RANK #3
When life hands you lemons, make them blue. Coming off its one-year anniversary, Blue Lemon Restaurant and Bistro is blowing out candles and breathing in some well deserved success. Opening a restaurant is always risky. But opening one in a less-than-ideal economy? A risk worth writing about. The company’s delicious triumph is a tribute [...]
NO. 1 CASTLEWAVE
Founded 2007 City Provo Employees 23 Industry Technology Web site www.castlewave.com Founders Rich Christiansen, 45;
Ron Porter, 57
What It Is A provider of search engine optimization.
Why It’s Watch-Worthy What started as a $5,000 bootstrap has turned into a million-dollar company, thanks to rock star leadership from serial entrepreneurs [...]
RANK #2
Talk about built to last. Eighty-five years ago, W. W. Clyde and Co. sprung up in Springville with a sturdy promise: “Our word is our bond.” And with each company they’ve constructed or acquired — Sunroc, Geneva Rock, Gorge Rock, Beehive Insurance and Clements Concrete (now all under the umbrella of Clyde Companies) — that [...]
NO. 1 NU SKIN*
Revenue in 2009 $1,330,000,000 Founded 1984 City Provo Employees 8,525 worldwide, 1,200 in Provo Industry Direct sales Web site www.nuskin.com Founder Blake Roney, 51
The Company A direct sales company that sells skin and beauty products.
The Success With revenues upwards of $1 billion, this 26-year success [...]
RANK #17
Three-Year Growth
109%
Destined for entrepreneurship, 8-year-old Jon Moss was running a landscaping business when most kids his age were watching Saturday morning cartoons. But destiny hasn’t been easy. In fact, it’s been extreme. The highs have been pie-in-the-sky high, and the lows have been unjustly low. You see, Moss wasn’t supposed to lose everything. He [...]
RANK #15
Three-Year Growth
123%
In the case of Little Adventures, mothers do indeed know best. The Lehi company — which produces dress-ups for children, adults, dolls and plush animals — was founded by two moms with a problem: Dress-ups for their kids were expensive, itchy and hard to find. So like mother, like entrepreneur, Heather Granata [...]
RANK #7
Three-Year Growth
277%
One on One Marketing wasn’t supposed to last six months. Well, according to the building manager of the company’s first office space. “He told me he’d be surprised if we lasted longer than that,” says Nick Greer, founder of the American Fork-based company that provides lead generation in the for-profit education industry. “But [...]
RANK #1
Three-Year Growth
1,171%
You gotta love the garage. Four years ago, Kory and Stephanie Boyd started KS Marketing out of their home. And the company, which sells retail and wholesale products primarily in the scrapbook and craft industries, took up residence in the ever-iconic garage. “We shipped hundreds of packages a day,” says Kory Boyd, [...]
NO. 1 KS MARKETING*
Three-Year Growth 1,171% Revenue in 2009 $15,158,721 Founded 2006 City Pleasant Grove Employees 14 Industry E-commerce Web site www.ksmarketinginc.com Founder Kory A. Boyd, 32
The Company A seller of retail and wholesale products primarily in the scrapbook and craft industries.
The Growth From our No. 2 Startup [...]
For three years running we’ve featured the groundbreaking growth of local companies.
And for three years we’ve been swept off our feet.
The UV50 — which features the county’s 25 Fastest-Growing Companies (measured by percentage growth over a three-year period), 15 Top Revenue Companies and 10 Startups to Watch — has enjoyed another year of record-ranking success.
Meet all 50 winners, and go inside six companies that share how they did it — in their own words.
