Montana Business

WISDOM–The BeaverheadDeerlodge National Forest is about to make its first foray into new way of doing business. It’s called “ stewardship con tracting” , and Forest Service and local officials are hoping that it will…

While actively working to resolve issues with its landlord, the Department of Environmental Quality and a few disgruntled employees, MR3 Systems announced this week that it is per manently closing its Butte facility and equipment…

Butte Silver-Bow County, MT has selected Logistic Systems, Inc. http://www.logistic-systems.com to provide a county-wide Public Safety Enterprise Computing System and other peripherals for Fire, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Medical Services. The project includes a state-of-the-art…

Helena native David Optiz began creating a software system a few years ago by taking satellite images, converting them into numbers readable by a computer and processing them into useful information. By CHRISTINA QUINN, IR…

Montana producers of organic goods can have their products state-certified for the first time. Agriculture industry officials say the new Montana Organic Certification Program will offer a national definition of the term organic and expand…

Fibervision, the Laurel-based cable company that serves about 1,600 Missoula customers in the Rattlesnake area, is being sold to a Nebraska-based consortium. by Dan Laidman The Independent After 30 years in the cable business, Fibervision’s…

The Park Conservation District and the Montana Department of the Natural Resources and Conservation recently awarded Positive Systems, Inc. with a project that entails providing historical and topographical mapping of the upper Yellowstone River. The…

On the top floor in one of the few buildings western Montanans call a high rise, Mark Porter toils away in his one-man office in downtown Missoula trying to make a go of his one-man…

DUBLIN, Ireland — In a $3.5 billion deal, Chicago-based private investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners has agreed to take Irish packaging giant Jefferson Smurfit Group PLC private. By James P, Miller Tribune staff reporter The…

Stan Wilson is not a mechanical genius. His wife jokes that he can’t even fix an alarm clock. He hardly looks the part of a world-class inventor. His free-form salt-and-pepper beard and easy manner make…