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Nov 26

Hard to imagine not being there; nevertheless, you need a transition strategy

By Jeremy Miller If you’ve spent years thinking about or building your business, it may be hard to imagine the company without you at the helm. At some point, however, you’ll step aside and someone else will take charge. Whether you pass the business on to a family member, sell…

European effort to impose digital tax on tech giants far from over

By Veronique de Rugy Indications suggest that the Paris-led effort to impose EU-level taxes on cross-border digital services has stalled. Opponents correctly painted the effort as a blatant tax grab against American tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon — noting also that…

Smart trade pacts economically sound but have other benefits, too

By Fareed Zakaria It’s easy to get distracted by the circus of the Trump presidency. But what is its larger effect? For an answer to that question, take a look at three recent gatherings on the other side of the planet. Attended by all the major Asian countries, the ASEAN and…

Why do the Democrats not want to pass a tax cut for the middle class?

By Robert Pembroke I have become a lot smarter in my approach to my good liberal friends at Saturday’s breakfast. Some Saturdays I don’t join in the conversation about Trump and McConnell. Other Saturdays I will agree with them about Trump and McConnell if what they are saying…

Newsletter 11-19-18

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, November 19, 2018 If Utah became 'Crossroads of the World,' so can other states By Brice Wallace Acknowledging Utah's strength in international trade, several economic leaders recently hailed the…

If Utah became 'Crossroads of the World,' so can other states

By Brice Wallace Acknowledging Utah’s strength in international trade, several economic leaders recently hailed the state’s advancement from “Crossroads of the West” to “Crossroads of the World” and suggested that the Utah can share its success with other states and other…

Three companies will create 1,135 jobs through GOED tax incentives

By Brice Wallace Three companies have announced expansions that are expected to create a total of 1,135 jobs in Utah over the next few years. LendingClub Corp., Bullfrog Spas and Essence Global made the announcements after being approved for tax credit incentives by the…

Qualtrics calls off IPO, sells for $8 billion

The monster Utah IPO that was the talk of the tech industry and all over the local press earlier this month is off. When Provo-based Qualtrics’ CEO Ryan Smith announced his intentions to take his company public, the initial stock offering was universally expected to eclipse all…

Staff

Nov 19

Bullock to head Squire & Co.

Squire & Co. PC, an accounting firm with offices in Orem and Salt Lake City, has named Jonyce Bullock as CEO. Bullock was the managing partner of the firm and will continue as office managing partner of the Orem office. In addition, Squire & Co. announced that Shane Edwards has…

Staff

Nov 19

RMP proposes customer refund and efficiency charge decrease

Rocky Mountain Power has filed a proposal to issue a one-time refund of approximately $14.5 million and to decrease the customer surcharge for energy efficiency from approximately 3.66 percent to 3.54 percent of customer’s bills. If approved by the Utah Public Service…

Staff

Nov 19

Clarus acquires of skincare firm SKINourishment

Clarus Corp., a Salt Lake City holding company has acquired skincare company SKINourishment Inc. of Wimberley, Texas. Clarus focuses on acquisition of sport-enhancing products and high-growth potential category companies. SKINourishment markets organic, food-grade, plant-based…

Staff

Nov 19

Church to build SLC skyscraper

City Creek Reserve, the real estate arm of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has submitted preliminary planning documents for a major glass office building to be located on the northeast corner of State Street and 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City. The…

Staff

Nov 19

NetDocuments buys Closing Room

NetDocuments, a Lehi cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and compliance departments, has acquired Closing Room, a deal management application developed by Chicago-based Chapman and Culter Law that streamlines transactional closing…

Staff

Nov 19

Japanese public television comes to Utah

Japan’s English-language public television station is now available to cable and over-the-air viewers in Utah. NHK World-Japan has become available in the Salt Lake City market, thanks to a partnership between NHK World-Japan and KUEN Channel 9. KUEN is an educational…

Staff

Nov 19

SLC ranks No. 1 in nation for office net absorption growth

Buoyed by robust tech-sector employment growth, Salt Lake City ranks first for office net absorption growth among the 30 leading tech markets in the nation, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE’s annual Tech-30 report, which measures the tech industry’s impact on office…

Staff

Nov 19

‘Shop local, dine local’ supports our small-business heroes

By Dan Nordberg Every year after Thanksgiving, Americans kick off the holiday shopping season with big stores advertising deal after deal. Not long ago during the holiday season, Americans would typically visit locally owned small retailers in a downtown area to purchase all of…

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Nu Skin Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., based in Provo, reported net income of $53.1 million, or 94 cents per share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. That compares with $41.7 million, or 76 cents…

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Nov 19

Business Tech:You store food against an emergency; is your IT system ready for a disaster, too?

By David Black We all have either read or actually prepared in some way for natural disaster emergencies at home by storing some water, blankets, food with a long shelf-life and other essentials needed to survive without the basic amenities we are all used to. This is a…

Industry Briefs 11-19-18

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 • The Downtown Winter Market has opened at the Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande…

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Nov 19

They keep doing it: Another Republican capitulation on healthcare

By Veronique de Rugy Republicans have established a clear pattern on healthcare. First, they rail against whatever big-government scheme Democrats propose. Then, after a half-hearted and incompetent effort to convince the public of the benefits of a market-oriented system, they…

Is this current wave of nationalism taking the world back to the 1920s?

By Fareed Zakaria When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it’s just a bump on the road and that things will work out. President Obama was fond of invoking Martin Luther King’s assertion that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards…