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Neeleman's new airline coming to Utah

By Brice Wallace The Salt Lake City area has landed the corporate headquarters of an in-development airline company. Cottonwood Heights will serve as the base for Breeze Aviation, whose yet-to-be named airline is being started by David Neeleman, who co-founded Morris Air,…

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Sarcos future of industrial labor is about ready to ship

By John Rogers A year ago, Salt Lake City-based Sarcos Robotics told tech website IEEE Spectrum that it would be ready to ship its powered exoskeleton — that it claims would be the future of industrial labor — by the end of 2019. It seems that the company that has been for…

JRJohn Rogers

Dec 22

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Slowing housing costs speed up again, according to Zion Bank CPI

The recent trend toward slowing price growth in the housing market ended in November as the sector took its largest single-month hike since May 2018. Housing costs grew by 1.2 percent and was the largest factor in a 0.7 percent jump in the Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price…

1-800 Contacts buys Israeli home vision testing startup

Online contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts has acquired Israel-based 6over6 Vision Ltd., a developer of in-home vision testing technology. Salt Lake City-based 1-800 Contacts said it expects to utilize the 6over6 technology across a variety of its existing businesses and…

Weave expanding, adding 1,000 jobs

A Utah-based, high-growth company will construct a new building and grow by nearly 1,000 jobs in the next decade. Weave, founded in 2008 and based in Lehi, will expand its operations there, creating 997 new jobs in the next 10 years. The customer communication company made the…

Fintech's new operations center will bring 1,449 high-paying jobs to Utah

By Brice Wallace A financial technology company has chosen Cottonwood Heights for an operations center that is expected to create 1,449 jobs over the next nine years. BlueVine Capital Inc., based in California, announced the $20 million project after being approved for a $4…

Visible acquires Ohio-based Trade Global

Visible Supply Chain Management of Salt Lake City, a shipping and fulfillment services company for small to midsize businesses, has announced it has purchased the assets of Trade Global out of bankruptcy and has decided to continue operating the business. Based in West Chester,…

Three-year grant will expand composites training program from Davis Tech

A composites manufacturing institute has been awarded a $5 million grant for a three-year program to expand a composites training program led by Davis Technical College to other locations in the U.S. The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), based…

Coal Country Strike Team launches with agreement to help Utah's impacted areas

The Utah Coal Country Strike Team has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement to help Utah’s Coal Country (Carbon and Emery counties) diversify their economy. The agreement puts in place local leadership for the execution of the Utah Coal Country Strike Team work plan, which…

CenExel acquires Florida research firm

CenExel Clinical Research, Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company that specializes in the medical and scientific support for the design and execution of clinical trials, has acquired Research Centers of America (RCA) in Hollywood, Florida. The acquisition brings to five the number…

SL Mattress to make Restonic

Utah-based Salt Lake Mattress & Mfg. Co. has reached a licensing agreement with Restonic Mattress Corp. under which the Salt Lake bedding company will begin manufacturing Restonic products and distributing to retailers in the Intermountain West. Buffalo, New York-based Restonic…

Succeeding in Your Business: Breaking up (without an agreement) is hard to do

By Cliff Ennico “I am the 80 percent owner of a limited liability company (LLC) that runs an Internet marketing and website design firm. I basically do all of the work. My 20 percent partner only functions as a part-time intern, gofer, secretary or administrative assistant. We…

It's not OR, but there's a new outdoor show coming to town

By John Rogers Entrepreneurs Sutton Bacon and Darren Bush think they have just what the outdoor industry needs — another trade show. In conjunction with Visit Salt Lake, the longtime outdoor products retailers announced last week that The Big Gear Show has scheduled its…

Panel concludes SLC could catch Silicon Slopes

Brice Wallace Utah County and the south end of Salt Lake County are getting a ton of focus for being the tech hub for Utah, but a panel last week said Salt Lake City has all the ingredients to catch up if not surpass that region. In a discussion about the state of technology in…

Layton Construction to join New York's STO Building Group

Sandy-based Layton Construction has become part of STO Building Group of New York City in what the two entities are calling a merger. According to a release from the companies, the deal “will allow both firms to leverage each other’s geographic reach to better serve clients with…

Chamber speaker: Addiction silence permeates workplace, leads to stigma

By Brice Wallace James Hadlock has zero use for zero-tolerance. A one-time entrepreneurial multimillionaire whose corporate success contrasted with his addiction to drugs, Hadlock believes that companies with zero-tolerance policies to address addiction in the workplace are…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 12-16-19

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Sportsman’s Warehouse Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings Inc., based in Midvale, reported net income of $10.5 million, or 24 cents per share, for the quarter ended Nov. 2. That compares with $12.4…

10 firms win Utah Innovation Awards

Ten innovations were winners in the 17th annual Utah Innovation Awards program, presented by Stoel Rives LLP and Silicon Slopes. The program recognizes innovations and the Utah companies that created them. Award recipients are: • Clean Technology and Energy : Robust and…

PMI's Hart moves to CEO, Itaya becomes president

Lehi-based Property Management Inc. (PMI), a franchisor of property management solutions, has shuffled its top management. Co-founder Steve Hart has moved from company president to CEO and Danessa Itaya, formerly senior vice president, has been promoted to president. The…

TAB Bank acquires BAMFi’s $46M BAM Capital division

Ogden-based TAB Bank has finalized the acquisition of payment processing services company BAMFi’s BAM Capital division and its $46 million loan portfolio. This is TAB Bank’s fourth completed acquisition of a working capital loan portfolio. As part of the acquisition, TAB will…

Simplus buys U.K. firm

Salt Lake City-based Simplus, a Salesforce quote-to-cash software advisory, implementation and managed services company, has acquired Clout Partners, a Salesforce partner headquartered in London, England, with a subsidiary in Dublin, Ireland. This will be Simplus’ seventh…

Facebook's massive Eagle Mountain data center has grown even bigger

When Facebook announced in May 2018 that it was building a 970,000-square-foot, $750 million data center in Eagle Mountain, that was impressive. Last week the technology firm said that it was adding another 500,000-square-foot building to the project, pushing the cost to over $1…

Succeeding in Your Business: When SAFEs aren’t so safe, Part 2 of 2

By Cliff Ennico A simple agreement for future equity, or SAFE, is a contract between a company and an investor under which the investor puts money into the company in exchange for a promise to issue shares in the future upon the occurrence of a triggering event (usually the…

Rio Tinto bets on copper, invests $1.5 billion in Salt Lake Co. mine

By John Rogers Miners at the Kennecott Copper Mine in southwest Salt Lake County won’t need to worry about their jobs going away anytime soon. The operation’s owner, global mining giant Rio Tinto, announced last week that it will invest $1.5 billion in the mine, a move that will…

JRJohn Rogers

Dec 9

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