ColoradoBiz articles from October 2005

ColoradoBiz archives from October 2005

Address Amendment 23.(Readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... Instead of suspending the TABOR amendment to address government budgeting problems ("How Conservative Are You?" September), the best thing to do would be to rescind Amendment 23. As a high school graduate of '53, this former teacher knows...

CU out to raise money.(Readers respond)
October 1, 2005... Jeff, I thought you made a good start in your article on CU! (Rundles Wrap-up, August) Let's hope more and more parents of students (like you and I) and alumni (I) will make enough noise to make some changes. Two of my three children have been...

Hoover weighs in on jailhouse story.(Readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... Thank you for the opportunity to tell my side of my story (Mike Taylor, "100 Years of Hard Time," June). While the coverage, context and overall viewpoint espoused is not what family, friends and supportive clients expected, I am pleased with...

Romero counters Tancredo.(Readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... Thank you for printing the response from Ed Romero (Guest Column, September) to the Tancredo piece in July. While both pieces were well written, it was important that you had the courage to print a piece showing Rep. Tancredo's bias. Thank you...

Footers catering.(Culinary Artistry Inc)
October 1, 2005... A conversation with Chef Jimmy Lambatos reveals a passion and enthusiasm for the catering business that is palpable. It is this enthusiasm that has helped establish Footers Catering as one of the premiere caterers in the Denver market for...

Voters hold a Trump card.(Barry Group Investments)
October 1, 2005... DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO HELP DENVER REDEVELOP Union Station. There is no better signal that the Colorado business community is well on the road to economic recovery. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you want more signs, look into who is Trump's...

One of the nation's premier leadership conferences for corporate women.
October 1, 2005... The 8th Annual Women's Success Forum 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 20 Adam's Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Street, Denver, Colorado Lisa Gersh Hall President, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder of The Oxygen Network ...

Judge not ... The truth in business and in life: we're judged all the time.
October 1, 2005... YOU WALK INTO A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE YOU have never met before to have a meeting about something you are all concerned about. It could be a business meeting or a session of your home-owners' association. Suppose it lasts an hour or so. By the...

Referenda critical to Colorado.
October 1, 2005... COLORADO BUSINESS LEADERS STATEWIDE ARE ALMOST unanimous in their support for Referenda C & D, which will be on the statewide ballot on Nov. 1. Much has been written and said about the referenda. The case for business support has been well...

Sound advice: rock stars, churches entrust music to Audio Analysts.
October 1, 2005... Rock 'n' roll concerts and church services don't typically have a lot in common. But both rock stars and preachers deliver messages. It follows that both also need good sound. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Which is where Colorado...

Planet Bluegrass liftoff: attorney's mission sustains mountain music fests.
October 1, 2005... Of the many artsy festivals staged annually in Telluride, the one attracting the largest crowds is a music event in late June. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival was born in 1974 with a handful of hippies picking and singing in the shade of the...

Dean Foods Co.(PLAYMAKERS)(appointed Joseph E. Scalzo as chief executive officer of WhiteWave Foods )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... JOSEPH E. SCALZO was named president and CEO of Boulder-based WhiteWave Foods by the soy-milk maker's parent company, Dean Foods Co. Absent from the announcement, however, was any mention of STEVE DEMOS, who founded WhiteWave in 1977 and built...

Colorado State Forest Service.(PLAYMAKERS)(appointed Jeff Jahnke as director)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... JEFF JAHNKE was named director of the Colorado State Forest Service. He will work out of the agency's headquarters at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. As the state's forester, Jahnke will oversee 135 full-time employees and 17 field...

Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp.(PLAYMAKERS)(appointed Mike Kazmierski as president)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp. named MIKE KAZMIERSKI president and CEO on Sept. 2 after a nationwide search. Kazmierski had served as EDC's Chief Operating Officer since 2001. Kazmierski replaces ROCKY SCOTT, who announced in...

Lafayette.(CARL THOMPSON is retired from investor relations firm)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Recently retired investor-relations CEO CARL THOMPSON has found a new passion: photographing flowers and insects in his wife's garden using a digital camera with a magnifying macro lens. Thompson, 51, has parlayed the hobby into a photography...

Dimensions of disaster predicted.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder commissioned a series of six articles in 2004 titled "Disasters Waiting to Happen," one of which focused on a major hurricane striking New Orleans. Authored by Shirley Laska of...

CSO posts profitable year.(An industry-by-industry log of selected developments at Colorado businesses)(Colorado Symphony Orchestra)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Colorado Symphony Orchestra ended its 2004-2005 fiscal year in the black, capping the fourth year in a row the orchestra achieved positive financial results. In addition to a revenue surplus, the orchestra also finished the fiscal year with...

October 2005.(calendar)(Calendar)
October 1, 2005... 10 MONDAY The University of Denver hosts a coffee session featuring David Mandarich of MDC Holdings, a ColoradoBiz Top Company winner, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at the Daniels College of Business. For more information call (303) 871-7987...

Instapoll.(Attitude at Altitude)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... 67% OF RESPONDENTS ATTRIBUTED DENVER'S UNPRECEDENTED HOT JULY TEMPERATURES THIS YEAR TO GLOBAL WARMING OR OTHER HUMAN-INFLICTED CLIMATE CHANGES, RATHER THAN TO A NATURALLY OCCURRING HEAT WAVE. RESULTS OBTAINED FROM JULY 29 THROUGH AUG. 25. ...

Thirst for solutions: concerns rise with South Metro's growth.
October 1, 2005... By almost any definition, Castle Rock is a boomtown. Population, now at 35,000, has doubled in just the last five years--startling when you consider the sputtering of the nation's economy and the tech-stock meltdown. At every curve and corner,...

Rising costs force employers to seek health-benefit options.
October 1, 2005... Colorado employers may have to shell out about 12 percent more for their employees' health-care insurance in 2006 than they did in 2005. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not that such increased costs are anything new. Years of double-digit...

Recovery 1.1: battered by 9/11 and dot.com flameouts, Colorado's tech industries show signs of revival.
October 1, 2005... Los Angeles transplant Lisa Wilson built her Colorado public relations company to more than $1 million in yearly billings by catering strictly to hightech clients riding the boom of the new economy. But the combination of the dot.com bust and...

SignetX Inc.(Tech Startup of the Month)
October 1, 2005... Where: Denver www.signetx.com Founded: June 2004 INITIAL LIGHTBULB After more than a decade in the teleconferencing business--including two stints as president of Westminster-based ConferTech International Inc.--Don Poulter...

Dry creek railway: walk-to-work for the suburbs.(Who owns Colorado?)
October 1, 2005... Commuters on Denver's soon-to-be completed light-rail line adjacent to Interstate 25 may one day find themselves sitting next to Peter Kudla, CEO of Metropolitan Homes, as he makes his way to work. Kudla's newest--and largest--project is set to...

eBay no threat to fleaBay.(eBay Inc.)
October 1, 2005... RECENTLY, I UNDERTOOK A SHORT STUDY OF SMALL-business trends, beginning on eBay and ending at fleaBay. One unites buyers and sellers on the Internet, the other is a bricks-and-mortar version of junk redistribution known as the Mile High Flea...

Ballmania.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Ballmania lip balm)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The husband-wife team of Mary Lou and Dennis Green went into the consumer-products business 15 years ago with the launch of Sneaker Balls, small spheres that deodorize shoes while their owner sleeps. Today, after 30 million pairs sold, the...

Roundabout Signs.(Colorado Cool Stuff)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Traveling the world while consulting in product design and development, Ben Kwitek came up with a concept for a business: selling authentic foreign road signs to the car collectors' market in the U.S. It follows that he launched Roundabout...

Danny Cash hot sauce.(Danny Cash Unlimited)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Easter 2002 was the occasion that Danny Cash unveiled his homemade hot sauce to his friends, and his hobby snowballed into a business within a year. He got too big for his apartment's kitchen in 2003, outgrew his church's kitchen in 2004, and...

Scareshop T-shirts.(Brainstorm Studios LLC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Northglenn's Brainstorm Studios is the Halloween graphic design firm, crafting horrifying imagery that's propelled the holiday into a big business over the last 12 years. Since 2001, the company, co-owned by Doug Graham and Chuck Rains, has...

Xcel Energy; Colorado utility veteran Kelly: Xcel Energy's new CEO.(CORPORATE PROFILE: SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)
October 1, 2005... Xcel Energy's Richard Kelly rolled up his sleeves on July 1 of this year, to continue building the core business of the utility as the company's newest CEO. It is work that he and his predecessor, Wayne Brunetti, began two years ago--shifting...

Robert G. Lewis: lawyer mixes oil and art.(Executive Edge)
October 1, 2005... From his downtown skyscraper office, Denver oil and gas lawyer Robert Lewis rattles off a litany of recent mergers and acquisitions that have reshaped America's energy industry and spawned today's boom in the West. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

On the house.(Sports Biz)
October 1, 2005... THERE'S AN OLD BUSINESS AXIOM ABOUT NOT GIVING AWAY the house. Apparently nobody shared it with Jim Harmon. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Harmon is a longtime Colorado Avalanche supporter who has decided the proper way to celebrate the team's...

There's no there there anymore.(Rundles Wrap-up)
October 1, 2005... AS YOU READ THIS, IT IS ALREADY OCTOBER AND THE passage of time has, perhaps, softened the blow of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As I write this, I am still in the emotional throes of trying to fathom what happened. Don't weep for me,...