ColoradoBiz articles from January 2003

ColoradoBiz archives from January 2003

An open letter to customers of UMB Bank.
January 1, 2003... To our customers: We have all been overwhelmed in recent months with allegations of corporate wrongdoing - Enron, Adelphia, WorldCom, Global Crossing and even Martha Stewart! CEOs, directors and other senior officers have been charged...

Happy birthday to us.
January 1, 2003... OH, IF ONLY I WERE 30 AGAIN. One of my daughters thinks I'm weird when, occasionally, because I know she counts down the days to her birthday from day 364, I'll turn to her and wish her a happy birthday out of the blue. She giggles,...

Letters.
January 1, 2003... Sharing health insurance's pain. Thank you for continuing to bring this "health insurance crisis" to our attention. (An unhealthy state of affairs," Schwab, December) In such a wealthy, technological country, it is telling that the care of...

Mentoring-leadership's key ingredient.
January 1, 2003... WE DON'T REALIZE THE INCREDIBLE EFFECT WE CAN HAVE on those around us without really doing much. Mentoring is the first job of an effective leader. If you ask people to recall teachers from their lives who were real mentors to them...

Stapleton now leasing first office space. (Special Advertisement).
January 1, 2003... Stapleton's first office space is a carefully archestrated combination of convenience, functionality and state-of-the-art design. Located above the East 29th Avenue Town Center retail shops and totaling 33,750 square feet, the office space is...

Select company: firms stand many tests of time. (Attitude at Altitude).
January 1, 2003... LIKE OUR MAGAZINE, A NUMBER of people from past issues of Colorado-Biz are still in the game. Here's a look at some of them: The 1970s PR IN A FLASH What a difference a decade or three makes, Just ask media expert Gwinavere...

30 year view: Colorado's business takes topsy-turvy ride.
January 1, 2003... Colorado has seen a few ups and downs in the three decades past--oh boy, has it ever--and ColoradoBiz has been here to chronicle every last inconstant, unstable, explosive, eruptive, volcanic, vertiginous, wheeling, dealing, reeling gyration....

Colorado Business Hall of Fame. (Special Sponsorship Section).
January 1, 2003... The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and Junior Achievement are proud to present the 14th Annual Colorado Business Hall of Fame. Committed to ensuring the vitality of tomorrow's workforce, the Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding role models...

High-tech's march on Colorado: industry a boom and buffer to economy. (Hightech Coloradobiz).
January 1, 2003... THIRTY YEARS AGO, COLORADO HAD MORE IN COMMON WITH WEST TEXAS THAN IT DID WITH SILICON VALLEY. Agricultural reports led off KOA's morning business broadcast. Computer programming jobs were few and far between, and those few that were...

Ads and fads: 30 years of magazine marketing.
January 1, 2003... 30 years of advertising, the life and lifeblood of ColoradoBiz Magazine, is a trip through time and media, almost a page-by-page transition from back-and-white television to the backlit -- "flash" -- infused color of ads delivered by the...

Shaping Denver's skyline: city's landmarks tell a century-old tale.
January 1, 2003... Pick any weekday to stroll through Downtown Denver, and the scene is the same: Smartly dressed women talking on cell phones, bike messengers running red lights, and buses along 16th Street disgorging hundreds of passengers. Now, squeeze...

Blackinton & Decker builds on name. (Smallbiz).
January 1, 2003... VINCE McDONALD WAS A 22-YEAR-OLD APPRENTICE CARPENTER BACK in 1969 when the construction firm's owner showed up at the job site one morning. "I didn't know who he was or anything," says McDonald of the owner, Dan Porter. "I'm just working...

Kong dog toys. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In 1976, Joe Markham was working on his VW Bus as his faithful dog Fritz worked on something else: chewing on a rock. Knowing that a dental catastrophe was in progress, Markham tossed the German shepherd a rubber chunk of the VW's transmission,...

Rockmount Ranch Wear. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... It was 1946, Denver's LoDo was nothing like the nlghtlife district it is today, and Jack A. Well launched Rockmount Ranch Wear. The company quickly made its mark as the first Western wear manufacturer to put snaps on its shirts and commercially...

Sashco sealants. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... SASHCO SEALANTS: When Don Burch founded Sashco in 1936, metal windowpanes were Just beginning to show up on Colorado homes, in place of the wooden statusquo. But the putty on the market at the time didn't stick to metal quite right, leading...

Van Briggle Art Pottery. (Cool Colorado Stuff).
January 1, 2003... VAN BRIGGLE ART POTTERY: At the end of the 19th century, Artus Van Briggle was the prodigal son of the art pottery industry. He worked for its foremost company, Ohio-based Rookwood, and traveled the globe perfecting his craft, ultimately...

Glenn R. Jones: cable pioneer envisions worldwide university. (Executive Edge).
January 1, 2003... IN THE 1970s, GLENN R. JONES STRUNG CABLE OVER A PICKET fence, through lilac bushes and into an abandoned mineshaft where he paid off a hermit with a bottle of whiskey for the easement. He borrowed $400 against his white Volkswagen Beetle...

Living well.
January 1, 2003... THIS YEAR, 2003, IS THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF the publication of this magazine, ColoradoBiz, nee Colorado Business magazine. Coincidentally, it is also the year that marks my own 30th anniversary in this fine state. For me, 2003 is a...