Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the stock value of 15 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies as measured in an overall index performed well last year compared with the Standard & Poor's 500. For its Inland

Spokane-based business software company Imprezzio Inc. recently has landed a big contract with a major insurance company. The company is looking to fill 18 positions now—and perhaps that many more later this year, says Lisa Bick, Imprezzio's a

Bankruptcy filings declined for the third consecutive year, with 750 fewer filings in Eastern Washington in 2012 than in the previous year. Attorneys here, however, say bankruptcies could climb this year. Businesses and consumers filed a of a

Aslin-Finch Co., a Spokane Valley-based concern that operates seven retail feed and pet supply stores, and its AFCO Distribution & Milling wholesale division have been acquired by agricultural co-operative Skagit Farmers Supply, of Burlington, of a

Pullman, Wash.-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. is acting as its own contractor on two major construction projects under way with a combined value exceeding $19 million.One project is a $9 million, 98,000-square-foot Zocholl on in