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Utah consumer prices running ahead of nation

Despite a minor drop in Utah consumer prices in September, residents are experiencing price hikes over the past year at twice the rate recorded nationwide. The Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased 0.1 percent from August to September on a non-seasonally…

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Oct 21

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Coal mine owner moves to Sandy, changes name

Bituminous coal producer Bowie Resource Partners LLC, owner of the Dugout Canyon, Skyline and Sufco mines in eastern Utah, has moved its corporate headquarters from Grand Junction, Colorado, to Sandy and has changed its corporate trade name to Wolverine Fuels LLC. Wolverine is…

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Oct 21

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WTC Utah leads trade mission to China

Utah government and business leaders returned recently from a trade mission to China that was led by World Trade Center Utah (WTC Utah). The group visited Shanghai and Beijing while in China. China is Utah’s third-largest trading partner and in 2017, Utah exported almost $740…

Department of Energy awards Utah $638,000 in two grants

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Utah as the recipient of two competitive grants totaling $638,786. The funding from DOE’s State Energy Program will support the work of the Governor’s Office of Energy Development (OED) in advancing energy efficiency, resilience…

$14 million headed to Utah from production of 'High School Musical' reboot

Utah once again will be the location for a “High School Musical” production, this time a 10-episode series expected to spend $14.7 million in the state. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its October meeting, approved a tax credit incentive of up to…

J-B Weld buys FiberFix brand

Marietta, Georgia-based J-B Weld Co., a developer and marketer of adhesives for the do-it-yourself consumer, has purchased the FiberFix business unit from Spark Innovation LLC in American Fork. FiberFix manufactures pre-impregnated repair wraps, repair tapes, specialty adhesives…

Business Tech: Team members' behaviors more often reason for IT project failures

By David Black Companywide growth and efficiency stem from a seamless IT team deploying projects in a timely and efficient manner. Just about every modern business is scrambling to harness the potential of digital technology to gain a competitive edge in today’s market. Whether…

University presidents cite ways to address workforce needs

By Brice Wallace Flexibility. Inclusion. Connections. Creativity. Those characteristics are often cited as necessary for any business to be successful. They also were recently cited as necessary for Utah’s education system to better address the workforce needs of Utah…

Thanks to Garff family, UofU has new home for its MBA programs

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has dedicated the Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, a 150,000-square-foot building that houses the school’s MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA and MBA Online programs. The building also supports an…

Utah businesses mostly OK with NAFTA revision

On Sept. 30, the United States, Canada and Mexico finalized a trade deal promised by the Trump administration that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Assuming it is approved by the legislatures in the three countries, the new deal — called the United…

Construction begins at Pluralsight campus

Pluralsight Inc., a Utah-based enterprise technology learning software developer, has broken ground on a new worldwide headquarters in Draper. Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard and company executives were joined by Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Draper Mayor Troy Walker…

Utah companies expect to give employees 3 percent raises

Utah’s Employers Council has released results from its 2018 Planning Packet Survey which highlights projections about compensations budgets for local companies for 2019 and compares them with the current year. The survey projects a 3 percent average employee pay increase for…

Utah's fiscal condition? 8th best

he Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has release its annual report on the fiscal health of the states. Utah comes out No. 8 in the study called “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition.” The study’s authors, Eileen Norcross and Olivia Gonzalez,…

Web to Door launches in Utah

Web to Door Corp., a subsidiary of Supurva Healthcare Group Inc. of Oakland, California, has opened an office in Salt Lake City, Utah and hired its first five employees on the first day of interviews. The company will operate as On Courier 365 in Utah. The company said it hopes…

Incentive to help HeathEquity add 500 employees at expanded headquarters

By Brice Wallace HealthEquity Inc. will add up to 500 employees over the next seven years at a new building adjacent to its current Draper headquarters. The company made the announcement last week after being approved for a tax credit incentive by the Governor’s Office of…

Dominion ordered to cease third-party billings

In response to complaints from the public, the Division of Public Utilities and the Office of Consumer Services, the Utah Public Service Commission has ordered Dominion Energy to stop using its billing process to collect charges for third-party services unless the customers have…

State looking for private firms to operate some of its golf courses

Some of the state’s golf courses currently operated by Utah’s Division of Parks and Recreation may soon be operated by private management firms. The state agency has posted a request for proposals seeking 10-year agreements to operate four state-owned courses. The courses…

Aligned Energy opens Utah data center

Aligned Energy, a Plano, Texas-based data center company, has opened its Utah headquarters in West Jordan. The 294,000-square-foot building will serve as a colocation data center supporting both cloud providers and enterprise customers. “We’re excited to announce the official…

Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index declines despite economy

Utahns continue to worry about their cost of housing and that has resulted in a drop in the Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index. The index is down a point from last year and three points over the past five years, standing at 70 out of 100. The “Quality of Life Index:…

Utah gets failing grade for not expanding on FMLA protection

A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, gives Utah a grade of F for failing to provide basic workplace protections that go beyond federal law. “Raising Expectations” analyzes state laws and regulations governing…

Wells Fargo/Gallup poll: Investors not ready for surprise expenses

According to a new Wells Fargo/Gallup survey, while individual U.S. investors remain optimistic about the economy, many say they are one emergency away from encountering expenses that could cripple their finances. Barely half of investors — 55 percent — describe themselves as…

Warning: Business not exempt from mental health concerns

Brice Wallace Utah has the fifth-highest suicide rate in the nation. Utah’s depression rate is about 22 percent and usually runs 2 percent to 3 percent above the national rate. One in five American adults suffers from mental illness in a given year. One in seven Americans will…

Feds approve utility access for shale oil project

By John Rogers The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced in late September that it has approved a utility right of way for a major Utah oil shale project near Vernal. Enefit American Oil, a subsidiary of Estonia-based petroleum giant Eesti Energia, has been waiting for…

Housing costs worry Utahns, drive down life quality index

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