Montana Business

"When I finished school, I realized that I wanted to put my business degree and my past business experience to work and go into business for myself."

ZAF President David Wilkins said. "What we’ve invented here is the best nickel-zinc placement product in the world."

SoFi launched in 2011 as a company that offered to refinance student loans at a cheaper rate. It has since expanded and is one of the leading businesses attempting to disrupt the existing lending model dominated by banks.

SmartLam in Columbia Falls is one of the first manufacturers of cross laminated timber in the country.

Debate over this mine proposal is not whether mining is important. It is. However, there are appropriate locations for mines, and Montana’s Smith River country is not one of them. When the risks are this considerable, no one should gamble with our future. Mines are ephemeral. The Smith River must endure forever.

On the same day state officials announced that Montana’s unemployment rate fell to 4.1 percent in September, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation ranked Montana sixth in the nation for innovation and entrepreneurship and 10th for its business climate.

The Business Improvement District and the city of Helena are working on a master plan for the downtown through an effort led by the WGM Group of Missoula, which also has an office in Helena.

ExporTech™ is coming to Montana this November. This nationally recognized progam has been proven to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers boost their exports.

25 percent (79 voters) said workers at standing desks should get a discount on their health insurance premiums.

Alario, 27, now a grad student at the UM school of business, said there is plenty of water in Montana and plenty of women who need fashionable swimsuits that they can move in.