The customized swim platforms Scott Kurtz makes at his Spokane Valley-based boat repair business, Contemporary Fiberglass & Marine Inc., can be found on watercraft all over the world as far away as Australia, Hong Kong, and South America.Kurtz a

To offset an overall slowdown in privately funded construction projects here that came as a result of the recession, one Spokane-based engineering firm has diversified its approach to securing work and remaining profitable.Belsby Engineering LLC

Hubbell Financial Group Inc., the Spokane-based, regional office for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, has started efforts to recruit 25 new financial representatives and 30 interns to meet a growing demand for its products and services in the

An emerging, national scheme intended to boost patronage and sales at locally-owned, small businesses is starting to take hold in the Spokane area, with at least three "cash mobs" having taken place here in recent months. Cash mobs have been by

Wagstaff Inc., the big, 66-year-old Spokane Valley-based maker of aluminum-casting equipment that's sold to aluminum producers worldwide, recently began work on two expansion projects at its facilities here that, when completed, will add 57,000 to

Spokane Valley-based plastic mold maker and injection molding company H&H Molds Inc. says it expects to see its business, most of which is for other Inland Northwest manufacturers, pick up noticeably this year and into the coming here in 1952, the