Sections
Publications
Advertise
Archive
Events
About Us

Loading…

Utah’s essential morning business briefing. Local intelligence for the people building the Beehive State’s economy.

Sections

Tech
Tourism
Law
Small Business
Construction
Banking & Finance

Company

About
Staff
Advertise
Contact Us

Privacy
Terms

The Archive

Archive

More than 9,000 stories of Utah business reporting, 2011–2026. Search the full archive, or browse by date and section.

For archival purposes, all images have been removed from stories older than one year.

Browse by dateReset date

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

2021Jan103 Feb80 Mar84 Apr91 May116 Jun78 Jul76 Aug86 Sep73 Oct

Jun1 6 12 13 20 27

74 results in Top Stories from June 2021Clear all ✕

SLBJ

Top Stories

What pandemic? Ski industry puts best year ever in books

By Brice Wallace Not many industries, companies or individuals can describe the past 12 months or so “our best year yet.” But that is the case with the Utah ski industry, which, despite the impacts of COVID-19, broke its record by having more than 5.3 million skier days during…

SLBJ

Top Stories

Low jobless rate presents problem: unfilled positions

With the Utah jobless rate dropping again in May to 2.7 percent, some employers are finding it tough to fill positions — especially those in the entry-level and service industry categories. According to Yvette Woodland of the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS), people…

Staff

Jun 27

SLBJ

Top Stories

Civica launches unit to market high-cost generic meds

Lehi-based Civica Rx Inc. has launched a new operating unit designed to lower the cost of select high-cost generic medicines. The unit, to be named CivicaScript, will be headed by Gina Guinasso, who comes to Civica from OptumRx, a United Health Group company, where she was…

Lottery is off the table but vaccine incentives are still being discussed

Although a state-sponsored lottery offering a chance at prizes for those who get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been deemed a violation of the Utah Constitution, some sort of incentives may still happen. In a COVID update during his monthly news conference on PBS Utah, Gov.…

COVID-19 rental assistance since March 2021 reaches $17.14 million

Data collected and analyzed from Utah’s pandemic-related joint Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) now shows that $17.14 million in federal ERAP funds have been paid out in Salt Lake County, helping 12,190 Salt Lake County residents since March. Three months into the new…

Not vaccinated? Your friends may start shunning you, survey finds

A recent survey by biotechnical products distribution company MyBioSource.com found that nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of Utahns who have received the COVID-19 vaccination will avoid contact with unvaccinated friends and colleagues. This is compared to a national average of 48…

Survey: When pandemic ends, a lot of U.S. workers will seek new jobs

Twenty-seven percent of U.S. employees plan to leave their employer as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, according to a new national employee survey from Eagle Hill Consulting. More than a quarter (29 percent) of workers expect to leave their job in the next year. The numbers are…

Lack of European tourists may cost Utah 2.3 percent of its GDP this year

Personal finance website WalletHub has released a study that quantifies the financial losses due to the lack of European tourists in the United states due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel bans. According to the report, Utah stands to lose as much as 2.3 percent of its…

SL County hires actor for campaign to encourage residents to get shots

The Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) has unveiled a new public awareness radio campaign featuring “Sex and the City” actor Mario Cantone in a series of spots extolling the virtues of getting COVID vaccinations. But for Cantone — best known as Charlotte’s friend…

Personal income up in pandemic year

In a year when one might expect Americans’ personal income to decrease, 2020 saw the greatest increase in personal income growth in 20 years, according to figures published in a recent blog post from the Utah Foundation. The COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic shutdown…

Chamber recognizes Utah’s essential workers

The Salt Lake Chamber honored Utah’s essential workers with the third annual Lane Beattie Utah Community Builder Award. The awards were presented at the recent Giant in our City event where Katharine and the late Robert Garff were honored as the 42nd Giant in our City. The Lane…

Milwaukee's Brady Corp. buys SLC scanner co. Code Corp.

Brady Corp., a Milwaukee-based provider of identification systems that help companies improve productivity, performance, safety and security, has acquired Code Corp. for approximately $173 million. Salt Lake City-based Code Corp. specializes in high-quality barcode scanners and…

UofU School of Medicine to be renamed after $110M gift

The University of Utah has announced a landmark gift of $110 million for its School of Medicine from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation. The gift will further accelerate the nationally recognized school’s ability to provide…

Companies prioritizing environmental, social efforts

Avetta, an Orem-based provider of supply chain risk management software, has released the results of an executive survey which highlights how more companies are looking to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. The survey finds 79 percent percent of…

Workers say they lost promotions, wages due to C-19

Lindon-based Bamboo HR, a cloud hosted platform for human resources management, has released the results of a new study revealing the average remote worker estimates that he or she lost more than $9,800 in promotions that were delayed or denied during the last year because of…

Incentives OKed for 7 film projects coming to Utah

By Brice Wallace Seven movie, TV and streaming-services productions were approved for state incentives earlier this month, with a total estimated economic impact of $25.3 million and creating an estimated 773 jobs. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board…

INW buys Capstone Nutrition

Innovations in Nutrition & Wellness (INW), a Dallas-based provider of custom research and development, manufacturing and marketing support for global brands that serve the nutrition and wellness industry, has announced that it has acquired Capstone Nutrition, a developer and…

Succeeding in Your Business: Here's how to start rebuilding corporate records when they don’t exist

By Cliff Ennico “Two partners and I formed a media company in the 1990s that has turned out to be extremely successful. So successful, in fact, that we have received an offer from a large public company to buy us out at an astronomical price. “We signed a letter with the company…

ARUP opens new 220,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art laboratory in Salt Lake City

ARUP Laboratories, one of the nation’s largest reference laboratories located in the University of Utah’s Research Park, has opened its new four-story, 220,000-square-foot laboratory facility in Salt Lake City. ARUP employees, executives and board members were on hand for a…

Not like 2020, but 8,595 new jobs on the way

By Brice Wallace It would have been difficult to duplicate under normal circumstances, but adding COVID-19 impacts helped leave the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) figures for incentivized economic development short of repeating 2020’s record-high numbers. The…

New Lehi-based solar company launches as nation's 5th-largest

New solar residential solar provider Lumio wasn’t formed until last December and already it is one of the industry’s top five companies. The brainchild of Utah serial entrepreneur Greg Butterfield and Smart Energy Today marketer Jonathan Gibbs, Lumio resulted from the…

Pandemic casts whole new light on safety industry

By Brice Wallace Imagine working in an industry that was often overlooked, ignored or sometimes even ridiculed. And then, in a moment’s notice, the work in that industry became deadly serious — the most important element for businesses and individuals worldwide. That’s what…

BWBrice Wallace Imagine

Jun 20

SLBJ

Top Stories

Utah businesses encouraged to offer incentives for employees to get shots

In a recent COVID-19 update news conference, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson challenged businesses to begin encouraging their employees to get vaccinated for the virus and to provide incentives for those who do. During the press briefing, Henderson warned that that if people…

CDC sends an additional $24 million to Utah to help COVID-19 disparities

The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the Utah Department of Health $24,137,217 to address COVID-19-related health disparities. The funding, part of a $2.25 billion nationwide effort, seeks to advance health equity by expanding state, local, U.S.…

Staff

Jun 20

← NewerPage 1 of 4Older →

Sections

Top Stories 7,322
Columns 615
Focus 438
Industry Briefs 376
Newsletters 230
Cartoons 192
General 31
Enterprise Digital Editions 16
Real Estate 3
Executive Profiles 2
Enterprise Real Estate Digital Editions 1
The Focus Digital Editions 1
Calendar Highlights 1