Archive

Utah population still growing, just not as fast

The Utah Population Committee (UPC) at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute has released its 2018 population estimates for Utah and each of its 29 counties. The committee estimates Utah’s total population at 3,166,647, an increase of approximately 402,000…

Staff

Dec 9

New Age Beverage acquires Morinda Inc.

Denver-based New Age Beverage Corp. has acquired Morinda Holdings Inc. of Provo in an $85 million asset buyout. Morinda was formerly known as Tahitian Noni International and Morinda Bioactives and is known for multilevel marketing of its lead brand, Tahitian Noni Juice, and…

Staff

Dec 9

Tempkin sold to Illinois firm

PPC Flexible Packaging LLC of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, has acquired Temkin International, a packaging products company in Payson. Financial details of the deal were not released. Temkin International was founded in 1980 is a provider of rollstock, stand-up pouches and floral…

Staff

Dec 9

Business leaders present way to address worst-in-nation gender pay gap

By Brice Wallace Calling it both an economic and moral imperative, a pair of business association leaders recently unveiled a guidebook for companies as a way to shrink the wide gender pay gap in Utah. The 10-page “Best Practices Guide for Closing the Gender Wage Gap” was…

UofU engineers study better semiconductor material for high-voltage electronics

Electricity, as a form of energy, is not exactly efficient because much of it is lost as heat. Or, as University of Utah electrical and computer engineering associate professor Mike Scarpulla said, “Heat is the universe’s garbage can for energy.” Inside power systems, converters…

Staff

Dec 9

UofU's American Dream Ideas Challenge names three winners

The University of Utah’s American Dream Ideas Challenge has named its three winners. The winners, that each receive a $30,000 grant, aim to boost Utahns’ income by cutting transportation costs, leveraging unused storage space and revitalizing an economically depressed region of…

Staff

Dec 9

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS - 12-10-18

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 $12.4 million, or 29 cents per share, for the quarter ended Nov. 3. That compares with $9.8…

Staff

Dec 9

"Come together, right now ...” Three ways to ignite the fire at your workplace

By Joe Tate Forty-nine years ago, the Beatles released a new song titled “Come Together,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Following the release, John told an interviewer the lyrics were simply “gobbledygook.” This crazy mash-up of odd lyrics is at times incoherent,…

Loneliness in the Workplace: The advent of remote work has made gathering at the water cooler a thing of the past

Over the past several decades, connections with our work colleagues have become increasingly virtual and electronic in nature. Whether “shooting the breeze” occurs in a cubicle or via instant messaging with an associate sitting across the room — or whether it occurs with no…

Staff

Dec 9

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: Creating the perfect pitch

By Kate Reddy Every memo, guide, letter, article, post and advertisement your company publishes is a pitch. You are giving your potential readers — customers, prospects or employees — information and hoping they will take an action such as giving you their contact information,…

MANAGING EMPLOYEE TURNOVER: Four steps to stop the revolving door

By Colin Thompson It’s a fact of life when you run a small business: Your limited resources make everything you have critical to survival. And when unemployment remains significantly low, small businesses and startups alike face the reality of increased employee turnover while…

Fresh air in the workplace

By Aja Macheel Commercial spaces have quite clearly evolved and advanced in the past decade, paying homage now more than ever to going green. New and current developments include architecture and design that have set themselves above the rest in environmental standards,…

Worried about cybersecurity? Start with your own employees

By Bahar Ferguson Imagine you’re the CEO of your company. As you walk into the office one morning, you pass someone on your accounting team. They inform you they wired the $200,000 “you” requested to an account in Europe. Confusion and frustration quickly boil. How? Why? What?…

Hey, hiring managers: Here's why you should always be interviewing

By Peg Newman Traditionally, as hiring managers, we all start scouting for qualified candidates to interview only when we have a spot to fill. In this article, I’m offering the concept that you owe it to your business to always be interviewing. Current protocol dictates that we…

TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES: An advantage for employers during skilled labor shortages

By Susan Hornbuckle The employment landscape has changed. Long gone are the days when employees remained at a company for decades, earning a pension, then eventually retiring with a gold watch. Nowadays, employees stay, on average, a little more than four years at a single…

The nature of work is different and THE WORKPLACE SHOULD BE, TOO

By Jan Johnson Over the past several years, what we think of as “the workplace” has been changing in almost every aspect. It’s no longer one place, but many. It’s both face-to-face and virtual, and sometimes also 24/7. In many cases, it’s a lot less institutional and more…

Industry Briefs 12-10-18

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. ASSOCIATIONS • Matt Packard , chief executive officer of Central Bank, has been nominated as a…

Staff

Dec 9

Editorial Cartoon: Heated Seats

Staff

Dec 9

Will the current lame-duck Congress once again overextend itself?

By Veronique de Rugy Last year’s tax reform represented a first step toward improving the tax code by making it simpler, fairer and slightly less distortive. As Congress considers taking up a so-called tax-extenders bill before the new Democratic-controlled House is seated, any…

Wise strategy would be to return to norms America built after World War II

By Fareed Zakaria The G-20 summit in Argentina took place at a moment when the United States still stands at the center of the world. The U.S. economy is booming; the dollar is almighty; American technology companies continue to dominate the new digital economy; and the U.S.…

Eliminating lawyers is a good idea; maybe this guy's app is a good start

By Robert Pembroke “MSNBC Touts DoNotPay App That Eliminates the Need for Attorneys” All right you’ve got me. The above headline is fake news. But thanks to a Stanford undergraduate from London, there is a good chance that the need for an attorney can be eliminated for many…