The good news is that Bloomberg ranked Utah first in the nation for SBA loans awarded as a percent of eligible payroll at 97.5% meaning those eligible have been receiving those loans. Utah Bankers have processed 47,046 loans totaling $5.5 billion in PPP funds to Utah businesses. Now the conversation has turned to PPP loan [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: Stay Safe to Stay Open This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. As we move into summer and the state moves from orange and yellow towards green on the public health dial, our responsibility to look out for each other does not end. We must avoid the temptation [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: Colliers International This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Colliers International is the largest commercial real estate firm in Utah with billions of dollars of sales and leasing transactions each year. With over 18,000 professionals and more than 500 offices around the world, they are positioned to [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: JAN-PRO of Utah Few people know more about keeping a clean and healthy environment than Tom Richter, president and CEO of JAN-PRO of Utah, a company that for more than 21 years has kept a 98% retention rate as a commercial cleaning service. Here’s Tom to tell [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber’s “Stay Safe to Stay Open” initiative provides guidelines for businesses and consumers to move Utah’s economy from orange to yellow to green, offering best practices and access to resources that can be used by retail stores, restaurants, and others as we overcome effects of the coronavirus. In the beginning, the core [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: Hope Corps This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Community partners have come together to create the Hope Corps, an expansive, student-led effort to support Utah’s recovery from COVID-19. The Hope Corps is a statewide effort to engage Utah’s best and brightest with small businesses, non-profits and [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: City Creek and Malls are Open This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. The pandemic hit American consumers and the small business community hard. Our restaurants and shopping centers took the brunt the attack. Currently, retail stores across the state are seeing consumer traffic cut in half [...]
The last two months have certainly posed a challenge that I did not foresee when I took the oath of office for County Mayor last year; Salt Lake County boasted an economy that was one of the nation’s best, with years of historically low unemployment rates and booming business. The threat of coronavirus is one [...]
As businesses stabilize and make their recovery plans, consideration of emerging legal issues will avoid problems down the road. Join our panelists to learn about the labor, employment, liability, creditor, supply, and other business issues you need to be watching out for. The Salt Lake Chamber hosted Utah Leads Together: The Next Legal Issues and [...]
The Salt Lake Chamber · Speaking on Business: Young Living Essential Oils This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Young Living Essential Oils promotes the wisdom of Emerson that, “Every wall is a door.” Not only do you see it on their tee-shirts, but the Utah company exemplifies that spirit of engagement as it addresses [...]
