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Colorado Business Hall of Fame: David and Renie Gorsuch
The 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., were exceptional events for David Gorsuch and Renie Cox. Neither member of the U.S. Alpine Ski Team won a medal – Gorsuch came in 14th place in both men’s downhill and giant slalom, while Cox came in ninth in women’s slalom – but it was […]
Cote’s Colorado: HP-Compaq merger remains Carly Fiorina’s legacy
Carly Fiorina defines true grit and risk-taking. The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard has the distinction of being the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. While at HP, Fiorina presided over the company’s $24 billion takeover of Compaq, a deal she publicly defended last August as HP considered spinning off its PC business. […]
Colorado Business Hall of Fame: Landis “Lanny” Martin
When J. Landis "Lanny" Martin said he wanted to retire in 2005, he didn't mean play golf or travel for fun. After working for years as chairman and CEO of several publicly held industrial, chemical and metals companies, Martin decided he wanted to start a new company while he still had time. "I tho...
Colorado’s 10 Most Powerful Salespeople
The outlook on the U.S. economy remains checkered, with retail sales improving six straight months (through November) on one hand, but issues such as Europe’s debt crisis tempering optimism and even spawning fears of another U.S. recession on the other. But the mindset of top sellers is the same as when we introduced our “most […]
Colorado Business Hall of Fame 2012
A crisp, cold beer in a silver can. A world-class bottle of cabernet sauvignon. A plush micro-fiber sofa sleeper. A down-filled leather après ski jacket. Investment capital to take your business to the next level. Get to know this year's Colorado Business Hall of Fame laureates, and you might be ab...
Guest column: A zip code should not determine a child’s success
By Theresa Pena For too long in urban cities like Denver, a child’s zip code has determined educational and economic outcomes. Nationally, a child living in poverty has a 1-in-10 chance of graduating from college. Forecasts identify 70 percent of all new jobs created in the next decade will require post-high school educational training. Mayor […]
Colorado cool stuff: Brew guide, toddy time, wine for non-drinkers
Ed Sealover visited 101 Colorado breweries researching Mountain Brew: A Guide to Colorado Breweries. Sealover captures the characters and the flavors of the state's superlative beer culture in individual chapters on each brewery, covering nuts and bolts like hours, location and signature beer as we...
Sports biz: …And a Happy Sports Year to All
A tidy symmetry conjoins the year 2011 and Denver Bronco Tim Tebow: Both have passed, and with mixed results. In his second NFL season, Tebow’s throws spanned a sprawling range, from fluttering mishap to unerring arc. In the sports-business world, 2011 was much the same: a mixed bag. At one extreme were soulless reminders that […]
Rundles wrap-up: Auld Lang Syne
About a year ago my wife, son and I all got new cell phones, and while we didn’t go for iPhones because the only extra we really needed was texting, we did go with what the clerk at the cell-phone store called “the latest and greatest short of a smart phone.” Then my wife dropped […]
Colorado Business Hall of Fame: Jake Jabs
While some of his competitors have gone out of business during the tough economic climate of the past few years, Jake Jabs has expanded his American Furniture Warehouse empire to 13, with new stores open or under way in Grand Junction and Colorado Springs. The company - long known for its founder's...
Colorado Business Hall of Fame: Ray Duncan
Ray Duncan's life work has been pumped into barrels and poured into bottles. It's been up on the mountain and down on the ranch. People make fortunes trading paper, but that's not Duncan's style. At 81, the founder of Duncan Oil Inc., might be considered a professor emeritus of the "Can I go see it...
Small biz: A bold new path for New Town Builders
It started with an email to Perry Cadman asking the chief operating officer of New Town Builders if he’d consider building a “demonstration” house framed with wood from pine-beetle timber. A meeting followed, during which, Cadman says, “I just looked at everybody and said, ‘If I’m going to go through the brain damage of one […]
