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Governor hosting econ summit this week in Salt Lake

Utah state government’s largest annual business-based powwow takes place this week in Salt Lake City. The 12th annual Utah Economic Summit, hosted by Gov. Gary Herbert, is set for April 27 at the Grand America Hotel, 555 S. Main St., with several hundred people expected to…

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Apr 22

AC Hotel by Marriott opens in downtown SLC

AC Hotel by Marriot has opened its first Utah property in downtown Salt Lake City. The 164-room hotel was developed by a partnership of Dallas-based Woodbine Development Corp. and Provo-based PEG Development. The facility will be managed by In-Group Hospitality of Lehi.…

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Apr 22

Wyoming approval advances PacifiCorp wind expansion

The Wyoming Public Service Commission recently approved PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power, moving ahead with a significant wind and transmission expansion plan that would add enough new wind energy to power more than 400,000 average homes by 2020.…

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Apr 22

No. 1 again: Utah's economic outlook best for 11th straight year

If the only certain things are death and taxes, Utah having the best economic outlook among states in an annual ranking comes pretty close. For the 11th consecutive year — every year since the study began — Utah tops the economic outlook list in the “Rich States, Poor States”…

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Apr 22

Garff buys out its dealership group partner

Utah car dealership giant Ken Garff Automotive Group is buying out New York-based Leucadia National Corp. from its Garcadia dealership partnership. Garff owns and operates 28 new-car dealerships in Utah. Ken Garff and Leucadia partnered in 2006 to form Garcadia, which has since…

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Apr 22

Utah gets A+ for teaching kids about money

Utah has received a No. 1 ranking for its high school personal finance education from Champlain College’s Center for Financial Literacy in Burlington, Vermont. Utah was the only state to earn an A-plus on the Top-10 report card issued by the institution earlier this month. April…

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Apr 22

Life in retirement not exactly as expected, according to Wells Fargo poll

At a time when many workers are being encouraged to work to age 70 to increase their opportunity to save and to maximize their Social Security benefit, the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index poll finds that the average age at which current retirees…

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Apr 22

Sallaway named vSpatial CEO

Provo-based virtual reality startup vSpatial, has named John Sallaway as its new CEO and chairman of the board. As a co-founder, Sallaway has been serving as the company’s chief operating officer since its inception in 2016. Sallaway replaces Richard Platt, the founder and CEO…

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Apr 22

Qualtrics buys California firm

Provo-based Qualtrics has acquired startup Delighted, the company said last week, adding the maker of one-touch apps for Instacart, Postmates and Uber to its customer experience software suite. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Forbes quoted a source with…

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Apr 22

HealthInsight merges with Qualis

HealthInsight, a healthcare quality consulting firm based in Murray, has merged with Qualis Health of Seattle. The merger, initially announced in February, was final last week when the boards of both companies approved the conditions of the transaction. “The new, merged…

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Apr 22

Ally Bank Survey: Investors decidedly more bearish

Investor sentiment has turned decidedly more bearish, according to the latest survey of independent investors by Sandy-based Ally Bank. The Ally Invest quarterly said that bullish and very bullish sentiment dropped from 76 percent in the previous quarter to 30 percent in the…

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Apr 22

Four reasons you lose customers and seven ways to get them back

By John Graham Lots of money, effort and time go into acquiring customers, but not nearly enough thought goes into keeping them coming back. Sure, there’s the occasional offer or the “We’ve missed you” discount. All too frequently, we don’t pay attention unless they’re unhappy…

To infinity and beyond: Are trillion-dollar deficits the new norm?

By Veronique de Rugy Trillion-dollar deficits are coming back faster than originally projected. Though it’s fair to complain about the impact of the recently enacted tax cuts on our red ink, the ultimate culprits for our upcoming debt crisis are lawmakers who continually refuse…

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Apr 22

Paul Ryan's retirement: Is this the end of the Reagan revolution?

By Fareed Zakaria Paul Ryan’s decision to retire from Congress is being interpreted as a sign by many that Republicans will do poorly in the midterm elections. That may be true, but Ryan’s exit also symbolizes a broad shift that has taken place within the party. It marks the end…

Is it possible that those are the thought police standing on my doorstep?

By Robert Pembroke “Restriction-free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” - William O. Douglas, former associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. {mprestriction ids="1,3"} I…

Industry Briefs - 4-23-18

Industry Briefs are provided as a free service to our readers. Company news information may be sent to brice@slenterprise.com. The submission deadline is one week before publication. ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT • The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its April…

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Apr 22

Editorial Cartoon: Spilling my Guts

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Apr 22