We, as the Journal of Business staff, have spent a lot of time during the past couple of weeks looking ahead to the new year and trying to discern what's in store for our readers. Following a 2015 that's been better than expected in many respects, 201
Spokane-area job growth exceeded expectations this year, and Inland Northwest economists expect further growth in employment in the upcoming year, though maintaining this year's pace might be challenging.
Broad-based job growth foretold positive gains in many sectors of the Inland Northwest economy this year, and those industries are expected to continue to grow in 2016, though some might not be able to sustain the trajectory established this year.
Larry Krauter came to Spokane nearly five years ago to lead Spokane Airports, which includes Spokane International Airport, Felts Field, and the Spokane International Airport Business Park. Since then, Krauter has become a key figure in the Spokane busine
Jordan Allen's quickly growing business, Stay Alfred, is located at 123 E. Sprague, where Spokane's University District meets the city's downtown core, but it makes its money at the intersection of hotels and vacation rentals.
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If it involves entrepreneurship and it's located in Spokane, chances are good that Tom Simpson has something to do with it.
The 55-year-old Spokane native is president of the Spokane Angel Alliance investment fund, chairman and co-founder of Spokane e
The number of Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies is shrinking, but for the executives at the corporations that remain, total compensation grew substantially in 2014, the Journal of Business annual analysis shows.
Average total compensation
It's not often that professors and others in the post-secondary education world get the opportunity to participate in an academic startup.
As Washington State University has learned, such an opportunity is enticing to those in health sciences, as WSU
Edmund O. Schweitzer III founded Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1984, and essentially from the beginning, the company has been growing rapidly.
The 31-year-old, Pullman-based enterprise designs, manufactures, and supports products and services f
Inland Imaging LLC is going 3-D in its mammography imaging units, installing new breast tomosynthesis machines that it hopes will find cancer earlier and reduce false positives.
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