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International trade makes up large portion of Utah's GDP

A new study from Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of major U.S. corporations, finds that international trade supports 389,000 jobs in Utah — nearly one out of every five jobs in the state. Trade with Canada and Mexico alone supports 121,400 jobs in Utah, the report said. The…

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Safety offenses shut down SE Utah gas pipeline

The Utah Public Service Commission has ordered the shutdown of 21 miles of a natural gas pipeline near Moab. The order against Pacific Energy & Mining Co. (PEMC) came at the request of the Utah Division of Public Utilities after it discovered that numerous operational and…

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ClearFoundation buys Daplie Inc.

ClearFoundation, a New Zealand-based developer of core software for securing both physical and virtual networks, has acquired Daplie Inc. of Provo. Daplie is the creator of Connect, a personal home server offering security, privacy, ownership and control to consumers in place of…

Groups launch Empower SLC to boost energy-saving efforts

The Salt Lake City Sustainability Department and Utah Clean Energy have teamed up with the International Rescue Committee, Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services and YouthCity Government in an effort to empower Salt Lake City’s West Side neighborhoods with the tools to reduce…

Tax credit incentives bring pair of feature films for production in Utah

By Brice Wallace A pair of film productions — including one that will spend nearly $7 million in Utah — have received incentives to shoot in the Beehive State. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its April meeting, approved a tax credit incentive of up…

Keone named president of Listen Technologies

Bluffdale-based Listen Technologies Corp., a provider of assistive listening and tour systems, has announced that Maile Keone has been named president of the company. She will be responsible for executing Listen Technologies’ business plan, the company said in a release. Keone,…

Survey: Higher employee turnover in 2018

Employers Council, a human resource and employment law service for the business community, has found that Utah’s employee turnover rate is up for the second straight year. The organization’s HR Metrics Survey reported a 2018 turnover rate of 25.6 percent compared to a 2017 rate…

O.C. Tanner acquires Indian firm

O.C. Tanner, a Salt Lake City-based employee recognition and workplace culture company, has acquired the recognition and rewards technology and business of Kwench, an India-based company that delivers corporate recognition solutions. The agreement will combine the global…

Majority of investors favor the human touch over technology

Despite increasing automation in nearly all aspects of the consumer experience, 84 percent of investors say that financial advisors will always be needed and will not be replaced by automated investing technology, according to the first quarter 2019 Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor…

Succeeding in Your Business: Here are 12 little words that will help you predict the future

It’s a rough economy out there, but even scarier than the persistent threats of recession, deflation, countries defaulting on their debt, governments’ inability to balance the budget and other boogie people is the pace of change itself. If you are a business owner looking to…

Betts: Utah tech industry hub is going to move to the north

Brice Wallace Silicon Slopes is currently the epicenter of Utah’s booming tech world. But that explosion straddling the Salt Lake County-Utah County border could edge northward in the next few years. Clint Betts, executive director of both the Silicon Slopes organization and the…

New partnership, licensing bring hemp industry closer for Navajos

By John Rogers Aqueous Sciences of Nevada, a Las Vegas-based development company, made two moves last week that may lead to a major cannabis-growing operation on Navajo Nation reservation land in the Four Corners area that includes southeastern Utah. Aqueous has had an agreement…

Utah prices jump more than twice national increase

Transportation and housing are leading nearly across-the-board price increases facing Wasatch Front consumers. The Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI), announced last week, rose 0.9 percent from February to March on a non-seasonally adjusted basis and is part of…

Ancestry commits to keep 1,000 employees in Utah, hire 500 more

Genetics services company Ancestry has long been part of Utah’s corporate DNA, and state officials last week approved an incentive for the company to keep it that way. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its April meeting, approved a tax credit…

Group files applications to launch new St. George bank

Several former officers of Town & Country Bank in St. George have filed the necessary application to form a new independent bank. Bruce Jensen, president and CEO of Town & Country until it was acquired by American Fork-based People’s Utah Bankcorp in 2017, said in a release that…

E-TeleQuote to open SLC office

Clearwater, Florida-based digital health insurance agency E-TeleQuote Insurance Inc. has opened a new location in Salt Lake City. The company, which focuses on Medicare and the over-65 market, said the Utah office is the sixth for the company that opened an office in Arizona…

Salt Lake's Instructure buys partner MasteryConnect

Instructure Inc., a Salt Lake City software-as-a-service technology company, has acquired its local longtime partner MasteryConnect. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Instructure markets its learning software such as Canvas and Bridge to both educational institutions and…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 4-15-19

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 $10.6 million, or 25 cents per share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Feb. 2. That compares…

Business Tech: Technology in Education

By Bahar Ferguson Before you begin reading this article, it is only fair that I provide the following: WARNING: The content in this article is going to make you very jealous. You will become furious at how much easier some things have become for students. Now that we have that…

Succeeding in Your Business: A primer on setting up preferred stock in your business

By Cliff Ennico “My two partners and I formed a corporation to run a web-based business. The business has taken off, and we are being approached by some local angel investors. “We are delighted, of course. The problem is that these investors all want preferred stock and our…

Summit conclusion: Southwest area growth needs coordination

By Brice Wallace Growth — and all of the issues associated with it — is exploding in the southwest Salt Lake Valley, but government, private-sector and economic development officials are hoping it happens in a smart way. Participants on three panels during the recent Western…

Utah's first 'opportunity zone' project underway in Salt Lake

Provo real estate development company PEG Cos. has broken ground on the first Utah project to take advantage of the federal “opportunity zone” investment program created by the December 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Paperbox Lofts is a two-acre development at 160 S. 300 W. in Salt…

Tech employment expands presence in Utah workforce

Tech-related employment in Utah grew by nearly 6,000 jobs in 2018 and the tech sector increased its contribution to the state’s economy, according to “Cyberstates 2019,” a new report on the tech sector and tech workforce analytics published by CompTIA, an Illinois-based industry…

Stadler moves operations to new facility in Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant

Switzerland-based rail car manufacturer Stadler US has moved its Utah operations from its temporary location in the north end of Salt Lake City to a permanent, state-of-the-art facility near the Salt Lake City International Airport. The company made the move late last month to a…

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