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SACRAMENTO -- California business leaders are trying to get their state to make some changes after more California companies announced they are expanding in Utah.
The California Chamber of Commerce and others want the Legislature to pass a more business-friendly budget. Some leaders are expressing concerns that e-Bay, Adobe, Twitter, Electronic Arts and Oracle are all expanding in Utah.
These expansions may due to Utah's "West Coast Initiative."
"In a nice way we want to let people know we are open for business," said Spencer Eccles, executive director of the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED). "One of the No. 1 factors is that we are a very business-friendly state."
He says it also helps that Utah has the youngest workforce in America.
Eccles says he and others will be going to California in the next few weeks to meet with five other companies in industries from renewable energy to information technology.
But Eccles says GOED is also working to grow Utah companies as well. He says 80 percent of incentives offered went to Utah-based businesses, and they were able to help get $500 million in government contracts for small companies in this state.
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