OCI of Cheyenne has hired Colorado-based Tool Studios to consolidate into one cohesive design the company’s current materials, including ID and sales materials.
On Saturday, Denver- based Keating Investments reaffirmed its commitment to China by opening an office in Shanghai. Luca Toscani, the Keating partner responsible for the firm’s Chinese reverse- merger business, has moved to Shanghai to run the new office. The firm anticipates hiring up to six analysts and investment bankers there in the second half of 2006.
McCormick’s Catering at the Oxford Hotel has received the 2006 Silver Plate Award from Meeting Professionals International. McCormick’s Catering is a division of McCormick’s Fish House & Bar and provides service to the hotel’s ballrooms and event space.
Caribou Coffee has expanded its Colorado presence by opening its sixth metro-area coffee shop, at 12624 Washington Lane, east of the Meridian Office Park. The Minneapolis-based company’s new shop will provide drive-through service. A grand-opening party will be from 4 to 7 p.m. July 12.
Envirofit International Ltd. has been named in the latest issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review as one of 10 innovative technology companies that create global social change. It is a nonprofit corporation that develops new solutions for global challenges and disseminates technologies originated at Colorado State University.
Platte River Power Authority has become the nation’s first utility to use Blue Sun’s premium biodiesel fuel for the production of electricity. During startup, this effort will effectively reduce the unit’s carbon-monoxide emissions by 32 percent, the hydrocarbon emissions by 40 percent, particulate matter by 24 percent and nitrogen oxides by 4 percent, according to a study conducted at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.
Durango-based Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. announced that it has been included in the annual listing of “America’s 100 Fastest Growing Small Public Companies,” which appears in the July/August 2006 edition of Fortune Small Business Magazine.
This month, Wagner Equipment Co. will open a full-service facility in Windsor. The new location will enhance Wagner’s ability to service customers in Weld County and other northern Colorado areas.
Thomas Taber & Drazen, a full-service Denver advertising agency, was recently recognized with 19 awards from the Art Directors Club of Denver and the American Marketing Association.
The Pinnacle at City Park South, two luxury residential high-rise towers now under construction, is a title sponsor of this year’s City Park Jazz summer concert series.
