Legislative Roundup • Companies that conduct vehicle safety inspections would be affected by a bill passed out by the House Revenue and Taxation Committee. HB298, sponsored by Rep. John Dougall, R-American Fork, wo...
SLC's Lorraine Press sold to Virginia-based communications firm Salt Lake City-based Lorraine Press, a graphic communications solutions provider founded in 1947, has been sold to Lewis Creative Technologies, a 90-year-old marketing communications firm based in ...
Earnings Roundup Huntsman Chemical manufacturer Huntsman Corp., with headquarters in Texas and Salt Lake City, reported net income of $105 million, or 44 cents per share, for the fourth quarter of 2011. That comp...
Essential oils firm to establish packaging facility in Lindon Orem-based dōTERRA, a direct-selling company that markets essential plant and flower oils in addition to products containing them, received permission from Lindon City last week to establish a bott...
Industry Briefs for week of Feb. 20, 2012 BANKING • Blue Dog Business Services, a Salt Lake City provider of credit card processing and other electronic payment products, has partnered with Utah Food Bank to roll out a program d...
Industry Briefs for week of Feb. 13, 2012 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT • Seven Peaks , a Utah operator of family entertainment and recreation facilities, has opened its newest fun center location in Sandy, after acquiring Karen Pullman’s Pro...
Industry Briefs for week of Feb. 6, 2012 ASSOCIATIONS • The Davis Chamber has joined with other chambers in northern Utah to form the Northern Utah Chamber Coalition, designed to promote legislative priorities that impact the ent...
Industry Briefs for week of Jan. 30, 2012 ACCOUNTING • Wisan, Smith, Racker, & Prescott LLP (WSRP), a full-service CPA firm, has relocated to 155 N. 400 W., Suite 400, Salt Lake City, in the historic Salt Lake Hardware Building ...
Industry Briefs for week of Jan. 23, 2011 BANKING • Utah Jazz fans can now show their support of the Jazz every time they use their new U.S. Bank Utah Jazz Visa Check Card. U.S. Bank, the sponsor of the Jazz and home of Jazz ban...
Industry Briefs for week of Jan. 16, 2011 ARTS/ ENTERTAINMENT • Visit Salt Lake is again sponsoring the Sundance Film Festival Café at the Beehive Tea Room in downtown Salt Lake Jan. 20-28. Located between the two main Salt L...
Industry Briefs for week of Jan. 9, 2012 ASSOCIATIONS • The Salt Lake Chamber is expanding the scope of the Capitol Club and has named the 2012 chair and vice chair for the program. Launched in 2010, the Capitol Club is compris...
Industry Briefs for week of Jan. 2, 2011 AGRIBUSINESS • New York-based Honeydrop, producer of natural teas and beverages made with a tablespoon of honey, has selected Knight Family Honey , Lehi, as its latest beekeeping partner...
Industry Briefs for week of Dec. 19, 2011 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT • Ballet West’s fourth-annual version of The “Nutty” Nutcracker will be held Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 31 at 2 p.m., featuring a sports theme. In year’s past, The “Nutty”...
Industry Briefs for week of Dec. 12, 2011 ASSOCIATIONS • The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum last week announced winners for its 2011 Annual UVEF Awards . Award recipients will be named in the following categories: Most Innovat...
Industry Briefs for week of Dec. 5, 2011 ACCOUNTING • Salt Lake City CPA firm Mantyla McReynolds was recently named as one of the 2011 Best Accounting Firms to Work For . The annual list of “Best Accounting Firms” was created by...
Industry Briefs for week of Nov. 28, 2011 ASSOCIATIONS • The Salt Lake Chamber has named Wesley Smith executive vice president of government relations and general counsel. In this role, Smith will oversee all the government rela...
Industry Briefs for week of Nov. 21, 2011 ASSOCIATIONS • ChamberWest, the regional chamber of commerce for the West Valley City, the City of Taylorsville and Kearns Township area, is launching a sister chamber of commerce to ser...
Industry Briefs for week of Nov. 14, 2011 BANKING • Steve Gleason has joined Bank of Utah as a vice president in business banking. Previously, Gleason worked for Wells Fargo Bank, where he most recently held the title of senior ...
Industry Briefs for week of Nov. 7, 2011 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT • Wells Fargo executive David Golden and Emmy Award-winning composer Kurt Bestor have joined forces to launch “Friends of the UPAC,” a group of arts organizations, patron...
Industry Briefs for week of Oct. 31, 2011 ACCOUNTING • Accounting Today , the business magazine for the tax and accounting community, recognized Parnell Black , CEO of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (N...
Industry Briefs for week of Oct. 24, 2011 BANKING • Ogden-based TAB Bank has appointed Mike Coon as vice president of its newly created commercial equipment leasing division. He will be based out of Grand Rapids, Mich. He has more th...
Industry Briefs for week of Oct. 10, 2011 BANKING • Scott Nicholls has joined Capital Community Bank as the Orem office manager and mortgage loan officer. He has been working in the financial and banking industry for the last 11 year...
Industry Briefs for week of Oct. 3, 2011 COMPUTERS/SOFTWARE • South Jordan-based Allegiance Inc. , a provider of “VOCi” (Voice of Customer Intelligence,) has expanded its engineering and software development team to address growing dem...
Industry Briefs for week of Sept. 26, 2011 COMPUTERS/ SOFTWARE • Gordon Eubanks, microcomputer industry pioneer and former CEO of Symantec Corp. and Oblix, has joined the board of directors of Solera Networks, a South Jordan-based net...