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Warner adds Sprinter van dealership in SLC

Salt Lake City’s Warner Truck Center has added a new Sprinter van dealership to its commercial transportation offerings. Warner Vans of Utah is a new, 18,000-square-foot dealership at the site of the company’s other dealerships and is the only stand-alone Sprinter facility in…

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Jan 28

Gens to head Springville interconnectivity developer

Springville-based ATL Technology has announced that David Gens has been appointed president and chief operations officer for the custom hardware interconnection products developer. The company also said that Brad Brown will remain chairman of the board and CEO. {mprestriction…

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Jan 28

Pathways aims to keep industry strong

Utah state government and an industry association have joined to create an IT Pathways program designed to meet workforce needs and keep the state’s tech industry humming. At the recent Silicon Slopes Tech Summit, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and Silicon…

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Jan 28

Kramer buys Kelle Transport, changes name, appoints prez

A Salt Lake City-based temperature-controlled trucking company has undergone some major changes, including new ownership, a name change and the appointment of a new president. Kelle’s Transport Service is now Soar Transport Group following the purchase of controlling interest in…

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Jan 28

Survey: Investors staying mostly bullish

Investors continue to be predominately bullish or very bullish on market performance, according to the latest quarterly survey of independent investors from Sandy-based Ally Invest Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ally Invest Group Inc., the brokerage and wealth management…

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Jan 28

Editorial Cartoon: Government Shutdown

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Jan 28

Real federalists need to step up and leave marijuana decision to the states

By Veronique de Rugy You would think that the Justice Department has better things to do than to restart a federal war on marijuana or that it would want to stay away from interfering with the will of the people in the 29 states — plus the District of Columbia — that allow at…

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Jan 28

Democrats don't realize they differ from working class on immigration

By Fareed Zakaria Today, Emmanuel Macron is the most admired world leader among liberals, centrists and cosmopolitans around the globe. He has managed to win the French presidency, enact reforms and stay relatively popular — all while speaking positively about the free market,…

New UofU president Watkins has a chance to help save the American Dream

By Robert Pembroke The American Dream is in trouble. According to a study (2015) made by Gallup, for the first time in decades, more businesses are dying than are being born. The trend lines — businesses being born and businesses dying — crossed in 2008. “Until 2008, startups…

Industry Briefs - 1-29-18

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. AGRICULTURE • Applications are being accepted until Feb. 16 for the third round of the Local…

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Jan 28

Newsletter 1-22-18

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, January 22, 2018 Huge St. George project to have retail, recreation and 10K homes By John Rogers A massive and ambitious master-planned community has been announced for the St. George area. Among the…

Huge St. George project to have retail, recreation and 10K homes

By John Rogers A massive and ambitious master-planned community has been announced for the St. George area. Among the largest developments ever in Utah, the 3,350-acre project, dubbed Desert Color, will consist of a commercial district, recreational facilities, a resort and…

Economy could see strength of last year - but some troubles, too

By Brice Wallace This year could see a repeat of Utah’s strong 2017 economy but also feature many of the same bugaboos that have challenged the state for several years. Economists and other experts gathered last week at the Utah Economic Outlook & Public Policy Summit, produced…

Consumers paying just a little more to live than last year

The increases don’t amount to much, but Wasatch Front consumers continue to pay just a little more to live than they did a year ago. The Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.1 percent from November to December and since last year, the rise is 3.6…

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Jan 21

Vote opens way for med school negotiations

By a vote of six to one, the Provo Municipal Council has approved a resolution to declare a portion of the East Bay Golf Course as surplus property, opening the way for negotiations to begin for the construction of a medical education campus on the site. {mprestriction…

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Jan 21

UTOPIA offers 10-gig service

UTOPIA Fiber, a fiber optic network based in Murray, has launched the state’s first 10-gigabit-per-second (10Gbps) fiber Internet service for residential subscription. The organization said that the service will give customers the fastest Internet service in the nation.…

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Jan 21

Predictive buys Minnesota firm

Predictive Technology Group, Inc. of Salt Lake City has acquired FlagshipHealth Group, a Minneapolis-based provider of sales and consulting services for the healthcare industry. Predictive Technology markets data analytics for disease identification and subsequent therapeutic…

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Jan 21

Provo/Orem country's Best-Performing City; SLC, St. George score highly

Utah County’s Provo/Orem area, with its robust high-tech sector and broad-based job and wage growth, is the Best-Performing City in the United States, according to the Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities 2017 Index. “Provo/Orem outperformed all other metros by a wide…

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Jan 21

SwipeClock acquires workforce software firm

SwipeClock LLC has an-nounced it has acquired Shugo, a provider of SaaS-based workforce products and services for small and medium-sized businesses. SwipeClock is developer of workforce management software based in Salt Lake City. SwipeClock said that the buyout allows the…

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Jan 21

SilencerCo looking for new CEO

SilencerCo, a West Valley City-based designer and manufacturer of firearm suppressors, known as silencers, has announced a change in company leadership. Founders Joshua Waldron and Jonathon Shults are stepping down — Waldron as CEO and Shults as president. The company’s board…

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Jan 21

Industrial real estate sector is booming outside Salt Lake County, too

By Don Enlow and Marcy Pitman CBC Advisors Over the past few years, numerous business websites and publications, including Forbes and CNBC, have pronounced Utah to be one of the best states for doing business. As you travel up and down I-15 along the Wasatch Front, you’ll see…

We all make mistakes; Here's how to avoid the stupid ones

By John Graham Most mistakes are just plain stupid. “I just wasn’t thinking,” we say. Stupid mistakes aren’t intentional. But the genie is out of the bottle. The damage is done. Sure, we can try to “minimize the damage” by claiming “we’re only human” and dismiss it with…