Linn Parish

Irv Zakheim: Dishing on an animated career in manufacturing

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July 31, 2014

Dish up a kids' snack onto a plastic plate featuring the Frozen princesses or that goofy snowman they hang around with, and chances are good you're using a project created by West Plains-based Zak Designs Inc. Thirty-eight years old, the company has

Inland Northwest executive pay growth cools

Average compensation remained flat in 2013

July 17, 2014

Linn Parish

Total executive compensation at Inland Northwest publicly traded companies remained essentially the same in 2013 as it was in 2012, following double-digit increases in pay the previous three years, the Journal of Business' annual analysis shows. Avera

Davenport Hotel Collection to franchise with Marriott's Autograph Collection

All four downtown Spokane properties to change to new brand by end of this year

July 10, 2014

Linn Parish

The Davenport Hotel Collection announced this afternoon it has agreed to franchise with Marriott International's Autograph Collection. All four of its downtown Spokane hotels will convert to Marriott's Autograph Collection brand by the end of this

Medical-school pilot program attracts fewer students

Incoming second-year class to be half the expected size

July 3, 2014

Linn Parish

The incoming class of second-year medical students in Spokane will be about half the size of the inaugural second-year class, with nine to 11 slots failing to fill. Ken Roberts, director of the Spokane unit of WWAMI, a University of Washington program

intelliPaper ramps up, to roll out new product

Paper USB device maker works toward profitability

June 19, 2014

Linn Parish

As intelliPaper LLC ramps up production to fill its backlog and meet increasing demand, the Edwall, Wash.-based maker of recyclable, paper-based USB flash drives has a new product in the works that it expects will help it accelerate its growth. Meanti

New York firm buys Coldwater Creek brand

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June 10, 2014

Linn Parish

An affiliate of Sycamore Partners, a New York-based private-equity firm that owns Aeropostale, Hot Topic, Talbots, and a number of other retail chains, announced that it has acquired the Coldwater Creek brand and related intellectual property. Sycam

A conversation with Desautel Hege Communications CEO Michelle Hege: Leading in a dynamic market

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June 5, 2014

Linn Parish

Michelle Hege was employee No. 1 when Jim and Cher Desautel started a public relations firm in the 1990s. Last July, she became the top executive at Desautel Hege Communications Inc., a firm based in the Morgan Building, at 315 W. Riverside in downtown

Gaining distance on the recession

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May 22, 2014

Linn Parish

The Journal of Business Market Fact Book goes live today, and the 90-plus charts and graphs suggest overall economic improvement. Some data suggest slower growth than one would want to see, and some facets remain stubbornly sluggish, but on the whole, thi

Cell booster maker shifts focus away from retail

ClearRF sets its sights on machine-to-machine uses

May 22, 2014

Linn Parish

ClearRF LLC, the 4-year-old Spokane Valley-based maker of wireless signal amplifiers, is leaving the consumer market and plans to focus fully on what's called the machine-to-machine, or m2m, sector. The move is intended to enable the company to purs

Avista's earnings increase

Company is exploring offers to sell Ecova subsidiary

May 7, 2014

Linn Parish

Avista Corp., of Spokane, reported today first-quarter net income of $48.5 million, or 82 cents a diluted share, up from $42.3 million, or 73 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. The company said in a press release that the results were above exp