From Deseret News archives:
3 firms tell why they relocated to Utah
Such as the great outdoors and hospitable and helpful residents. Plus a willingness to have workers relocate to Utah.
Representatives of three companies that have moved some of their business to Utah said as much Thursday at the Governor's Utah Economic Summit '07.
"I have to say this state has a lot to offer from a cultural standpoint, obviously from an outdoors standpoint, which is my day-to-day life, and we're just very pleased to be here," Francois Goulet, president of Rossignol North America, said during a panel discussion titled "Why Utah?"
Rossignol, a winter sports equipment company, relocated 25 people from Vermont to Park City and has hired 80 other workers in Park City and Ogden. "On behalf of the 25 employees that relocated, not one of them has regrets or wants their money back," Goulet said.
Ditto for glass manufacturer Viracon, which is preparing to open a plant in St. George. It is fully staffed with 144, including 25 from two other facilities.
The company's managers so loved St. George the company also was considering Tucson for the plant that Pyatt worried other site-selection criteria would be forgotten. "I can tell you that St. George was so popular right from the start that the challenge I had was how was I going to keep this decision objective," he said.
Liberty Foods selected Utah over Arizona and Nevada in part because of hospitality and help offered by Utahns. It is building a plant in Tremonton, Box Elder County, that will start with 225 employees.
"Every time we'd come into town, whether it was Tremonton or Salt Lake or any other of the northern Utah cities, everybody was very helpful and willing to go out of their way to help us with our transition," said David Frett, manager of the Tremonton facility. He noted that Utahns' worth ethic, commitment and values matched those of the company.
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