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ASSOCIATIONS
• The Cache Valley Chamber of Commerce has named Gregory Bradfield to its Board of Governors. Bradfield is vice president and general manager of aerospace and defense for Spartronics, based in North Logan. Spartronics provides contract manufacturing services, ranging from printed circuit board assembly and subsystem integration to full-box build. Additional services include engineering support such as manufacturing testing, supply chain management, sustaining engineering and a suite of aftermarket services to support the OEM product lifecycle.
• Wayne Harper, Utah Senate president pro tempore, has been elected vice president of the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan organization serving the nation’s 7,383 state lawmakers and more than 30,000 legislative staff. Harper will serve one year as vice president, ascend to president-elect the following year, and become NCSL’s president at the Legislative Summit in 2024. Harper has served in the Utah House of Representatives since 1997, before being elected to the state Senate in 2013. He has been an active member of NCSL, having served on the NCSL Executive Committee and several subcommittees and working groups. Harper, a Republican from Taylorsville, began his public service career as a West Jordan city councilman. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history and Master of Science from Brigham Young University.
DEFENSE
• Fortem Technologies Inc., a Pleasant Grove-based company focused on airspace security and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones, has hired Greer Carper as chief financial officer and vice president of corporate development. Based in Texas, Carper worked in strategy, business development, program management and finance at Boeing over the past 15 years. Carper also has 10 years of experience in the unmanned aircraft systems industry, focusing on both commercial and military markets. He was previously one of Boeing’s subject matter experts on autonomy strategy and most recently served as an investing principal for Boeing Applied Innovation (formerly Boeing HorizonX Ventures).
DIVIDENDS
• The board of directors of Zions Bancorporation NA, Salt Lake City, has authorized a share repurchase for the third quarter of 2022 of up to $50 million and also declared a regular quarterly dividend of 41 cents per common share. The dividend is payable Aug. 25 to shareholders of record Aug. 18. The board also declared regular quarterly cash dividends on the company’s various perpetual preferred shares. The cash dividend on series A, G and J shares is payable Sept. 15 to s shareholders of record Sept. 1. The cash dividend on the Series I shares is payable Dec. 15 to shareholders of record Dec. 1. Zions operates banks in 11 western states.
• The board of directors of Medallion Bank, Salt Lake City, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 50 cents per share on the bank’s fixed-to-floating rate non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock, Series F. The dividend is payable Oct. 3 to holders of record Sept. 15. Medallion provides consumer loans for the purchase of recreational vehicles, boats, and home improvements, along with offering loan origination services to fintech strategic partners.
• The board of directors of Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., Provo, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 38.5 cents per share. The dividend will be paid Sept. 7 to shareholders of record Aug. 26. Nu Skin offers beauty and wellness products.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
• Residents of Summit County are the wealthiest in Utah, according to a study by SmartAsset. It assessed wealth by comparing counties across three categories: the amount of investment income residents receive, total per capita income and the median home value. Summit County was followed, in order, by Wasatch, Utah, Salt Lake, Morgan, Davis, Washington, Grand, Cache and Weber counties. Details are at https://smartasset.com/investing/asset-allocation-calculator#Utah.
• Salt Lake City is ranked No. 8 and Provo-Orem is No. 22 on a list of “Best Places for Career Opportunities in the Nation,” a list compiled by SmartAsset. It analyzed data for 200 of the largest U.S. metro areas using nine metrics, including median earnings, income growth, job diversity and median housing costs. The report noted that in Salt Lake City since 2019, the median earnings have increased by 16.9 percent over a two-year period to $46,900 which is the sixth-highest increase across all metro areas in this study. Salt Lake City also has the 15th-lowest unemployment rate for May 2022, at 2.2 percent. The top-ranked metro is Lafayette-West Lafayette, Indiana. Details are at https://smartasset.com/data-studies/best-places-for-career-opportunities-2022.
• Utah is ranked No. 10 on a list of states gaining the most high-earning households between 2019 and 2020, a list compiled by SmartAsset. It examined the inflow and outflow of tax filers making at least $200,000 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during that time. Utah had 3,105 moved in and 1,602 moved out for a net in-migration of 1,503. Florida had the largest net gain, at 20,263. New York lost the most, with a net outflow of near 20,000. Details are at https://smartasset.com/data-studies/where-high-earning-households-are-moving-2022.
• Salt Lake City is ranked No. 66 on a list of “2022’s Best Cities for Farmers Markets,” compiled by Lawn Love. It considered walkable and public transit-friendly cities with nice weather and plenty of highly rated farmers markets, as well as average consumer spending on typical farmers market products like dairy, produce and baked goods. New York City led the rankings. The bottom-ranked city is Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Details are at https://lawnlove.com/blog/best-cities-for-farmers-markets/.
• Salt Lake City is No. 96, Provo-Orem is No. 104 and Ogden-Clearfield is No. 149 on a list of “2022’s Most Expensive Metro Areas to Rent,” compiled by Lawn Love. It considered average rent prices (including year-over-year change), renters insurance premiums, and the share of renters spending 30 percent or more of their income on rent and utilities. In a breakout list, Ogden-Clearfield is No. 3 for “lowest share of cost-burdened renters.” The top-ranked metro overall is New York-Newark-Jersey City in New York and New Jersey. The most-affordable metro is Lake Charles, Louisiana. Details are at https://lawnlove.com/blog/most-expensive-metro-areas-to-rent/.
• Salt Lake City is ranked No. 153 on a list of “2022’s Best Cities to Own a Swimming Pool,” compiled by LawnStarter. It compared nearly 200 of the biggest U.S. cities based on climate, yard size, access to pool installation and maintenance, as well as costs. It also looked at the share of homes with pools in each real estate market to gauge how well the city embraces pool culture. The top-ranked city is Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The No. 194 city is Cleveland. Details are at https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/studies/best-cities-to-own-swimming-pool/.
• Residents of Summit County have the “most purchasing power” in Utah, a list compiled by SmartAsset. It measured the income of local residents against the cost of living in each county in the U.S. Summit County was followed, in order, by Grand, Piute, Wasatch, Daggett, Salt Lake, Morgan, Wayne, Cache and Garfield counties. Details are at https://smartasset.com/mortgage/cost-of-living-calculator#Utah/purchasingPower-0.
• The Amangiri, in Canyon Point in Southern Utah, is ranked the No. 5 most expensive accommodation in the world and the most expensive in the U.S., according to a survey by TravelMag.com. The survey compared rates at luxury hotels and resorts around the world this summer, with the findings based on the minimum price for two people sharing a double room at a particular property this August. The minimum nightly rate at The Amangiri is $4,913. For comparison, the most expensive property in the survey is North Island Lodge, on a private island in the Seychelles, at $6,851 per night. Details are at https://www.travelmag.com/articles/most-expensive-hotels-2022/.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
• The Utah State University College of Veterinary Medicine is officially USU’s ninth college after receiving required approvals from university and state higher education governing groups. Leading the new college as interim dean is Dirk Vanderwall, who has served as head of USU’s Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences and associate dean for the School of Veterinary Medicine since USU became part of the Washington-Idaho-Montana-Utah Regional Program in Veterinary Medicine 10 years ago. Earlier this year, the Utah Legislature committed to provide ongoing state funding to USU for what will be the first school of its kind in the state. USU has been part of the WIMU program in which students complete their first two years of medical training at USU’s Logan campus and the final two years of clinical work at Washington State University.
ENERGY
• Graphite Solar, a project developed by rPlus Energies, Salt Lake City, has reached commercial operations. The project in Carbon County has a power capacity of 104 MWdc/80 MWac. Graphite is the first operating solar project rPlus Energies has developed and the largest operational asset in project owner Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co.’s clean energy fleet. The project has begun delivering solar energy to the Meta (formerly Facebook) data center in nearby Eagle Mountain, helping the company power its operations exclusively with renewable energy. Graphite has a long-term power purchase agreement with PacifiCorp on behalf of Meta. The contract was developed under Rocky Mountain Power’s Schedule 34 green energy tariff, which helps sizable energy consumers source renewables to meet their clean energy targets. Sundt Renewables is the project’s engineering, procurement and construction contractor. Greenbacker acquired Graphite Solar from rPlus in December 2020, contracting with the developer to manage the project through construction. Construction involved installing 1.5 miles of transmission lines and 257,700 solar modules and supported 273,800 hours of construction labor.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Smith Entertainment Group and the Utah Jazz have appointed Caroline Klein to the newly created position of chief communications officer. Klein will be responsible for strategic communications in public relations, community relations and broadcasting, along with coordination of large-scale marketing initiatives through all the company’s platforms. Other duties involve government relations and crisis communications as a public-facing representative of the Jazz in the community. Klein has more than 15 years of strategic communications experience on domestic and international levels. She most recently worked 10 years (culminating in the CCO role) at the Preferred Hotel Group in Newport Beach, California, which manages and operates six travel and hospitality brands. She previously worked at several PR agencies in New York City and Chicago, specializing in travel and hospitality.
EXPANSIONS
• GPS Capital Markets LLC, a Salt Lake City-based fintech firm offering foreign exchange services, has opened two offices in Canada. The new North American offices will be in the metropolitan areas of Toronto and Vancouver. The company has hired Christopher Nicholson as senior vice president/commercial director. He will be responsible for building the team across Canada and Northeast U.S. Nicholson has 25 years of experience in the foreign exchange market.
FITNESS
• Rumble Boxing, a boxing-inspired group workout brand, has signed a franchise agreement to open three studios in Salt Lake City. The deal marks the brand’s debut in Utah. The studios offer 45-minute, 10-round strength and conditioning group workouts. Founded in New York City in 2017, the company has 25 franchise locations, with nearly 250 locations in development around the world.
HEALTHCARE
• Ellie Mental Health, a mental health services provider, has opened its first location in Utah at 3051 W. Maple Loop Drive, Suite 300, Lehi. With the help of lifelong Utah native and entrepreneur Elise Walker, Ellie Mental Health will provide the Lehi community with mental health care services for all ages. Walker graduated with a degree in business from Utah Valley University and took on roles in the legal industry before becoming a Realtor and stay-at-home mom.
• HempLucid, a Provo-based provider of plant-based wellness supplements, including mushroom and CBD supplements, is offering medically supervised ketamine-assisted therapy as an employee healthcare benefit. It says it is the first startup to do so. HempLucid’s ketamine-infusion pilot program started in 2019 with executive leadership participation. HempLucid now covers the full cost of ketamine infusions for employees, formalized the offering as a healthcare benefit through a partnership with Canadian firm Numinus Wellness. The employee benefit ensures access to KAP to any employee with a mental health diagnosis.
INTERNATIONAL
• World Trade Center Utah has hired Calli Forsyth as director of business outreach and community engagement for its northern region. As the prior business development manager at the Utah Department of Agriculture & Food, Forsyth organized trade missions abroad and helped producers expand globally. Forsyth also is an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University and was the director of the 2019 Utah County Fair.
INVESTMENTS
• Project Solar, a Lehi-based e-commerce brand for solar installations, has closed a $23 million Series A financing round led by New York-based Left Lane Capital, with additional support from others within the industry. The company said the funding will help it scale its digital-first, direct-to-consumer offering in additional markets. With a few inputs from customers, Project Solar instantly calculates the needed system size and corresponding price for the home’s current electrical usage. Project Solar is on track to having 30 megawatts of solar installed this year, with the goal of installing 150 megawatts during 2023.
• Bacon, a Provo-based company offering an on-demand workforce application, has received $8 million in Series A-1 funding. New investors include Grayhawk Capital of Phoenix, 2.0 Ventures of Salt Lake City, and Elevate Capital of Portland. They join follow-on investors Hall Venture Partners of Provo and Assure Syndicates of Salt Lake City. Bacon is designed to make it easy to work a “side gig” by connecting employers to pre-qualified, available candidates who will work on-demand for as little as one shift. Started in 2018, Bacon has provided more than 240,000 shift work opportunities to more than 165,000 workers and 650 companies. Bacon said it will use the funding to hire team members and expand to 40 more markets in the next 18-24 months.
• Datajoin, an Orem-based technology company, has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Sepio Capital. Datajoin is a SaaS company that helps B2B marketers integrate their tech stack through “micro integrations.” Sepio Capital is a multi-family institutional investment advisory firm with internal venture capital operations. Datajoin said it would use the seed funding to hire talent in product, engineering, marketing and sales. The company said that founder and CEO Sam Fonoimoana becomes the first VC-backed founder and CEO in tech of Polynesian descent.
• Kickstart, a Cottonwood Heights-based seed-stage venture capital firm focused on the Mountain West, has named Kat Kennedy as general partner. Kennedy has 15 years of operating experience, most recently spending the past decade at Degreed, a workplace upskilling platform, where she most recently served as the company’s president and CEO.
• Banner Ventures, a Lehi-based private equity firm focused on partnering with founder-led and family-owned businesses, has hired Cooper Ainge as a vice president. Ainge most recently worked in technology investment banking with William Blair in New York City and Boston and then worked as an investment professional with Boston-based BV Investment Partners.
LAW
• Foley & Lardner LLP has announced that its Salt Lake City office has relocated to 95 S. State St., Suite 2500. The firm said the larger space better suits its growing team of approximately 40 lawyers and business professionals in Salt Lake City. The office opened in October 2021. The firm has 1,100 lawyers at 25 offices worldwide.
MANUFACTURING
• USANA Health Sciences Inc., a Salt Lake City-based manufacturer of nutritional supplements, health foods and personal care products, has reappointed J. Scott Nixon as a member of its board of directors. Nixon previously served as an independent director of the company from October 2017 through May 2019, before departing to fulfill a three-year voluntary leadership assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil. Nixon, a retired certified public accountant, retired in 2015 as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he spent over 31 years in various roles, including office managing partner and engagement partner over public and private companies in many industries. Nixon previously served on several boards of directors, including: ProLung Inc., Deseret Trust Co., Utah State University Board of Trustees and two other nonprofit boards of directors. He earned both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Accounting from Utah State University.
• Varex Imaging Corp., a Salt Lake City-based designer and manufacturer of X-ray imaging components, has appointed Kathleen L. Bardwell to its board of directors. In connection with the appointment, the board increased its size from seven to eight directors. Bardwell has 35 years of audit and accounting experience coupled with a background in quality and regulatory affairs for a multi-national medical device organization. Bardwell is the former senior vice president of regulatory affairs and compliance for Sterix Corp. She also served 11 years as senior vice president and chief compliance officer. Bardwell has served on the boards of MainSource Financial Group Inc. and MainSource Bank and First Financial Bancorp.
NONPROFITS
• Nonprofit organizations Bateman Horne Center and Open Medicine Foundation have partnered to launch a new Medical Education Resource Center. In the first of its kind, the center will focus on long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and related multi-system chronic complex diseases through a variety of educational opportunities.
OUTDOOR PRODUCTS
• Cotopaxi, a Salt Lake City-based adventure lifestyle brand company, has hired Grace Zuncic as its first-ever chief people and impact officer. Based in New York, she recently joined the company as an advisor and starts full-time work in early October. Zuncic served in various executive leadership positions, including chief people officer, at Chobani.
PARTNERSHIPS
• TruHearing, a Draper-based hearing healthcare benefits company, has announced an alliance with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a nonprofit combat veterans’ service organization. The relationship will help provide hearing healthcare to over a million veterans and military service members, a population consistently at higher risk and incidence of hearing loss. Through TruHearing, VFW members and their families are able to access free audiological exams and follow-up visits from a network of more than 7,000 provider locations, with remote care and telehealth services available, as well as hearing aids from the top six manufacturers at discounted prices, including free batteries.
• KURU Footwear, a Murray-based direct-to-consumer e-commerce company specializing in shoes aimed at eliminating foot pain, has announced its partnership with Drive Fulfillment, American Fork, as its second third-party logistics provider for end-to-end fulfillment solutions in the western U.S. The partnership will support warehousing, inventory management and fulfillment.
• Health Catalyst Inc., a Salt Lake City-provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, has announced a multi-year partnership with LifePoint Health, a healthcare delivery network that operates 63 community hospital campuses, more than 30 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and 170 additional sites of care. The partnership aims to reduce variation in clinical outcomes for patients, improve the overall quality of care, and further advance LifePoint’s data and analytics capabilities.
• PatientBond, a Salt Lake City-based consumer-science-driven patient engagement software provider, has contracted with Vizient Inc., a healthcare performance improvement company, to offer digital patient engagement and behavior change programs to Vizient member healthcare organizations for improved clinical and business outcomes. Vizient’s membership and customer base includes academic medical centers, pediatric facilities, community hospitals, integrated health delivery networks and non-acute healthcare providers.
• AT Government Strategies, a Missouri-based subsidiary of Armstrong Teasdale LLP, has entered into a strategic alliance with Company Garn, based in Farmington. The alliance is designed to enhance the existing presence of both ATGS and AT in Utah, and also extend the reach of the organizations’ involvement in Utah state and local government matters. Principal Jordan Garn will provide lobbying and legislative services in the West region. Prior to launching his lobbying and political consulting firm, Garn was a practicing attorney with a law firm in Utah, where he focused on the areas of government relations, litigation, real estate and business law. For more than a decade, he has simultaneously served as owner and principal of Company Garn, executive director of the Utah Hotel & Lodging Association and as a contributing columnist to Utah Policy and Utpol Underground. He graduated from law school at Brigham Young University after completing his undergraduate degree in political science and history at the University of Utah.
PHILANTHROPY
• High West, a Park City-based distillery known for its whiskeys, has announced its “Protect the West” initiative, a $1 million commitment over the next three years to protect the land and its inhabitants. The program’s $150,000 inaugural donation will be split between three organizations, with $50,000 to benefit the Wildland Firefighter Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the families of firefighters killed in the line of duty and to assisting injured firefighters and their families. High West also will match consumer donations up to an additional $50,000. Other inaugural donation recipients are Protect Our Winters, a community of athletes, scientists, creatives and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies to protect the outdoors from climate change, and American Prairie, creating the largest nature reserve in the contiguous United States by purchasing habitat that connects a vast network of existing public lands for wildlife conservation and public access.
• Powered by MRP, a Park City-based aesthetics device company, has launched the MRP Movement, a nationwide philanthropic program in partnership with local nonprofit organizations to help human trafficking survivors by providing complimentary skin treatments to remove scars related to abuse or trauma. The first chapter was launched in Chicago this month. The MRP Movement will join forces with Chicago-based Salt & Light Coalition and dermatologist Dr. Emily Rubenstein, director of the Swedish Skin Institute at the Swedish Hospital, part of Northshore University Hospital.
REAL ESTATE
• Atrium Hospitality, based in Georgia, has sold 47.3 acres in Pleasant Grove to Baltimore-based St. John Properties. Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement was made by Colliers. Brandon Fugal and Josh Smith represented Atrium, and Cameron Simonsen and Lori Coburn represented St. John Properties. Fugal said the transaction is one of the largest and most significant land deals in Utah history because it will usher in a new phase of high-profile development along Interstate 15. The future planned development will feature upscale retail, Class A office and other uses.
• The Lofts at Five Points, 455 Second St., Ogden, has been sold by Utah-based Crockett & Koehler LLC to HiCap Management LLC, a New York-based real estate investment firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. The property is an 86-unit, four-story multifamily community built in 2020 sitting on 2.39 acres. The sale was announced by CBRE. Eli Mills and Patrick Bodnar represented Crockett & Koehler. Jesse Weber, Andrew Behrens and Ryan Jameson of CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance arranged the financing. The transaction represents HiCap’s fifth multifamily acquisition in Utah over the past 24 months.
RECOGNITIONS
• Five Utah companies are among 43 nationwide named to a list of the “Best Companies for Women in Advance,” compiled by Parity.Org. The companies were recognized for providing their workforce with supportive benefits, policies and programs that eliminate barriers to women’s advancement in the workplace. In the medium category, for companies with 500 to 4,999 employees, the list includes Domo, American Fork; Lucid Software, South Jordan; and Overstock.com Inc., Salt Lake City. In the small category, for organizations with fewer than 500 employees, the list includes United Way of Salt Lake and Davinci Virtual, Salt Lake City.
• Lucid Software, a South Jordan-based visual collaboration software company, is No. 56 on a list of “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” compiled by media brand Fast Company. It selected 100 workplaces “that demonstrate a steadfast commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels.” Fast Company editors and professional services company Accenture researchers worked together to score nearly 1,500 applications.
• Four Utah-based organizations have been named to “America’s Best Employers for Women,” a ranking by Forbes magazine and Statista. Among the 400 companies on the list are No. 31 University of Utah Health Systems, No. 119 University of Utah, No. 236 ARUP Laboratories and No. 270 Stryker. The list featured surveying 50,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees.
• Savory Fund, a Lehi-based private equity firm, has selected Saigon Hustle of Houston as the winner of its “Million Dollar Restaurant Launch” opportunity. It considered more than 240 applicants in the contest, aimed at awarding an inspiring restaurant entrepreneur the resources to launch their concept or scale to their second location.
RESTAURANTS
• The Dough Miner has opened at 945 S. 300 W., Suite 101, Salt Lake City. It offers doughnuts and “pasties.” Ken Roderman is the owner. Daughter-in-law Marissa Roderman is the manager.
• Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers will open a location at 890 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, in early September. It will be the brand’s sixth location in Utah, among nearly 700 restaurants in more than 35 states and Guam. The company is hiring more than 130 people for multiple positions.
• Pinkbox Doughnuts, a Las Vegas-founded doughnut brand, has opened its first out-of-state location at 938 E. St. George Blvd., St. George. The 2,700-square-foot store includes a drive-through and a patio.
RETAIL
• Josh Hamilton has opened his fourth Big O Tires store at 921 Turf Farm Road, Payson. Big O Tires LLC has more than 465 company- and franchisee-owned stores primarily located in the western and midwestern United States.
• Rendezvous Discount Store has opened a location at the Newgate Mall, Suite 1102, in South Ogden. It offers overstocks, discontinued items, returns and more across a variety of categories, including home furnishings and décor, women’s apparel and accessories, mattresses and bedding, outdoor cookware and fitness equipment. Rendezvous has other locations in Sandy and Clinton, as well as Twin Falls, Idaho.
• LatterDayBride, a provider of modest wedding dresses, has moved from downtown Salt Lake City to Bluffdale. It was in Salt Lake City for 23 years.
SCHOLARSHIPS
• AES, a global energy company accelerating the future of energy and a developer of utility-scale solar generation, has partnered with Solar Energy International, a solar training educational nonprofit, to provide solar workforce development services in Utah. The partnership includes a new scholarship fund focusing on helping expand Utah’s clean energy economy to include a highly skilled workforce to install and maintain solar powered energy sources. The fund is for 20 Utah residents to enroll in SEI’s North America Board of Certified Energy Practitioners PV Associates online training package. The partnership also provides SEI consulting services to help local colleges and universities develop or upgrade their solar workforce training programs. Candidates may apply for the Utah Solar Career Training Program Scholarship and set up a career counseling session at https://www.solarenergy.org/scholarship-funds/ or by calling 1 (970) 527-7657, Option 1.
SERVICES
• Assure, a Salt Lake City-based company providing outsources administrative and transaction services for the private investment marketplace, has appointed Alfonso Iovieno as chief product and strategy officer. He will oversee the company’s product development, technology innovation and strategic growth. Iovieno has 15 years of experience rolling out global product development initiatives in matrixed organizations across North America, LATAM and EMEA. He most recently was head of digital security solutions for Labin America and the Caribbean for Visa. He has worked at J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup.
• Furry Land Mobile Grooming, a franchise provider of professional mobile pet grooming services, has launched in Salt Lake City. Owners Michael Wankier of Draper and Tony Wilson of South Jordan have launched Furry Land Salt Lake City, providing services throughout the Salt Lake Valley and beyond for dogs and cats. It also offers pet supplies available for delivery at the time of grooming service. Founded in 2017, Furry Land has 13 locations operating or under development nationwide.
TECHNOLOGY
• Lucidpress, a Salt Lake City-based, has changed its brand to Marq. The company offers a brand-templating platform for businesses to deliver relevant content to their audience faster.
• CallForce, a Lehi-based company offering a scheduling platform helping dental practices, has rebranded to Reach. The company said the change “was inspired by the company’s narrowed focus to holistically help practices reach their greatest level of profit while providing ease of mind for dentists and staff.” Reach was established in 2016 and now has nearly 200 employees.
• Weave Communications Inc., based in Lehi, has announced that Brett White, president and chief operating officer, has been appointed interim CEO, effective Aug. 15, as the board of directors conducts an evaluation of candidates for the CEO role. Roy Banks will remain in an advisory role and will also remain a member of the board of directors through Sept. 2. Weave provides a customer communications and engagement software platform for small and medium-sized businesses.