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The Journal's View: Initiative 1433 isn't the answer on minimum wage

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September 8, 2016

Initiative 1433, which would raise Washington state's minimum wage and would require all employers to begin offering sick leave, has noble intentions-to boost the income of more than 730,000 low-income workers, lift families out of poverty, and grow t

Lawton acquires high-speed printer

'Seven-figure' purchase said to boost production

September 8, 2016

Laura Lawton, president and majority owner of 76-year-old Lawton Printing Inc., says the Spokane company has made a 'seven-figure purchaseâ€ of a digital press that she claims is the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Lawton says the company

Best Places To Work INW finalists named

BDO, Gallagher make largest-employers list

September 8, 2016

Staff Report

BDO USA LLP, Gallagher Benefit Services Inc., and Moss Adams LLP are the three finalists in the 1,000-plus employee category of a Best Places To Work Inland Northwest recognition program launched this year by the Journal of Business. Prominent names also

GenPrime launches device in U.S. toxicology market

Biotech company partners with East Coast distributor

September 8, 2016

Kim Crompton

GenPrime Inc., a biotech company based in downtown Spokane, says it has launched domestic sales of a point-of-care diagnostic device for workplace drug testing, called the POC Reader, with partner company Alere Inc., of Waltham, Pa. GenPrime says it and

Valley chamber sponsors manufacturing expo

Event will showcase 50 exhibitor booths

September 8, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

The Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring the seventh annual Manufacturing Matters Expo, to be held Sept. 26 and 27. Rick Pickel, expo chairman and sales manager at Haskins Steel Co., says this year's event will have 50 exhibit

Diversity distinguishes third Ignite NW class

Nearly half of participants are based elsewhere

September 8, 2016

From a company that makes wireless USB devices to a North Idaho business that makes cider, Ignite Northwest may have with its third class its most diverse group of companies to date, says CEO Bill Savitz. 'We've got a total of 18 companies-10 in Sp

Hard-goods distributor buys big Kimball building

Orgill vows to create over 100 jobs with new facility

September 8, 2016

Mike McLean

Orgill Inc., a large Memphis, Tenn.-based hard-goods distribution company, has bought for $12 million the former Kimball Office Inc. manufacturing plant in Post Falls, where it plans to open a distribution center and hire more than 100 employees. Orgill

GSI's Startup Spokane plans Triangle Venture Expo

Startup Spokane event to showcase 12 companies

September 8, 2016

Samantha Peone

Startup Spokane, a program of Greater Spokane Incorporated, will hold the inaugural Triangle Venture Expo next week as a way of showcasing 12 technology-related companies. The expo will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14, and Thursday, Sept. 15, starting wit

Rockwood PT, sports clinic moves to larger space

New location is nearly triple the size of previous facility

September 8, 2016

Now serving roughly 1,000 clients per month on average, Rockwood Physical Therapy & Sports Performance Clinic employees were more than ready to move into their new location at 122 E. Montgomery, where they've now been for about a month. For more than a

Cancer Care Northwest debuts new technology

Device shown to extend lives of patients with malignant brain tumors

September 8, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Cancer Care Northwest, a physician-owned oncology practice, has introduced to the Inland Northwest what its physicians tout as a groundbreaking new technology that helps extend the lives of patients diagnosed with certain malignant brain tum

The Journal's View: Initiative 1433 isn't the answer on minimum wage

Lawton acquires high-speed printer

Best Places To Work INW finalists named

GenPrime launches device in U.S. toxicology market

Valley chamber sponsors manufacturing expo

Diversity distinguishes third Ignite NW class

Hard-goods distributor buys big Kimball building

GSI's Startup Spokane plans Triangle Venture Expo

Rockwood PT, sports clinic moves to larger space

Cancer Care Northwest debuts new technology

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