Spokane Journal of Business

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Manufacturing plants rise on opposite sides of city

Separate manufacturing facilities are under construction in the east and west areas of Spokane. Pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company Jubilant HollisterStier LLC obtained building permits in September to begin the first of two expansion...

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Panattoni erects two distribution centers

The Renton, Washington-based office of Panattoni Development Co. is behind two Spokane-area...

Ace to lay off 86 at former Jensen Distribution facility

Ace Hardware Corp., the Oak Brook, Illinois-based hardware retailers’ cooperative that acquired Sp...

Tractor Beverage launches sustainability tracker

Tractor Beverages Inc., a Hayden-based soft drink maker, has launched an Organic Impact Tracker...

Brenda and Clint Grassel sold Precision Cutting Technologies about 25 years after incorporation.

Precision Cutting Technologies changes hands

Clint and Brenda Grassel, founders of Precision Cutting Technologies Inc., in Liberty Lake, have ...

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Lakeside sheds coworking plans at Triumph facility

Lakeside Companies, a Spokane-based real estate investment company, has scuttled plans to develop a coworking complex at the former Triumph Composite Systems Inc. property, at 1514 S. Flint, in west Spokane, says Lakeside marketing director Maria Lusardi....

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Key Tronic ramps up as customers leave China

Key Tronic Corp. is on the receiving end of a tenfold increase in contract-bidding opportunities as many companies—prompted by production delays, rising costs, and tensions with China—are pulling business out of that country and bringing it back to ...

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Nic Nac Naturals nicotine lozenges hit market

Nic Nac Naturals LLC owner and co-founder Nicco Magnotto didn’t use nicotine until about five years ago, but he says he believes potential benefits of the substance are so compelling that he established the Spokane-based startup to make and market a new...

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Meet & Greet with Vera Water & Power’s Jim Fields

Jim Fields stepped into his new role as general manager and CEO of Spokane Valley-based Vera Water & Power on Jan. 1. Fields, 60, took over for Kevin Wells, who retired after 49 years with the utility. ...

Patent claims against Continuous Composites denied

Six petitions seeking to invalidate patent claims of Coeur d’Alene-based additive manufacturer Continuous Composites Inc. have been denied, and a seventh is set to be reviewed in November. That yet-to-be-resolved issue will occur ahead of a trial ...

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