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SelectHealth Utah members receive $100 to get COVID-19 vaccinations

SelectHealth, the healthcare insurance arm of Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Healthcare, has instituted an incentive for its Utah customers to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Beginning Aug. 26, SelectHealth members on Utah contracts who have not been previously vaccinated, who…

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Utahns place value of incentive for getting C-19 vaccination at $74

The average Utahn believes unvaccinated people should receive $74 to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, according to a survey by biotechnical products distribution company MyBioSource.com. That is the lowest figure among states. Alaskans and Minnesotans favor paying a $259…

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MWCN announces list of 2021's fastest growing companies in Utah

MountainWest Capital Network has announced its annual list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah, known as the Utah 100. MWCN also has selected its “Top 15 Revenue” and “Emerging Elite” companies. The rankings of the companies will be revealed Oct. 12 at the 27th annual…

Stanworth named CEO of Dakota Pacific RE

Dakota Pacific Real Estate has announced that Marc Stanworth has been promoted to CEO. Dakota Pacific Real Estate is a Salt Lake City-based real estate investment, development, and property management firm focused on investing in multi-family residential and commercial projects…

Garff buys nine dealerships

Salt Lake City car dealership giant Ken Garff Automotive Group has acquired nine dealerships in four states, expanding the total dealership count to 62 for the 89-year-old company. “We have been exploring expansion opportunities for the last year in these growing markets,” said…

CenExel Clinical acquires New Jersey's AMRI

CenExel Clinical Research Inc., a clinical trial research company in Salt Lake City, has acquired Advanced Memory Research Institute (AMRI), the largest Alzheimer’s disease clinical research site in the Northeast. Based in Toms River, New Jersey, AMRI conducts Phase I through…

Ascend buys Iowa company

Ascend Staffing has announced the acquisition of Employment Connections Inc. (ECI), a temporary staffing company in northwest Iowa. ECI has locations Spencer, Spirit Lake and Ida Grove, Iowa. Based in North Salt Lake, Ascend Staffing now has 40 offices in 13 states: Alabama,…

SnappConner names new pres

South Jordan-based Snapp- Conner PR, a public relations and communications firm, has named Mark Fredrickson as its new president. Fredrickson joined the firm as vice president in February 2015 and became its chief operating officer in March 2017. “I have had the privilege of…

Ogden’s Own tabs Fine as CEO

Ogden’s Own Distillery, a distiller of craft spirits and recently recognized as one of the fastestgrowing private companies in the U.S., has named industry veteran Mark Fine as successor to retiring co-founder and president Steve Conlin. Fine will assume day-today…

Four basic blunders every new business must avoid

By Stephen E. Gerard Entrepreneurs launch new businesses with visions of rapid growth and burgeoning profits dancing in their heads. But wishing and hoping for growth and success is one thing; making them happen is quite another. Launching a business requires deliberate actions…

The embarrassing truth about CEOs: They don’t understand the numbers

By Richard Tyson Over the past three decades, I have had the privilege of working closely with hundreds of small-business owners and CEOs. I have enjoyed this immensely and have learned much about their similarities and differences. Unfortunately, one similarity that is far too…

Utah native Jackson-Roberts named CEO of Utah Pride Center

The board of directors of the Utah Pride Center (UPC) has named Stacey Jackson-Roberts as the organization’s new CEO. She comes to UPC from Washington, D.C., where she has spent the past 20 years doing work “related to the intersection of law and policy.” She served on the…

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

Lehi-based baby monitoring products company Owlet has introduced the Smart Sock Plus, a monitoring system designed for children from birth to 5 years old. Building on the company’s flagship product, the Smart Sock, the Smart Sock Plus allows parents to track heart rate, oxygen…

Succeeding in Your Business: Murphy’s Law and the entrepreneur

By Cliff Ennico “My spouse and I recently decided to start a business designing knapsacks for children. We’ve got a bunch of great designs; they’re lighter and more flexible than other knapsacks on the market, can be made with 100 percent organic ingredients and have a lot more…

Industry Briefs 9-6-21

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 • D.L. Evans Bank has appointed Russ Fullmer as vice president commercial loan officer…

Not many surprises in 10-year Go Utah vision strategy draft

By Brice Wallace An early version of the state’s 10-year economic strategy contains several initiatives and ideas that have been discussed by Gov. Spencer Cox and other parts of state government in the past. Under the title “Economic Vision Strategy 2030,” a draft version of the…

Few job seekers means state has a labor shortage

Utah’s unemployment rate took another tick down in July, from 2.7 percent to 2.6 percent. Meanwhile, joblessness nationwide dropped a full half of a percentage point to 5.4 percent for the month. With fewer worker looking for jobs, the state is facing a significant labor…

Startup will make the can, fill it & ship it, all from one SLC facility

A new Utah company intends to reinvent the beverage canning industry when it opens the doors to its huge facility in Salt Lake City later this year. Vobev is being touted as the first all-in-one aluminum canning facility in North America. When up and running, the company said…

Cox answers administration threat to sue states over mask mandate ban

The Biden administration has threatened to use “all available tools,” including legal action, against Republican-led states that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures as the COVID-19 pandemic picks up steam with the delta variant becoming prevalent.…

SLC company launches cash lottery to encourage employee vaccinations

Alsco Uniforms, a Salt Lake City based uniform and linen rental company, has launched an employee lottery to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among its workers. The company has set aside $130,000 for the project and dubbed its lottery “Vax to the Future.” In a prepared statement,…

Biden ties federal healthcare payments to nursing home staff vaccine status

Reuters has reported that Pres. Joe Biden has announced his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid government healthcare programs. Biden cited a study…

FEMA provides an additional $6.7M to Utah for C-19 disaster response

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has approved more than $6.7 million in additional public assistance funding for the COVID-19 response in Utah. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued April 4, 2020. FEMA has provided…

‘Resume anxiety’ keeping 20% of C-19 job losers from going back to work

One in five workers who are still unemployed due to COVID-19-related layoffs are not looking for a job because they don’t want to update their resumes. Gen Xers, ages 45 to 54, are most reluctant to revise their resumes, with 26 percent citing that reason, according to a survey…

More companies, fewer jobs as COVID year a mixed bag for EDCUtah

By Brice Wallace The 2020-21 fiscal year was a mixed bag for the corporate recruitment and retention efforts of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah (EDCUtah). Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization won 37 projects for the state during the July-through-June…

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