Montana Business

Business is good. Stark stopped taking orders until later this summer while he gets caught up with what’s in the pipeline. And in a Friday evening reception at the Governor’s Residence, he stood atop his company’s floor and formally accepted a $250,000 woody biomass grant from the Forest Service for marketing his business.

Along Montana’s blue-ribbon trout streams, catch and release is the politically-correct fishing method in most angler circles.

"This contract is great news for S&K Electronics and for Montana. My top-priority is to create more good-paying jobs and boost our state’s economy, and this new contract will go a long way in accomplishing this," Baucus said. "I’m pleased to see that what started out as a meeting at my Jobs Summit in Great Falls a few years ago has blossomed into a mult-million dollar contract."

"Montana is reaping the benefits of international trade," said John J. Castellani, president of Business Roundtable. "The study suggests that trade is part of the reason Montana has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation."

“The key lesson is that communities that invest in the arts reap the additional benefit of jobs, economic growth, and a quality of life that positions those communities to compete in our 21st century creative economy,” asserted Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts.

The idea is to grow the oil seed for biofuels in Chester, and locally produce and sell the fuel, and the animal feed byproduct, said Brett Earl, one of the company’s partners.

“At the State of Montana, Human Resources wanted to help our 13,000 employees – and almost 6,000 retirees – efficiently and effectively manage their HR, policy, work/life and compensation/benefits issues. We began by deploying self-service solutions with PeopleSoft 8.9, but understood that this would provide for self-service transactions only.

Using sophisticated software tools, Computer ER is able to monitor and manage
customer’s networks 24x7x365.

The
program enables TomTom customers and web visitors to search more than
18,000 retailers in the TomTom database to easily and quickly find
pertinent store information nearest them, including store locations, hours
and phone numbers.

Searching for a co-packer for kitchen sauce, similar to BBQ sauce, in Montana.