INB Acquisition Reinforces Need to Help Businesses Grow - May 10th, 2018

With the planned acquisition of Inland Northwest Bank parent Northwest Bancorp. by Billings, Mont.-based

First Interstate BancSystem Inc., another Spokane-born company no longer will be headquartered here.

Combined with Toronto-based Hydro One’s earlier announced planned acquisition of Spokane’s Avista Corp.,

which also is on track to be completed before year-end, the number of public traded companies based in the

Inland Northwest will drop to seven--down from 17 publicly traded companies based here in 2012.

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