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Stepping up to meet new challenges

People and businesses across Utah are working hard to thrive and grow. Here are some inspirational ‘In Utah’ stories.

Utah Women Talk Business Tips and Advice
Utah Women Talk Business Tips and Advice

It seems like everyone has a side hustle these days, but women business owners aren’t just a fad or a passing phase. Susan Peterson, Annie Auernig, and Julie Hanks, three Utah business owners, shared their experiences starting a business and offered advice for women...

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El’s Pampered Paws
El’s Pampered Paws

El’s Pampered Paws is one of central Utah’s premier dog training, daycare, and boarding facilities. It supports dog owners to raisehappy, well-adjusted canine friends. While dogs are indeed the center of this company, El’s Pampered Paws recognizes its services are...

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Dyno Nobel Inc.
Dyno Nobel Inc.

Dyno Nobel is a global leader in the commercial explosives industry. It leads the way with hardware and software solutions that provide accurate predictions, improve production, and reduce costs in the explosives industry. How Dyno Nobel Inc. Champions Women Dyno...

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GMRE
GMRE

GMRE is a veteran-owned small business that provides engineering and technical services for defense businesses. The company’s technical services include end-to-end program management and avionic support. How GMRE Champions Women  GMRE supports women in leadership...

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Go1
Go1

Go1 is a learning and development library that helps companies streamline training and manage and distribute content for eLearning creators. It also establishes a learning ecosystem for a thriving workforce. Its Content Hub makes learning personal and accessible,...

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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management, and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the firm's 80,000-plus employees serve clients worldwide including...

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Spectrum Recruiting
Spectrum Recruiting

It is proven that diversity in the workplace can lead to more innovation, creativity, and revenue. However, fewer than 20% of engineering jobs in the United States are held by women. That’s why, as a strategic recruiting partner with a focus on manufacturing and...

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Recursion
Recursion

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Recursion is a clinical biotechnology company working to solve some of the most significant problems facing human health today. It’s building the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical data atlas and industrializing drug...

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San Francisco House Native American Jewelry
San Francisco House Native American Jewelry

Despite what its name suggests, San Francisco House Native American Jewelry is a Utah-based company that employs women of the Navajo Nation to make authentic handmade Native American jewelry. The company champions women employees with flexible benefits and...

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ARUP Laboratories
ARUP Laboratories

ARUP Laboratories (ARUP) is a national nonprofit and academic reference laboratory serving the diagnostic testing needs of clinicians and their patients throughout the United States. ARUP’s research and testing services are led by an innovative team of pathologists,...

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Silvester & Company
Silvester & Company

Established in 1994, Silvester & Company is a small women-owned boutique executive search firm. With a passion for matching the right candidate to the right organization, it looks for leaders passionate about leaving positive impacts on companies, industries, and...

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Stratos Creative Marketing
Stratos Creative Marketing

The landscape of the marketing industry has changed dramatically over the last several decades. What was once dominated by print media has been taken over by digital advertising mediums. And an industry that was predominantly men has made room for women. Utah-based...

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St. George City
St. George City

When the Utah Women & Leadership Project study revealed the number of women leaders in St. George City was a mere 13%, local officials and employees decided to take action. Since then, city leaders, employees, and citizens have looked for ways to make championing...

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Utah Valley University
Utah Valley University

Utah Valley University (UVU) is committed to student success as an open-admission institution. While the university offers more than 250 degree options to more than 43,000 students, its class sizes average 23 students. Small class sizes allow staff to focus on...

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RevRoad
RevRoad

RevRoad likes to think big. The company offers various venture services to help companies grow, such as increasing pipeline sales, hiring new talent, building operations, or expanding to new locations. RevRoad has the expertise, skills, and guidance to make it happen....

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Pura
Pura

Pura creates safe, sustainable, and socially responsible home fragrances. Its fragrances are produced without harmful chemicals or animal testing. Each fragrance is designed by master perfumers using globally sourced ingredients compounded in the United States. Pura’s...

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Catalyst Campus
Catalyst Campus

Catalyst Campus Utah creates ecosystems where government and private contractors interface to advance programs with new technologies. Small contractors, entrepreneurs, academics, and government employees collaborate in research and development labs to accelerate...

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Tech Moms
Tech Moms

Three tech-savvy Utah women founded Tech Moms, and its business model is solely focused on women. By boldly proclaiming, “You can have a rewarding career and still make it to your kids’ soccer games,” the organization supports Utah women in business. Its robust...

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Brandless
Brandless

When it comes to taking care of your health, body, and home, Brandless has a corner on the market. Because the company is passionate about wellness, it supports Utah women in business by providing a wellness website that sells products that help individuals be their...

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Squire
Squire

Women make up 44% of the labor force in Utah, yet they only hold 4% of leadership positions in the finance industry. Utah-based accounting firm Squire noticed this disparity and is making strides to equalize those numbers. Through its efforts, the company champions...

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Beehive Meals
Beehive Meals

As a company whose goal is to restore the magic of family dinners, Beehive Meals supports women in business and the home by providing opportunities for them to earn an income while maintaining flexibility. How Beehive Meals Champions Women As a mother of young...

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Lending Club
Lending Club

Lending Club has helped Americans reach financial goals since 2007. With over four million members, it has helped its members achieve their financial goals by giving them access to many financial products and services that help individuals earn more when saving and...

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UAMMI
UAMMI

Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) employees may be few, but their impact on women in the workplace is making a big impression on many. From its focus on empowering partnerships with the Girl Scouts of Utah to a returnship program for women...

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Moxie Law
Moxie Law

Women at Moxie Law are the new superheroes. The female team of personal injury attorneys is dedicated to accepting clients when it knows it can get them the compensation they deserve. With this in mind, the team is passionate about doing what is best for its clients,...

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Comma Copywriters
Comma Copywriters

Comma Copywriters is more than just a content marketing company; it’s a company that focuses on creating a work-life balance for every employee. Four of the seven leadership team members, including the founder, had babies last year and took three to four months of...

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97th Floor
97th Floor

97th Floor is an award-winning digital marketing agency focused on helping small businesses improve their online visibility. Composed of marketers, graphic designers, and pay-per-click specialists, the company offers a full range of digital marketing services to...

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Ballet West Academy
Ballet West Academy

While commemorating six decades of helping shape the face of American ballet this year, Ballet West Academy celebrates the incredible strides it makes in championing women across the Wasatch Front. How Ballet West Academy Champions Women With four campuses from Salt...

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Women In Tech Council
Women In Tech Council

Women make up just over 25% of the technology industry, a staggeringly low number considering this demographic makes up close to 52% of the general workforce. Careers in technology can be more flexible, higher paying, and have more work-from-home opportunities–options...

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Tina Larson Encourages Discomfort With Inequality
Tina Larson Encourages Discomfort With Inequality

As the daughter of an electrical engineer, Tina Larson has been around engineers her entire life, but growing up, she never saw anyone who looked like her. She didn’t let that stop her from pursuing an education and career in STEM. Today, she is the president and...

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Instructure
Instructure

Instructure is a Utah-based software company that makes education more accessible. You have probably heard of the company's brainchild–Canvas Studio–a collaborative next-generation video-learning platform. The rollout of this online learning platform turned the...

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Dr. Angela Trego Helps Individuals Find Success
Dr. Angela Trego Helps Individuals Find Success

It’s often hard to see if personal efforts to make a difference or create change are successful. However, Dr. Angela Trego, a mechanical engineer and businesswoman whose list of degrees, work experience, awards, and accomplishments is seemingly endless, feels we often...

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The Women’s Leadership Institute of Utah
The Women’s Leadership Institute of Utah

Formed in 2015, The Women’s Leadership Institute of Utah (WLI) supports women in business. It shines a light on the lack of women in leadership roles in corporate and political settings. Supporting women is in the organization's DNA through career and leadership...

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Wasatch Front Regional Council
Wasatch Front Regional Council

Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) plans and builds roads and transportation projects throughout Utah–but not only in a literal sense. The organization is dedicated to helping women find their path in the workplace by providing support, fair pay, flexible schedules...

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UVU President Leads By Example
UVU President Leads By Example

As Astrid Tuminez puts it, her path to becoming the seventh president of Utah Valley University (UVU) looks more like a zig-zag than a straight line. Her life’s journey started in the slums of the Philippines. Still, her work and education took her around the globe...

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Rita Magalde: Bringing People Together Over Baklava
Rita Magalde: Bringing People Together Over Baklava

How does a woman born in New York end up with a Greek baklava bakery in Utah? Rita Magalde, the owner of Sheer Ambrosia Gourmet Desserts, is familiar with this question. The short answer is she learned how to make baklava from a Greek family she worked for in high...

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VentureCapital.org
VentureCapital.org

VentureCapital.org found the disparity in investing in women-led startups problematic. In 2018 only 2.8% of investment capital went to women entrepreneurs. Women-led startups deliver twice as much per dollar invested versus those started by men (78% per dollar versus...

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CHG Healthcare: Empowers Women To Grow in Their Careers
CHG Healthcare: Empowers Women To Grow in Their Careers

The CHG Healthcare story began in 1979 when a University of Utah physician developed the concept of locum tenens (traveling physicians) as a way to deliver much-needed medical care to rural areas across the country. More than 40 years later, CHG has become one of the...

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Sweet Hazel & Co Demonstrates the Power of Community
Sweet Hazel & Co Demonstrates the Power of Community

Felicia Henson, or “Chef Fee” as she’s known in the culinary world, didn’t overthink things when she transitioned from sous chef to bakery owner. After testing the idea out from her home kitchen, she rented a commercial kitchen and opened her bakery, Sweet Hazel &...

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Struck
Struck

The creative agency Struck is accustomed to disrupting industry standards. It’s no surprise the company supports women in business and even less surprising to find its efforts are helping establish a new industry standard among creative firms. How Struck Champions...

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Salsa Queen Shares Her Recipe For Success
Salsa Queen Shares Her Recipe For Success

What’s the secret to being a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur? According to the Salsa Queen, the winning recipe is about finding your passion, creating something with love, surrounding yourself with the right people, and getting moving. For the Salsa Queen...

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Clyde Companies: Championing Women While Leading the Way
Clyde Companies: Championing Women While Leading the Way

Clyde Companies is one of the largest privately-owned enterprises in Utah, spanning the construction, concrete, aggregates, building materials, land development, and insurance industries. It owns and supports the needs of eight subsidiary organizations, including WW...

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Tracy George: Mentors Can Change Your Career Path
Tracy George: Mentors Can Change Your Career Path

Tracy George, MD, knows the power of a great mentor. George, a professor of pathology at the University of Utah and the president and chief scientific officer of ARUP Laboratories, might have taken a different career path if it weren’t for a mentor. Just as her mentor...

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Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs isn’t just a global leader in financial services; it also supports Utah women. Take a look at how the company supports women and how it sets an example for other companies. Goldman Sachs Champions Women One notable way Goldman Sachs champions women is...

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Wilson Electronics: Women Are on the Move
Wilson Electronics: Women Are on the Move

Since 1997, Wilson Electronics, based in St. George, Utah, has been the industry leader in cellular repeater technology. The company holds over 250 patents, and it manufactures two U.S.-built brands of cell signal boosters. Its weBoost products improve signal in...

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Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy is a natural power company that operates in nine states, including Utah, and has the second-largest solar portfolio in the country. However, the most impressive thing about the company might be the way it supports women. Dominion Energy Champions Women...

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Park City Lodging: Women Empowering Women
Park City Lodging: Women Empowering Women

As a women entrepreneur of one of the largest vacation rental companies in Park City, Rhonda Sideris knows firsthand the challenges women face in the workplace. Not someone who shies away from a challenge—as her previous walks of life as a bull rider, white water...

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Dominion Energy: Actions Speak Louder
Dominion Energy: Actions Speak Louder

Dominion Energy Utah provides reliable, safe, and affordable natural gas service to almost 1.2 million customers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming that energize homes, businesses, and the lives of Utahns. Headquartered in Richmond, VA, Dominion Energy is a leader in the...

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Digital Respons-Ability
Digital Respons-Ability

Parents and teachers know unfettered access to the internet through phones, tablets, and computers negatively impacts kids, but they have no idea what to do about it. Using data, science, and cutting-edge research, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead developed a curriculum and...

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Clozd
Clozd

Clozd is a Utah-based business that helps companies understand their win/loss data so they can use those insights to win more often. It’s no surprise that Clozd supports women since the data shows women in tech often leads to increased revenue, better morale, and a...

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Intermountain Healthcare: Exceeding Employee Expectations
Intermountain Healthcare: Exceeding Employee Expectations

Intermountain Healthcare is an integrated, nonprofit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah, serving the healthcare needs of people across the Intermountain West and beyond. The organization focuses on providing high-quality care that is accessible and affordable...

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Aviva Woman
Aviva Woman

What if you created a woman-centric company that seamlessly synthesized biology and hospitality into a cohesive whole? Introducing Aviva Woman, the premier med spa revolutionizing women's health and wellness. Suzi Sands has seamlessly blended biology and hospitality...

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Paths for Women are Bright at Zions Bancorporation
Paths for Women are Bright at Zions Bancorporation

Whether mentoring promising female employees or monitoring pay equity, Zions Bancorporation supports employees with programs and policies that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. When Zions Bank opened for business in 1873, five of the first 15 depositors...

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Clearfield City
Clearfield City

Clearfield City is raising the bar for other Utah cities when it comes to empowering women in the workplace. With an impressive 173 women employees, 16 serving as supervisors, eight as managers, and five selected to participate in the city's leadership academy, it is...

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Big Dill Pickleball Co.
Big Dill Pickleball Co.

When Katy Luxem moved to Utah in 2018, she joined a roller derby team to meet people. She loved the community but decided to hang up her skates after breaking both ankles in separate instances. She picked up pickleball, a sport she had grown up playing in Seattle, to...

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Bonsai Bai Me
Bonsai Bai Me

For Mckenna Sontag, bonsai was a hobby before she started her business Bonsai Bai Me. She would casually get together with her friends and do it for fun, but she never imagined her hobby would turn into a business.  Starting in 2022, she took some time to re-evaluate...

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MagTrax: Providing Screen-Free, Clutter-Free Entertainment
MagTrax: Providing Screen-Free, Clutter-Free Entertainment

In March 2019, just one week into the COVID-19 pandemic, Bryan Stringham’s household clutter was at an all-time high, and entertainment options were at an all-time low. Shortly after that he had a stroke of inspiration. “I had to create something that would be...

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Hale Centre Theatre: Operating in an Arts friendly State
Hale Centre Theatre: Operating in an Arts friendly State

“It has been a tumultuous year,” said Quinn Dietlein, vice president and executive director of Hale Centre Theatre. “Even though the arts have become a particularly hard-hit industry during the pandemic, Hale Centre Theatre has embodied the popular show business phrase, ‘The show must go on.’”

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Natural History Museum of Utah: A welcoming place to safely learn
Natural History Museum of Utah: A welcoming place to safely learn

When the Natural History Museum of Utah closed in March 2020 to help slow the spread of COVID-19, it thought it would be dark for just a week or two. By mid-April, however, it became clear that their “temporary” closure would be extended. Staff members began to prepare for an extended shutdown. 

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Eva Restaurant: Facing COVID-19 With Determination and Optimism
Eva Restaurant: Facing COVID-19 With Determination and Optimism

Before the pandemic hit, Eva Restaurant was the busiest it had ever been. After 12 years on Salt Lake City’s Main Street, the restaurant was growing, with a record number of employees on its payroll. That quickly changed when the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, and the protocols for running a restaurant changed drastically.

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Sweet Tooth Satisfied
Sweet Tooth Satisfied

Last spring, The Sweet Tooth Fairy owners on Foothill Drive weren’t sure they would be able to keep the bakery open.

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The Homestead Resort Reimagined
The Homestead Resort Reimagined

Located in the picturesque Heber Valley, the Homestead Resort in Midway offers its guests a wide variety of activities to choose from on its 168-acre property.

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Connecting Leaders With Nature
Connecting Leaders With Nature

Leadership is a journey. However, few leaders embark on the type of journey that fosters greatness. That journey is best described as a pilgrimage, a Leadership Pilgrimage.

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Unleashing Your Inner Artist
Unleashing Your Inner Artist

Jill Johnson, the owner of The Paint Mixer, now says, with a little bit of hindsight, she is grateful for her business being inspired by the late iconic public television personality Bob Ross. One of Ross’s mantras was, “there are no mistakes, only happy accidents,” which is how she approached the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on her business.

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Patented Zipper Technology Delivers Five-Finger Freedom
Patented Zipper Technology Delivers Five-Finger Freedom

This year, when ski resorts and shops began shutting down in March due to COVID-19, it cut the company’s revenue stream, which it relies on to survive in its offseason. Several retail partners delayed or canceled orders for next season, causing inventory risk and cash flow issues for 12 months out.

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CHG Healthcare: Staying Connected From Afar
CHG Healthcare: Staying Connected From Afar

The pandemic is quickly changing how we work and where we work. That means companies need to adapt the way they lead and engage their workforce. Because employees are more likely to be engaged in their jobs if they feel a sense of connection and belonging with their coworkers, creating that connection is more important than ever.

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Relaxation at PuraVida On Main
Relaxation at PuraVida On Main

The PuraVida On Main spa, located on historic Main Street in Park City, has a goal to be present in the lives of those around us by giving grace and respect to one another and the community.

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Urban Neighborhood Dining at Carson Kitchen
Urban Neighborhood Dining at Carson Kitchen

Urban Neighborhood Dining at Carson KitchenSpecializing in creative American cuisine and thoughtfully crafted cocktails, Carson Kitchen is built on a philosophy of reimagined comfort food prepared with approachable fine-dining ingredients.

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Shaping History Through Sculpture
Shaping History Through Sculpture

Shaping History Through SculptureCreating unique and specialized statuary for clients from around the globe is what MARBLECast Product, Inc., aka STATUES.COM, has been doing for over 25 years.

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Top Shelf Helps Maintain Social Connections
Top Shelf Helps Maintain Social Connections

Getting together in social settings while enjoying cocktails is a favorite pastime for many Americans. Whether it’s celebrating life’s occasions or relaxing after a long work week, cocktailing has always been a central part of social networking, and Top Shelf has been a part of Utah’s social scene since 2008.

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Domo Helps Companies Get Back to Work
Domo Helps Companies Get Back to Work

To help companies respond to each phase of COVID-19 and manage intelligence from various sources, American Fork-based business cloud provider Domo created the Get Back To Work Command Center. The Center provides a new solution for corporations to protect their most important asset: their people.

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Earnest Offers Relief to Clients During COVID-19
Earnest Offers Relief to Clients During COVID-19

When the pandemic hit in March, Earnest’s leadership team acted quickly to ensure a smooth transition to work from home and continues to give employees the flexibility to balance work with personal life with schools and daycare closing.

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Podium Starter Keeps Businesses Open During COVID-19
Podium Starter Keeps Businesses Open During COVID-19

Aiming to assist local businesses’ recovery from the pandemic, Podium, the leading customer messaging platform for local businesses, released Podium Starter, a free suite of tools designed to enable local businesses to adapt to the new normal by texting their customers.

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A Touch of Elegance
A Touch of Elegance

Sean Bradley’s unwavering commitment to excellence, his community and customers, are trademarks of this entrepreneur.

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