In a bonanza fueled by the economic dynamism of the high-tech industry, the employees and local-area investors of Packet Engines Inc. received $175 million when Packet was sold recently, founder Bernard Daines says.In addition to the stock that

Hewlett-Packard Co. has leased 21,400 square feet of space at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and plans to move part of its printed-circuit assembly division there from Liberty Lake in April.Liz Cox, spokeswoman here for the big Palo says

Gonzaga Universitys Regional Information Services, an offshoot of the Foley Center library that provides fee-based research services to businesses, has been given an ultimatum: break even or shut down.Library officials say the universitys 1,

A Spokane real estate executive says a California businessman is trying to prevent the collapse of a call-center project here after two men and a company that allegedly were involved in the project were indicted by a Spokane grand jury for federal

Coldwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint, Idaho-based direct-mail retailer, has pulled out of the Japanese market after testing it for about two years. The company, tucked away in North Idahos Selkirk Range, sells gifts, clothing, and home furnishings

Cogentrix Energy Inc., a Charlotte, N.C.-based power producer, will serve as its own general contractor on construction of a $100 million power plant it is developing in Rathdrum, Idaho, with Avista Power Inc., of Spokane. The company will strive

State National Bank, a 97-year-old Garfield, Wash.-based bank, is building a branch on Spokanes North Side, is looking for an additional three locations for branches in the Spokane area, and eventually might relocate its headquarters here, says a

Steve Talbotts Spokane Valley studio shows off his stained glass windows, glass door panels sandblasted with elaborate designs, and etched tabletopsbut the name of his business, Artistic Glass, only begins to tell his story.Over more than a

Calvert Technologies Inc., a West Plains control panel manufacturer that expanded into electronic jail systems late last year after buying a division of Telect Inc., of Liberty Lake, says it plans to develop a new manufacturing plant in Airway and

Output Technology Corp., the resilient Spokane manufacturer of high-speed computer printers, views 1999 as a clean sheet of paper upon which it hopes to imprint the first lines of its next chapter as a company.It wont be Chapter 11. Earlier