ColoradoBiz articles from June 2005

ColoradoBiz archives from June 2005

Democrats fight 'anti-business' label.(On Colorado)(Morgan Carroll)
June 1, 2005... STATE REP. MORGAN CARROLL, A DEMOCRAT FROM Aurora, says her party's caucus must have a conversation before the 2006 session of the General Assembly about how to keep lobbyists from labeling anything Democratic as "anti-business." ...

Coal story on target.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... Over the past eight or nine years, many articles have been written about Colorado coal and what an attractive commodity it is, particularly to older coal-fired plants. None of these past articles that I can recall have touched on the problem of...

Easy for Coors to say.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... How sad that Pete Coors, who was born into immense wealth and privilege, begrudges paying taxes to help the poor and powerless in our state, nation and world ("Pete Coors on tap," May). He also laments that others are willing to pay taxes for...

Churchill no Indian.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... Your statement in your March publication about Ward Churchill (Robert Schwab, "Deal with Churchill the Indian way") was right in every word you used. I am half Pottawatomie Cherokee Indian and half Irish. I was born March 22, 1919 near...

Not much new in marketing.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... Your February article "Selling points from the pros" offered 40 tips on marketing and advertising from business experts. I believe there are very few new marketing ideas in the world, just very good recycled or re-bundled ideas. The idea of...

Corporate change: change involving your job is often tough, but, as they say, if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.(On Management)(Column)
June 1, 2005... A FEW TIMES OVER THE YEARS, WE AT Wiesner Publishing LLC have sold some magazines to other publishing companies. It's always a difficult time because when change affects your job, one becomes uneasy. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We recently...

Colorado: state of fiscal conflict.(Column)
June 1, 2005... THE STATE OF COLORADO IS IN A STATE OF IRONY. A VAST and growing incongruity exists between what might be expected in so wealthy and wonderful a place as Colorado and what is actually occurring here. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For example,...

Water ways: supply conference holds hope for state's future.(Attitude at Altitude)(American Water Resources Association annual symposium)
June 1, 2005... The primal moment of the water conference, its highlight, had to be when former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, once known as "Governor Gloom," held up balled fists on each side of his head, and with a grimace on his face between them, declared: ...

Coming soon.
June 1, 2005... June 2005 2-3 Thursday and Friday, Mountain Region Black Economic Summit at the Holiday Inn Denver International Airport, 40th and Chambers. Invitees include black youth, professionals, business owners and organization leaders from...

Rocky Scott.(joining at McWhinney Enterprises)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Rocky Scott, after 16 years as CEO of the non-profit Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp., will return to the private sector this month as a principal in McWhinney Enterprises, a Loveland-based real-estate investment and...

Kevin Crandell.(received Space Hall of Fame)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Kevin Crandell, a partner with the law firm of Holland & Hart, was inducted into the Space Hall of Fame in April, during the annual National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Crandell is the first lawyer to be inducted into the Space Hall of...

Robert E. Knowling Jr.(appointment at Vercuity)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Vercuity, a Denver provider of business-process outsourcing services to more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, has named ROBERT E. KNOWLING JR., a former U.S. West executive, as chief executive officer of the company. Knowling's career includes...

Carolyn Love.(principal of Kebaya Coaching and Consulting and Walter W. Huang of Dragon Gourmet Enterprises received awards)( )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... CAROLYN LOVE, principal in Kebaya Coaching and Consulting and former president and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council, has been named David E. Bailey Small Business Advocate for 2005, an annual award of the Denver...

Lisa Potter.(appointment at Centura Health at Home)(Suzanne Todd)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Centura Health at Home has named LISA POTTER as its new chief financial officer, and SUZANNE TODD as director of Home Infusion. Centura Health at Home provides home-care nursing and therapy to more than 20,000 patients in Denver, Colorado...

Wiesner sells lifestyles segment, keeps business magazines.(Attitude at Altitude)(Wiesner Publishing LLC)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Wiesner Publishing LLC, publisher of ColoradoBiz, sold seven design and lifestyles-focused magazines last month, leaving the company with a set of business and financial products and magazines that continue to make the publisher one of the...

Acquisition.(First Data Corp.to merge with Vigo Remittance Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... First Data Corp., a Denver-based provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions for businesses and consumers world-wide, signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Vigo Remittance Corp., a provider of electronic money transfer...

Health care.(Colorado Trust provides grants to health providers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Colorado Trust announced that it has granted $9.4 million to 22 health providers in the state through its three-year Health Professions Initiative. The 22 grantees will receive on average $50,000 to $125,000 annually to address the severe...

Finance.(Murrayhill Co. and Clayton Services Inc. unite to form new company)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Denver-based Murrayhill Co. and Shelton, Conn.-based Clayton Services, Inc. have united under the name of a newly formed company, Clayton Holdings Inc. Murrayhill Co. is a provider of securities surveillance and credit-risk management. Clayton...

Marketing.(Boatz Knutsen gets award)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Target Corp. has named Colorado Springs marketing firm Boatz Knutsen a winner of the retail chain's 2004 Vendor Award of Excellence. The annual award is given to a handful of Target's thousands of vendors for superior business practices and...

Commerce.(People Planet Profits of Colorado and Colorado Environmental Business Alliance)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... People Planet Profits of Colorado (P3) and the Colorado Environmental Business Alliance (CEBA) announced they have combined to form a new organization, CEBA/P3. The newly formed organization is a part of the Colorado Office of Economic...

Investment.(CaseShare Systems Inc. gets finance from Catalyst Investors)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Denver-based CaseShare Systems Inc., a provider of secure extranet applications that help law firms, corporations and insurance companies manage large document collections, has received an investment of $2 million from Catalyst Investors, a...

Aviation.(Federal Aviation Administration certifies Adam Aircraft Industries)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... * The Federal Aviation Administration announced on May 11 it has issued a Type Certificate to Centennial-based Adam Aircraft for the company's A500 Centerline Twin. The Type Certificate for the A500 is expected to be upgraded to final...

Instapoll.(Attitude at Altitude)
June 1, 2005... 60% OF RESPONDENTS SAID SATURATION NEWS COVERAGE OF THE POPE JOHN PAUL II'S DEATH WAS WARRANTED IN LIGHT OF HIS GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE AS A HUMANITARIAN AND RELIGIOUS LEADER. 57% OF RESPONDENTS DO NOT BELIEVE THE EXPANSION OF THE COLORADO...

100 years of hard time: Will Hoover has nothing but time to ponder the harshest white-collar sentence ever handed down in Denver.(Interview)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... The stultifying routine starts every morning at five, as far away as a human can get from the upscale Greenwood Village neighborhood known as The Preserve that Will Hoover used to call home. Or the office on Denver's trendy South Cherry...

Denver Health: integration technology helps hospital recoup millions.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)(Advertisement)
June 1, 2005... In addition to being a teaching hospital and one of four level-one trauma centers in the state of Colorado, Denver Health ensures that all citizens of the City and County of Denver have access to healthcare regardless of their ability to pay....

Local firms grow big on technology.(outsourcing)
June 1, 2005... From global companies with thousands of computers around the world to small businesses with a handful of desktop stations, businesses are increasingly turning to Colorado entrepreneurs to manage their technology services and other operations...

Heart of gold: Colorado: Denver now capital of U.S. gold industry.(Public companies)
June 1, 2005... Tom Hendricks has held onto his dream for more than 35 years. It's a powerful dream: the fierce pull of honest wealth brought out of the ground with your own two hands, a pull that has historically moved men, towns, civilizations and mountains....

Top 100 Colorado-based Public Companies.(Illustration)
June 1, 2005... COLORADO'S PUBLIC COMPANIES ARE IN DECLINE. They are not necessarily in declining financial health: The average company on the 2005 ColoradoBiz Top 100 Colorado-based Public Companies list posted a 21.5 percent increase in revenues between...

Coping with Sarbanes-Oxley: bane of small business isn't going away.
June 1, 2005... Imagine corporate America going through the energy-and-money-draining stress of preparing for Y2K--year, after year. Remember the imagined crash of all business computers leading up to 2000? That's what compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of...

Denver innovator pushes hydrogen-powered train.(High Tech ColoradoBiz)(Vehicle Projects LLC)
June 1, 2005... "You've seen a revolution in communications in the last 25 years," said Arnold Miller, president of Denver-based Vehicle Projects LLC, a research and development company, "but transportation hasn't improved too much." But fuel cells,...

Initial lightbulb.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Beyond-Earth Enterprises)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In 1998, Joe Latrell gathered his friends and family to commemorate the tragically short life of his son Joshua, a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The group included a fair share of model rocketry buffs--Latrell among them--so the focal...

In a nutshell.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Beyond-Earth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Space tourism is too expensive to realistically claim a very big market, said Latrell. Beyond-Earth's contrary strategy is to sell people space on rockets to launch a bit of their DNA or a photograph into space and bring it back--complete with...

Beyond-Earth Enterprises Inc.(Joe Latrell views)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... "There are no FAA regulations for something this small. In the hobby rocketry world, there are no regulations for something this big. We're kind of in a gray area." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] --BEYOND-EARTH ENTERPRISES CEO AND CO-FOUNDER...

The market.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Beyond-Earth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Beyond-Earth is one of 18 launch companies described in a February 2005 report by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Of those 18, Beyond-Earth is one of only four that have successfully tested...

Financing.(Tech Startup of the Month)(Beyond-Earth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... To this point, Beyond-Earth has been self-financed by Latrell, Gardner and 10 other partners. The company is seeking about $2.5 million to build a fleet of 10 rockets. "We've got to pay for these (XCOR) motors," said Latrell. "That's the real...

Edgy enclave: Golden Triangle is a melting pot for developers.(Who owns Colorado)
June 1, 2005... The Denver area has its share of diverse neighborhoods with a mix of residential offerings, retail and other commercial properties, but none quite like the Golden Triangle. Bordered buy Colfax Avenue, Lincoln Street and Speer Boulevard,...

Airhead inflatable kayaks.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(KwikTek Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Before founding KwikTek in his garage in 1991, Aaron Kramer used to water ski on a daily basis. Now he's too busy to get out on the water very often: While he started with suction cup-mounted boating flags and an office in his garage, KwikTek's...

David Ellis Canvas Products.(David Ellis views about the company)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... David Ellis has worked with fabric for 25 years, starting with upholstery before moving onto canvas boat covers and awnings. A decade ago, he shifted directions again based on demand. "There's a lot of outfitters in Durango, and they would ask...

MontBell Peak Shell Jacket.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(MontBell USA Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Founded by Isaamo Tatsuno in 1975, MontBell is now the largest outdoor gear maker in Asia. The Osaka, Japan-based company opened a flagship store in Boulder in 2002, and then launched a North American arm out of the city in 2003. "We look at...

Sierra Designs Observatory.(Colorado Cool Stuff)
June 1, 2005... Founded in California in 1965, venerable outdoor manufacturer Sierra Designs traded Berkeley for Boulder County when it relocated its headquarters to Louisville in 2003. "We can get a lot more economically (in Colorado)," said Marketing...

Jim Ball: call center hits home for 4,600 workers.(Executive edge)
June 1, 2005... The sign on Jim Ball's door reads "Mr. Wizard," and that says a lot about the chief architect of Golden-based Alpine Access Inc. The outsourced call center he founded in 1998 employs 4,600 home-based agents across the nation, including 2,500 in...

A minor in marketing.(Sports Biz)
June 1, 2005... SOME WELL-DESERVING COLORADO SPRINGS WOMEN WERE enjoying deep-muscle massages and sipping inexpensive drinks the other night when suddenly a baseball game broke out. Thankfully, there were no reports of injuries or spilled beverages, and...

Are we getting hosed on water?(Rundles Wrap-up)
June 1, 2005... WHEN THE DROUGHT CAME AND THE CALL WENT OUT, I, like almost all my neighbors, answered the call. We used less water. We watered our lawns fewer times a week, for shorter periods of time, and we let the grass grow to retain moisture. We...