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UPDATED: Swig Sells 250 New Stores to 12 New Franchise Partners

UPDATED: Swig Sells 250 New Stores to 12 New Franchise Partners

Swig expects to sell an additional 250 franchise locations before the end of 2023. Based upon industry estimates, plus Swig's own franchising disclosures, we feel this puts the brand on track to produce projected annual systemwide gross sales of over $225 million once the new units come online.

Murray, Utah-based Nursa Raises $80 Million to Continue to Address the Nation's Nursing Shortage.

Murray, Utah-based Nursa Raises $80 Million to Continue to Address the Nation's Nursing Shortage.

The business model for prospective entrepreneuers has remained virtually unchanged for centuries: Find a customer pain point and provide products/services to address/eliminate that pain. And "Yes," it really is that simple. Interestingly, the greater the pain suffered by a prospective customer (or set of target customers)

Is it a New Record? We Think so, as 102 Utah Firms Make the 2023 Inc. 5000 List.

From numbers 23 to 4,830 and from the "Advertising & Marketing" to the "Travel & Hospitality" Industries, Utah-based companies show extremely well in the penultimate 2023 ranking of fast-growth, privately held enterprises in America. In what has become an annual fascination for business-watchers everywhere, Inc.

Salt Lake City Native Son and Tech Industry O.G., John Warnock, Has Died at 82.

Salt Lake City Native Son and Tech Industry O.G., John Warnock, Has Died at 82.

John E. Warnock, Ph.D., Adobe Systems Co-Founder and former CEO/Chairman, and one of the most influential technologists of the past 50 years, died on Saturday at the age of 82. He is survived by his wife, Marva, and their three children. Warnock was born and raised in Salt

The Case for FireFly Automatix Becoming Utah's Next "Unicorn," Courtesy of Artificial Intelligence, EVs, and Grass

The Case for FireFly Automatix Becoming Utah's Next "Unicorn," Courtesy of Artificial Intelligence, EVs, and Grass

By "marrying motion control with robotics" in its fully autonomous electric mowers, FireFly Automatix has dramatically expanded its Total Addressable Market size (TAM) by 15-fold to $30 billion. The decision moves FireFly beyond turf harvesting/mowing into commercial and (eventually) residential grass-mowing. And its primary targets out-of-the gate

ICYMI: Utah's Top Seven Money Stories from the First Half of August 2023

ICYMI: Utah's Top Seven Money Stories from the First Half of August 2023

From the $4 million "special" funding of ChartSquad to our discovery of PCF Insurance Services - Utah's hidden 5X insurance industry "Unicorn" - we deliver our perspectives on each of the top 7 money stories in Utah for first half of the month (August

Court Order Notwithstanding, Utah's Cookie War Between Crumbl and Dirty Dough Continues

Court Order Notwithstanding, Utah's Cookie War Between Crumbl and Dirty Dough Continues

Given that both sides taste victory in the latest U.S. District Court ruling, it's clear to this journalist that the fight between Dirty Dough and Crumbl is nowhere near to being over. On Friday, the United States District Court (District of Utah) issued a 21-page Ruling* in