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BB&B proving to be a good investment for Overstock.com

Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com’s acquisition of the Bed Bath & Beyond in June was apparently a good move, according to Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson. The company recently made its third quarter performance public. “Our U.S. business launched successfully on Aug. 1.…

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Work Daze: Working out while working up the org chart

Bob Goldman Ever feel you’re working with a bunch of dumbbells? You don’t know the half of it. According to “The Hottest New Office is the Gym,” a recent article by Anne Marie Chaker in The Wall Street Journal, posh gyms are adding cubicles and privacy booths to their Nautilus…

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Hastings ups his investment, becomes majority owner of Powder Mountain

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has become the majority owner of Powder Mountain Ski Resort. In April, Hastings acquired acquired a minority stake in the ski area and has now added a $100 million investment to become the leading owner of the resort. Hastings acquired a…

Picklr touts major growth

Kaysville-based The Picklr, a franchisor of indoor pickleball facilities, has announced a major expansion that includes 80 new facilities and 13 new franchisees. The new locations will span 11 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada,…

UofU research: Hard-to-use electronic medical records may put patient safety at risk

New research suggests that hospital electronic health records (EHRs) that are difficult to use are also less likely to catch medical errors that could harm patients, according to a study from University of Utah Health. As clinicians navigate EHR systems, alerts, reminders and…

PCF Insurance acquires Florida-based agency

Lehi-based insurance brokerage firm PCF Insurance Services has acquired Allied Marketing Insurance Group, a Miami, Florida-based health and benefits agency serving Florida’s underserved multicultural community of agents and clients. Allied serves more than 100,000 clients with…

Manufacturing a breakthrough: Construction insiders see storm clouds dissipating over industrial and manufacturing construction as economic threats recede

Taylor Larsen Listen to any local talk about Utah weather and the discussion tends to go something like this: “You never know what it’s going to do.” That same response has been shared by many involved in construction —signs of an overheated market in the past few years turned…

Industry Briefs 9-18-23

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 Utah Shakespeare Festival has named John DiAntonio as artistic director and…

Agriculture focus of next Inland Port addition

Brice Wallace A large project area that supporters say can revitalize Utah’s agriculture industry could become the state’s next inland port location. The proposed Six County Agri-Park, encompassing roughly 35,000 acres in three areas of Juab County, will be considered for…

Final demolition at The Point makes way for 'pure opportunity'

Brice Wallace With a powerful nudge, a couple of pieces of heavy equipment recently toppled what once was a guard tower at the former Utah State Prison site. Now the focus is on what will rise there. Demolition work at Point of the Mountain in Draper is nearing completion,…

Why do we continue to see labor shortages, even with big wage increases?

Robert Spendlove The labor market continues to be a puzzle. The unemployment rate is back to where it was before the pandemic and the number of jobs created is much higher than analysts expected. However, we still struggle to bring people off the sidelines and back into the…

With acquisition, Utah Kum & Go stations will get Maverik brand

Salt Lake City-based Maverik announced in late August that it has finalized its purchase of the Kum & Go convenience store chain. With the announcement, Maverik also announced that it will rebrand the 140 Kum & Go locations in Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming to Maverick.…

Wasatch Front home prices dip, but owners have plenty of equity

Salt Lake County saw the median single-family home price fall to $582,500 in the second quarter of this year, representing a 7 percent decline from $623,138 in same quarter last year, according to new data released by UtahRealEstate.com. But despite the drop in home prices,…

Utah City chosen as name of new Utah Co. community

The Flagship Cos. and Woodbury Corp. have announced the name for their new 700-acre master-planned community in Utah County’s Vineyard. Utah City will be the name of the development that will focus on sustainability and walkability. Located on the east shore of Utah Lake, Utah…

The Great Gloom: Employees are unhappier than ever, BambooHR report says

BambooHR, a cloud-hosted human resources platform based in Lehi, has launched its Employee Happiness Index, a new quarterly benchmark report that analyzes eNPS or employee satisfaction results from more than 57,000 global workers across eight key industries. The first report…

Work Daze: How to start up and blow up a second career

Bob Goldman Cheer up, ye ancient ones, 40 and above. The life sentence that is your first career has been commuted. Says who? Says career coach Octavia Goredema, author of “4 Strategies to Prepare for a Late-Career Shift” in the Harvard Business Review. Happy with your current…

Innovate Utah: NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Logan-based Juniper Systems Inc ., a manufacturer of rugged tablets, handheld computers, mapping software and GPS receivers, has introduced its Mesa Pro Rugged Tablet . The new device carries a dustproof and waterproof rating of IP68 which means it can be submerged in water for…

Qualtrics report: 'Quiet quitting' showed up in employee surveys last year

Fewer employees say they are motivated to go above and beyond at work, or were inspired to do their best work, according to the latest employee engagement benchmark data from Provo-based experience management platform Qualtrics. The new data — aggregated from thousands of global…

Industry Briefs 9-11-23

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. CONSTRUCTION • Granite , a California-based company, has been selected as construction…

Box Elder Co. project becomes 4th inland port

Brice Wallace Another meeting, another Utah inland port approval. That’s been the pattern of the Utah Inland Port Authority board, which recently approved the Golden Spike project area as the state’s fourth inland port. Typically, port projects have been presented at one board…

Deer Valley expansion will add 3,700 skiable acres, new village

The company that owns Deer Valley Resort in Park City has announced plans for a major expansion of the Wasatch Mountains ski-only destination. Alterra Mountain Co., headquartered in Denver, released its plans to add 3,700 acres of ski terrain as well a new village and a new…

Schreiber hikes Logan investment for 2nd phase

A Wisconsin-based food producer has boosted the amount it will spend on an expansion project in Logan. Schreiber Foods Inc. was approved in May for a state tax credit incentive for a $68 million expansion to modernize its cream cheese processing capabilities, with a second phase…

Officials celebrate opening of Commerce Crossroads & RailSync in Cedar City

Officials from state and local government agencies, local businesses and developers joined Gov. Spencer Cox to celebrate the recent opening of an 820-acre sustainable industrial park in Cedar City. Industrial steel company BZI hosted the event that marked the beginning of…

13.56M visitors spent $1.66B in Utah's parks

It was a banner year in 2022 for Utah’s national parks and the money they generated in the state, according to a new report released by the U.S. National Park Service. The report released last month shows that 13.557 million visitors to national parks in Utah spent $1.656…

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