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APPAREL
• Kizik, a Lindon-based hands-free footwear company, has appointed Wendy Yang to its board of directors. Yang has over 20 years of experience in the footwear industry, recently stepping down as president of HOKA. She joined HOKA in 2015. She previously held senior-level positions with New Balance, Timberland and Tommy Hilfiger Footwear. She began her footwear career at Reebok.
ARTS
• The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has announced Rich Walje as the new president of its Board of Trustees. Former president Val Antczak will transition into the position of board member and continue to serve on the Executive Committee. Walje is the CEO of RAW-Energy Inc. and former CEO of Rocky Mountain Power. Antczak joined the museum’s board in 2013. He is a founding partner at Antczak Polich Law.
BANKING
• KeyBank has promoted Tyler Blout to Utah market retail leader, overseeing 30 branches in Utah, including the new American Fork branch that opened in May. Blout will support small-business banking and all retail employees as they help their clients reach financial goals. Blout has served in retail banking roles at KeyBank for more than 15 years, most recently as a senior area retail leader for KeyBank’s Utah South region.
COMMUNICATIONS
• Comcast has launched an additional multi-gig Internet speed tier over its fiber-backed network to Xfinity and Comcast Business customers in Salt Lake City. It is the first community in Utah where Comcast is beginning to deliver download speeds of up to 2 Gbps over the network connections already existing in homes and businesses. When the rollout is complete, the multi-gig speeds will be available in all of Comcast’s service area in Salt Lake City, as well as throughout Comcast’s entire footprint in Utah. The new offerings are part of a nationwide rollout that will reach more than 50 million homes and businesses before the end of 2025. In addition to multi-gigabit download speeds, Comcast is introducing faster upload speeds in Salt Lake City to Xfinity Internet customers who choose xFi Complete.
• All West Communications, Kamas, has launched multi-gig fiber optic Internet, streaming TV service and digital phone solutions to residents of Farmington. The build will include more than 100 miles of fiber and duct, which will provide services to over 6,300 homes and businesses.
• Alianza Inc., a Pleasant Grove-based company offering a communications platform for service providers, has committed $200 million to research and develop accelerating cloud communications growth for service providers and hired Dag Peak as chief product officer. Peak will oversee product strategy and innovation for the company’s cloud communications platform. For more than 20 years, Peak has focused almost exclusively on the service provider market at BroadSoft, Cisco and RingCentral, where he held strategic roles in sales engineering, partner enablement and product management. In the past six months, the company has added 10 team members with industry expertise in all facets of cloud communications. The new product team leadership includes Michelle Pfister, vice president of product management, UCaaS and Apps; Dennis Weeks, vice president of product management, platform services; Jesse Lee, senior director of product management; and Mohammad Al-Taraireh, senior director of product management.
CONTESTS
• Nominations are being accepted until Jan. 27 for the Utah Governor’s Science Medals. The award recognizes the distinguished service, significant achievements and positive economic impact of individuals and companies in science and technology. Recipients have provided meaningful contributions in science, research, STEM education or deep technology. Nominations are accepted in three categories: Academic/Research, Education: K-12, and Industry (individual or company). Gov. Spencer Cox will present medals May 2 at the One Utah Summit. Details are at https://business.utah.gov/innovation/governors-science-medal/.
• The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiatives is accepted nominations until Jan. 31 for its third annual edition of “Utah Women at the Forefront,” honoring women in Utah’s advanced manufacturing industry. Details are available by calling (801) 871-8148.
• Applications are being accepted until Jan. 31 for companies to pitch their life sciences innovations at the 2023 Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneur & Investor Life Sciences Summit, set for March 16 at the Cleone Peterson Alumni House at the University of Utah. The pitches will be made to the Utah life sciences community, including investors from across the nation. The summit takes place March 16-17. Prizes include a $5,000 first place award, a $2,000 second place award, two complimentary registrations to the E&I Summit for all applicants selected to present, and a one-year membership in BioUtah. Applicants not chosen to present will receive a complimentary registration to the summit and an opportunity to post information for investors in a virtual presentation section. The application form is available at https://bioutah.typeform.com/to/AsgPS599.
• The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy is accepting Phase 1 applications for its $1.5 million Wilkes Center Climate Prize at the University of Utah. The prize recognizes and supports innovative projects that have significant potential to help address the impact of climate change. First-round applications are being accepted until Jan. 31 at wilkescenter.utah.edu/prize. Applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary judging panel. Finalists will be invited to present their proposals at the Wilkes Climate Summit on the University of Utah campus May 16-17. The winner will be announced in the fall. In addition to prize money the awardees will receive access to business creation resources and mentorship by prominent business leaders.
CORPORATE
• Varex Imaging Corp., a Salt Lake City-based designer and manufacturer of X-ray imaging components, will have its 2023 annual meeting of stockholders in a virtual format at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9. Varex stockholders of record at the close of business Dec. 12 will be able to receive notice of the meeting and to vote upon matters considered at the meeting.
DIVIDENDS
• The board of directors of Cricut Inc., a South Jordan-based company offering cutting machines and design software, has declared a special, one-time cash dividend of 35 cents per share to holders of the company’s Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend is payable Feb. 15 to stockholders of record Feb. 1. The cash payments total approximately $77 million.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
• Provo-Orem is tied for No. 1 with Greenville-Anderson, South Carolina, and Salt Lake City is ranked No. 5 on a list of top metros in the Innovation Hub Index, compiled by the Economic Innovation Group. The Index balances economic need with innovation capacity to identify metro areas with the strongest potential to advance national competitiveness and bring new regions to the technological frontier.
• The highest salary that young Utahns ever expect to earn is $53,972, according to a study by online course platform Teachable. It surveyed people between 18 and 24 years old. The national average is $65,206. It found that the average young person believes they will achieve their peak salary at 30 years old. The highest amount is in Hawaii, at $84,441. The lowest is in Oklahoma, at $45,486. Details are at https://teachable.com/blog/income-expectations.
• Utah is ranked No. 14 on a list of states that have seen an increase in foot traffic at grocery stores during the past two years, according to Wisevoter’s Home Cooking Index. Utah’s traffic grew 4 percent during that time. Montana had the highest increase, at 15 percent. Details are at https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/holiday-grocery-shopping-rate-by-state/#new-mexico.
• Utah has the two priciest ski resorts in North America, according to a survey of 30 resorts by TravelMag.com. Alta leads the way, costing $4,181 ($3,223 for lodging for four nights and $958 for ski lift tickets for three days for a couple or two people). Snowbird is second at $4,049 ($3,223 for lodging and $826 for lift tickets). For comparison, No. 12 Deer Valley is $2,456 and Park City Mountain Resort is No. 14, at $2,281. Details are at https://www.travelmag.com/articles/ski-resorts-2023/.
• Utahns visited restaurants 28 percent more in December than they did two years earlier, according to a recent study by Wisevoter. That put Utah No. 37 on the increase list. The highest percentage was in Colorado, at 91 percent. Details are at https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/casual-dining-frequency-rate-by-state/.
• Twenty-six percent of Utah men and 24 percent of Utah women say they waited until Christmas Eve to buy their presents for their partners, according to a study by CouponBirds. Among other findings, 54 percent admit that buying a partner a Christmas gift causes anxiety, over half say they self-gift at Christmas, and one in three admit they have secretly re-sold a gift their partner gave them for Christmas. Details are at https://www.couponbirds.com/research-center/data/the-time-cycle-for-preparing-the-christmas-gift.
• The average Utah driver consumed over 195,000 calories while commuting in 2022, according to a study by Gunther Mazda. That equates to 750 calories per commute, or one-third of the daily recommended intake. The highest amount was in Nevada, at 287,000 calories. The smallest was in Maine, at 65,000 calories. Nationally, the average driver consumed 199,997 calories in 2022. Details are at https://www.gunthermazda.com/meals-on-wheels/.
• The average Salt Lake City household pays $1,813 per month for the 10 most common household bills, according to a study by Doxo. That puts the city at No. 30 among the most expensive cities in Utah for household expenses. The average in Utah is $1,910. The average in the nation is $2,003. In Salt Lake City, utility bills account for $254. The average bill for utilities in Utah is $275. Other average amounts in Salt Lake City are $1,442 for mortgages; $1,046 for rent; $400 for auto loans; $91 for health insurance; $138 for auto insurance; $84 for cable and Internet; $79 for mobile service; $71 for alarms and security; and $78 for life insurance.
• Utahns were expected to spend an average of $2,310.17 during the holiday shopping season, according to a study by Wisevoter. That was the second-highest state average, behind only Maryland’s $2,714.50. The lowest amount was $355.42 in West Virginia. Details are at https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/holiday-spending-by-state/.
• Seventy-four percent of Utahns did not receive a Christmas bonus and for those who received a cash bonus, their average of $280 is the smallest of all the states in a survey by scheduling software company Deputy. The average holiday bonus in the U.S. was $731.19. Maine had the largest population receiving no bonus (88 percent). Details are at https://www.deputy.com/blog/all-i-want-for-christmas-holiday-bonus.
• Salt Lake City tied for No. 15 with New Haven, Connecticut, on a list of the most popular U.S. destinations to spend the holidays, compiled by Scholaroo. It analyzed factors such as the mobility and visitation patterns in each city, the percentage of travelers from another state, and the top five of states where visitors came from to spend the holiday season. The city with the highest percentage of travelers from another state was New York City, at 9.9 percent. Salt Lake City had 6.5 percent, with visitors coming from (in order) Idaho, Nevada, California, Colorado and Wyoming. Details are at https://scholaroo.com/report/the-most-popular-destinations-to-spend-holidays/.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• Western Governors University, a Salt Lake City-based online university, has named Roy Bosch as strategic partnerships manager to increase equity in higher education among underserved populations in Utah. Bosch will launch relationships with organizations to raise awareness about the opportunities available to people looking to further their education and skillsets. Prior to joining WGU, Bosch served as a project manager in five South American countries. Bosch has more than a decade of experience in education and community relations. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business communications from BYU-Idaho and a master’s degree in public administration from Brigham Young University. He is currently working on his second master’s degree, this time in mass communications.
• The Western Electrical Contractors Association, focused on electrical training and apprenticeship and contractor business services in the western United States, has announced the expansion of its registered, electrical apprenticeship training program into Utah, having obtained approval to be a Division of Professional Licensing recognized electrical apprenticeship for Utah. The association is bringing its programs in partnership with founding Utah member contractor Hunt Electric. Membership and usage of its apprenticeship training program is open to all licensed electrical contractors in Utah. The association’s newest training facility, in Woods Cross, is intended to serve apprentices in the Greater Salt Lake City region as well as the entire state. WECA will register its first Utah commercial electrical apprenticeship class in early 2023. The association serves over 300 member contractors, over 1,000 apprentices, and approximately 4,000 non-apprenticeship electrical students. Details are at goweca.com.
• The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a program at the University of Utah, awarded $394,500 in scholarships to 125 students for the 2022-23 academic year. The institute is an interdisciplinary division of the David Eccles School of Business and provides programs and opportunities for all students on campus to launch a company, build a product or join a team. Most programs are provided at Lassonde Studios.
EXPANSIONS
• Fortem Technologies Inc., a Pleasant Grove-based company focused on detecting and defeating dangerous drones, has opened an office in Chantilly, Virginia, in the Washington D.C. metro area and has appointed Michael Buscher as executive director of enterprise operations based out of that office. Buscher will be focused on coordinating engagements with U.S. government entities, acting as the key point of contact for partnerships in the national capital region, and ongoing business development activities. Buscher has more than 30 years of government experience, including in Army Special Operations and nearly 10 years at the Central Intelligence Agency. Before joining as executive director, Buscher served on Fortem’s Government Advisory Board. Prior to Fortem, he was the chief growth officer at BigBear.ai, vice president at Peraton, vice president and director of the National Intelligence Center at Huntington Ingalls Industries, and CEO at Vanguard Defense Industries. Other recent executive hires that will be based out of the new D.C. office include Matt Quinn, vice president of government solutions, and Warren Brown, vice president of marketing. Quinn previously was a U.S. Secret Service special agent and senior executive and former deputy assistant director for the Office of Protective Operations. Brown previously was vice president of marketing for SAIC and executive director of brand and marketing for The Boeing Co.
• The Ken Garff Automotive Group has purchased two dealerships from Earnhardt Auto Centers in the Phoenix area and named them Ken Garff Kia Avondale and Ken Garff Volkswagen Gilbert. Mike Seltzer and Paul Fox are the new general managers at Ken Garff Kia Avondale and Ken Garff VW Gilbert dealerships, respectively. Ken Garff has more than 65 stores in Arizona, Utah, California, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, Nevada and Iowa.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Thanksgiving Point has appointed Jeanette Bennett as chief visionary officer and trustee on its Board of Trustees. Bennett founded magazine publishing company Bennett Communications in 2000, and she will continue to own and lead her company as founder and publisher. She has worked for a variety of organizations, including BYU-Idaho and Deseret News. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Utah Valley University, is chair-elect of United Way of Utah County, and has served on boards of multiple organizations.
FINANCE
• D.A. Davidson’s Special District Group, a team of capital market professionals, has closed $48 million in commercial property assessed clean energy (CPACE) financing for Black Rock Mountain Resort near Park City in Wasatch County. The resort will be a recreation, entertainment, vacation and corporate events destination. It is expected to have 250 rooms and 30,000 square feet of commercial space, plus a hockey arena and event center that will include a fitness facility and be the home ice for the Utah Outliers hockey team.
GOVERNMENT
• Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry has named Jason Curry as director of the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation. Curry comes from the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, where he had been serving as the deputy director. Before being promoted to deputy director, he was the division’s public information officer and chief investigator. He also served many years on the Davis County Search and Rescue Team. Curry started his career with the DNR in 1999 as a public affairs coordinator, where he served for eight years orchestrating public information and branding for the department. He graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
HEALTHCARE
• Nomi Health, an Orem-based direct healthcare company, has appointed Amy Wykoff as its first chief product officer. She will develop and drive health programs that will provide critical care, access and platform solutions to benefit both the buyers of healthcare and patients alike. Wykoff has both public- and private-sector health and technology expertise, most recently leading health tech innovation at IBM Watson Health for over 10 years. Wykoff also has served as vice president of strategy and product management at Curam Software and director of product management at Oracle.
HOSPITALITY
• Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City has hired Nathan Sporbert as general manager. Sporbert has eight years of industry experience, most recently serving at hotel manager at the Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix. He also worked for several other Kimpton properties, including opening the Kimpton St. George in Toronto, Kimpton La Peer in West Hollywood, and the Kimpton Aertson in Nashville. He started his career with Starwood, where he worked his way up to guest services manager in 2015.
• Lodging Dynamics Hospitality Group, a Provo-based hotel management company, has been appointed to manage The Charter Hotel Seattle, Curio Collection by Hilton. It has 229 rooms and two upscale dining restaurants.
HOUSING
• The Utah Housing Preservation Fund has announced today that Comenity Capital Bank, a subsidiary of Bread Financial, has made a 10-year commitment of $10 million to the fund. The investment will allow UHPF to purchase rental properties and preserve them at affordable rates to working families, invest new capital for improvements, and hold the properties in perpetuity. In 2022, UHPF purchased a total of 276 units. Each unit’s rent is protected and averages $320 less per month than market rate, saving each tenant more than $3,000 on average per year in rent. UHPF also helps Utah’s most vulnerable populations secure sustainable and affordable housing by partnering with Veterans Affairs, Catholic Community Services and The Road Home. The fund is managed through the Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp.
INTERNATIONAL
• World Trade Center Utah has announced its list of trade missions and shows it will attend in 2023 in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and the U.S. Small Business Administration. They are Arab Health 2023 and Saudi Arabia business trip, set for Jan. 30-Feb. 2, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Natural Products Expo West, March 9-11, Anaheim, California; the World Trade Center Association’s General Assembly, April 23-28, Accra, Ghana; JEC World 2023, April 25-27, Paris, France; SelectUSA Investment Summit, May 1-4, National Harbor, Maryland; Southeast Asia Business Trip, June, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam; Paris Air Show 2023 and France trade mission, June 19-23; Mexico trade mission, September; India Business Trip, autumn; Medica Trade Fair, November, Dusseldorf, Germany; ISPO Munich 2023, November, Munich, Germany; and the Dubai Airshow, Nov. 12-26, Dubia, United Arab Emirates. Businesses interested in being part of those trips may contact cserage@wtcutah.com for more information.
INVESTMENTS
• MasterControl, a Salt Lake City-based company providing quality and manufacturing software for life sciences, has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round led by Sixth Street Growth. MasterControl has grown profitably for nearly 30 years, and with this funding is valued at $1.3 billion. The proceeds will be used to accelerate the development of SaaS solutions serving the company’s global life sciences customers. William Blair acted as advisor to Sixth Street Growth in connection with the investment.
OUTDOOR RECREATION
• Sundance Mountain Resort has added a new lift mid-mountain named Wildwood. This fixed-grip quad is a seven-minute lift ride that opens up 40 acres of new terrain and 10 new runs. It is equipped with more than 40 snowmaking wands and snow guns.
• The Central Wasatch Commission, working with Sandy City, the Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Transit Authority, is providing a bypass service for the UTA ski bus along Route 994 for the 2022-23 ski season. The service is designed to more efficiently serve people using public transit to recreate in the Cottonwood canyons. It will be in place with canyon closure days. The UTA ski bus will be ferried from the UTA Park & Ride lot at 2000 East and 9400 South in Sandy to the Park & Ride lot at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by a Sandy City police escort. In its pilot year last season, the ski bus bypass service reduced travel time by 50 minutes, or 34 percent. Details are at rideuta.com/ski.
PARTNERSHIPS
• CrossCountry Mortgage Partners has partnered with SimpleNexus, a Lehi-based company offering a homeownership platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents. With about 800 brand locations in all 50 states, CrossCountry is implementing CompenSafe to manage incentive compensation for its loan originators.
• Medsphere Systems Corp., a Sandy-based provider of healthcare IT platform solutions and services, has entered into partnership with Virgin Pulse, a Rhode Island-based health, well-being and navigation company. The partnership makes Medsphere’s Marketware physician relationship management platform the preferred solution for Virgin Pulse clients, and Virgin Pulse is now the preferred customer relationship management, patient acquisition and retention, and data/analytics solution provider for Marketware clients. The Marketware division of Medsphere is transitioning Virgin Pulse clients who are currently using the Physicianology PRM solution to PRM platform moving forward. Virgin Pulse discontinued Physicianology as of Dec. 31.
PHILANTHROPY
• The Snell & Wilmer Charitable Foundation has awarded Guadalupe School a three-year monetary grant. The amount was not disclosed. For over 56 years, the school has served diverse immigrant and refugee communities, the majority of whom are Hispanic or Latino. It works to improve lives through education-based programs and services designed for children and adults alike. Guadalupe School serves families in the Poplar Grove, Rose Park and West Valley City area. Since its inception, the foundation has donated more than $5 million to selected organizations.
• Marlon Lindsay, founder and CEO of 21stCentEd, based in Pleasant Grove, has pledged $1 million to the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE), a nonprofit organization devoted to furthering the academic success for the nation’s children, particularly children of African descent. 21stCentEd is invested in creating interactive STEM tools for children.
• With the Utah Refugee Connection, employees of Ken Garff recently hosted a “Celebration of Light” for 2,000 Utah refugees. The event at Lincoln Elementary School in South Salt Lake featured gifts, photo booths, treats, crafts and more for refugee families.
• Bank of Utah recently partnered with businesses across the state to bring holiday joy to more than 200 children, many of whom have severe illnesses and medical needs. Employees and customers contributed to fulfill the children’s Christmas gift wishes, listed on “giving tree” ornaments in each of the bank’s 18 full-service locations. The businesses helped Children and the Earth, a Utah nonprofit, collect and distribute the gifts. Holmes Homes, a Utah homebuilder, shopped for all the unclaimed ornaments to ensure every child on the list received their wish gift. Children and the Earth works throughout the year to improve the lives of families caring for children with disabilities.
• USANA Kids Eat led a charity food pack to provide families with meals to help keep them safe and fed through the rest of the year. In all, more than 4,100 bags (equating to 164,000 meals) were packed and delivered to 40 schools from Ogden to Spanish Fork. Each bag contained 40 meals packed by community and corporate volunteers, including USANA executives, who packed 359 bags themselves (equal to 14,360 meals) and hand-delivered them to Meadowlark Elementary School in West Valley City. KidsEat was founded in 2013 to provide backpacks filled with food for youth to a large network of schools and organizations in Northern Utah. In 2019, the USANA Foundation acquired KidsEat to form USANA Kids Eat, a nonprofit providing food sources to at-risk children, raising public awareness about food insecurity, and generating resources and revenue through local campaigns and volunteer opportunities.
• Parker Migliorini International (PMI Foods), Salt Lake City, has announced the planting of 10,000 trees in the Amazon in partnership with One Tree Planted, an environmental nonprofit tree-planting charity. The announcement is part of PMI Foods’ longer-term plan to plant 1 million trees. PMI said the partnership with One Tree Planted will allow PMI to create more sustainable long-term value, help rebuild rainforests and make a positive social impact around the world.
• Vivint Smart Home Inc., Provo, in partnership with Vivint Gives Back and the community positively impacted the lives of more than 6,000 people in need globally and raised nearly $3 million for a variety of charitable programs, from disaster relief to STEM camps, in 2022, Vivint said. It included raising over $300,000 for Ukrainian refugees, sending over 1,000 underrepresented K-12 kids to STEM camps across the country this past summer, having 600 volunteers from Vivint Smart Home travel to Costa Rica to help communities in need, and hosting the 15th annual Sub for Santa program to help children in need enjoy the holiday season with gifts.
RECOGNITIONS
• Whistic, a Salt Lake City-based network for assessing, publishing and sharing vendor security information, has announced that American Security Today has awarded its Platinum Homeland Security Award for Best Cyber Security Risk Management Solution. The award recognized Whistic for providing “vendor assessments that are actually easy … (and) eliminate time-consuming, manual processes and replace them with an integrated and simple way to assess risk.”
• Jump by Limitless Flight, a Bluffdale-based wingsuit simulation company, recently won a 2022 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement for immersive/themed customer experiences, awarded by the Themed Entertainment Association. Founded in 1994, the award honors individuals, projects and technologies in the arena of themed attractions and experiences worldwide. Jump by Limitless Flight was among 20 award recipients this year. Jump uses technology to create 3D landscapes of some of the world’s most breathtaking BASE jumps.
RESTAURANTS
• Sprinkles, a dessert bakery, has opened its first domestic franchise at 4488 W. Teal Ridge Way, Suite H-145, Riverton. The owner is Colin Larsen. Sprinkles launched with a Beverly Hills bakery in 2005 and now has 23 bakeries and more than 50 “cupcake ATMs.” It plans to have 100 domestic franchise locations and 100 international locations over the next three years.
RETAIL
• Kum & Go, an Iowa-based convenience store chain, has opened a store at 13639 S. 200 W., Draper. It is the company’s first store in the Salt Lake City market. Other locations in the area are expected to open in the next year, with stores to open in South Jordan, Murray and Herriman in the first half of 2023. The family-owned chain started in Hampton, Iowa in 1959.
SERVICES
• Philo Ventures, Provo, has launched Philo Studio, described as being “designed to bring order to the business of new beginnings through the application of proven, repeatable processes and the dedicated attention of functional early-stage experts.” It will use new business ideas, internal capital and entrepreneurial expertise to “launch new startups with elevated levels of efficiency and success.” Philo Studios’ managing partner is Cory Cozzens.
• Hand & Stone Massage & Facial Spa, a massage and facial spa franchise, has opened a location at 875 S. North County Blvd., Pleasant Grove. It is owned and operated by wife and husband duo Jarom and Anna Bettinger of Feel-Good LLC. Jarom Bettinger has a Hand & Stone spa in Orem, alongside his father-turned-partner, Jeff. Launched in 2004, Hand & Stone has more than 500 spas across 35 states and Canada.
• Junk King, a junk removal company, has expanded into St. George with a service owned by brothers Luke, Doug and Tim Wren. Founded in 2005, Junk King is the second-largest junk removal company in North America, with more than 145 units.