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Envision Utah panelists: Inland port litigation costly for all parties

By Brice Wallace Whatever issues Salt Lake City officials have with the proposed inland port near Salt Lake City International Airport, panelists at a gathering last week to discuss the port expressed hope that the troubles do not prompt litigation. City and state officials have…

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Pluralsight IPO is massive success, touted as Silicon Slopes 'milestone'

Utah’s tech community and private investors are celebrating the stock market debut of one of its own. By all accounts, Pluralsight’s initial public offering was an unqualified success. Shares of the Farmington-based online learning company began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on…

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More good news: Utah tops nation for job growth

Utah’s employment statistics continue to make news — good news. When April’s numbers came in, the state ranked No. 1 in the nation for job growth at 3.4 percent. Nevada and Idaho tied for second place at 3.1 percent. Utah also ranked first in private-sector job growth at 3.7…

UofU engineer receives $2M grant to develop answer to large power outages

Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico last September left nearly all the island’s 3.4 million residents without power. Much of the nation is still in the dark. University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Masood Parvania hopes to create the…

Crashes seem to be souring consumers on self-driving cars

In the wake of several high-profile crashes involving autonomous vehicle technologies — including a recent one in Utah — a new report from AAA shows that consumers’ perception of the technology has slipped. Today, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of American drivers report…

Savage Cos. merges with Kansas City-based grain and milling operation

Salt Lake City-based Savage Cos. has announced a merger with Barlett and Co., a grain and milling operation of Kansas City. As a supply chain provider, Savage specializes in rail, truck and marine transportation, logistics, materials handling and other industrial and…

Bishop supports increased hunting/fishing in wildlife refuges

U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has responded to a proposal from the U.S. Department of the Interior to expand hunting and fishing opportunities at some of the nation’s wildlife refuges, including the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge west of Brigham City in Box Elder County. The…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS - 5-28-18

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Security National Security National Financial Corp., based in Salt Lake City, reported after-tax earnings from operations of $16.9 million, or $1.04 per share, for the…

Trib newsroom latest casualty as decline continues at Utah dailies

By John Rogers It’s been a tough couple of weeks at Utah’s daily newspapers. In fact, it’s been a tough decade. On the heels of the new owners of the Ogden Standard-Examiner announcing recently that they were reducing the paper’s staff by 21 positions, The Salt Lake Tribune laid…

Black Diamond parent company plans Utah growth

By Brice Wallace A holding company of the well-known Black Diamond Equipment brand has committed to expand in Utah, adding up to 147 headquarters jobs and considering making part of its new building a world-class indoor climbing facility. Holladay-based Clarus Corp., a publicly…

Guess what - Gas prices driving up Utah cost of living

Higher interest rates on mortgages have joined soaring gas prices as the culprits raising the cost of living for Utahns. The Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 1.9 percent from March to April. Year-over-year, the CPUI is up 3.9 percent, while the…

Operator will now own Brighton

The company that has been the long-time operator of Brighton Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City is now its owner. Boyne Resorts has closed on the purchase of six mountain resorts — including Brighton — and a scenic chairlift attraction from Ski Resort Holdings…

Sinclair sells SLC's KSTU-13

Salt Lake City’s KSTU Fox 13 television is one of seven television stations being sold by Sinclair Broadcast Group to media company Twenty-First Century Fox. The companies set the sale price at $910 million in a release last week. It includes stations in Miami, Denver, Seattle,…

White Mesa to resume vanadium recovery

Energy Fuels Inc., owner and operator of the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, has announced that it is resuming vanadium recovery operations at the site. The southeastern Utah mill is the nation’s only operational conventional uranium mill. Energy Fuels said it expects to recover…

MWCN report: More deals in 2017

MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) has released its 23rd annual Deal Flow Report, which provides an analysis of Utah’s capital market and the total number of transactions within the state during 2017. The report revealed an increase in the number of capital transactions from…

HireVue acquires London-based MindX

South Jordan-based HireVue has acquired MindX, a game-based assessments company that markets a hiring and talent analytics program. The company is based in London, England. HireVue develops and markets AI-driven talent assessment and video interviewing software. Founded in 2004,…

Utah Foundation study shows big increases in Utah health insurance premiums

More Utahns are covered by employer-sponsored health plans than in any other state — 61 percent compared to a national average of 49 percent. Premiums for those plans rose by about one-third over a 10-year period from 2006 to 2016. But that increase might have been much larger…

Geologists in town for annual convention

More than 4,000 members of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and industry geoscientists are in Utah this week for the organization’s Global Convention, according to a release from Visit Salt Lake. The meet, which concludes Wednesday at the Calvin L. Rampton…

RMP approved for 3.45 percent rate decrease

An application by Rocky Mountain Power to pass federal tax savings along to its customers in the form of an electricity rate decrease has been approved by the Utah Public Service Commission. The decision means that ratepayers will see an ongoing annual $61 million credit. The…

Allen to head Tracking First

Tech industry veteran Verl Allen has been named CEO of data governance software company Tracking First of Provo. Allen previously worked in corporate development and strategy roles at Adobe and Omniture, overseeing over $2 billion in acquisitions during his time there. The…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS - 5-21-18

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Huntsman Huntsman Corp., with main offices in Texas and Salt Lake City, reported net income of $350 million, or $1.11 per share, for the first quarter ended March 31. That compares with $92…

Starks: Jazz's economic boon evident, but many incalculables

By Brice Wallace For all of the obvious economic activity tied to the Utah Jazz — player and staff salaries, ticket and merchandise sales, advertising — the most prominent professional sports team in the state offers other benefits that are difficult to quantify. Steve Starks,…

Utah national park tourists spent $1.1 billion last year

The United States celebrated National Park Week in April and in conjunction with the celebration, the Interior Department released data about the economic impact the nation’s parks have on the communities near the sanctuaries. And no place is that impact more apparent than in…

Speaker Ryan to keynote S.L. Chamber event

The Salt Lake Chamber has announced that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan will be the keynote speaker at the organization’s Giant in Our City event scheduled for June 9 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The chamber had previously announced that it will…

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