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State of the state: Agriculture
Instead of a bland Tiger or a ho-hum Mustang, Rocky Ford High School is home to the Meloneers, a nod to the area’s production of watermelons, pumpkins and cantaloupes. Especially cantaloupes. Rocky Ford cantaloupes are among Colorado’s best-known brands. A Colorado Department of Agriculture survey last spring found that 80[...]
Quarterly energy report:
You might wonder whether Colorado’s New Energy Economy should be swapped for a different model. Abound Solar, the Loveland-based manufacturer of thin-film solar panels, flopped into bankruptcy in July, and General Electric put the skids on a new factory in Aurora that was to employ 355 people, also manufacturing thin-film sola[...]
Rundles wrap up: Pondering passages
When it comes to things to ponder – and I am an inveterate ponderer – the passing of eras interests me greatly, probably because I have lived long enough to see many of them pass. I’ve seen a few of them come along, too, and then pass. For instance, my office in the early 1980s was one of the first in Denver to get a fax mach[...]
Colorado cool stuff: Dracula’s fangs, day of the dead art, Saso sauces, Honey skateboards
DRACULA HOUSE FANGS Don Nutting of Foothill Creations in Boulder got into greeting card distribution in the late 1960s, then the souvenir game in the 1970s, followed by Halloween masks and other products in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, he saw a market opportunity in a premium line of costume fangs. "I developed the first unive[...]
GenXYZ: Colorado’s 25 Most Influential Young Professionals
Now in its third year, the feature we’ve dubbed "Gen XYZ" for the age-group or "generation" it represents – the under-40 set – has boomed in popularity and participation numbers, to the simultaneous delight and consternation of the judges who pour over the nominations to come to a consensus on the year’s top 25 young profes[...]
GenXYZ: 10 more of Colorado's Top 25 Young Professionals
Erik Mitisek, 35 Co-Founder and vice president, Next Great Place Inc. Path to success: Mitisek started his first successful business, Riki Wear, as a student at the University of Denver. He has been the first employee or early team member of four Denver companies, and he has been building companies and hiring employees here for m[...]
Carbondale’s creative secret sauce
I have embarked on a project to visit the State’s many arts and creative districts to see what they are doing to promote the creative economy. The first stop on my tour was the town of Carbondale, a town with a population of about 6,500 located in the Roaring Fork Valley between Glenwood Springs and Aspen. The town of Carbond[...]
ColoradoBiz Top Company finalists: From service to tourism/hospitality
SERVICES Alpine Waste & Recycling www.alpinewaste.com Years in business: 13 Location: Commerce City CEO: John Griffith Company snapshot: To make recycling easy, Alpine Waste & Recycling implemented single-stream recycling, which means customers can deposit all their recyclable materials into one bin. For many o[...]
Executive edge: Pat Hamill
Every morning Pat Hamill rises at 4 and heads to the gym. He puts in more than a full day’s work at his homebuilding business while also helping various nonprofits and serving on the board of trustees of the University of Denver, his alma mater. "I’ll kick back and rest when I’m dead," says the president and CEO of Oakwood [...]
Colorado cool stuff: Benton book, custom carts, tablet stand, Rob’s Mountain Gin
ROB’S MOUNTAIN GIN & SPRING44 SPIRITS Spring44’s water is as "pure and clean as you can get," says Rob Masters, the distillery’s chief ethanol savant. This makes it ideal for distilling, he adds, especially in the case of Spring44 Vodka and Honey Vodka. (Vodkas are tasteless, so impurities stand out.) Masters started[...]
ColoradoBiz Top Company finalists: From manufacturing to real estate/construction/contracting
MANUFACTURING Birko www.birkocorp.com Years in business: 59 Location: Henderson CEO: Mark Swanson Company snapshot: Birko provides the meat, poultry and food industries with specialty chemicals needed for cleaning, sanitation and as aids in production. Its product line includes more than 200 formulations – from cleane[...]
Sports biz: CSU’s lesson in football 101
Like all artist renditions of buildings-to-be, a drawing of the 42,000-seat football stadium envisioned for Colorado State University is irresistibly grand: a picturesque Saturday, the sky drenched in sunlight, fans strolling toward a stadium nestled into the south end of the campus, stately mountains etched across the background. [...]
Making use of methane
Give Tom Vessels his due. He’s a matchmaker and dealmaker who brought together what just may be the oddest couple of Colorado business. Who could imagine two enterprises in Colorado as unlikely to be paired as the Aspen Skiing Co. and Oxbow Mining? They’re the yin and yang of business, Aspen being perhaps the state’s best-k[...]
Top eight lures to catch and keep the best
Recently, I attended the Best Companies to Work for in Colorado event sponsored by Colorado Biz Magazine. This 2012 awards banquet celebrated the top 30 companies in Colorado ranked by their employees as the best in the state. (You can read more about these companies at coloradobiz.com.) This celebration of excellence left me think[...]
Colorado Companies to Watch spotlight: Versi-Panel Enclosures
www.vpenclosures.com Snapshot: Based in Colorado Springs, Versi-Panel Enclosures is a manufacturer that focuses on two key product lines: SnapCrate, a reusable crating system, and Compassion Shelters, which provide disaster-relief solutions for animals and people. Leadership: Kevin Kvols has been president since the company’s[...]
2012 Best Companies, small: No. 1 Infinity Systems Engineering LLC
www.infinity.aero/ When Infinity Systems Engineering takes employees and spouses on its annual award trip, there are no strings attached. There are no team building events, no contests and no mandatory fun. "It’s a totally informal trip," says Alan Patterson, vice president of operations for the Colorado Springs aerospace fi[...]
2012 Best Companies, small: Nos. 4 through 10
4. Rothstein Kass www.rkco.com FOUNDED: 1959 LOCATION: Roseland, N.J. CEO: Steve Kass and Howard Altman IN A NUTSHELL: Rothstein Kass is an accounting firm that serves privately held and publicly traded companies as well as high-net-worth individuals and families. The company has offices in Denver, New York, Beverly Hills[...]
2012 Best Companies, medium: Nos. 4 through 10
4. PCL Construction www.pcl.com FOUNDED: 1977 LOCATION: Denver CEO: Paul Douglas IN A NUTSHELL: The PCL family of companies is a group of independent construction companies working out of major offices in 31 North American locations. It is one of the largest general contracting organizations in Canada and the 6th largest [...]
2012 Best Companies, small: No. 3 Moneytree
www.moneytreeinc.com Moneytree knows what employees want because the company conducts employee satisfaction surveys. In the most recent survey, employees indicated they were most satisfied with training, benefits, awards and customer service. Training covers everything from new team member training to Branch Manager Boot Cam[...]
Colorado Companies to Watch spotlight: SolidFire
www.solidfire.com Snapshot: Boulder-based SolidFire delivers high-performance and high-efficiency primary storage systems for cloud service providers. The company believes traditional storage is way too slow, far too complex and much too expensive to deliver the services large-scale cloud computing environments demand. Leadersh[...]
