Vending machines, which came on the scene in the 1920s to sell candy bars and tobacco products, now dispense everything from freshly brewed coffee to just-cookedand brownedfrench fries.The technology already exists to make vending machines a

BFGoodrich Aerospace, a division of the big Charlotte, N.C.-based BFGoodrich Co. that began making carbon brake disks for aircraft brakes at a new West Plains plant last summer, has made a smooth landing here and is on schedule to meet its growth a

Honeywell Electronic Materials Interconnect Metals, a strategic business unit of Honeywell here that formerly was owned by Johnson Matthey Electronics, is planning to release two new products this summer that are expected to boost employment at the

Eldon and Becky Humphrey say their occupation often is the brunt of jokes and is a favorite Hollywood stereotype, but they fail to see the humor. They take their jobs very seriously.No, the Humphreys arent attorneys or members of some other of

Spokane developer Dick Vandervert says he is talking with 24 Hour Fitness, the big Pleasanton, Calif.-based fitness-club chain, about building an exercise facility for the chain on land behind the Northpointe Plaza shopping center on Spokanes an

Ashley Gardens Management Inc., of Issaquah, Wash., is building a 20-bed facility for victims of Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia about a block east of Mead High School, and expects to break ground this spring on another facility

A Spokane-based Internet start-up called Dealerswap.com says it will launch within the next few months an innovative web site that will serve auto dealers nationwide.Though still cloaked in secrecy as to the exact services the venture will the a

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane-based manufacturer of computer keyboards and other advanced-input and engineered devices, says revenue generated by its non-keyboard contract design and manufacturing (CDM) business now accounts for almost half of the

Visiontec LLC, a Spokane contract manufacturer, plans to more than quadruple the amount of space it has for its operations by moving into a former Rosauers supermarket building, at 10920 E. Sprague, which Visiontec recently leased. Rick Hansen,

Northern Technologies Inc., a Liberty Lake-based manufacturer of electrical-surge-suppression devices, has been acquired as part of a larger transaction, sparking some big expansion plans here.Within the next 16 months, Northern Technologies to