Idaho Business Review IBR

American Medical Response Inc. dba Access2Care plans to set up a customer service center starting this month in a 4,300-square-foot space at 660 W. Franklin Road, Meridian. About 25 people will staff the location, the first for the Greenwood, Colo.-based ...

Clearwater Paper Corp., which has major manufacturing operations in Lewiston, plans to build a tissue manufacturing and converting facility in Shelby, N.C. Earlier, Spokane-based Clearwater announced its intent to build a Southeastern U.S. facility that would include a through-air-dried paper ...

Benefits of using compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel are to be discussed at a luncheon and open house slated from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 17 at the Boise branch of engine maker and distributor Cummins, 8949 ...

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is taking public comment through June 23 on a request by Idaho Power Co. to enter into power sales agreements with the developer of three anaerobic digester power projects in south central Idaho. Anaerobic digestion ...

Boise’s new PetSmart opens June 12. The store is relocating from its site on Franklin Boulevard to the corner of Franklin and Milwaukee Streets, across from the Boise Towne Square mall. The new location will feature Idaho’s first PetsHotel which ...

A new homebuilder in the Treasure Valley is helping give a young woman the opportunity of a lifetime: homeownership. It was part of a celebration June 9 that helped kick off Oregon-based Hayden Homes‘ move into the Idaho home construction ...

A California company called Pimi Agro CleanTech has completed a first round of trials on a product that could prevent two main onion diseases found in southern Idaho. Idaho is one of the nation’s leading onion producers, with an estimated ...

Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter announced that 17 rural areas in the state have been selected to share $500,000 per year in funding to support full-time economic development professionals. The selected areas will receive financial support from July 1, 2010, ...

Idaho employers expect to hire at a conservative pace in the third quarter, according to Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results released June 8. The staffing firm’s net employment outlook for the state is 5 percent in the quarter, company spokeswoman ...

Erin Yinger, executive director and co-owner of Coeur d’Alene-based A New Hope Social Services, has been named U.S. Small Business Administration 2010 Idaho Small Business Person of the Year. A New Hope, which also fields offices in Kellogg and Sandpoint, ...