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Utah Exporter of the Year

Andres Salazar Eco Green North Salt Lake Concept drawn up on a napkin turns into worldwide environmental tire recycling business The vision of Eco Green Equipment was sketched on a napkin while founders met with their first prospective customer and explained the concept of their…

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Utah Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year

Joel Harris and Parker Bennett Solid Ground Provo A solid business model: Under-promise, over-deliver Solid Ground LLC is a Native American, Hawaiian-owned 8(a) Certified General Contractor based in Provo. Joel Harris founded Solid Ground in 2013 after he turned 50 after…

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May 1

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Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year

Sally Johnson Green Light Booking Pleasant Grove Representing artists and helping them achieve their dreams With a background in the arts, Sally Johnson had been around many struggling artists. She saw that artists and musicians weren’t being fairly represented and had a dream…

Utah Rural Business of the Year

Martin Cole "Tug" Nay Nay's Meats Panguitch 70 years of serving Garfield County's farmers and ranchers Nay’s Meats is a fifth-generation custom slaughter and meat processing facility located in Panguitch. They have been serving the farmers’ and ranchers’ needs in the Garfield…

Women's Business Center: Helping women achieve their dreams

The Women’s Business Center of Utah (WBCUtah) helps women build confidence, create opportunities and experience success in business ownership. Their services include one-on-one advising, available in-person, online or via video call and group training taught by small-business…

Seeking small-business success in a post-pandemic world

Catherine Arik After Rip Van Winkle awoke from his 20-year slumber, Main Street in his village had changed. The cozy old inn he frequented with his friends had become a hotel with a bustling tavern of politically charged patrons. Two years after the pandemic began, we are…

Fortune 200 company bringing 150 manufacturing jobs to Utah

Brice Wallace A global manufacturing company will put a facility in Tooele and bring 150 jobs over the next several years to produce batteries for various companies. The $10 million Jabil Inc. project will be the company’s first in Utah. The Florida-based company has more than…

2 percent jobless rate makes Utah best in the nation

With an unemployment rate that continues to hover around 2 percent, Utah’s economy is still leads the nation in most respects. The jobs report for March showed the state’s unemployment edging back down from 2.1 percent to 2 percent, best in the U.S. That leaves about 33,400…

15th straight year: Utah leads in economic outlook

Fifteen years of ranking states according to their economic outlooks. Fifteen years for Utah to top those rankings. The annual “Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitive Index” once more has Utah with the best outlook. That ranking is a forecast based on a…

Incentives mean growth for Logan, LaVerkin companies, adding 300+ jobs

Brice Wallace A pair of Utah-based companies will add a combined 300-plus employees over the next few years as they expand at their headquarters cities. Campbell Scientific Inc. will add 268 jobs in Logan over 10 years, while Vitalpax Inc. will add 40 jobs in La Verkin over the…

Ariel Alternatives buys majority stake in SLC's Sorenson; Valuation set at $1.3B

Salt Lake City-based Sorenson, a global communications provider for people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, has announced that private investment firm Ariel Alternatives LLC has completed an acquisition of 52.5 percent of the company’s common equity from existing shareholders,…

Instructure buys Concentric Sky

Instructure Holdings Inc, an education technology company based in Salt Lake City, has acquired Concentric Sky, the makers of micro-credentialing tool Badgr. Currently the default micro-credentialing tool within Instructure’s Canvas LMS, Badgr will be rebranded as Canvas Badges…

Innovate Utah NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Lindon-based Manly Bands , a direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer of men’s wedding rings, has partnered Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Comics and released a collection of wedding rings inspired by DC Comics characters. The collection includes rings inspired by such…

Have a startup in mind? Pick any one of 7 Utah small cities

You just about can’t go wrong if you decide to start a business in Utah. Personal finance website WalletHub has ranked seven Utah communities among its 2022 Best Small Cities to Start a Business. Washington and St. George in Washington County ranked No. 1 and No. 2,…

Succeeding in Your Business: Expect these questions when you give employees stock options

Cliff Ennico “We started a business some time ago and have about 10 employees. “The business has done well, to the point where we want to give our employees options to acquire stock in our company. “We had our lawyer draw up a stock option plan and agreements granting options to…

10 ways to start feeling - and being - valued at work

Angela Civitella It’s happens, let’s face it. At some point in our working lives, we end up in a business environment where nothing we do is ever enough or validated. Feeling undervalued does one thing really well: It makes you feel stuck. If you’re not sure how to get unstuck…

Industry Briefs 4-25-22

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. COMMUNICATIONS • Sorenson , a Salt Lake City-based provider of language services and accessible…

Econ commission preps for 2nd year in uncertain economic times

Brice Wallace The Utah Unified Economic Opportunity Commission is diving into its second year of activity amid troubled economic waters. At its most recent meeting, the commission established working groups to focus on certain issues this year but also heard from an economist…

Inland Logistics breaks ground at Inland Port

Hamilton Partners Inc., an Illinois-based commercial real estate and development company, has broken ground on a 474,600-square-foot industrial facility in Utah’s Inland Port. Called Inland Logistics, the facility is located at 8080 W. 1400 N. and is a last-mile e-commerce…

Report touts Utah health benefits with conversion to electric cars

Brice Wallace Utah could avoid nearly 100,000 lost workdays caused by air pollution during the next three decades if the nation transitions to zero-emission vehicles, according to a new study. The American Lung Association’s “Zeroing in on Healthy Air” report projects that such…

Intermountain Healthcare completes merger with Colorado's SCL Health

Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Healthcare and SCL Health of Broomfield, Colorado, have completed their previously announced merger, Intermountain said in a press release. The two nonprofit organizations now serve communities in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Co-lorado, Montana, Wyoming…

Wheel Pros of Colorado acquires TeraFlex

Wheel Pros, a Greenwood, Colorado-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of aftermarket vehicle accessories for light trucks, SUVs, passenger cars and ATVs/UTVs, has acquired TeraFlex, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of aftermarket suspensions, shocks and other…

ARS buys Salt Lake's ESCO

Maryland-based American Residential Services (ARS), a major provider of residential heating, ventilation, air conditioning and plumbing services that also does business as Rescue Rooter, has acquired ESCO Heating, Air Conditioning, Plumbing and Electric of Salt Lake City. ESCO…

Boston Omaha acquires St. George ISPs

Omaha-based Boston Omaha Corp., through its St. George-based subsidiary FIF St. George, has completed the acquisition InfoWest Inc. and Go Fiber LLC fiber and fixed wireless Internet service providers also located in St. George. The InfoWest and Go Fiber businesses together…

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