Production Finance International LLC, a Spokane-based trade financing company, says its been growing steadily as demand for import-related loans to U.S. businesses increases, and that its focusing on strengthening its western U.S. 13-year-old a

Bankers here expect solid loan demand during 2006, which Sterling Financial Corp. is particularly glad about.At the end of the third quarter last year, Spokane-based Sterling warned investors that loan balances were growing more slowly than and

Rahco Ag Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Spokane-based Rahco International Inc., has developed a new leveling system thats designed to be used with John Deere combines and is intended to appeal to Midwest farmers. Richard Hanson, president of is

Gonzaga University is developing a new strategic plan that it hopes will guide its growth through the next six years.The plan, called Vision 2012, will include goals for enrollment, academics, and student life, among other areas, says Thayne of

Washington Trust Bank, of Spokane, has posted record earnings for 2005, a year in which its assets nearly crested the $3 billion mark for the first time in its 103-year history. The bank had net income of $38.7 million last year, up 32 percent

In the latest in a series of territorial disputes between the city of Spokane and Spokane County, the city says it plans to challenge a decision the county commissioners made recently regarding land just north of Spokane and on the West Plains that

Spokane-based Global Credit Union says it plans to build two stand-alone branches, one in North Spokane and the other in Coeur dAlene, within the next two years. Global hasnt picked locations for the structures or how big theyll be and be

AutoZone Inc., a Memphis, Tenn.-based retailer of auto and truck parts that recently opened a store in North Spokane and has another store in Coeur dAlene, now says it plans to open new stores in Post Falls and Deer Park in the next few Post is &

growing Spokane company owned and operated by a Nez Perce Indian woman is an active intermediary between the 560 Indian tribes in the U.S. and the federal government. The woman, Jo Ann Kauffman, says she became frustrated in college with the of

With as much as $127.2 million in road work planned in the greater Spokane area this year, the contractors here that do such work are grinning from ear to ear as the construction season nears. As an added bonus, contractors say, government are