Ask your lunch partners how the Asian financial crisis has affected their businesses and youll likely get a blank stare.But ask Tom Hill of Spokane computer-printer maker Output Technology Corp., or Richard Hanson at heavy-equipment RAHCO or a

Telect Inc., the big Liberty Lake maker of telecommunications equipment, is taking what company officials believe are the first steps in building a new foreign subsidiary that would produce and sell products for the companys growing customer in a

Empire Financial Group Inc. and its affiliated companies, which together are the target of both a federal civil lawsuit and a state securities investigation, have filed suit in Spokane County Superior Court against one of their former the new suit,

Copyright 1998 by Journal of BusinessEmpire Securities Inc. of Washington, a Spokane brokerage firm, is under fire.A retired Spokane optometrist and his wife have filed suit in U.S. District Court here claiming that Empire Securities and them

Last year, Spokane-based RAHCO International went for months without finding a single qualified engineering candidate to hire. It finally recruited one from South Africa. Spokane headhunter Jeannine Marx, who typically has sought seasoned for is

A young Spokane computer seller and consultant called WindStar Group Inc. has enjoyed explosive growth in its first four years, and now is contemplating expansions that it hopes will make it a regional powerhouse.The company, which was founded a

On the 11th floor of the Seafirst Financial Center downtown, the wallboard is still bare in places and unpacked boxes outnumber employees, but Spokanes newest corporate headquarters offices there are up and running.They are those of Potlatch a

In a quarterly survey conducted earlier this month, Spokane business owners and managers voiced slightly greater confidence in the economy than they have all year, but suggested that they continued to believe Spokanes economy was slipping farther

In two moves aimed at improving efficiency and patient care, Spokanes largest hospital has hired the Heart Institute of Spokane both to manage its cardiac services and, in a lesser role, to handle the admitting of patients who come to the for the

Just when frustrated customers of America Online began scrambling last month for a new gateway to cyberspace, Spokanes Internet On-Ramp Inc., an otherwise likely beneficiary of AOLs woes, was putting a hold on accepting new On-Ramp, one of or a