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UofU biomedical engineer discovers COVID virus is not as transmittable as we thought

Remember when it was nearly impossible to buy disinfectant wipes? In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, people desperately wiped down surfaces to prevent the spread because initial studies showed the virus could live on certain surfaces for weeks. But later in 2020, newer…

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Mar 28

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Hess acquired by N.C.'s Maupin Travel

Maupin Travel, a Durham, North Carolina-based travel agency, has acquired Salt Lake City’s Hess Corporate Travel. Both companies are part of Tzell Travel, a New York City-based travel agency management company. Established in 1985 by Alan and Carol Hess, Hess Corporate Travel…

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Mar 28

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Five Star Franchising acquires Mosquito Shield

Springville-based Five Star Franchising, a service-based franchise platform company, has acquired Mosquito Shield, one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 brands. This is the eighth acquisition Five Star has completed since it was founded in June 2021. Based in North…

Lehi's Young Living names Ben Riley as acting president

Young Living, a Lehi-based provider of essential oils, has announced that Ben Riley has been named as acting president. Working closely with the executive team, Riley is tasked with directing company operations internally in order to optimize performance and the delivery of…

Breeze opens training center

Breeze Airways, the new low-fare airline founded by aviation entrepreneur David Neeleman, has opened its new Breeze Training Academy in Salt Lake City. The center is designed for initial and recurrent training for its pilots, flight attendants and technical operations employees.…

SL Co. home sales down 9 straight months

The home sales boom is definitely slowing down in Salt Lake County. For the ninth consecutive month, sales of all housing types dropped in the county in February when compared with last year. There were 949 homes sold in February, a 14 percent decrease compared to 1,102 sales in…

Millers make $2.5M gift to Huntsman School at USU

The Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation has announced a gift of $2.5 million to support a new building that will be home to experiential learning programming at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. This gift adds to the $4 million-plus previously…

Suazo Center adopts women entrepreneur program

The Suazo Business Center, in a partnership with the Mexican Consulate of Salt Lake City, Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, has announced it will incorporate entrepreneurship training program DreamBuilder…

Aero-Graphics wins Army contract

Aero-Graphics, a geospatial services company headquartered in Salt Lake City, has signed a five-year contract with the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for geospatial mapping and surveying. Aero-Graphics will do airborne and land-based remote sensing (including…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 3-28-22

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Clarus Clarus Corp., based in Salt Lake City, reported net income of $14 million, or 36 cents per share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. That compares with $7.1 million, or 22 cents per…

University of Utah engineers to help develop method to recycle nuclear waste

A major environmental concern about the use of nuclear reactors is what’s left behind — the nuclear waste from spent fuel rods. Where to dispose of this waste has been the source of much controversy. But instead of just burying the spent fuel rods, what if you could somehow…

Succeeding in Your Business: How to go about spreading out the taxes on lottery winnings

Cliff Ennico “I have an unusual question for you. If I win a large prize in the lottery, should/could I establish a nonprofit corporation to receive the prize? I asked a financial advisor about this and he said I could do it and also keep the identity of the manager (me) hidden…

Tough for SL Co. renters: Facing tightest rental market in history

Brice Wallace People trying to find an apartment — especially at an affordable rental rate — are facing the tightest market in Salt Lake County’s history. Research by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows a double whammy, with the 2021 vacancy rate for the county’s…

Survey: Life is better than when pandemic began

Two years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, employees say work and family are the areas of life that have shown the most change for the better. Despite the devastation and tragedy many have suffered over the course of the pandemic, remote and flexible work options have…

Strong economy likely shields Utah from war impact

Brice Wallace Russia’s invasion of Ukraine likely will lead to higher commodity prices for Utahns, but Utah’s economic strength likely will insulate it from severe impacts. That summarizes remarks made during a recent online briefing about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, presented…

Aceto buys Biotron Labs and Talus Mineral Co.

Salt Lake City-based Biotron Laboratories and its Centerville and Ogden manufacturing facilities that operate as Talus Mineral Co. have been acquired by Aceta. Biotron manufacturs and supplies leading specialty minerals and nutritional ingredients to the nutritional supplements…

Complete Recovery acquires N.C. accounts receivable company

Complete Recovery Corp. of Taylorsville has made its second acquisition in as many weeks. The asset recovery service provider has bought Prince Parker & Associates Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina, a provider accounts receivable services in the healthcare industry. The…

New study finds a quarter of the workforce is burned-out

A new study by Crucial Learning, a learning company with courses in communication, performance and leadership based in Provo, reveals a quarter of the workforce is burned-out. And when it comes to discussing and resolving that burnout, most employees feel ignored — only…

IHC joins six U.S. health systems in alliance to improve human resources practices

Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Healthcare has joined six nationally ranked health systems in the formation of the Evolve Health Alliance, a human resources alliance that will work collectively to address key functional areas that will improve the diversity, well-being and…

Gideon Taylor buys Chicago-based IntraSee

American Fork’s Gideon Taylor Consulting LLC, a full-service consulting and staffing firm, has acquired IntraSee Inc. of Chicago, an enterprise user experience (UX) and conversational AI provider. The acquisition includes Ida Artificial Intelligence Inc., developer of Ida, an…

Dominion launches customer carbon program

Dominion Energy customers in Utah and Idaho can now sign up for CarbonRight, a new and affordable way offered by the utility to significantly reduce customers’ carbon footprint. The program will allow customers to offset carbon emissions from natural gas use in their home or…

SBA honors Utah lenders

At its recent Utah Lender Awards ceremony, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Utah District Office honored several of its top lending partners for their achievements in providing capital through SBA’s traditional loan programs to Utah’s small businesses during the…

Draper's IDS bought by Dutch company

Holland-based Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) division has signed an agreement to acquire Draper-based International Document Services Inc. (IDS). Wolters Kluwer will pay approximately $70 million in cash for IDS, currently owned by The Reynolds and Reynolds…

Five Star buys 1-800-Packouts

Five Star Franchising of Springville, a service-based franchise platform company, has acquired 1-800-Packouts, a franchisor of residential contents restoration, packing, cleaning and climate-controlled storage services. In conjunction with the acquisition, Five Star has also…

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