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Technology goods fuel Idaho’s $1.4 billion export rally
"It proves how important high-tech is to our economy," said Georgia Smith of the Idaho Department of Commerce and Labor’s economic development division.
Spokane based SL Start grows at rapid clip – job placement for disadvantaged and market-rate retirement communities
The company places disadvantaged people in jobs and housing, and also works with developers to build and operate market-rate retirement communities.
Breaking ground … Construction of cheese factory begins in Idaho
former J.R. Simplot Co. processing plant in Heyburn to make way for a roughly $20 million cheese factory being built by Logan, Utah-based Gossner Foods.
Biotechnology firm closes shop
The business that local development leaders hoped would become a magnet for other high-technology companies focused on life sciences has closed. "I didn’t want to shut the company down, but where there was no support,…
Iboats.com sailing on a sea of success
Vassel, who funded the company himself, still has not taken any venture capital money. "It’s one of those things where you put in everything you possibly can," Vassel said. "You hock your home, your cars."
Three Boise companies among fastest-growing in U.S. – The Works, Treetop, and ProClarity make Inc. Magazine 500 list
Bruce Goode admits his business is a little off-kilter. That didn’t stop Inc. Magazine from prominently featuring Boise-based The Works Corp., an online garden goods retailer, as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Julie…
Video Internet Broadcasting Changes Name to Homenet Communications and Merges with Homenet Utah, Inc.
First iProvo provider merges with HomeNet Utah; retains name HomeNet Communications Video Internet Broadcasting Corporation (VIB TV) today announced it has changed its name to HomeNet Communications, Inc. and merged with HomeNet Utah, Inc., a…
BYU. dropout’s startup soars to top – uSight No. 2 on Inc.’s fastest-growing private companies
Not only did 16 Utah companies make the list, the state has the highest per capita number of Inc. 500 companies – 6.8 per 1 million residents. Virginia was a distant second with 3.9 per million residents. It’s the second year in a row that Utah held the lead in Inc. 500’s per capita winners.
Building a future in Utah – Biopharmaceutical industry has become a major player in the state’s economy
"State governments that support the biopharmaceutical sector are reaping a great economic reward," stated Alan Homer, president and chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
J.R. Simplot keeps potato business all in the family
”You have to understand that out here, farmers had sons so that the sons could run the farm,” Scott Simplot says. ”Our farm was a little bigger than average, but the idea still applies.”
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