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THIS IS LARRY MANKIN FROM THE SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH YOUR METRO BUSINESS REPORT
According to Wells Fargo’s Wasatch Front area Cost of Living Report, Wasatch Front grocery expenses increased 1.7 percent during May. A rise in produce costs were largely to blame for the increase.
KCPW, a local FM radio station, won several awards at the Utah Society of Professional Journalists banquet. KCPW journalists Beverly Amsler, Jennifer Napier-Pearce, and Mike Savage all won awards for their reports.
Here’s an Olympic business fact: This week we are reviewing the different locations of the 2002 Cultural Olympiad Venues. Three of the cultural venues are The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts in Park City, Springville Museum of Art, and Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City.
The Chamber honors Spence Eccles this Thursday, June 28th, as A Giant In Our City. Spence began his career in banking in 1958 at the First National City Bank in New York. A few years later his family, who had created First Security Bank back in 1928, persuaded him to return to Utah. He was soon transferred to Boise, Idaho where he worked for ten years before returning to Salt Lake. In 1982 Spence became CEO of First Security and managed its assets from $4 billion dollars to more than $23 billion dollars. For more information on A Giant In Our City honoring Spence Eccles, call 328-5043 or see us on the web at saltlakechamber.org.
THIS IS LARRY MANKIN FOR KSL NEWSRADIO 1160.
