ColoradoBiz articles from December 2003

ColoradoBiz archives from December 2003

Crops fuel pumps that could save Colorado farms.(Commentary)(Blue Sun Biodiesel opens gas station)(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING TO BE IN ON THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BIG. It felt like that one Friday morning last month outside the Shoco Oil plant on 74th Avenue in Commerce City. Truck traffic roared past on busy U.S. 85/U.S. 6. The sun...

Thanks to Rundles.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... We don't often write just to express thanks, but I enjoy reading your thoughts every month, and this month (November, Jeff Rundles, "Roll over, Beethoven"), with some classical music playing in the background, I thought how lucky I am,...

Colorado mostly Republican?(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... I know in today's day, some businesses don't care for accuracy in their numbers, but I was hoping your magazine would be different. I'm disappointed you characterized Colorado as a "mostly Republican state" in your "Roll call for candidates,"...

Questioning Coffman's popularity.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Your view of (State Treasurer Mike) Coffman is surprising (October, Robert Schwab, "Coffman: More than a money man"). Ask people in the St. Vrain Valley School District what they think of him--Republicans and Democrats alike. Check with Boulder...

Too much Schwab liberalism.(Readers Respond)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... I've had too much of Robert Schwab. I read him for quite a few months, watched as he grew bolder with his expressions of liberal views, and watched as he went over the top in September ("Colorado feels bite of West Nile"). He actually goes so...

Six traits that make a 'one-in-50' salesperson: if you come across someone who is pleasant and fits this description, you probably are dealing with a very successful salesperson.(On Management)(Column)
December 1, 2003... WE ALL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH SALESPEOPLE in our lives, whether we are in sales ourselves or not. My guess would be somewhere around 20 to 30 a day, ranging from the guy at Krispy Kreme in the morning trying to sell you an extra dozen; to the...

Sports history in pictures: for 50 years, Rich Clarkson has shot great athletes in the greatest games.(Attitude at Altitude)(Biography)
December 1, 2003... DENVER SPORTS FANS HAVE BEEN ENJOYING Rich Clarkson's photography for years, but wouldn't recognize him if they passed him on the street. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During a 50-year career, Clarkson has photographed most major sports...

The Sports Authority.(Special Advertising Section)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2003... After a series of mergers and acquisitions, The Sports Authority has grown into the largest national sporting goods big box company in the country. With approximately 400 stores and pro-forma revenues of about two and a half billion dollars,...

StarTek, Inc.(Special Advertising Section)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2003... StarTek, Inc., a global business process outsourcer; maintains a competitive advantage through service excellence, program flexibility, and competitive pricing. StarTek's team is continually reviewing the IT offerings in the marketplace and...

Lilly Nunez.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... LILLY NUNEZ, a Republican activist for 22 years and currently the national committeewoman for Colorado, has been named to serve on the Republican National Committee's executive committee. Gov. Bill Owens appointed Nunez an elector for George W....

Marvin Wolf.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law presented alumnus MARVIN WOLF with its most distinguished honor, the 44th annual William Lee Knous Award. Wolf is a 1954 graduate of the law school. In 1970, he and his brothers founded the...

John Copple.(Playmakers)
December 1, 2003... JOHN COPPLE has been named CEO of Sanborn, a provider of geographic information systems (GIS) and photogrammetry. Sanborn recently moved its headquarters from Pelham, N.Y., to Colorado Springs. Copple is a pioneer in the satellite imagery...

Donald Mares.(Playmakers)(Fleishman & Shapiro P.C. )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Former Denver City Auditor and mayoral candidate DONALD MARES has joined the law firm Fleishman & Shapiro P.C. as special counsel. In this new role, Mares, 46, plans to extend the firm's practice to include several areas of governmental law....

Bonnie K. Freeman.(Playmakers)(Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Denver native BONNIE K. FREEMAN is the new CEO/President of the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council, effective Dec. 1. She most recently was the president and CEO of the Tacoma Urban League in Tacoma, Wash., and also held...

Craig Mills.(Playmakers)(Denver Active 20-30 Foundation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... CRAIG MILLS, a vice president at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Investments, has been elected president of the Denver Active 20-30 Foundation for 2004. The foundation is a non-profit service organization of male business leaders between 20 and 39...

The Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce honored six entrepreneurs and leaders at its annual dinner and fundraiser at the Denver Marriott Hotel City Center.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce honored six entrepreneurs and leaders at its annual dinner and fundraiser at the Denver Marriott Hotel City Center. Honors went to: SAMANTHA WARREN for Entrepreneur of the Year-Youth; MALISSA MURDOCK for...

Anne K. Heinz.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... ANNE K. HEINZ, dean of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named chair of the University Council for the Learning Resources Network, an international association in continuing education. LERN...

Eric Kenealy.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Suncorp President and CEO ERIC KENEALY has been appointed chairman of the Association of Corporate Credit Unions. ACCU's mission is to create and maintain a climate of safety, soundness, innovation and unity among corporate credit unions in...

Robert H. Malte.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... ROBERT H. MALTE, who most recently served as senior vice president of ThedaCare Hospital Division in Appleton, Wis., has been named president and CEO of Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, a 409-bed acute-care community hospital in Wheat Ridge.

W. Carl Lineberger.(Playmakers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The American Chemical Society has named W. CARL LINEBERGER the winner of the 2004 Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry for his outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the understanding of chemical energetics, molecular structures and...

December coming soon.(Attitude at Altitude)(Calendar)
December 1, 2003... 3 WEDNESDAY, Chamber of the Americas luncheon featuring His Excellency Luis Alberto Moreno, ambassador of Colombia to the United States. Topic: "Business opportunities with Colombia." Noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel-Downtown...

Banking.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Sturm Financial Group Inc., Denver, announced it will consolidate its four banks in Colorado and Wyoming on Feb. 16, 2004. Bank of Cherry Creek, Denver, Western National Bank, Colorado Springs, Mesa National Bank in Western Colorado and...

Energy.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Atmos Energy Corp. acquires ComFurT Gas Inc. assets)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Atmos Energy Corp., Denver, signed a definitive agreement to acquire the natural gas assets of ComFurT Gas Inc. ComFurT Gas, Buena Vista, Colorado, serves approximately 1,800 natural gas utility customers and 2,000 propane customers. Atmos...

Recreation.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Itinerations LLC, Boulder, launched its To ThePin Personal Pro 2004, a software application that allows golfers to use a personal digital assistant to gauge distances to targets on the golf course, enabling them to select the right club for...

Technology.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Evolving Systems Inc. acquires CMS Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Evolving Systems Inc., Englewood, a publicly traded provider of software solutions for operations and systems integration, acquired privately held CMS Communications Inc., Columbus, Ohio, for 732,773 shares of Evolving Systems common stock.

Hospitality.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Sunstone Hotel Investors LLC, San Clemente, Calif., announced plans for the $40 million JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek. The new luxury, full-service hotel is scheduled to open in spring 2004. The 11-story, 196-room hotel currently under...

Finance.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Metretek Technologies Inc., Denver, concluded agreements with its primary lender, Wells Fargo Business Credit Inc., that will significantly enhance and expand the terms, capacity, and flexibility of the company's working capital borrowing...

Entertainment.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Laurel Hunter, Boulder, received a Best of the Festival Award at the 2003 Berkeley Film and Video Festival for her independent film, "Something Better." The film will screen in 2004 in Berkeley, Calif....

Aviation.(An Industry-by-Industry Log of Selected Developments at Colorado Businesses)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... * Frontier Airlines, Denver, accepted delivery of its 22nd Airbus A319. The airline will lease the 132-seat jet from General Electric Capital Aviation Services. Frontier's fleet of 39 aircraft consists of 13 Boeing 737-300s, 22 Airbus A319s,...

Presidential prospects? Owens' focus: next three years in Colorado.(Cover Story)
December 1, 2003... Gov. Bill Owens is unassuming. He wears ties that he says are priced for the rack at Wal-Mart, and he is known to boast of wearing inexpensive suits and trousers. He won't tell you today that he plans on ever holding a higher office than that...

Business leaders mildly optimistic about 2004.(Roundtable on the Economy)(Panel Discussion)
December 1, 2003... Colorado is on the mend. It has suffered through the collapse of the state's telecommunications and technology industries, the loss of 60,000 jobs over two years, and the worst advertising recession in the history of advertising. ...

Intelliden stems network crises.(HighTech Coloradobiz)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2003... DALE HECHT SPENT MOST OF THE '90S AS A VICE president for MCI, building and managing one of the largest Internet protocol networks in the world. The biggest application for an IP network back then was e-mail, and Hecht oversaw a system that...

Raindance hits a high.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Raindance Communications Inc., the Louisville provider of Web and phone conferencing services, achieved a single-day high for billable service minutes on Oct. 27, totaling more than 3 million minutes in a 24-hour period. "Conferencing has come...

Bioscience trade group formed.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Colorado Biotechnology Association and the Colorado Medical Device Association have joined to form a new bioscience trade group, the Colorado BioScience Association. The boards of both groups unanimously approved the merger effective Oct....

Loveland firm adds map features.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Loveland-based LandVoyage.com has developed new map-information features to access while viewing a specific map, namely: image dates, current map layer and scales, county and state, zip code, township, range and principal, USGS quad name, and...

ProLogis picks MX Logic for spam.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... ProLogis, a global provider of distribution facilities and services, has selected MX Logic's Email Defense Service to prevent spam and other e-mail-borne threats from entering its corporate network. ProLogis, based in Denver, owns, manages or...

USURF inks pact with zkidnetwork.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... USURF America Inc., Denver, has signed a $365,000 licensing agreement with Zkid Network Co. to integrate its KidsKeep Safe Internet software program with USURF's Internet access control and content management technology.

Group tabs Colorado product.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) will provide a unique training program for its 3,000 invasive and interventional cardiologist members using the SimSuite System developed by Medical Simulation Corp. of...

Navigant Biotech awarded $2 million.(Ebuzz)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Navigant Biotechnologies Inc. of Lakewood has been awarded $2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop and test military applications for the company's emerging Mirasol[TM] Pathogen Reduction Technology. Mirasol PRT is a...

Tech startup of the month.(High Tech)(Company Profile)
December 1, 2003... INITIAL LIGHTBULB: While running Global Source Technology in Broomfield circa 2000, Rob Pries and Paul Pewterbaugh incorporated Teknovation with plans to develop a golf calculator. This plan never quite got off the ground, as the pair were busy...

Premium watchdogs: insurance division guards gonsumers.
December 1, 2003... Almost seven years ago, John Jones of Westminster nearly died in a horrific car crash on his way to visit his ailing mother back East. Driving long hours to get home, he rear-ended a slow-moving truck when his eyes closed for a moment. ...

Fort Collins still a real-estate draw: high livability ratings offset tech layoffs.(Who Owns Colorado?)
December 1, 2003... WHILE MOST PLAYERS IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY HAVE complained the past two years of declining sales and see-through buildings, Fort Collins developers have chugged along meeting a demand that has ups and downs in different segments of the...

Street smarts propel MX Logic.(Small Biz)(Biography)
December 1, 2003... JOHN STREET KNOWS HOW TO LAUNCH STARTUPS AND RAISE MONEY, and he knows better than anyone how the venture-capital market has changed since the go-go late '90s. As chairman and CEO of USA.NET, Street raised more than $100 million in private...

Ilona's Within.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... ILONA'S WITHIN: Like many other Hungarian immigrants, Ilona Makari fled her war-torn country in 1956, setting in New Jersey. She was a trained esthetician (skincare professional), but worked in a handbag factory and a restaurant before going...

Headshoe.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Ericson, Paul)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... HEADSHOE: In the last five years, Paul Ericson has hit a hole in one, found $27,000 in cash in a hole in the ground and turned it in (even though he was driving a $100 car at the time), and performed emergency dental work on himself with a...

Breckenridge Christmas Ale.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... BRECKENRIDGE CHRISTMAS ALE: Breckenridge Brewery has won new converts every winter for the past 10 years. The brewery, founded in 1990 by onetime ski bum Richard Squire, brews about 25,000 barrels of beer annually, about 1,000 of which are its...

BirdieBall.(Cool Colorado Stuff)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... BIRDIEBALL: "There's this disconnect in golf," said John Breaker, CEO of BirdieBall. "It's nothing like baseball where a father and son can go play catch in the park." Looking for a way to change that, John and his engineer father Richard came...

Rocky mountain: guide to executive meetings & travel inspiration with a view ...(Special Advertising Section)(Directory)
December 1, 2003... WINTER provides the perfect occasion to relocate your company for a day or a week to one of the many world class meeting facilities in the following pages. Rejuvenate you staff or yourself with the combination of sophistication and...

Nick LeMasters: the general of Cherry Creek Mall.(Executive Edge)
December 1, 2003... THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A TYPICAL DAY at the Cherry Creek Mall Just ask General Manager Nick LeMasters, who oversees day-to-day operations at one of the nation's busiest shapping centers. Usually in the office by 7 a.m., LeMasters...

Internet tax inevitable.(Rundles Wrap-Up)(Column)
December 1, 2003... If you drive a car, I'll tax the street If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet --"The Taxman," By George Harrison, 1966 LAST MONTH, THE LATEST...