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Visible acquires Ohio-based Trade Global

Visible Supply Chain Management of Salt Lake City, a shipping and fulfillment services company for small to midsize businesses, has announced it has purchased the assets of Trade Global out of bankruptcy and has decided to continue operating the business. Based in West Chester,…

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Dec 21

Three-year grant will expand composites training program from Davis Tech

A composites manufacturing institute has been awarded a $5 million grant for a three-year program to expand a composites training program led by Davis Technical College to other locations in the U.S. The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), based…

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Dec 21

Coal Country Strike Team launches with agreement to help Utah's impacted areas

The Utah Coal Country Strike Team has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement to help Utah’s Coal Country (Carbon and Emery counties) diversify their economy. The agreement puts in place local leadership for the execution of the Utah Coal Country Strike Team work plan, which…

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Dec 21

CenExel acquires Florida research firm

CenExel Clinical Research, Inc., a Salt Lake City-based company that specializes in the medical and scientific support for the design and execution of clinical trials, has acquired Research Centers of America (RCA) in Hollywood, Florida. The acquisition brings to five the number…

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Dec 21

SL Mattress to make Restonic

Utah-based Salt Lake Mattress & Mfg. Co. has reached a licensing agreement with Restonic Mattress Corp. under which the Salt Lake bedding company will begin manufacturing Restonic products and distributing to retailers in the Intermountain West. Buffalo, New York-based Restonic…

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Dec 21

Succeeding in Your Business: Breaking up (without an agreement) is hard to do

By Cliff Ennico “I am the 80 percent owner of a limited liability company (LLC) that runs an Internet marketing and website design firm. I basically do all of the work. My 20 percent partner only functions as a part-time intern, gofer, secretary or administrative assistant. We…

Things are TRENDING UP DOWN SOUTH

The strength of Utah’s Dixie is in its planning By Chris Knoles Born in 1850 in Switzerland, 9-year-old John Stettler Stucki arrived in Salt Lake City after walking across the plains with his family and other pioneer settlers. His time in northern Utah was short, as Brigham…

Cedar City has some real advantages

By Danny Stewart In January 2017, Gov. Gary Herbert challenged Utah businesses to create 25,000 jobs in the state’s rural counties by the end of 2020. The Cedar City area took that challenge seriously. In just two years from the governor’s request, 2,172 new jobs were created in…

Industry Briefs 12-23-19

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 • The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, at its December…

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Dec 21

Editorial Cartoon: Nincompoops

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Dec 21

Will the Fed edge out the competition with its real-time payment system?

By Veronique de Rugy Imagine what it must be like for private companies that have invested in a new technology and suddenly find out they have to compete with a tax-supported government agency — the very one that also regulates the industry. That’s what happened when the Federal…

Impeachment in America is part of a troubling trend around the globe

By Fareed Zakaria At first glance, the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump might seem to be a specifically and narrowly American matter. But if you look around the world, you see that it is part of a deeply worrying global trend. In country after country, we are…

Newsletter - 12-16-19

http://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, December 16, 2019 It's not OR, but there's a new outdoor show coming to town By John Rogers Entrepreneurs Sutton Bacon and Darren Bush think they have just what the outdoor industry needs - another…

It's not OR, but there's a new outdoor show coming to town

By John Rogers Entrepreneurs Sutton Bacon and Darren Bush think they have just what the outdoor industry needs — another trade show. In conjunction with Visit Salt Lake, the longtime outdoor products retailers announced last week that The Big Gear Show has scheduled its…

Panel concludes SLC could catch Silicon Slopes

Brice Wallace Utah County and the south end of Salt Lake County are getting a ton of focus for being the tech hub for Utah, but a panel last week said Salt Lake City has all the ingredients to catch up if not surpass that region. In a discussion about the state of technology in…

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Dec 14

Layton Construction to join New York's STO Building Group

Sandy-based Layton Construction has become part of STO Building Group of New York City in what the two entities are calling a merger. According to a release from the companies, the deal “will allow both firms to leverage each other’s geographic reach to better serve clients with…

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Dec 14

Chamber speaker: Addiction silence permeates workplace, leads to stigma

By Brice Wallace James Hadlock has zero use for zero-tolerance. A one-time entrepreneurial multimillionaire whose corporate success contrasted with his addiction to drugs, Hadlock believes that companies with zero-tolerance policies to address addiction in the workplace are…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 12-16-19

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 $10.5 million, or 24 cents per share, for the quarter ended Nov. 2. That compares with $12.4…

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Dec 14

10 firms win Utah Innovation Awards

Ten innovations were winners in the 17th annual Utah Innovation Awards program, presented by Stoel Rives LLP and Silicon Slopes. The program recognizes innovations and the Utah companies that created them. Award recipients are: • Clean Technology and Energy : Robust and…

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Dec 14

PMI's Hart moves to CEO, Itaya becomes president

Lehi-based Property Management Inc. (PMI), a franchisor of property management solutions, has shuffled its top management. Co-founder Steve Hart has moved from company president to CEO and Danessa Itaya, formerly senior vice president, has been promoted to president. The…

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Dec 14

TAB Bank acquires BAMFi’s $46M BAM Capital division

Ogden-based TAB Bank has finalized the acquisition of payment processing services company BAMFi’s BAM Capital division and its $46 million loan portfolio. This is TAB Bank’s fourth completed acquisition of a working capital loan portfolio. As part of the acquisition, TAB will…

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Dec 14

Simplus buys U.K. firm

Salt Lake City-based Simplus, a Salesforce quote-to-cash software advisory, implementation and managed services company, has acquired Clout Partners, a Salesforce partner headquartered in London, England, with a subsidiary in Dublin, Ireland. This will be Simplus’ seventh…

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Dec 14