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This is Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber with your Utah Business Report.
Last month while we all took some time off to celebrate Thanksgiving, we also marked the 14th anniversary of the Women's Business Center. Over those 14 years, the Women's Business Center has provided counseling, training and encouragement to thousands of women.
In just the past year, the Women's Business Center has provided over 160 hours of training to nearly 16-hundred people. These trainings focus on six core areas: marketing, finance, business plan development, sales, management and procurement.
Most impressively, this effort has resulted in 15 new business start-ups and 22 jobs created and we'll take as much of that as we can get.
Those numbers are impressive. But they mean more than what is often reflected in statistics. Each of those numbers represents an individual who took a risk, who stepped out of a comfort zone, who pursued a dream.Those entrepreneurs make Utah's economy one of the strongest in the nation.
This is Lane Beattie for KSL News Radio.
