If Ted Pulver walks into your office with his leisurely smile and chummy handshake, someone has hired him to be there, and someone may have broken the law.It could be you. It could be a colleague. Whoever it is, Pulver is there to find out what

Getting the boost it needed to emerge from a two-year business lull, longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer Rahco International Inc. has landed a roughly $20 million contract to design and construct two massive conveyor and stacking systems for a

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), of Spokane, quietly has evolved into a 900-employee regional medical laboratory with annual sales in the $50 million range.Those figures make PAML the largest privately held laboratory in on

Zak Designs Inc., of Airway Heights, plans to expand its facility here next year by 50,000 square feet, to crest $100 million in annual sales by the following year, and to make exports a bigger part of its business.Zak Designs, which designs and

Scented candles flicker warmly in a cluster near the register. Racks display flowing skirts, tailored pantsuits, classic dresses, and elegant wool coats with some of the most recognizable labels in fashion: Liz Claiborne, Anne Klein, Jones New and

Cheese makers, dairies, and brewers sprinkled around the U.S. are using prototype equipment developed by a young Spokane biotech company to count live bacteria or yeast during their production processes. The market for the product, born in the labs

Central Pre-Mix Concrete Products Co., of Spokane, has bought the assets of the former Layrite Products Co.s block-products business here from Iron Bridge Masonry Products LLC, and has begun operating Layrites former plant on Trent Avenue, had

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, is well under way on a $30 million expansion and renovation project at Holy Rosary Medical Center, in Ontario, Ore., near the Idaho-Oregon border.The two-phase project will include the construction of a that

Rahco International Inc., the Spokane-based industrial manufacturer, has landed a $5 million contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to design and develop a system for containing potentially harmful waste at landfills.Rahco has started work

National Refractories & Minerals Corp., a Livermore, Calif.-based manufacturer of heat-resistant materials for industrial furnaces, has leased space in the Spokane Valley for a regional distribution center.The new distribution center is located