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Web-design company buys marketing firm

Zipline Interactive expands capabilities with ReWire acquisition

January 27, 2011

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

Denver-based firm merges with NAC|Architecture

Transaction to enable Spokane firm to expand in Rocky Mountain states

January 27, 2011

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

Western States Insurance purchases Cd'A brokerage

Company has acquired four agencies here since '07

January 27, 2011

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

Wearing, making many hats

January 27, 2011

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

Equipment concern opens Spokane shop

Oregon-based company sells, services machines for quarry, gravel plants

January 27, 2011

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.

North By Northwest diversifies

Spokane filmmaker buys interest in DiMedia, forms new interactive company

January 27, 2011

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

Schweitzer Engineering set to expand

Lewiston plant to employ 250 within three years, Pullman staff also to grow

January 27, 2011

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

Auto sales on upward trend here

Some dealers anticipate 10 percent sales gains for second straight year

January 27, 2011

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

Lydig wins $91 million contract

Spokane contractor adds to its corrections portfolio with big California job

January 27, 2011

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

Moving from 'online to offline'

Local wine blogger turns cyberventure into physical business

January 27, 2011

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