Spokane Journal of Business

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Selling bottles of nature

At the base of Green Mountain, tucked among pine trees between Hauser and Newman lakes northeast of Spokane, lies Green Mountain Inc.s bottling plant.At that about 1,100-square-foot plant, which is located on the homestead of the couple that a...

Grease prices take slide

Americans, we often hear, are not getting less fat, but theyre certainly getting less for fat than they used to, and thats creating problems for restaurateurs here.The two companies that pick up and recycle restaurant grease in the Inland a...

Statistical merger looks near

Spokane and Coeur dAlene are almost certainly destined to become a combined metropolitan statistical area in the eyes of everyone from the federal government to national retailers, says a report published in August by the U.S. Census would be a a...

Wells, Avista team up again

A limited partnership formed by Spokanes Wells & Co. and Avista Development Inc., also of Spokane, plans to renovate the former Rodeway Inn City Center into a high-tech office building that would be part of whats becoming known as the Terabyte...

Wireless player gets license here

San Diego-based Leap Wireless International Inc. has acquired a personal communications services (PCS) license from the Federal Communications Commission to offer digital wireless communications service in Spokane and will do so through its Cricket...

State National Bank plans branch

State National Bank, of Garfield, Wash., plans to open a second branch office in Spokane early next year and will move some of its administrative functions there from Garfield.Stan Yarbrough, State Nationals chief financial officer, declines a...

Gold prices energize mining executives here

A recent surge in the price of gold has renewed Inland Northwest mining companies interest in digging the yellow metal out of the ground.Gold, which had fallen as low as $252.85 per troy ounce on the London gold exchange as recently as Aug. as...

Office buildings proposed at Liberty Lake Center

Jackson Five LLC, a company established by Spokane businessmen Steve Schmautz and Bill Lawson, has bought just over five acres of land at Liberty Lake Center and plans to construct two office buildings there worth a combined $6 million. The is &...

Country-style designer expands operation here

Mumms The Word Inc., a Spokane-based crafts-publishing and art-design company here headed by country-style designer Debbie Mumm, is expanding its facility on Spokanes North Side to accommodate dramatic growth experienced this year.Steve the...

A hangout for hobbyists

By day, Hands On Hobbies is a typical hobby store, selling model cars and airplanes, trains and train-set pieces, collectible card games, model rockets, hobby paint, science kits, stamp- and coin-collecting paraphernalia, and paint-by-number night...

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