NORTHWEST SUITES INKS 3-YEAR DEAL WITH MICROSOFT AS EXCLUSIVE PROVIDER OF TEMPORARY CORPORATE HOUSING
March 19, 2002 – Redmond, WA – Northwest Suites Inc. has finalized a three-year agreement with Microsoft as its exclusive provider of temporary corporate housing, Chief Operating Officer Dave Caple announced today. The deal secures Northwest Suites position as the leading interim housing supplier in the Northwest and across the nation. Northwest Suites has been serving Microsoft since 1988.
"We are delighted that Microsoft has elected to continue working with Northwest Suites and believe that our localized, flexible approach toward serving their interim housing needs was a big factor in the renewal," Caple said. "We are a nimble, responsive, service-oriented company, and these characteristics enable us to meet the ever changing and demanding requirements of Microsoft and its executives," he said.
Northwest Suites arranges for accommodations for the more than 1,000 interns who travel from across the United States to work with Microsoft during the summer months. The company also is of service to the many traveling executives who require extended stay accommodations as they complete their assignments with Microsoft.
The itinerant lifestyle is real for a large group of leading corporations, independent business executives, professional athletes, and people who need and enjoy extended stay travel. Northwest Suites offers comfortable accommodations that meet this need at a price that makes good business sense. Extended stay and corporate housing are the fastest growing segments of the lodging industry today. Growing organizations have to explore nationally, even globally, to successfully recruit top-notch staff. Effectively relocating families and providing comfortable, quality interim housing for traveling executives are among the most perplexing challenges companies face.
Headquartered in Redmond, Washington and launched in 1988, Northwest Suites Inc. serves as a preferred corporate housing provider to Microsoft, Immunex, Amazon, Washington Mutual, and others. High profile, seasonal clients such as the Seattle Mariners, the Seattle Storm, the Seattle Seahawks, and The Village Theater also entrust their interim housing needs exclusively to Northwest Suites.
Northwest Suites provides "All the Comforts of Home™" in the Northwest and around the world by offering thousands of unique housing selections that blend the comforts of living at home with the amenities and services clients need to make their stays comfortable, productive, and rewarding, all at a price that makes good business sense. Today, the company is among the fastest growing private companies in the Puget Sound region, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal’s annual report for 2001, and it employs over 50 people. Visit www.northwestsuites.com to learn more.
Contact: Karen Bruhn, 425.836.9828, k.bruhn@verizon.net