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Industry Briefs 11-4-19

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. DIRECT SALES • USANA Health Sciences Inc. , Salt Lake City, has appointed Timothy Wood to its…

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Nov 4

How well are we served by our routine actions?

By Richard Tyson The word “routine,” used as a noun, is defined as “a sequence of actions regularly followed, a fixed program.” As a verb, it is the act of organizing a function or process according to specific activities consistently followed, as in “the system had been…

Succeeding in Your Business: Got a famous friend? Here's how to deal with celebrity endorsements

By Cliff Ennico “Some friends and I started a web-based business targeting people who play a particular sport. “As it happens, one of the leading players of the sport — a household name to fans — has discovered our website and absolutely loves it. We have approached him about…

Democrats’ wealth tax proposals demonstrate spooky economic ignorance

By Veronique de Rugy It’s open season on wealth and those who create it. Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination like Sen. Bernie Sanders, for instance, say that “Billionaires should not exist” and the wealth disparity in America is “a moral and economic outrage.”…

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Nov 4

Populist policies are leading to widespread protests, economic slump

By Fareed Zakaria Nine years ago, beginning in Tunisia, a series of street protests across the Middle East turned the region upside down and became known as the “Arab Spring.” At times in these past few weeks, it has seemed as if something similar was unfolding across the world.…

Newsletter - 10-28-19

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, October 28, 2019 Utah helping in development of personal air vehicle usage By Brice Wallace If a Singaporean company has its way, in a few years people will look up in the sky and see not a bird, not a…

Utah helping in development of personal air vehicle usage

By Brice Wallace If a Singaporean company has its way, in a few years people will look up in the sky and see not a bird, not a plane, but instead a bunch of PAVs. That company, NEO Aeronautics, is getting help from Utah state government in its quest to test and deploy PAVs, or…

Jobless rate still dropping, now sitting at 2.7%

Economists’ opinions vary on what constitutes effective full employment, but the range — usually between 4.1 percent and 4.7 percent, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve — certainly puts Utah in the “fully employed” category. The state’s jobless rate dropped another one-tenth…

Staff

Oct 27

Zions to cut 5% of its workforce, close branches

Zions Bancorporation NA, one of Utah’s hallmark public companies, will cut 5 percent of its workforce and will have what one bank official describes as “a modest trimming” in the number of its bank branches. The Salt Lake City-based company made no mention of those activities in…

Staff

Oct 27

Medical supply delivery drones will soon be zipping among the UofU hospitals and clinics

In the healthcare environment, life and death can come down to a matter of minutes — even seconds. On a large medical campus, such as the one at University of Utah Health, the delivery of medical samples, instruments, supplies, drugs and human tissue can take up a lot of that…

Staff

Oct 27

Workfront buys Boston firm

Workfront, a Lehi-based work management application developer, has acquired goal-management software marketer Atiim. With the addition of Atiim, based in Boston, Workfront will add Workfront Goals to its product offerings by early 2020. The company said its new software will…

Staff

Oct 27

Utah solar installations sold

First Solar Inc., a worldwide developer of solar generation installations based in Tempe, Arizona, has sold its Cove Mountain and Cove Mountain 2 projects in Iron County to D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) of New York City. The two solar installations are currently under…

Staff

Oct 27

Matin tabbed to head Avetta

Orem-based Avetta, a developer and marketer of cloud-based supply chain risk management software, has named Arshad Matin as president and CEO. The company’s board of directors said the move is effective immediately. Matin will also become a member of the board. Matin succeeds…

Staff

Oct 27

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 10-28-19

The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Zions Zions Bancorporation NA, based in Salt Lake City, reported net earnings applicable to common shareholders of $214 million, or $1.17 per share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. That…

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Oct 27

Succeeding in Your Business: Reviving the ‘Walking Dead’ corporation

By Cliff Ennico “In the late 1990s, I invented a product for the healthcare industry. I obtained patents for the product and registered trademarks for the product name. I even formed a corporation in Delaware and registered it in Texas, where my husband and I were living at that…

Don’t let the allure of the low-hanging fruit hold back your sales career

By John Graham When things aren’t going well, salespeople often give in to the quick and easy sale in an effort to get through the troublesome “dry spells.” Others become so addicted, they never reach higher. It’s easy to fall under the spell of the lure of “low-hanging…

Hospitality Lists

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Oct 27

Editorial Cartoon: Sky Is Green

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Oct 27

Industry Briefs 10-28-19

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 • All Star Bowling & Entertainment will open a new location at Valley Fair…

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Oct 27

Trump touts the ‘Great Deal of China,’ but at best, it’s a mini-deal

By Veronique de Rugy A trade deal with China could finally be here. It’s a good one, too, according to Pres. Donald Trump, who said recently, “So, we just made what, I guess, is one of the biggest deals that’s been made in a long time, with China.” He added, “If you look at the…

Trump’s Syria action is the result of a knowledge-free foreign policy

By Fareed Zakaria Has there ever been a foreign policy move that has produced more crises more quickly? Regardless of whether the ceasefire holds — the Turks describe it as a “pause” in their operations — Pres. Trump has allowed Turkey to unleash its forces on Syria, resulting…

Newsletter - 10-21-19

http://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, October 21, 2019 State releases 'roadmap' for future economic development Brice Wallace The captain of "Team Utah" has unveiled a new playbook.The team name often has been applied to organizations…

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Oct 21