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DoTerra donation to UVU will be $17.7M over 10 years

DoTerra, a Pleasant Grove-based essential oils company, has presented Utah Valley University with the institution’s second-largest donation. Part of a 10-year agreement, the contributions includes donations from doTerra worth $17.7 million. A large portion of the donation will…

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Women Tech Council announces 2019 winners of Women Tech Awards

The Women Tech Council (WTC) announced its 2019 recipients of the Women Tech Awards at an event last week in Salt Lake City. The awards program is designed to recognize women across all technology disciplines who are leading and founding technology companies; trailblazing new…

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Oct 13

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Fabian VanCott acquires Sloan & Sloan

Salt Lake City-based law firm Fabian VanCott has acquired estate, tax and business planning firm Sloan & Sloan. Fabian VanCott said the Salt Lake City firm will help round out its tax and estate planning practice group. Sloan & Sloan is made up of seven attorneys headed by David…

Sandy-based Cityworks bought by Cal. firm

Azteca Systems LLC, which does business as Cityworks in Sandy, has been acquired by Trimble, a global positioning and robotic optical surveying instrument company based in Sunnyvale, California. Cityworks is a provider of enterprise asset management (EAM) software for utilities…

D.C. hospital is first to use Utah- developed AR surgical system

Springville-based image processing company Novarad and George Washington University Hospital, based in Washington, D.C., have partnered to implement the country’s first augmented reality (AR) medical process in a surgical setting. OpenSight Augmented Reality System, powered by…

Hansen named CEO of Draper's Code Corp.

Code Corp., a Draper-based developer and marketer of data-capture software and hardware, has named Kent L. Hansen as CEO. Hansen comes to Code from CA Engineering, where he was a partner and president. Prior to CA Engineering, he was a senior director at 3Com Corp. Hansen will…

Former FAA head: Unmanned aircraft industry faces changing regulation

The regulatory effort by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deal with the rapidly expanding unmanned aircraft industry is a work in progress, according to the agency’s former administrator. Michael Huerta, the head of the FAA until last year and the keynote speaker for…

Succeeding in Your Business: Teaching lawyers about cybersecurity

By Cliff Ennico Let’s face it. When it comes to professionals with technological savvy, lawyers are way, way down the list. I know lawyers who are still using Windows 98, if that gives you an idea (hey, it was a pretty good program). So it was with great trepidation that I…

Miller: Utah not exempt from business blaming

By Brice Wallace The leader of Utah’s largest business association last week decried a widespread theme of business being the source of societal problems rather than a driver of solutions. Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and the Downtown Alliance, said…

Herbert leads Utah trade mission delegation on trip to China, Japan

A delegation representing 22 Utah-based businesses and organizations recently returned from a trade mission to Japan where the representatives participated in more than 60 meetings with business and government leaders. Led by Gov. Gary Herbert, the trip was sponsored by World…

Health insurance rates keep rising, survey reveals

The average Utah premium for healthcare insurance for a single employee has risen 16 percent since 2016 to $567 per month, according to a new survey conducted by the Employers Council. The employee-only premium is an average of all types of plans, including health maintenance…

MWCN releases Utah 100 list of fastest-growing companies in the state

MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) has released its 2019 Utah 100, its annual list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah. MWCN is a business networking organization devoted to supporting entrepreneurial success and dedicated to the flow of financial, entrepreneurial and…

Utahns want lower sales tax but favor tax on services not now subject to tax

Half of Utah voters support a lower sales tax rate and a strong majority favor taxing services currently not subject to a sales tax, according to a new survey undertaken by AARP. The survey of Utah registered voters 18 and older indicates that 50 percent support a sales tax of…

Report: Employees spend just 43 percent of work week on the jobs they were hired to do

Average employees spend only about 43 percent of their work week doing the jobs they were hired to do, according to a new report release last week by Lehi-based Workfront. Workfront develops and markets work management applications for enterprise. Workfront’s sixth annual global…

NYC firm buys VitalSmarts

Leeds Equity Partners LLC, a New York-based private equity firm has acquired VitalSmarts LC from investment firm TwentyEighty Inc. Founded in 1989 in Provo, VitalSmarts is a provider of communication, execution and leadership development training. Terms of the transaction were…

SLC-based Simply Mac bought by Cool Holdings

Salt Lake City-based Simply Mac Inc. has been acquired by Cool Holdings Inc. of Miami. Simply Mac operates 41 retail stores in 18 states as an authorized reseller of Apple products and accessories. Cool Holdings previously owned 16 OneClick stores that offer Apple products and…

Outdoor recreation accounts for 3.3 percent of Utah GDP

People taking advantage of Utah’s great outdoors contribute a huge chunk to the state’s economy, according to a new report released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The agency found outdoor recreation in Utah accounted for a full 3.3 percent of Utah’s total economic…

Sportsman's buys eight Field & Stream stores

Sportsman’s Warehouse Hold-ings Inc. of Sandy has agreed to buy eight Field & Stream stores from Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. The acquired stores will be operated as Sportsman’s Warehouse stores and are located in Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina and Michigan. The total…

Succeeding in Your Business: What to do when a business you're buying has two sets of books

By Cliff Ennico “My spouse and I have been looking to buy a business for some time. We’ve found a good local business with a great location and lots of existing customers. The seller wants us to pay one and one-half times his gross sales last year, which our accountant says is a…

Solar goal: 20% of U.S. production by 2030

By Brice Wallace With sunny skies outside and optimism inside, proponents of solar energy outlined a plan last week calling for solar to provide one-fifth of U.S. electricity generation by 2030. Kicking off the Solar Power International gathering of about 20,000 people at the…

UMPA will buy electricity from ePower’s Clover Creek project

Salt Lake City-based renewable energy producer sPower has entered into an agreement with the Utah Municipal Power Agency (UMPA) to provide power to the agency from a new solar installation in Juab County. UMPA is an energy co-op established in 1980 that provides power to Levan,…

Jobless rate flat; Utah job creation best in country

For the third straight month, Utah’s unemployment rate held steady at 2.8 percent in August, meaning just over 45,000 were out of work and actively seeking employment. The national jobless rate also remained unchanged at 3.7 percent in August. Meanwhile, the state’s nonfarm…

Utah consumers stay optimistic, marginally worried about China situation

Utahns may be hedging their bets a little about things like the future of business in the state, but they are still pretty optimistic about the economic situation as a whole. The Zions Bank Utah Consumer Attitude Index (CAI) increased 6.2 points to 119.3 in September, fueled…

Overstock names Johnson permanent CEO

The board of directors of Salt Lake City-based online retailer Overstock.com has made the appointment of Jonathan Johnson as CEO permanent. Johnson had been serving as interim CEO since Aug. 22, when Patrick M. Byrne resigned as CEO and board member of the company following his…

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