A Rathdrum Prairie company that makes foam insulation and packaging materials is expanding its manufacturing complex considerably and plans to hire five to six additional workers once the expansion is completed.The company, FMI-EPS LLC, which a

PE Systems LLC, a Spokane company that helps merchants reduce the credit-card fees they pay, says its planning to move soon to accommodate a sharp growth in its work force. The young company says it also expects it will nearly double its revenues

Medford, Ore.-based Lithia Motors Inc. says it has started work on a new building in Liberty Lake for its Mercedes-Benz dealership here.The dealership chain, which owns Spokanes Camp Automotive Inc., is building the roughly 45,000-square-foot

Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services is participating in a new project for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will make the Inland Northwest one of the first sites in the U.S. to use a large-scale health surveillance as a

Spokane software developer Pentad Systems LLC has developed a computer network-based alarm system, called LANalarm, that it hopes will become the standard for such systems, and that could lead to a 20 percent increase in revenues this year for the

After more than 500 people turned out March 18 at a public hearing on Spokane Countys potential purchase of Spokane Raceway Park, the county commissioners are taking a close look at buying the facility and the acreage around it.Commissioner

Lee & Hayes PLLC, a fast-growing law firm here that specializes in intellectual property, says it has outgrown its space in the Paulsen Center downtown and plans to move to the nearby Bank of America Financial Center, where it expects to continue a

Spokane telecommunications entrepreneur Greg Green says he has been fired by OrbitCom, just a few months after becoming its CEO, and plans to sue the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based provider of local and long-distance telephone services.I wrote a $2

Spokane-based Inland Northwest Bank, though comparatively small in the commercial banking market here, is in the midst of a relatively aggressive expansion push.The 19-year-old bank opened two new branches last year and plans this year to open

Community bankers plan to compete for market share this year by acquiring other institutions, outsourcing traditional functions, and harnessing technology, a new survey by the American Bankers Association says.More than one in three (37 of the