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Another big Utah deal: 1-800 Contacts sold to KKR & Co. for more than $3B

Orem-based 1-800 Contacts, the nation’s largest retailer of contact lenses, is being sold to global investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. of New York City. Bloomberg reported that KKR will pay current owner AEA Investors, also of New York City, in excess of $3 billion for the brand.…

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Sorenson Impact Center receives $600,000 grant to support diversity in entrepreneurship

The Sorenson Impact Center, a think tank housed at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). Project DEEP (Developing Equitable Economies Program) is the first…

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Chamber releases economic dashboard to track Utah’s recovery from COVID-19

The Salt Lake Chamber’s Roadmap to Recovery Coalition, in partnership with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, has released a new economic tool for the business community — the Road to Recovery Dashboard — to track the state’s path to an economic recovery from the COVID-19…

StoryBox buys Argentine co.

StoryBox Studios, an animation and film production studio in Ogden, has acquired post-production and animation studio MadrigueraPost located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Terms were not disclosed. “Our passion to create knows no bounds, and with this strategic acquisition, our…

Utah awarded $5M for the defense manufacturing support program

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has announced that it was awarded a total of $5 million for the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) to undertake an $11,005,000 project to enhance the capabilities of the regional defense industrial…

Succeeding in Your Business: Doing business in Europe? Do you really have to comply with GDPR?

By Cliff Ennico “My partners and I launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application earlier this year. “We’ve gotten a good response to our product. Virtually all of our customers so far are in the United States and Canada, but we’ve started getting inquiries from potential…

Clarus subsidiary to buy assets of Barnes Bullets

Sierra Bullets LLC, a subsidiary of Salt Lake City-based Clarus Corp., is acquiring the assets of Barnes Bullets of Mona. Barnes has been undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Sierra is expected to acquire Barnes for $30.5 million in cash. For the 12 months ended June…

Ivanti strengthens market position with acquisitions of two companies

South Jordan-based Ivanti, a provider of IT management and security software, has acquired two software companies, including mobile-centric security platform MobileIron of Mountain View, California, and Pulse Secure LLC, an Internet access security company in San Jose,…

Summit honorees named

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has announced the award recipients for the 2020 Utah Economic and Energy Summit that will be held Oct. 26 in Salt Lake City. At the summit, Gov. Gary R. Herbert will recognize individuals and companies that have made…

Empower employees by eliminating the victimization mindset

By Richard Tyson Have you found yourself feeling powerless lately? If so, you are in good company. The extraordinary challenges of 2020 have combined to discourage even the most ardent optimist. One of the most serious casualties of the current turmoil today is our confidence…

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

Royal LePage, the largest real estate company in Canada, has adopted the rlpSPHERE Platform from Draper’s Inside Real Estate for its more than 18,000 agents in 600 offices in the country. RlpSPHERE provides a fully integrated, state-of-the-art tech ecosystem enabling Royal…

Industry Briefs 10-5-20

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. BANKING • Bank of Utah , Ogden, has appointed Trevor L. Austin to the newly created position of…

Newsletter 9-28-20

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, September 28, 2020 Point Authority is looking for ideas 'equal to the opportunity' By Brice Wallace What should the 700-acre Utah State Prison site look like after the prison shifts to a new location a…

Point Authority is looking for ideas 'equal to the opportunity'

By Brice Wallace What should the 700-acre Utah State Prison site look like after the prison shifts to a new location a few miles north? Officials working on its planning want to hear ideas. The Point of the Mountain State Land Authority is seeking public input for “The Point,”…

Jobless rate down again, now 4.1%

Utah’s nation-best jobless rate continues to drop to near pre-pandemic levels. August’s rate was reported at 4.1 percent, down significantly from July’s 4.5 percent. August’s national unemployment rate dropped from 10.2 percent in July to 8.4 percent in August. “Utah’s economy…

COVID-19 Updates: Cancellations and postponements

The following are events that have been included in The Enterprise Calendar listings and subsequently have been postponed or canceled, or have been removed from the organizers’ website calendars. This is not a complete list of postponements or cancellations. Check with…

UofU Health switches from nasal swab to saliva sample for C-19 tests

The five drive-through COVID-19 testing sites operated by University of Utah Health have switched from nasal swabs to saliva sampling. The saliva test was developed by ARUP Laboratories, a nonprofit enterprise of the University of Utah. The nasal swab coronavirus tests are…

Airflow studies may help symphony get back to live performances

One of the industries hardest hit by restrictions of the COCID-19 pandemics is the live entertainment business. Concerns over the spread of the virus by the airflow created by vocalists and wind instrument players has kept entities like the Utah Symphony|Utah Opera shuttered.…

Poor communications cited as issue in early state pandemic contracts

A panel of auditors for the Utah Legislature has found that at least two of the contracts state agencies executed in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic should have received closer examination by relevant state entities to avoid pitfalls and overspending. The subject…

COVID-19 deaths for black essential workers linked to racial disparities

Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die of COVID-19, according to researchers at the University of Utah. They found that blacks disproportionately worked in nine vital occupations that…

2019 tourism: $10 billion & 141,500 jobs

Travelers to Utah spent a record $10.06 billion in the state in 2019 and generated an estimated $1.34 billion in total state and local tax revenue, according to a recent study completed by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah. Approximately one in 11…

LifeVantage announces management transition

Salt Lake City-based LifeVantage Corp. announced that Steven Fife, the company’s chief financial officer, has been appointed interim CEO, replacing Darren Jensen, who has resigned as CEO and president. Jensen will be available to assist with the transition, the company said.…

Mercato Partners' Cradlepoint sold to Sweden's Ericsson

Sweden-based Ericsson, a global information and communication technology company, has acquired Cradlepoint, a cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network from Mercato Partners of Cottonwood Heights. Boise-based Cradlepoint was a portfolio company of Mercato’s Traverse Fund III.…

Schreiner Gates new president of SimpleNexus

SimpleNexus, a Lehi-based developer of a digital mortgage platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, has announced the appointment of Cathleen Schreiner Gates, a member of the company’s board of directors, as company president. Schreiner…

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