Utah Business

12/29/2025

Stew Tribe has the Midas touch. More specifically, his work attracts gold-level accolades — like multiple gold Telly Awards (for the Utah Jazz’s 2024-25 season kickoff anthem, “Mountain Basketball”) and a Ciclope Awards Gold Lion (for his writing in Uber Eats’ “Football is for Food” campaign). Tribe’s guiding belief is clear: There has been a loss of truly great storytelling in advertising, and One of The Fold is on a mission to bring it back as an end-to-end creative advertising studio.

These are the essentials the head of agency creative uses to inspire standout storytelling and creativity.

🖋: Mekenna Malan

The essentials the head of agency creative uses to inspire standout storytelling and creativity.

12/29/2025

Whether driven by financial targets, rapid scaling or simply a desire to expand access to talent, companies are increasingly turning to offshoring to stay competitive and meet their hiring goals.

Top staffing firms like Kajae, CoDev and Bloom connect international talent with U.S. roles, aiming to create a win-win for companies and communities alike.

🖋: Claire Nielsen
📸: Kajae

Top staffing firms like Kajae, CoDev and Bloom connect international talent with U.S. roles, aiming to create a win-win for companies and communities.

12/26/2025

What do you get when you mix world-class skiing, business acumen and a penchant for the latest technology? The answer is Skis on the Run.

When Skis on the Run first opened in 2002, ski equipment rentals were still a new and unique concept in the United States. However, proximity to the slopes of Park City ski resorts and the company’s white-glove model of delivering the gear straight to customers’ rooms created a successful business.

“What validates our approach is that our highest customer base is repeat. The business model is working.”

🖋: Savannah Hopkinson
📸: Skis On the Run

The white-glove ski delivery service brings everything you need for your ski trip to your doorstep.

12/23/2025

Five small business owners share their New Year’s resolutions and dreams for their company’s growth.

🖋: Dara Anderson Johnson
📸: Casey Wright

Five small business owners share their New Year’s resolutions and dreams for their company’s growth.

12/23/2025

Utah-based Rodatherm Energy Corporation has revolutionized the geothermal energy equation, and venture capitalists have taken note. With pilot projects planned for Millard County and Beaver County, the company has what founder and CEO Curtis Cook calls “a novel approach” to geothermal technology.

🖋: Austin Facer

Rodatherm CEO Curtis Cook explains the technology behind the largest first venture raise for a geothermal company in history.

12/23/2025

Happy holidays (and thank you) 🎄

If there’s one theme that defines this time of year, it’s gratitude.

At Utah Business, we’re deeply grateful for you — our readers and community of leaders who make this state’s business landscape so dynamic and inspiring. Over the past year, we’ve witnessed incredible stories of innovation, resilience and heart. We’ve seen entrepreneurs turn small ideas into storefronts, companies step up to support local causes, and entire industries push toward a more sustainable and inclusive future.

In the middle of it all, thank you for making room for Utah Business in your inbox and on your desk. Your support is the “how” and the “why” behind the stories we tell. We can’t wait to see what 2026 will bring for you and your companies — and we’ll be cheering you on every step of the way.

We wish you a peaceful holiday season and a new year filled with purpose, creativity and connection.

See you in 2026,
Utah Business editorial team

12/23/2025

Ask anyone who grew up in Utah what day of the week their Winder Dairy deliveries were made and decades later, many will still remember — because for several generations, Winder was Utah’s milkman.

Now, the 145-year-old dairy business is balancing nostalgia and modernization as it expands from eight products back toward its former glory.

🖋: Judd Bagley
📸: Winder Farms

How the 145-year-old dairy business is balancing nostalgia and modernization as it expands from eight products back toward its former glory.

12/19/2025

Peter Turner has a reputation in ski circles as a mad scientist — an outside-the-box engineer with a genius for crafting unusual shapes using unorthodox materials to invent skis that generate fanatical loyalty.

But spend an afternoon with Turner at the DPS SKIS factory he designed in the Granary District of Salt Lake City, and it quickly becomes apparent that Turner is not a mad scientist at all. He is a genial visionary who delights in putting smiles on the faces of skiers.

🖋: Michael Zuccarello
📸: Isaac Hale

DPS remains one of America's last premium ski manufacturers. The loyalty of its cult following continues to buck convention 20 years later.

12/18/2025

Rather than selling to private equity, Central States Manufacturing sold the business to its employees. At the time of my reporting, the company boasted 47 millionaires — not just in the C-suite, but all the way down to drivers and machinists. That struck me as business done right.

If all of us owned equity in our companies that were in proportion to what we contribute to their value, then our economy would benefit all of us. Not just the ones at the top.

And that’s a future of capitalism worth working toward.

🖋: Elle Griffin

In reimagining wealth distribution through employee ownership models, could employee equity be the key to a fairer economy?

12/17/2025

“I’ve never been more satisfied watching people stand for the first time in their lives.”

Discover how Steven Boal and Matia Mobility are revolutionizing lives with their innovative standing wheelchairs.

🖋: Heather Bergeson
📸: Matia Mobility

United Spinal Association

Steven Boal and Matia Mobility are transforming lives with innovative standing wheelchairs.

12/16/2025

Twelve manufacturing industry leaders get candid about growth, technological advancements, tariffs and leadership development opportunities.

This roundtable discussion was sponsored by Huxwrx Safety Co. and moderated by Johnny Ferry, CEO of Utah Manufacturers Association.

🖋: Sydnee Van Woerkom
📸: Catherine Bennett

Twelve industry leaders get candid about growth, technological advancements, tariffs and leadership development opportunities.

12/16/2025

Walk the aisles of your local grocery store and you’ll probably notice something strange: protein is in everything these days. Popcorn, 10 grams! Pancakes, 30! Ice cream? Creamy, delicious and nutritious!

What’s behind the trend? Is this a genuine shift toward healthy living or just clever marketing? And which Utah companies are making the tastiest contributions?

🖋: Nick Baird
📸: Catherine Bennett

Kodiak Cakes
Nutriient LLC
Shed Rx

From ice cream to cereal, pretzels and beyond, protein-enhanced versions of everyday foods are dominating grocery aisles. What’s going on?