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Show Business information inquiries rise By TQM HARALDSKN Magazine's October 22 issue, which listed Salt Lake City as the best area in America for business. Both Bountiful City and the Chamber joined the UEDC earlier this year, and both for apparently the same reason-to gain yet another allie in the battle for business attraction attrac-tion and retention. Year to date, the UEDC lists 52 new business clients that it has attracted at-tracted through its efforts. In October, Oc-tober, a telecommunications firm in Seattle announced plans to expand into Utah with a 150-200 job operation. opera-tion. Air Space Technologies of Irvine, Ir-vine, California, relocated here in October as well. And a California firm which manufactures mountaineering moun-taineering and back country equip- I ment has announced plans to move its operation to Park City. The hopes for local members of UEDC is that Davis County can also enter the picture as a potential new home for light industry and manufacturing. Last Wednesday night, UEDC members joined with Governor Norm Bangerter and a host of other local businessmen at a reception for ! Fortune editor Geoffrey Colvin ! who admitted himself that he was surprised when Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas emerged as the top place to do business in the United States. ALT LAKE CITY-The Utah Economic Development Corpora-fon, Corpora-fon, a private company which works to attract new businesses to the state and which boasts among its membership both Bountiful City and the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce, handled 82 requests for information in October. In the UEDC monthly report of activity, 10 new business clients made contact with the corporation, six prospects visited Utah, and 26 business retention and expansion assists were handled. Thus far, UEDC has handled nearly 1000 information requests during 1990, a figure which is sure to increase thanks to Fortune |