Phil Castle, The Business Times Dave Krogman oversees an operation that provides a wide range of aircraft maintenance and repair services. But the essence of the operation, he says, is building relationships with customers who trust the company to work on their airplanes. “This is very much a relationship business. Customers want to know the people […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Joe White remembers playing at Mesa Feed when his father operated the Grand Junction business, jumping on pallets stacked high with sacks of feed or staging a game of roller hockey on concrete floors. “To me, it was a big playground.” Now that White and his wife, Mita, own the […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Jon Labrum starts businesses almost as though he were following some sort of entrepreneurial shampoo instructions. Identify an opportunity. Launch a venture to serve the market. Repeat. Labrum first opened an information technology company, but then added two quick-service sandwich restaurants and a flight school. That’s not to mention a consulting […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times In the beginning there were pots and pans, expensive ones stacked up inside a kitchen cabinet, but difficult to pull out one at a time without moving the whole pile or scratching the nonstick surfaces. Jenny Hall believed there had to be a better way to store cookware without all […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Eric Goertz believes it’s important for manufacturers to make connections with other manufacturers, to learn more about what could be not only potential suppliers, but also customers. There’ll be no better chance than at a summit offering a one-stop networking venue for area manufacturers, says Goertz, chairman of the Western Colorado Manufacturing […]
Rob Griffin has been a builder most of his life. Through various jobs and his own ventures, Griffin has been involved with everything from apartment complexes to custom homes and even massive aquarium displays. The Grand Junction businessman takes on a far different task, though, as chairman of the Colorado Association of Home Builders executive […]
Jerry and Heather Smith have been involved in some elaborate projects, including a swimming pool and aquarium at a Las Vegas resort where guests not only swim next to a tank full of sharks, but also slide down a tunnel that passes through the tank. Talk about making a splash. Yet, that’s nothing compared to […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times A company that for more than a decade has provided services to the Department of Energy in Grand Junction plans to continue in that role under new ownership. S.M. Stoller Corp. will operate under the same name and staffing levels, but as a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries. While the acquisition […]
Greg Motz pulls out a copy of a map of an addition to Palisade, a two-block development with which his great-grandfather was involved in 1907. The document serves as an artifact of what’s long been a family tradition of building the community — both literally and figuratively. Four generations and more than a century later, […]
Increased hiring across a range of industry sectors is expected to pull down unemployment and push up business prospects in Mesa County in 2014, according to an annual forecast prepared at the University of Colorado. “Overall, Mesa County expects employment growth in the construction, aviation, aerospace, health care and food and beverage manufacturing industries,” states the […]