Panhandle sees strong private placement activity A new Idaho Technology Council report found capital activity in Idaho exceeded $5.2 billion in 2020. North Idaho alone had 10 mergers and acquisitions, 26 private-placement deals, and one public offering last year for a total volume of $164.3 million. The Idaho Technology Council released the data in its 2020 Idaho Deal Flow Report. In total, the number of deals declined slightly to 151 in 2020, compared with 154 such transactions in 2019, but overall volume grew in 2020 to $5.2 billion from $4.42 billion in 2019. M&A activity in Kootenai County included the acquisition of Advanced Market Sales by Integrity Marketing Group in October 2020; the acquisition of Fiberguide Industries Inc. by Molex, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, in December; and Kootenai Health’s acquisition of Interlake Pharmacy, in July.
Boise State News May 24, 2021
Jack Marr
The 2021 spring conference for the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE) was co-hosted by Boise State’s College of Business and Economics and the University of Wyoming’s College of Business. Led by Jack Marr, clinical assistant professor at Boise State, and University of Wyoming College of Business Dean David Sprott, the theme of this year’s conference was “Rethinking Global Capitalism: A View from the Mountain West.”
The event was originally planned to be held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as a halfway point between the two universities. The in-person event was canceled due to COVID, so Marr and Sprott hosted a virtual, three-day conference with more than 80 participants.
North Idaho companies saw uptick in investment in ’20 By Amy Edelen, The Spokesman-Review
Published: May 23, 2021, 6:00am
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SPOKANE Kootenai County companies saw an uptick in investment despite the pandemic last year, according to a recent report by the Idaho Technology Council.
The council’s 2020 Idaho Deal Flow report, released last week, tracks private funding, public market transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
North Idaho had 10 company mergers and acquisitions and 26 private investment deals last year totaling $164.3 million, according to the report.
Companies in Kootenai County garnered more than $67.7 million in funding from investors last year.
Ryan Arnold, director of regional entrepreneurial strategy at North Idaho College, said Thursday that 2020 was an interesting year for North Idaho’s business community.
Sharon Fisher When my daughter was small, we used to go tent camping a couple of weekends each summer in various places around the Northwest. I soon discovered the Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds situated around the lower Snake River dams near the Tri-Cities. The campgrounds were great, but I often regretted how much history of the Lewis & Clark Trail was now underwater in the process. That’s part of why the current discussion about the breaching of the four dams on the lower Snake is so interesting to me: There’s no obvious solution and no clear winner. With the dams, the fish may go extinct. Without the dams, the fish may still go extinct, and it would require a huge change in business practices in the whole region. Intrepid reporter Catie Clark attempted to summarize a discussion held by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, and she described how much had to be left on the cutting-room floor (is that a metaphor kids these days even understand anymore?) in the process. Tha
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