe transport worldwide. We adhere to international crating standards, including the use of ISPM-15 certified wood to ensure compliance with global shipping regulations and prevent delays.
Navis has the expertise to crate and export a wide variety of items, no matter how fragile, large, or valuable. Here are some examples of items we regularly crate:
- Technology & Electronics: Servers, networking systems, and semiconductor equipment.
- Fine Art: Paintings, sculptures, and statues.
- Machinery & Industrial Equipment: CNC machines, lathes, and other manufacturing equipment.
- Medical Equipment: Imaging and diagnostic machines, laboratory equipment.
- Furniture & Large Items: Oversized and fragile furniture, including antiques and grandfather clocks.
Scan Global Logistics
Contact: Sean Caspell
Email: SCasp@Scangl.com
Phone: (503) 997-0330
Website: www.scangl.com
Scan Global Logistics (SGL) has a defined purpose of uncomplicating the world of logistics every day. As a full-service logistics provider, the company has a global track record to prove it. SGL offers end-to-end logistics solutions with a broad range of transportation services across air, ocean, rail, road, warehousing or any combination thereof.
Deeply rooted in the company’s DNA is a ‘can-do-attitude’ to see every challenge as an opportunity to do more, better, and learn. We emphasize personalized service and provide tailored solutions for our clients.
Geo. S. Bush & Co
Phone: 503-228-6501
Email: info@geosbush.com
Website: www.geosbush.com
Geo. S. Bush & Co., Inc. (GSB) is an International Trade Services firm whose core service offerings include International Customs Brokerage and Freight Forwarding, providing regulatory and logistics support, with a global reach, to importers and exporters around the world. As a 136-year-old company (founded in 1888), it is a storied brand which has maintained an excellent reputation among the international trade community for well over a century. GSB is a company known to punch above its weight, with current employees and recent alumni taking influential postings, working in senior positions with various trade associations and at the federal government level, through membership on the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) in Washington D.C., working to craft Customs and trade policy.
Through engagement with outside groups such as the National Customs Brokers and Forwarder’s Association of America (NCBFAA), The Pacific Coast Council (PCC) and the Columbia River Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association (CRCBFA), GSB prioritizes continued education and staying on top of regulatory and logistics developments to best serve its clients. In addition to education, adoption and application of technology to drive efficient and modern operations is a core part of its ethos. GSB has independently developed its own software, a Trade Management System (TMS) called Imagin Trade Solutions™, which affords its clients tremendous flexibility with respect to data access and reporting.
Through its membership in the international logistics consortium known as the ‘Global Logistics Associates’ (GLA), which it joined early in the 21st century, GSB’s brand and service offerings extend to all parts of the world. It prides itself on being able to get international freight “from anywhere, to anywhere”, or support supply chain functions for any limited segment of its journey, as Incoterms may dictate. It is truly a one-stop-shop for international shipping.
In addition, GSB’s services include domestic transportation (trucking), full or limited compliance audit of import data via a dedicated “Post Entry Audit” division (whose clients may not necessarily otherwise be customers of GSB), and brokerage of international trade products such as Customs bonds and cargo insurance.
Total Logistics Resources (TLR)
Contact: Lisa Johnson
Email: lisaj@shiptlr.com
Phone: 707-849-3332
Website: shiptlr.com
Established in 1974, TLR is a family-owned, veteran-operated small business specializing in comprehensive logistics solutions. We are a non-asset-based provider, leveraging our extensive network and industry expertise to deliver exceptional service across the entire supply chain.
Our Services
Freight Forwarding: Seamless international cargo movement by air, sea, and land.
Customs Brokerage: Expert guidance to navigate complex customs regulations.
Trade & Regulatory Compliance Consultation: Ensuring your shipments meet all legal requirements.
Duty Drawback Services: Recovering 99% of import duties paid on eligible transactions.
Supply Chain Management: Streamlining your logistics processes for optimal efficiency.
Building Trust and Security: TLR prioritizes the security and legitimacy of your operations.
Credentials: accredited by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Department of Transportation (DOT). Members of key industry organizations, including WCAworld, International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA), and National Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA). Participants in the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program, demonstrating our commitment to supply chain security.
Remote-First Culture and Global Reach: TLR embraces a remote-first work environment, allowing us to hire top talent across the United States. In 2018, we further expanded our reach through a joint venture with Eimskip, an Icelandic steamship line. This partnership established our first European office in Denmark, as well as adding 56 new offices in 20 countries to our network. Furthermore, we assumed long-term management of 21 high-security magazines strategically located near Billund Airport.
Expertise in Specialized Cargo: TLR possesses unparalleled knowledge and experience in handling, transporting, and storing highly regulated commodities, including:
Wine and Spirits
Defense Articles
Perishables
High-Tech Equipment
With TLR as your logistics partner, you can navigate the complexities of global trade with confidence. We are committed to providing secure, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for all your supply chain needs.
Contact TLR today to discuss how we can help your business thrive.
Verbio® - TRANSLATION SERVICES
Contact: Virginia Joplin
Email: hello@verbiogroup.com
Phone: 1-503-914-1119
Website: https://verbiogroup.com/
With offices in four countries, Verbio® has been a trusted partner in bridging cultural and language gaps for businesses and government agencies since 1996. We specialize in fostering connection and trust within local and global communities. Offering services in over 250 languages, we deliver seamless language access solutions for all the ways businesses communicate: written documentation, web and SMM content negotiations and lectures, subtitles and voice-over recordings, telephone chats, conventions, and trade missions. Verbio is excited to be your resource for reaching your diverse audience with culturally relevant, respectful, and impactful messaging.
Verbio is also a key partner for companies looking to expand internationally, helping businesses in Oregon and beyond successfully export their products to global markets. We provide tailored linguistic and cultural expertise to ensure your message is not only accurately translated but resonates with diverse international audiences.
When you choose Verbio, you are selecting a partner that is deeply rooted in the global community, committed to cultural education, and passionate about fostering open communication. Whether working with local organizations or international enterprises, we pride ourselves on helping our clients break barriers and build trust in every language.
Verbio’s Services Include:
Written Translation: Accurate and culturally sensitive translation of technical manuals, marketing materials, contracts and litigation, and more.
Interpretation Services: Professional interpreters for in-person, over-the-phone, and video remote settings. On-demand and pre-scheduled scenarios. Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting modes. Conference and tour-guide equipment available.
Transcreation and Cultural Consulting: insights to help you navigate cultural nuances in communication and business practices. Verbio does a deep dive and advises on how your brand messaging, wording choices, graphics, fonts, color palette, and music will resonate with your target audience. Totally customizable for your marketing campaign goals. Taglines, product packaging, brochures, user interfaces, social media.
Website Localization: Adapting your digital content for international markets while maintaining your brand’s voice online. Maintaining up to date content as your company evolves.
Multilingual Audio/Video: Ensuring your multimedia content is accessible and impactful for multilingual audiences. Verbio adds a new language to your existing marketing and training media to redouble the effectiveness of your messaging. Live and post-production captions, voice-over recording, transcription animated graphics, embedded sign language interpreters.
Community Engagement Support: Facilitating bilingual focus groups, localizing surveys, public notices, and campaign outreach materials. Collaboratively designing Language Access Plans for how you engage with your community.
Credentials:
ISO 9001-certified, ISO 17100-certified, WBE/ESB/DBE, Oregon Benefit Company, Sworn Translators for Consulates of France and Spain, American Translators Association.