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Ogden depot is new home for KordUSA

KordUSA, a subsidiary of Australia-based electronics company KordTech, has opened an office and lab facility in Business Depot Ogden. The company held a ribbon-cuttng ceremony at the location earlier this month. Kord develops and produces technology that enables users to control…

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May 28

Accolo acquired by Orion Novotus

Orion Novotus, an Austin, Texas, recruiting company, has acquired Lehi-based Accolo. Accolo is a U.S.-focused recruitment process outsourcing company. Orion Novotus is part of the Orion Talent Co. group of recruitment firms. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.…

Staff

May 28

Changing sales narrative: Think like a customer or you may lose the sale

By John Graham “Don’t fall into the trap of thinking like a customer. If you do, you’re done!” This warning has been pounded into the heads of salespeople — and it will follow them until their last day on the job. Why is thinking like a customer dangerous? It’s the noxious…

Succeeding in Your Business: Does your business qualify as woman- or minority-owned?

By Cliff Ennico “My husband and I started a consulting business a while back and we are finding ourselves getting more and more business from government agencies and nonprofit organizations. There’s only one problem: Many of these people want to know if we are a ‘minority-owned…

Editorial Cartoon: Trump Tariffs

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May 28

Industry Briefs 5-27-19

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. ASSOCIATIONS • The Women Tech Council (WTC) has launched WTC Careers , a program that…

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May 28

If we needed a reminder that trades wars aren’t good, this is it

By Veronique de Rugy President Donald Trump and his supporters often tell us that he is fundamentally a free trader. The current trade war with China, they say, is simply the small price we must pay now for a world of much freer trade tomorrow, when all governments lower their…

Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy has created a less stable world

By Fareed Zakaria Donald Trump has seemed largely uninterested in foreign policy. He got excited briefly when he thought he could win a Nobel Peace Prize and hyped the danger of an imminent North Korean attack — so that he could play the peacemaker. When it became clear that a…

Newsletter - 5-20-19

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, May 20, 2019 Paiute group reaping benefits from growing business empire By John Rogers A relatively small group of Utah Native Americans has leveraged an opportunity suggested by a Cedar City…

Paiute group reaping benefits from growing business empire

By John Rogers A relatively small group of Utah Native Americans has leveraged an opportunity suggested by a Cedar City information technology company into a burgeoning business empire. The Cedar Band of Paiutes now runs multiple business enterprises that contribute mightily to…

More jobs coming to SLC, Hildale in So. Utah

By Brice Wallace A software company will grow by 485 jobs in Salt Lake City over the next five years and Hildale will be the site of a manufacturing operation that the city’s mayor calls “a game-changer” for that Southern Utah community. Announcements about those two projects…

Gas prices are again the cause of CPI going up

If you haven’t noticed the soaring gasoline prices along the Wasatch Front in recent weeks, you probably don’t drive a car. The average cost of gas at the pump jumped 31 percent in April alone and is the primary reason the Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI)…

Staff

May 18

Stayner Bates to join nationwide BKD group

Salt Lake City-based accounting firm Stayner Bates PC will become a part of BKD, a Springfield, Missouri, company with nationwide reach. The acquisition will take effect on June 1. “We want to extend a warm welcome to our new BKD team members,” said BKD CEO Ted Dickman. “Stayner…

Staff

May 18

Utah home price increase second in the nation

Utah ranks No. 2 in the nation for increasing home prices over the past year, according to a new study released by the financial website RefiGuide.org. The rankings were based on analysis of Zillow data from March 2018 through March 2019. Utah had a median home value increase of…

Staff

May 18

Utah joins 44 states in suit against generic drug makers

Utah has joined 44 other states in suing Teva Pharmaceuticals and 19 of the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers, alleging a broad conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices as well as reduce competition for more than 100 generic drugs. “The price-fixing…

Staff

May 18

Utah-China trade & investment forum creates opportunities for Utah businesses

World Trade Center Utah (WTC Utah) hosted a delegation of more than 100 high-level Chinese government and business leaders for a trade and investment forum at the Little America Hotel on May 11. The event, coordinated in partnership with the China Chamber of International…

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May 18

Miller to receive congressional Horizon Award

The Congressional Award Foundation has announced that it will honor Salt Lake City’s Gail Miller with its Horizon Award at the organization’s annual Gold Medal Ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 20. The foundation will honor the humanitarian leader and…

Staff

May 18

Control4 being acquired by North Carolina firm

A Salt Lake City manufacturer and marketer of smart home products, Control4, is being acquired by SnapAV, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based manufacturer of audio/visual, surveillance, networking and remote management products. SnapAV will acquire Control4 in an all-cash…

Staff

May 18

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 5-20-19

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Nature’s Sunshine Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc., based in Lehi, reported net income of $1.7 million, or 9 cents per share, for the fiscal first quarter ended March 31. That compares with…

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May 18

Succeeding in your Business: Winning first place in a business plan competition

By Cliff Ennico Twice a year, I have the honor of being a judge at the Connecticut Business Plan Competition, where students from business schools and undergraduate business programs throughout Connecticut compete for cash prizes and mentorship from leading business experts, in…

Editorial Cartoon: Labels

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May 18

Industry Briefs 5-20-19

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. ASSOCIATIONS • BioUtah has opened new offices in the Price Real Estate building at 230 E. South…

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May 18