‘Boise Is’ ad wins top state honor
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 08:47 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
A Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau advertisement won the 2012 Idaho Travel Council Choice Award for “Best Advertisement” at the Idaho Conference on Recreation and Tourism. Rizen Creative, a Boise-based marketing communications firm, created the ad for the bureau’s “Boise Is” campaign.
Command Center chooses new CFO
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 08:43 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Command Center, a national employment agency based in Post Falls, has appointed Dan Jackson as its chief financial officer. Jackson replaces Ralph Peterson, who has served as transitional CFO since December and is director of the company’s board. Jackson has more than 30 years of senior level finance experience and recently was executive vice president [...]
Lyle Pearson Company adds new staff members
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 08:41 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
John Hill and Brandon Stallings have joined Lyle Pearson Company. Hill joins the dealership’s Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo sales team as a sales consultant. He has worked for more than 20 years in auto sales and finance. He has a degree in psychology from California State University. Hill worked for auto dealerships and insurance/mortgage [...]
U.S. Ecology expands with Midwest acquisition 
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 05:04 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Boise-based U.S. Ecology Inc. is growing by acquisition again. The company on May 21 announced it entered an agreement with PVS Chemicals Inc. to buy all stock of PVS subsidiary Dynecol Inc., in Detroit. U.S Ecology will pay $11.25 million using borrowings from an existing credit agreement. The sale is expected to conclude by June [...]
Hoku lays off 100 in Pocatello, construction schedule uncertain
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 04:37 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Hoku Materials Inc. laid off 100 workers May 22 at its dormant polysilicon plant in Pocatello. The plant now has approximately 30 workers, down from a high of 600 at the construction site. Hoku Materials, a subsidiary of Hawaii-based Hoku Corp., has been building the plant that makes materials for solar panels since 2007. All [...]
CSHQA elects associate stockholder
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 04:03 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: architecture, engineering
Boise-based architectural and engineering firm CSHQA has elected Steve Wakeman, AIA, as an associate stockholder. Wakeman joined CSHQA in 2005. He worked with the firm on Grant County Regional Airport in John Day, Ore., and Rogue Valley International – Medford Airport in Medford, Ore. Wakeman earned a B.A. in architecture from University of Washington in [...]
Business Briefs
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
ValleyRide buses will get higher tech tracking Valley Regional Transit will add new equipment that will make it easier to track where its buses are in real time. The Treasure Valley public transit agency plans on installing global positioning system and automatic vehicle location systems on its ValleyRide busses for its Boise and Nampa/Caldwell fixed [...]
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in April
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Americans bought more previously owned homes in April, a hopeful sign that the weak housing market is gradually improving. The National Association of Realtors said May 22 that home sales rose 3.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.62 million. Home sales have rebounded after falling in March and are near [...]
Hunting guide industry wary of new ‘auction tags’
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 10:15 AM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Idaho Fish and Game Commission, Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission begins contemplating new rules for wildlife hunting tag auctions authorized by the Legislature this year. But outfitting businesses and sportsmen are still tentative about an arrangement that gives prime hunting tags to the highest bidder. The rarer the species, the more money to be made off an auction — [...]
International hay producer watches price boom from Eden
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 10:10 AM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Agriculture, Eden, Standlee Hay Company
The sleepy town of Eden, population 405, is not the first place one might expect to find a multi-million-dollar international business. But the Jerome County city is home to the Standlee Hay Company, a family business that will ship out an estimated 290,000 tons of forage this year, putting its hay revenues at between $58 [...]
