Former Spokane clothier Harvey Jones is heading a fast-growing Seattle-based sportswear company that now is working to build a worldwide distribution network.The company, Cutter & Buck Inc., hopes to make its clothing a prominent brand, as...
Full StorySince arriving in Spokane just six years ago, Zak Designs Inc. has quadrupled its sales, more than tripled the size of both its work force and its West Plains facility, and made a push into foreign markets.Now the distributor of cartoon to...
Full StoryThe city of Cheney expects early next month to hire a contractor to design the backbone of a high-capacity fiber-optic network that eventually could bring broadband computer and telecommunications lines to its 4,000 utility customers, including...
Full StoryCXT Inc., the Spokane Valley manufacturer of concrete railroad ties and prefabricated concrete buildings, has posted signs at its administrative office building and a nearby building identified as a concrete crossing-panel production plant offering...
Full StoryThe man behind the Spokane-area company that seemingly could never stumble but did this year, told business leaders here last week that for the first time in his life, there were mornings in recent months when he curled up in bed and dreaded going...
Full StoryCoeur dAlene Mines Corp. is fighting back against a flagging metals market by spinning off its environmental and governmental relations operation into a subsidiary that will do consulting work for the Coeur dAlene-based mining company, its and...
Full StoryOne day a few years back, Sheri Herberholz waited for her husband, Larry, and oldest son, Dana, to come home with the familys first real race car. The two returned with a flatbed trailer carrying car-body parts. It didnt exactly rev her tells a...
Full StoryKey Tronic Corp., of Spokane, is gearing up to add hundreds of employees to its global work force in coming months as it settles firmly into its new role as a diversified contract engineering and manufacturing concern, and seeks to dive into a of a...
Full StoryItron Inc., the Spokane-based maker of automated meter-reading systems, expects to boost employment at its operations here by up to 30 percent, President and CEO LeRoy Nosbaum told a gathering of businesspeople last week.After struggling for the...
Full StorySpokane restaurateur Dennis Kelly plans to develop a small retail center, called Felts Crossing, at the northeast corner of Trent Avenue and Fancher Way near the Felts Field municipal airport.Kelly says the retail center will be located on a he...
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