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Film Commission touts busy 2018, looks ahead to 2019

The year 2018 was a busy one for the Utah Film Commission, as 550 film permits were approved across the state and 16 productions received incentives to shoot in Utah. The incentivized productions include feature films, four series, two documentaries and a TV pilot. The…

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Jan 14

Auric Solar buys Solaroo

Auric Energy of West Valley City has acquired West Jordan-based Solaroo Energy, a competing rooftop solar installation company serving Utah and Colorado. The acquisition reflects opportunities to offer a greater range of products and services to clients at all scale of projects,…

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Jan 14

Cox: Utah rebounds in rankings of tech concentration, dynamism

By Brice Wallace Last month, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox decried Utah’s slip in a Milken Institute ranking of states based on technology concentration and dynamism. Utah had fallen to 13th in 2016 despite holding the top spot for a decade. Well, Utah has regained its No. 1…

Utah Economic Summit set for Friday

One of the most prominent Utah economic events in the early part of 2019 takes place this week. The Utah Economic Outlook and Policy Summit, hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber in collaboration with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, takes place Jan. 18,…

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Jan 14

J.P. Morgan Private Bank hires staff, opens Salt Lake City office

J.P. Morgan has announced that it is expanding its Private Bank into Utah by opening a local office in Salt Lake City. Financial advisors Brian Swenson and Eric Smith will lead a team of local professionals who provide wealth management advice, strategies and services to…

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Jan 14

Industry Briefs 1-14-19

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. ECONOMIC INDICATORS • Utah is about average in a list of states most- and least-affected by the…

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Jan 14

Editorial Cartoon: Damn

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Jan 14

Come on, we can do this: Let's make 2019 a D.C. year to remember

By Veronique de Rugy Christmas is over, and the new year begins. Now Congress needs to go back to work and clean up the mess it left behind last year. Looking back, 2018 reveals a sad picture of what a Republican Congress and White House have failed to accomplish. Instead of…

From Illinois, finally a sign of intelligent life in the Democratic Party

By George Will Fareed Zakaria is on vaction this week. George Will is filling in. If Republicans have a lick of sense, they are alarmed by a recent sign of intelligent life in the other party. The sign is the election by Democrats in the House of Representatives of Illinois of…

UofU clinic hopes to reduce effects of opioids on pregnant women & their babies

By Robert Pembroke “University of Utah SUPeRAD Clinic Helps Addicted Pregnant Women.” That headline comes from an article published by University of Utah Health Sciences. I was surprised to learn that 20 percent of pregnant women are prescribed opioids in America. My daughter, a…

Is your technology meeting your business goals?

By Ingolf de Jong With 90 percent of U.S. consumers owning at least one smart device, personal technology is becoming more integrated every day. But is business technology keeping up? According to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte, no one method of communication will be…

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Jan 14

Newsletter 1-7-19

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, January 7, 2019 Outdoor products company to expand HQ, create 155 jobs Brice Wallace A globally recognized sporting goods company is deepening its roots in Ogden.Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Co., which…

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Jan 7

Outdoor products company to expand HQ, create 155 jobs

Brice Wallace A globally recognized sporting goods company is deepening its roots in Ogden. Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Co., which has had operations in Ogden since 2007, will expand its headquarters for its U.S. outdoor business and build a distribution center. The…

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Jan 7

New numbers suggest Utah job-growth slowdown

Job growth in Utah seems to be slowing as year-over-year numbers are coming up a few tenths of a point below previous months. Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for November grew by an estimated 2.9 percent, adding 43,000 jobs to the economy since November 2017, meaning Utah’s…

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Jan 7

Doubts creeping into Utah attitude about the future

Economic conditions in Utah remain strong but the state’s consumers are beginning to show some reservations about the future. The Zions Bank Utah Consumer Attitude Index (CAI) dropped 4.7 points to 115.8 in December. Anything above 100 still shows confidence in the economy, but…

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Jan 7

SkyWest Inc. sells unprofitable ExpressJet Airlines to United joint venture

St. George-based SkyWest Inc. has announced a deal to sell its ExpressJet Airlines Inc. subsidiary to ManaAir — a joint venture of United Continental and KAir Enterprises, an airline investment company — for $70 million in cash and the assumption of the liabilities of…

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Jan 7

SL Film Society launches effort to keep artists in Utah

In an effort to keep post-graduate animators, game designers and content creators in Utah, the Salt Lake Film Society (SLFS) has created a media accelerator studio called MAST. SLFS said the program will grow its Film Fostering & Education Initiative, which has fostered 150…

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Jan 7

Utah Association of Counties to lead Opportunity Zone management

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has selected the Utah Association of Counties to lead the state’s Opportunity Zone planning and implementation. The association will work with GOED in partnership with the Sorenson Impact Center and consultant Patrick Mullen…

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Jan 7

Avoiding the three deadly biases that lead to bad decision-making

By Richard Tyson At 11:37 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Seventy-three seconds later, it broke apart, killing all seven of its crew members.{mprestriction ids="1,3"} The night before the launch, a conference was held at Morton…

Industry Briefs 1-7-19

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. BANKING • Bank of Utah , Ogden, has established a foreign exchange department and appointed Doug…

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Jan 7

Editorial Cartoon: Diversified

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Jan 7

Business Tech: Here are six resolutions for a New Year free from IT drama

By David Black The new year is here. I hope you made it through unscathed. As we welcome the new year, keep these tips in mind as you create your New Year’s cyber resolutions for 2019. {mprestriction ids="1,3"} No. 1 - Education, Education, Education Cyber awareness training…