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AGRICULTURE
• The Rio Grande Winter Market, a project of Urban Food Connections of Utah, has returned to downtown Salt Lake City at the Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. In its fifth season, the market takes place Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. through April 21 and features more than 65 local vendors. Details are at slcfarmersmarket.org.
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
• Downtown SLC has named Tyler Bloomquist as artistic director. Bloomquist has experience as a design and artist. His experience includes instructing students of the University of Utah’s Multidisciplinary Design department and contributing to USUO’s marketing team as a graphic designer. Bloomquist has a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the University of Utah.
COMMUNICATIONS
• CallTower, a South Jordan-based business communications company, has hired Peter Agricola as director of VAR (value added reseller) development. Agricola has more than 20 years of experience in the unified communications and software-as-a-service (SAAS) industry. He previously held senior management roles within the Channel at Shoretel, Avaya, Polycom, AT&T, ClearOne and Verizon.
DIVIDENDS
• The board of directors of Extra Space Storage, Salt Lake City, has declared a quarterly dividend of 78 cents per share on the common stock of the company for the fourth quarter 2017. The dividend is payable Dec. 29 to stockholders of record Dec. 15.
• ClearOne, Salt Lake City, has announced a quarterly cash dividend for the fourth quarter of 2017 of 7 cent per share. The dividend will be paid Dec. 6 to shareholders of record Nov. 22. The company designs, develops and sells conferencing, collaboration, and network streaming and signage solutions for voice and visual communications.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• Church & State, a Salt Lake City-based business platform and resource network, has announced that the 12-week “Vetrepreneurship” veteran bootcamp and incubator will begin Jan. 9. The academic bootcamp is designed to provide business fundamentals essential to effectively create, develop and pitch new opportunities. The program has three phases: bootcamp, pitch competition and six-month incubator. It is open to all military veterans still active or honorably discharged. Tuition is $1,000. Details are available at veterans@cs1893.com, at (385) 246-3510 or at https://www.cs1893.com/event/vetrepreneurship/.
EXPANSIONS
• Zippy Shell, a franchise business in the moving and storage industries, has announced it has signed an agreement with existing franchisee Marcus Flinders for the Boston, Miami, Indianapolis and Detroit markets. Flinders, owner of Zippy Shell Salt Lake City and president of ZDHF Holdings LLC, will manage the launch of each market alongside local market teams. The first location to launch will be Boston in March 2018. The Miami, Indianapolis and Detroit markets will open with a launch every six months after Boston. Zippy Shell Salt Lake City opened in March 2016.
• Sundance — a Salt Lake City-based retailer of apparel, footwear, jewelry, accessories, art and home décor — has opened a store in Leawood, Kansas, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Since August 2015, the company has opened stores in seven other locations.
GOVERNMENT
• Zevin Spears has joined the Event Management Department at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center. He is one of six event managers at the SMG-managed and Salt Lake County-owned facility. His experience includes planning events at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; managing the D.C. office for Elite Global Events; and operating his own consulting firm in D.C.
HEALTHCARE
• SelectHealth has named David Lemperle as vice president of sales and agent relations. He will be responsible for sales strategy and cultivating agent relationships. He will also serve as a member of the SelectHealth executive team. Lemperle has more than 20 years of experience in business development and sales, most recently serving as vice president of sales at Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. Previously, he was chief operating officer at DriverTech and served in senior leadership positions at Qualcomm. Lemperle has an MBA from the University of Utah and a bachelor of science in finance from Brigham Young University.
• Amedica Corp., a Salt Lake City-based biomaterial company, has announced a 1-for-12 reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding common stock. The split-adjusted shares of its common stock will continue trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the company’s existing symbol, AMDA. The reverse stock split will reduce the number of shares of common stock outstanding from approximately 36.3 million to approximately 3 million. The number of authorized shares of common stock will remain unchanged.
LAW
• Dorsey & Whitney LLP has announced that Mark Burghardt has joined the firm’s Regulatory Affairs practice group and Energy and Mining and Natural Resources industry groups in Salt Lake City as a partner. Burghardt represents clients in the energy and natural resources industry in transactions, litigation and administrative hearings. He most recently was at Holland & Hart LLP, where he was a partner in that firm’s environmental and natural resources practice in Salt Lake City. Prior to that, he was an associate of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP in Salt Lake City. Burghardt has a B.A. degree from Utah State University and a J.D. degree from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
MANUFACTURING
• Harvest Lane Honey has relocated to the former Regional Supply building, 3571 S. 300 W., South Salt Lake. Newmark Grubb ACRES made the announcement after Harvest Lane Honey signed a lease with JW Investment Real Estate. Newmark industrial real estate specialist Skyler Peterson represented JW Investment. Newmark senior vice president Jim Sheldon represented Harvest Lane Honey. Founded in 2006, Harvest Lane Honey manufactures and distributes woodware hives and beekeeping products to customers and retailers nationwide.
• Coated Metals Group has signed a lease on 11,760 square feet of space at 649 W. 4330 S., Murray. The announcement was made by Newmark Grubb ACRES. Newmark industrial real estate specialist Skyler Peterson represented Coated Metals Group in the transaction. Coated Metals Group manufactures pre-finished steel products used for the construction industry.
MEDIA/MARKETING
• Valpack, a direct mail and digital marketing company, has announced that Gary Stanley has reacquired Valpack of Southern Utah, a territory he owned from 1990 to 2012. From Cedar City to St. George, Valpak of Southern Utah has served local businesses and residents since 1990. Stanley currently mails the Valpak Blue Envelope to approximately 50,000 households in Washington and Iron counties and other communities throughout Southern Utah. He owned Valpak of Southern Utah before owning and operating Valpak of Greater Columbia until late last year. Prior to Valpak, Stanley sold advertising and created the coupon insert for the now-defunct Utah County Journal. He has a bachelor’s degree in media sales from Brigham Young University.
OUTDOOR PRODUCTS/RECREATION/SPORTS
• The board of directors of Vista Outdoor Inc., Farmington, has named Michael Callahan to serve as chairman. The company also has announced that Chris Metz, the company’s new chief executive officer, has decided to eliminate the Shooting Sports segment president position. With that restructuring, Shooting Sports president Bob Keller has left the company. Al Kasper, president of Firearms, and Jason Vanderbrink, president of Ammunition, will report directly to Metz as leaders within the Shooting Sports segment. Kasper joined Savage Arms in 1996 as chief financial officer and became its president and chief operating officer in 2001. Vanderbrink has served as Vista Outdoor’s senior vice president of sales since January 2017 and will also continue to serve in the sales role as the company evaluates its organizational structure for sales, marketing and product development. He joined Vista Outdoor in 2005 and has 17 years of extensive experience in the outdoor recreation and shooting sports industries.
PHILANTHROPY
• AT&T has presented the National Ability Center with $50,000 as part of the company’s “Thank Our Heroes” campaign. The donation is part of a $500,000 contribution from AT&T supporting veterans’ organizations across the country in November.
• KeyBank’s Utah market has announced a $5,000 grant to Red Barn Farms, a recovery farm and life-skills academy focused on assisting individuals and families struggling with drug addiction, alcoholism, trauma and mental illness. The KeyBank contribution was made in support of the Red Barn Farms’ Reintegration Project, which is striving to reintegrate people with a history of addiction and trauma back into the local workforce.
• Employees from the corporate office of Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. (PRMI), Salt Lake City, recently donated more than 200 volunteer hours to help build homes for Utah families. Thirty employees helped the Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity to build two homes in Kearns, for the “Field of Dreams-Eco Community” housing project, developed by the nonprofit organization and the University of Utah. PRMI also presented its annual check of $3,000 to the organization.
• Malawi’s Pizza, a Provo-based pizza franchise, has announced it has delivered 1 million meals to children in the nation of Malawi through the company’s “Meal-for-Meal Exchange Program.” Under the program, the company delivers nutrient-dense meals to children and their families in Malawi. The company buys local maize that is then blended with vitamins and nutrients and delivered to schools and villages throughout the country in partnership with Feed the Children. The company has three stores, with a fourth about to open in the Houston area.
RECOGNITIONS
• The Utah Section PGA has recognized two members of the Salt Lake City Golf Division in its annual awards. Dave Carter, head golf professional at Glendale Golf Course, received the Player Development Award, and Steve Elliott, head golf professional at Forest Dale Golf Course, received the Gentleman Jeff Award. The Player Development Award is presented to the person who best promotes the game of golf in Utah with the goal of growing the game. In 2017, Carter promoted adult learning and college classes at Glendale Golf Course, with a total of 250 students instructed. The Gentleman Jeff Award is named after Jeff Beaudry, a longtime section executive director of the Utah Section PGA. Elliott was selected as the 2017 awardee for his exceptional professionalism and service at Forest Dale and Bonneville golf courses.
• Real Property Management, a franchise organization owned by Utah-based Property Management Business Solutions LLC, has been ranked No. 105 in a list of top 150 franchises for veterans by Entrepreneur Magazine and has been selected as a “2017 Top Franchise for Veterans” by market research firm Franchise Business Review.
RETAIL
• The Baby Cubby has opened a store in American Fork. The Lindon store is closed but will remain as office and warehouse space for the business. The new store, totaling 4,500 square feet, triples the size of the store’s old space.
• McNichols Co., a supplier and fabricator of perforated and expanded metals, wire mesh and gratings, has opened its Salt Lake City Metals Service Center, a 21,000 square-foot facility at 271 W. 12800 S., Draper. It brings the company’s total operational square footage to 725,000, and further connects its network of branches throughout the nation. The facility is part of the company’s Western Region, with service centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, and Denver. It maintains an inventory of specialty metals, called “hole products,” and provides value-added services, including fabrication options such as cutting, welding, cutouts, custom fabricated stair treads, infill panels, metal finishes and print takeoffs. It is one of 19 service centers.
• U-Haul Company of Utah Inc. has announced that Autoholic Auto and Diesel Repair, 8489 S. 700 E., Sandy, is now a U-Haul dealer. It will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, moving supplies and in-store pick-up for boxes.
RURAL UTAH
• The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its November meeting, endorsed a $50,000 Rural Fast Track grant for Zigg Design, based in Nibley, Cache County, to help the company to obtain equipment used in the medical device industry. The $190,000 project is expected to result in three new full-time jobs.
SERVICES
• O.C. Tanner, a Salt Lake City-based employee recognition and workplace culture company, has appointed Padmashri Suresh as its first data scientist. She will use her experience in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve problems in the realm of recognition and employee engagement at the company. She holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Utah State University.
TECHNOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
• Qualtrics, Provo, has appointed David Faugno as chief financial officer. Faugno served as CFO for more than 10 years at Barracuda Networks. He also served as senior director of corporate finance, M&A, at Cisco Systems; was CFO for Actona Technologies; and spent eight years at AT&T, including as CFO of the EMEA region.
TRAVEL & TOURISM
• David “Dave” Berkus has joined the advisory board of Park City-based Lexicon Travel Technologies. Berkus is an investor in early-stage ventures, having made more than 161 investments. He currently manages six early-stage funds.