Washington states wine industry is replete with stories of established winemakers who helped others break into the business, or who acted as mentors to their competitors in other ways. As the industry has grown, however, that approach has to

A company doesnt get to be 119 years old without being able to change with the times. Spokane-based Coeur dAlenes Co. certainly has done that.Launched in 1884 as a supply house to miners in Idahos Silver Valley, the longtime steel and for

Uni-Select Northwest, of Auburn, Wash., has consolidated its two Parts Plus retail stores in Spokane into one location, at 125 S. Cowley, and has closed its warehouse here.The company vacated its leased retail spaces at 805 E. Francis and 126 a

Lincoln Container & Packaging Inc., of Spokane, has filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors, a move that one of the companys co-owners says was caused by an employees failure to pay Lincolns federal employment taxes. Unbeknownst

The new CEO of the Spokane Area Economic Development Council, whoever that is, might take charge of a very different organization than the one that exists today. The EDC is commissioning two studies, one to see what the community, and its the

A Spokane neurosurgeon and a partner whos moving to the area from Oregon are opening a new practice in Coeur dAlene that they hope eventually will grow into a multispecialty spine center based at Kootenai Medical Center there.Dr. Jeffrey of

One of the worlds preeminent biotechnology scientists will be in Spokane this fall to talk about how this regions health-care industry and its colleges and universities can work together to build a biotech industry here. The scientist, Dr.

Jensen Distribution Services, the big Spokane-based hardware distributor, plans to expand its huge warehouse on the West Plains by more than one-third due to continuing growth of its business, says CEO Mike Jensen.Plans call for about 130,000 a

In Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, a peddling entrepreneur might pull up and offer you a leisurely oceanfront tour via a three-wheeled passenger bike known as a pedicab. On the way to a ball game in Denver, another pedicab operator might offer

When the telecom industry rebounds, will Telect Inc.which before the industrys collapse was hiring so feverishly that it couldnt find enough workers here to meet soaring production needsresume its role as an employment juggernaut?Not so