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Leadership shift planned at LaunchPad INW

LaunchPad's co-founder moves into new position with high-tech company

October 11, 2012

Bill Kalivas, co-founder and managing partner of Spokane-based professional networking and interactive media company LaunchPad Inland Northwest Inc., is handing off day-to-day operations of the company and has accepted a new job with Liberty cloud

Fatbeam builds $2.7 million fiber-optics network between Liberty Lake, Coeur d'Alene

Big fiber-optic installation to serve variety of clients from Liberty Lake to Cd'A

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Fatbeam LLC, a Post Falls-based provider of broadband fiber-optic networks, has an estimated $2.7 million fiber-optic cable installation project well under way for a network that will extend between Coeur d'Alene and Liberty Lake.Fatbeam Greg a

Itron lands big contract with Southern California Gas Co.

Utility will use equipment as part of major upgrades for its advanced metering

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of energy-management equipment and systems, says Southern California Gas Co. will install nearly 1.5 million of Itron's natural gas meters and more than 600,000 of its gas regulators.Southern California a

Post Falls temp staffing company posts record quarterly revenue

Post Falls temp-staffing company reports strong upswing

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Command Center Inc., a Post Falls-based temporary-staffing company with 52 offices in the U.S., has reported a record third-quarter revenue of $28.4 million, up 13.7 percent from nearly $25 million in the year-earlier quarter.Its revenue of over

Coeur d'Alene's Riverstone Village lands seven new tenants

Variety of new lessees includes fitness center, boutiques, sports shop

October 11, 2012

Mike McLean

The Riverstone mixed-use development in northwest Coeur d'Alene has gained seven new commercial tenants that have opened shop recently or are planning to do so soon, says a commercial real estate agent involved in the lease transactions.The a of

A pro at faux

October 11, 2012

Linn Parish

ArtWorks Spokane Inc. owner Nancy Jones has worked professionally in paints since 1985. The kinds of paints, the products painted, and the ways it's sold have changed dramatically through the years, and Jones has adjusted through each trend and I'm

DigiDeal creates new gaming table for casinos

Fully automated system scheduled to be rolled out during first quarter of '13

October 11, 2012

Jessica Valencia

DigiDeal Corp., the Spokane-based electronic multiplayer game table developer, unveiled a new electronic gaming table and automated virtual attendant system to be paired with its gaming table last month at the Global Gaming Expo, in Las new table a

HollisterStier expands its testing unit in East Spokane

Allergy product maker's new analytical services launched here, Montreal

October 11, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Jubilant HollisterStier Contract & Manufacturing Services, the Spokane-based sterile allergy product maker, says it has launched an analytical services unit that's geared toward providing additional testing capabilities at its facilities located in

Hart Capital stock index increases 14 percent in third quarter

Hart Capital says measure similar to S&P shows hike for public companies here

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says its Inland Northwest Index of publicly traded companies in the Inland Northwest rose 14.3 percent for the third quarter, under an index methodology similar to that of the Standard

Spokane-area retirement homes see occupancy rise

Occupancy rates climbing in part due to improving housing market, some say

October 11, 2012

Linn Parish

Some Spokane-area retirement center operators say occupancies are on the rise and that moving activity within their centers, such as from independent-living to assisted-living units, also has picked up this year. While some describe the activity