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Web-design company buys marketing firm

Zipline Interactive expands capabilities with ReWire acquisition
Chey Scott
Zipline Communications Inc., a Spokane Web-development concern that does business as Zipline Interactive, says it has acquired a web-hosting and e-mail-marketing company here called ReWire Applications.Zipline Vice President Ryan Stemkoski says
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Denver-based firm merges with NAC|Architecture

Transaction to enable Spokane firm to expand in Rocky Mountain states
Chey Scott
Spokane-based NAC|Architecture says it completed a merger earlier this month with Denver-based AR7 Architects.The merger will allow NAC to expand its presence in the Rocky Mountain states, NAC CEO Bruce Blackmer says. The firms have worked on to
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Western States Insurance purchases Cd'A brokerage

Company has acquired four agencies here since '07
Kim Frlan
Western States Insurance, a Missoula, Mont.-based insurance brokerage with an office in Spokane, has acquired Harris-Dean Insurance, of Coeur d'Alene.Western States' Spokane manager Dan Antonetti is overseeing the Coeur d'Alene operation, which
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Wearing, making many hats

Chey Scott
Running a business while raising and home-schooling four children isn't always easy, but Deer Park resident Cara Covey says she's still able to do it all by putting every spare moment toward her home-operated online venture.The owner and sole of
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Equipment concern opens Spokane shop

Oregon-based company sells, services machines for quarry, gravel plants
Mike McLean
Valley Equipment Co., a Salem, Ore.-based heavy-equipment sales, service, and fabrication concern, says it's opening an outlet on property it recently bought in East Spokane that formerly was owned and occupied by Spokane Machinery Co.The at E.
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North By Northwest diversifies

Spokane filmmaker buys interest in DiMedia, forms new interactive company
Linn Parish
North By Northwest Productions Inc., a Spokane company best known for making movies, has bought part of a small web-design company and formed a new company, North By Northwest Interactive LLC.The move is designed to help North By Northwest to By
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Schweitzer Engineering set to expand

Lewiston plant to employ 250 within three years, Pullman staff also to grow
Mike McLean
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., the Pullman-based maker of electrical-system protection, monitoring, and control equipment, plans to break ground in February on a $10 million facility in Lewiston and hopes to start work in March on a $7
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—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Auto sales on upward trend here

Some dealers anticipate 10 percent sales gains for second straight year
Mike McLean
Some car dealers here say vehicle sales in 2010 climbed significantly, following two years of generally dismal sales, and they expect that rebound to continue at a similar pace this year, due to an improving economy, rising consumer confidence, and
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Lydig wins $91 million contract

Spokane contractor adds to its corrections portfolio with big California job
Mike McLean
Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed a $91 million contract for a jail-expansion project in Southern California that will nearly triple the inmate capacity of the facility there.The Adelanto Detention Center expansion project will a
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—Photo by Chey Scott

Moving from 'online to offline'

Local wine blogger turns cyberventure into physical business
Chey Scott
Josh Wade took an unconventional route to launching Nectar Tasting Room, which opened Jan. 6 in downtown Spokane. Rather than opening an establishment and then looking to social media to help market it—as businesses increasingly are first with
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