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Cast Away Workplace Stress on a Utah River
“Fly fishing is my life,” says Mike Navidomskis, owner of Kaysville-based Mickey Finn’s Fly Box. “It’s everything—it’s artistic, it’s athletic, it’s aesthetic, it’s poetic.” Navidomskis, who also teaches fly fishing classes and hosts a KSL Radio f...
July 10, 2009
Money Market Accounts Offer Added Advantages to Savings
One positive result from the current economic recession is that more Americans are starting to save money. If you or your business is taking on this challenge by depositing cash in a conventional savings or checking account, you might be missing o...
July 10, 2009
Keeping Health Coverage Between Jobs
There are few things more difficult than losing your job. Along with unemployment comes a seemingly infinite number of worries, especially how you will afford health insurance. Though securing and financing coverage is much more challenging withou...
July 10, 2009
Common Legal Mistakes Can End Your Business Before it Starts
Lust, envy, gluttony, sloth, greed, anger and pride—those were the seven deadly sins to medieval men hoping to enter heaven. What are the serious mistakes that prevent today’s entrepreneurs from reaching their goals?
1. Creating the business en...
July 10, 2009
Utah Draws More Visitors from Abroad
While some Americans may not be traveling as far as Paris or Shanghai these days, the recession isn’t keeping international vacationers from visiting the U.S., including Utah. International tourism is up in Utah, a trend that brings big benefits t...
July 10, 2009
Stimulus Money Advances the Medical IT Industry
For at least three decades, technology companies and physicians have worked to transform the health care industry with information technology: electronic medical records, billing and scheduling software and systems to interface with other practice...
July 10, 2009
Experts Offer Tips to Keep Public Companies High and Dry
The past year has been a wild ride for Utah’s public companies. Overstock.com stock has gyrated from $29 per share to $7 and back to $12. Headwaters Incorporated stock has moved from $16 to $1.22 to $5. Merit Medical Systems stock has bounced from...
July 10, 2009
Utah’s technology industry continues to face the ongoing challenge of securing a qualified workforce. At our annual technology roundtable, industry experts discussed unique methods to educate, attract and retain top talent. The group also discusse...
July 10, 2009
Distributing New Opportunities
If XanGo CEO and President Robert Conlee could pick one word to describe his life and work, it would probably be kaizen—a Japanese word meaning continual improvement that not only defines his work ethic, but also the global experience he brings ...
June 9, 2009
Food Retailers Stir Up New Revenues
The tall, white chef hat, named the toque, has always been a symbol of culinary expertise and success. Now, Utah’s food-related retail stores are using it to fire up new interest in their products and capitalize on the recession-motivated trend to...
June 2, 2009
Financial Champions
With a struggling national and local economy, today’s CFOs play an increasingly vital role in securing a corporation’s future. Our CFO of the Year award recipients take on that challenging role and go beyond it, working side-by-side their CEOs to ...
June 2, 2009
Telecom Is Up and Running In Rural Utah
Widespread adoption of telecommunication technology is a two-way street. While using telecommunications advances business, if businesses do not honor the status quo, they can suffer dire consequences. Most successful companies have adopted as much...
June 2, 2009
Franchises Offer Low-risk Business Options
In business, as in life, there are no guarantees. But there are always smart ways to bet. For the victims of the current economic recession, the idea of leaving corporate America behind and finding their own personal piece of the pie has been more...
June 2, 2009
Passing On the Gifts
On any given weekend, you might find University of Utah Federal Credit Union CEO Jack Buttars in his self-made woodshop teaching his children a craft he loves. He knows the value of being groomed and taught by someone influential in life, since fo...
June 2, 2009
Three Utah Companies on the Mobility Fast Track
In today’s mobile world, business is rarely conducted strictly within the office. As businesses become mobile, Utah’s companies remain at the forefront, providing solutions that enable other businesses to run regardless of location. Here’s a look ...
June 2, 2009
