Phil Castle, The Business Times Connie Ferguson jokes that what started out as a craft show exploded into a department store. In looking for a location for an extended holiday arts and crafts show, Ferguson founded instead an enterprise that’s evolved far beyond her initial expectations in offering a year-round venue in which artists and […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Norma Roberts leads an impromptu tour through the StarTek center in Grand Junction, pointing out various features of the facility as she walks and talks: the training and conference rooms, the cafeteria and, of course, the massive space in which more than 800 employees answer telephone calls from the customers […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times An inventive entrepreneur who combined his passions for business and cooking to start a venture selling cheesecakes in jars expects to expand his operation with an East Coast location. By simultaneously tapping into larger markets and lowering shipping costs, Lee Mathis believes sales from a new facility in Virginia could […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Rock Cesario remembers well the predictions he’s heard over the years. Changing music technology would relegate vinyl albums to a dustbin of history already piled high with buggy whips. As it turned out, though, rumors of the death of records were always greatly exaggerated. Even in an age of iPhones […]
Bonsai Designs sells what it bills as world-class experiences. There’s the heart-pounding thrill of flying down ziplines suspended high above the ground, to be sure. But there’s also the quiet and contemplative pleasures of walking through forests and encountering nature up close and very personal. “We’re all about the experience,” says Thaddeus Shrader, chief executive […]
Scott Fasken tells horror stories about what happens to businesses when they don’t protect confidential medical and financial information. Thieves break into an office and steal computers. A thumb drive is lost. Bins full of documents headed to a shredder tumble off the back of a truck and wallpaper a busy city street. Endings are […]
Darin Carei brings all of his business enterprises together in a unique Grand Valley housing development that will offer energy efficient homes equipped with solar power. Moreover, the homes will offer affordability with models priced from $179,000 to $224,000. “We’re changing the way people think about new homes because we’re delivering it all,” Carei said. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Robert Bryce compares various sources of energy in part by density — how much power can be produced in a given amount of space. Such low-density renewable energy sources as wind and solar power simply require too much space to keep pace on a global scale with an increasingly power-hungry […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Rich Lopez envisions an organization that not only will help businesses, but also establish lasting connections with a growing Latino population in Western Colorado. “We have to connect the non-Latinos with the Latino people. What I’m doing is to provide a bridge to accomplish these things,” says Lopez, the president […]
As Colorado Mesa University grows, so does the role of CMU in the Western Colorado economy. According to an analysis of the 2011 and 2012 fiscal year, the Grand Junction-based university injected a total of almost $200 million into the regional economy through capital projects, employee wages, purchases and student expenditures. Add the indirect effects […]