The Denver Office of Economic Development has launched a new series of podcasts on its website, www.milehigh.com, featuring Mayor John Hickenlooper and a group of business leaders who share their perspectives on Denver as an ideal location for conducting business.
Great-West Healthcare, a Greenwood Village-based employee benefits provider, captured the seventh position in Business Insurance magazine’s annual ranking of the largest consumer-driven health care providers. Great-West Healthcare moved up three places from 10th in 2004.
The 2006 Colorado Construction Career Days will be Tuesday and Wednesday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock. More than 1,500 high school students are expected to participate and learn about opportunities in the construction industry. For information, call Rusty Orr at 303-388-2422 or visit
www.coloradoconstructioncareerdays.com.
Wyndgate Technologies, a division of Denver-based Global Med Technologies Inc., announced that Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Wilkesboro, N.C., has licensed its SafeTrace Tx transfusion management system. Terms were not disclosed.
Tendril, a Denver-based provider of network operations platform software for wireless sensor and control networks, introduced Tendril Access, a solution that provides access to any 802.15.4/ZigBee WSCN from a personal computer.
The Department of Labor and Employment will partner with six metro Workforce Centers to produce the E3 job fair Tuesday at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. For information on the event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., go to
www.coworkforce.com/wd.
HenryGill Advertising of Denver received the Outstanding Same Store Sales Award for 2005 for managing the advertising for three Dairy Queen markets. HenryGill plans and places broadcast media and local store marketing for 88 Dairy Queen stores in the Denver, Casper and Cheyenne markets.
Blog AB has been launched by Andy Bosselman, a Denver-based writer, PR and creative consultant. The blog, which can be accessed at
andybosselman.blogspot.com, focuses on agencies, designers and the design industry.
Aurora Federal Credit Union, which was organized in 1968 by a group of city of Aurora employees, has changed its name to Members Federal Credit Union.
CTA Public Relations of Louisville has changed its name to CTA Integrated Communications.
The town of Erie has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the El Pomar Foundation for the construction and maintenance of the Erie community recreation/senior center.
Bal Swan Children’s Center announced it has received an $8,000 grant from the Amgen Foundation to support its general operating budget for the 2006-07 school year.
