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Show -- 04 t HERALD DAILY Saturday, Aprl 10, 2004 Busies Local Indusuy in Manufacturing inquiries grow & News Notes the Grace Leong Steel Manufacturing , Provo steel plant cuts work hours starting Monday The owners of Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.'s steel making plant in Provo said it will cut the number of work hours to 24 from 40 starting Monday to "maintain the work force at the highest level possible." "We're moving from a four-daworkweek of 40 hours to a three-da- y workweek of 24 hours because the volume work at the plant is insufficient to justify the current workweek," said Bruce Steimle, Chicago Bridge's spokesman. "We've notified the Federal Trade Commission a week ago of the decision to make this change. It doesnt violate the terms of the interim consent order," he said. FTC officials declined to comment. Several workers were laid off in recent weeks sparking concerns among the plant's remaining workers of more furloughs in the coming weeks and possible closure of the Provo plant at 700 S. 500 East, despite a Dec. 12 court order that requires Chicago Bridge to provide 60 days notice if it decides to close the plant or lay off its workers. The Provo plant is part of assets disputed in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Chicago Bridge in 2001 to force a breakup of its $84 million merger with riMoines. Federal regulators accused Chicago Bridge of val Pitt-Dviolating federal antitrust laws when it acquired the Provo plant s Moines in February 2001, allegedly to and other assets of reduce competition. y 20-pl- Pitt-De- 'Commercial Brokerage Coldwell Banker Coldwell Banker hires six new sales associates Residential Brokerage hired six new associates to its Utah County sales team Darin Bartholomew, Mitch Price, Nikki Mott, Kyle Knudson, Tausha Steen and Karla Elbaba have joined the office located at 354 W. Center Street in Orem. Coldwell, which has 16 offices statewide and nearly 1,200 sales associates, offers residential and commercial brokerage, corporate relocation, and mortgage services. which will start this summer, and new businesses including Rumbi's restaurant, Noodles & Co. and Best Buy, which are expected to open at Carillon Square, an Orem strip mall that's being redeveloped, Whittaker said. Nissan dealership at 165 A seven-acr- University Parkway in Orem is being ex- panded, he said. The dealership, now located in a building, is expected to move into its new and add between location by year-en10 to 15 employees. "We're expanding because Nissan USA. has a new building design they want all their dealers to comply with," said Tony Kratz, Nissan's general manager of a Hon-d- a and Nissan dealership in Salt Lake City. Dixon Holmes, assistant director of Provo City's Office of Economic Development, said several new restaurants may locate at the sites of the former Howard Johnson and Super 8 Motels near the Provo Towne Centre mafl. General Growth Properties Inc., owner of the Provo mall and the land where the former hotels were, is in negotiations with national restaurant chains to lease the restau- nearly 6 acres for three rants, said Bob Seawright, General r Growth's leasing manager. "There aren't many nice restaurants in that part of Provo," he said. "But we have a very successful movie theater at the mall, and we need to bring in more restaurants to help build more traffic for the mall and the theater." jobs we want," he said. high-payi- Sift on Cases Inc., a Fresno, Calif THE DAHY HERALD protective shipping and carrying case maker, relocated its factory to Lindon because of lower labor costs in Utah compared with that of California, a better quality work force, and better sales growth prospects in Salt Lake County than Fresof Silton. no, said Tom Fisher, a The labor market in California has become too expensive because of workers' compensation and health insurance costs," he said. The Salt Lake market is a growing market for our products, more so than inFresno because of the dustries that are here." The company, which opened its Lindon office April 1, will close its Fresno plant after it has moved its sewing operations to lindon in summer. The company will retain its headquarters and sales office in Fresno, but Lindon will gain at least 12 jobs that were terminated at the Fresno plant, Fisher said. Fotheringham, who said 70 percent of new jobs nationwide are generated by existing businesses, hopes to conduct 100 business visits in 2004 in Utah to help stimulate new job growth. Uso speaking at the forum was Brad Whittaker, executive director of the Commission for Economic Development in Orem, who outlined several ongoing business expansions and projects in the city. n These include the construction of Village, a project comprising condominiums, shops and offices in Orem, In what city officials and economists hope is the start of a recovery in Utah's manufacturing sector, the number of inquiries from manufacturers looking to cate or expand in Utah has risen dramati- cally in recent months, a local business expert said Friday. Chamber of Speaking at the Provo-OreCommerce's First Friday Forum, Russ Fotheringham, director of the Utah Valley Economic Development Association, or UVEDA, said requests for information spiked in the first three months this year from manufacturers looking to locate in Utah Valley. UVEDA received 24 inquiries this first quarter, compared with a total of 26 in 2003, and five in 2002. "We've had a lot of requests for information from call centers, but these generate mostly jobs," Fotheringham said. The state lost about 1,400 manufacturing jobs in 2003, according to the Utah Department of Workforce Services. "And we're getting a lot of inquiries because of the human resources we have in Utah," Fotheringham said, referring to the 60,000-pIu- s students at Brigham Y University, Utah Valley State College and other institutions. "UVEDA is now working with BYU, Provo and Orem cities and others to develop a system of business accelerators or incubators, modeled after that of the Canopy Group, which spawned 120 businesses with e 10,000-square-fo- 28,000-square-fo- d er 14,000-square-fo- low-payin- g IM full-servi- Mid-tow- re Retail USANA promises supplements Green ShopKo awards 18 companies as vendors of the year d discount retailing chain ShopKo Stores Inc. said Bay, Wis.-base- 18 companies have been selected to receive ShopKo's Vendor of the Year awards. The department store chain has 15 stores in Utah, three of which are in Provo, Orem and Spanish Fork. The awards are presented annually to companies that demonstrate exceptional sales performance, service innovation and professionalism, said Sam Duncan, president and chief executive officer of ShopKo Stores Inc. ShopKo's Vendors of the Year are: Continental Optical Imports, Women's Plus, Hasbro Games, Icon Health and Fitness, Jem Sportswear, JewelAmerica, L&N Sales and Marketing, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, NAIMLG Commercial, New Balance, Pepsi Cola, Quad Graphics, Rosetti Handbags, Sony Electronics, Sterilite, Symbol Technologies, US Nutrition and Zelenka Nursery. Real Estate LandAmerica selects Pleasant Grove company to help in Sarbanes-OxleLandAmerica Financial Group Inc., a Richcompliance y d real estate transaction services provider, has selected CertiSphere-SOX- , a tech tool developed by Net Endeavor of Pleasant Grove, as its Sarbanes-Oxle- y Section 404 compliance tool beet ion 404 ot the Sarbanes-OxJeAct, which was passed in 2002 in response to the accounting and finance scandals that embroiled Enron Corp., WorldCom Inc. and others, requires companies to document, test and certify their internal checks and balances governing all business processes across the company, such as payroll and accounts receivables. Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 also requires chief financial officers and chief executive officers to certify that their internal controls are sufficient to assure the integrity of their financial reporting. mond, Va.-base- y American are free of banned substances Airlines admits to disclosure of Doug Alden THE ASSOCIATED PRESS passenger data SALT LAKE QTY Canadian gymnast Richard Ikeda is wary of what kind of nutritional supplements he takes for fear of what they might contain. Hundreds of substances could land an athlete like him on the banned list, erasing years of training because of something that may not give him a competitive edge but is still BradFoss THE WASHINGTON American Airlines became the third US. airline to acknowledge giving passenger records to the government, sparking denunciations from privacy advocates. The world's largest airline said late Friday that in June 2002 n it shared approximately L2 itinerarieswith passenger the Transportation Security Administration and, inadvertently, four research companies vying for contracts with the agency. Fort Worth, Texas-base- d American said it agreed to provide the TSA with the information "because of the heightened interest in aviation security at the time and American's desire to ensure its passenger and crew safety" following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, American's privacy policy did not expressly prohibit sharing passenger data with the government, a spokesman said. Today it does. The passenger data was turned over to the TSA by Airline Automation Inc., a forbiddea "We get dope tested and drug tested constantly," said Ikeda, the defending Canadian national champion. "When you're taking something, you want to make sure it doesn't have something in it that you don't know about." So Ikeda wasted no time in taking advantage of a Salt d Lake supplement manufacturer's promise to pay up to $1 million Canadian (about $735,000 U.S.) to an athlete who tests positive while using the company's products. "We're told not to take anything we don't know if it's completely safe," Ikeda said. "Now it's a little easier." Dietary supplements are not as tightly regulated as pharmaceuticals, and some athletes have blamed the products for positive doping tests. USANA began considering the guarantee two years ago around the time of the 2002 Winter Olympics after two of its Canadian distributors sought assurances the1 products they were selling didn't contain anything illegal. At the Salt Lake City Games, a U.S. bobsledder was disqualified for testing positive for traces of a steroid, which he blamed on a protein powder he had been given as a meal substitute. USANA compared its ingredients with WADA's lengthy banned list and began eliminating substances. "We said, 'Why risk it? Why not just get it out all to-- mil-lio- (r . City-base- National Briefing Former Goldman Sachs economist sentenced NEW YORK (AP) A former Goldman Sachs & Co. economist was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Friday for relaying an insider bond tip that allowed the firm to make millions of dollars in tainted profits. The sentence came after John Youngdahl, 44, said he was "deeply sorry" for hurting his family, friends and colleagues. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote sentenced Youngdahl to two years and nine months in prison the lightest term possible under federal guidelines. He pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud, securities fraud and other charges. Coca-Col- a shareholders urged to separate positions ATLANTA (AP) Co. are being Shareholders of The Coca-Col- a urged to withhold their votes for billionaire investor Warren Buf-fe- tt for to the beverage giant's board and to support a proposal to separate Coke's chairman and chief executive positions. 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"This underscores the fact that there's now a privacy crisis within the airline industry, largely driven by government demands for passenger data," said David Sobel, general counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. considerably since then, reporting sales of $200 million ' for 2003. USANA announced the guarantee earlier this year and finalized its first contract, with Canadian mountain biker Chrissy Redden, last month. The final details of Ikeda's guarantee are almost finished. The amount of the guarantee is based on how much sponsorship money the athlete could lose because of a positive test. The company plans to extend the offer to U.S. athletes and those in other countries, though some Americans have already contacted the company themselves. ii ",Dr. natural hair pattern. Cafl today and put the hair loss that's behind you, behind you! " Pound said. USANA products began making nutritional supplements in 1992 and has grown means,' US-AN- vice president for research and development. Dick Pound, president of g the World Agency, said he hadn't heard of USANA's guarantee or any like it. "I think it's good if they're sure enough about that kind of warranty that they're going to put their name, reputation and assets behind it," Pound said. But Pound, a 1960 Olympic swimmer, said athletes should still be cautious about what they take. The tests don't discriminate between intentional and unintended use of banned substances. 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