When Mark Sonderen was seeking funding for new equipment to expand production at Sonderen Packaging here, his banker recommended that the longtime paperboard carton maker seek financing through whats called an industrial revenue bond.Such is

Amica Mutual Insurance Co. says it plans to move its 56-employee service center here to larger quarters and to add 23 employees at the center by June.The big Lincoln, R.I.-based insurer has leased about 12,000 square feet of office space at E.

Strong job growth and a steady housing market are helping Spokane County buck a national trend of rising foreclosures.The Spokane County Auditors Office says the number of foreclosures on deeds of trust here plummeted by 43 percent last year,

Just two years after a period of hemorrhaging red ink, job losses, and rumors of its possible demise or sale, Empire Health Services, Spokanes second largest hospital network, is now posting modest profit margins and healthy gains in patient says

Mark Freeman started Kuma Stoves Inc. in the back of his pickup. A quarter-century later, Freeman says he expects the Hayden, Idaho-based wood- and oil-stove manufacturing company to continue to grow at a slow, but comfortable pace, with a

Banner Retail Marketing Group, a Liberty Lake company that helps small retailers stay afloat in a competitive sea of advertising, is starting to make some waves of its own, says Bill Sauther, its president and co-owner.The company, which has 75

Colmac Coil Manufacturing Inc., a Colville, Wash.-based maker of components for heating and cooling systems, has landed a big contract to provide equipment for an airport in the Middle East, and that large order is requiring it to boost its work by

Spokane County officials have accepted a site plan, and have required traffic improvements, for an 18-lot commercial development proposed for the northeast corner of U.S. 395 and Hatch Road, north of Spokane.The development, to be called Midway

Precision Countertops Inc., of Portland, Ore., says it plans to open a manufacturing facility in the Spokane Valley, where it will employ up to 25 people. The new plant here will be the counter-top makers third.The company has leased a space

Growing numbers of real estate investors and developers from outside the Inland Northwest are finding valueand putting their chipsin the Spokane-North Idaho market. Spokane developer Walt Worthy, who owns the Davenport Hotel and has made is