Salt Lake City


Shell Games

She sells seashells down by the seashore, as the famous tongue-twister goes. He, on the other hand, sells corporate shells in Salt Lake City and Denver, a...  Read story

Business for Sale: Looking for Heady Growth?

Looking for heady growth? Check out this Utah-based restaurant and microbrewery.  Read story

And They're Off

The business drama of the Olympic competition.  Read story

The Best Places in America to Own a Business

Inc. report on the best locations to own a business.  Read story

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  Read story

The End of Rush Hour?

Amid a tight labor market, smaller companies are hoping to retain key employees by letting them work from home and offering other commuting incentives.  Read story

Getting Carded

New business creates wallet-size plastic cards with microfilmed medical history information.  Read story

Utah Celebrates Small-Business Day

Feb. 13, 2007 -- Small-business owners in Utah are gathering at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday for Small Business...  Read story

They Recycle Whole Trees

Kinko's Copy Centers plants trees to replace those destroyed to produce the paper used by the company.  Read story

Mummy Mia

New business offers mummification services.  Read story

Directory of Organizations Promoting Independent Businesses

1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA , Fights sprawl malls and sponsors "buy local" campaigns. 3524 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50313; 515-288-5364; fax,...  Read story

Why Small Cities Rock

Forget New York and San Francisco. With beautiful scenery, skilled workers, and affordable housing, smaller cities are luring companies in droves.  Read story

Salt Lake City, Utah

THE INSULAR MORMON CULTURE THAT ONCE BROUGHT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IS NOW A MAJOR LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS OWNERS.  Read story

Network: October 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Connecting in the Extreme

The president of a speakers' bureau and agency for athetes explains how technology has freed her from the office.  Read story

Jump-Starting Customer Service

Shortly after you buy a car from Hayes Brothers in Salt Lake City, the $60-million dealership invites you over for dinner. The sales staff serves up a com...  Read story

The Best Big Cities for Starting and Growing a Business

Report examines the concentration of new businesses in states, regions, metro, and rural areas.  Read story

Cashing In On Cash

Don't let excess cash sit idle, especially when banks are willing to pay a high price for it. Take advantage of high interest rates by investing some of t...  Read story

Inc. 500 Internet Firm Nets $22.5 Million

April 9, 2007 -- IKANO Communications, a Salt Lake City-based retail and private-label Internet services firm, has secured $22.5 million ...  Read story

Hot Spots

INC.'s list of the 50 fastest-growing U.S. cities  Read story

Going Mouseless

The owner of a real estate company reviews new technology designed to replace the PC mouse.  Read story

Behind the Scenes: Companies At The Heart of Everyday Life

Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Alabama | 4.27.08, 3:15 p.m.  Read story

The Name of the Game

One company changed the name and color of its unsuccessful product and saw sales take off.  Read story

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

To hear these Inc 500 all-stars tell it, it's not from books or market research; it's from keeping your eyes and ears open.  Read story

How to Sell Luxury Goods in a Bad Economy

How to keep consumers buying, even in a recession  Read story

The Inc. Second 100

The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable.  Read story

All the President's Mail

Peter Valcarce is a direct marketer with a mission: to get Republicans elected.  Read story

The Allure of the West

The standouts on this year's list are the cities that know how to attract entrepreneurs.  Read story

Manage Inventory and Prevent Theft -- Right from Your Desktop

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

How To Stay on a Winning Streak

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, of the Harvard Business School, shares the four commandments most winners follow.  Read story

Foreign Affairs

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co...  Read story

Upstarts

Start-ups have become all the rage among University of Utah professors, who have helped make Salt Lake City a biomedical capital. But not every inventive...  Read story

Tougher Start-up, But Easier To Roll

Your review of Salt Lake City's business climate (On the Road, January) neglected to recognize that the conservative cultural attitudes of the area actual...  Read story

Where the Growth Is

The best cities for growing a business and how to follow the signs to thriving markets.  Read story

NASVF Announces Investment Conference

Oct. 1, 2004 --With angel investing becoming an increasingly important capital source for small and start-up businesses, the National Asso...  Read story

Boomtowns '06: Hottest Large Cities

Employment Base of 450,000 or more.  Read story

Niche Networking

Recruiting in tough labor markets requires innovative approaches. One strategy is to find specialized recruiting niches in thesame way that compan...  Read story

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read story

Network: July 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Sweets Smell of Success

For sale: A 42-year-old chocolate maker in Utah for $2.5 million.  Read story