Harpers Manufacturing, the big office-furniture maker in Post Falls, has changed its name to flexcel-Post Falls and could take on work previously done at other plants owned by its parent company, Kimball International Inc.Kimball, a based in to

Spokane-based Potlatch Corp. has split its consumer products and paperboard division into two operations in a move that the forest-products company says reflects the vitality of its consumer-products business.Potlatchs consumer-products makes

Homeowners insurance used to be a no-brainer: You bought a house, you called an agent, you got insurance. Now, after suffering what one insurer in the state calls an unprecedented convergence of negative trends, the homeowners insurance is

Window Products Inc., the big Spokane vinyl-window manufacturer, is moving its headquarters to Liberty Lake because the company is growing so quickly its overflowing its current central office. Window Products plans to move in February into

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council and the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce will ask the state Legislature this coming session to give counties the authority to levy a voter-approved sales tax to support economic development. The a a

Spokane-based ICM Asset Management Inc. has moved here a Portland, Ore., company it bought a year ago that provides analyst coverage of small public companies. The Portland company, RedChip Cos. LLC, has moved to the 11th floor of the Mutual at

Regina Lillie is a hair-salon owner who has never snipped a tress herself. Shes been a businesswoman in Spokane for 20 years, but only has lived here since 1993. Shes a volume dealer in an industry thats full of sole proprietors.

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission that would allow the mining company to offer various securities worth a total of up to $125 million.Securities that could be offered a

RATHDRUMA Stratford Home may be modular, but its not mobile.Well, OK, its mobile twice: once when its wheeling down the production line in Stratford Building Corp.s factory here, then when its delivered in big sections on flat-bed a

Washington Trust Bank plans to open a new, full-service branch early next year in a remodeled former Walgreens pharmacy building at 3810 N. Maple. The Spokane-based bank has purchased the Walgreens site for an undisclosed amount and, assuming &