Niwot-based Crocs Inc. announced Tuesday it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Jibbitz LLC, based in Boulder. Crocs also introduced its spring footwear lineup, which features nine new models, including one high-heeled shoe.
WhiteWave Foods Co. of Broomfield won a 2006 Green Power Leadership Award winner from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. The company has been among the top 25 green power purchasers each year since 2004. Its Silk and Horizon Organic brands were recognized for contributing to the development and use of renewable energy.
Wiesner Custom Publishing of Centennial received a silver award for excellence in publication packaging and five honorable mentions for client-produced magazines from the Custom Publishing Council.
Alpine Access, a Golden- based provider of contact-center solutions using home- based employees, announced that the company is expanding in Florida and hiring more than 500 home-based agents in and around Miami, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale.
Baxa Corp. of Arapahoe County announced this week the launch of the first medication dispensers designed only for enteral feeding at the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting.
Century Casinos Inc., a Colorado Springs-based casino operator, on Saturday opened the Century Casino Newcastle (formerly Monte Vista Casino & Conference Centre) in South Africa’s Kwazulu Natal Province.
Medivance Inc., a Louisville-based provider of noninvasive therapeutic temperature management, received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to market its Arctic Sun Temperature Management System in Japan. The device controls, monitors and maintains core body temperature at therapeutic levels.
SpectraLink of Boulder and Impact on Education have
teamed for the second year to promote education in math, science and the arts in Boulder Valley public schools. SpectraLink allocated about $20,000 to support Impact on Education’s 2007 “Clicker” and Community Arts programs.
AlloSource, a Centennial- based provider of bone and soft-tissue allografts, announced the formation of the Joint Restoration Foundation. The new nonprofit company will focus on processing technologies and promoting the beneficial uses of joint-restoration allograft tissue.
The Downtown Denver Partnership and the city of Denver
will host a community workshop to discuss the latest thinking for the Downtown Area Plan at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 at the Hyatt Regency at Colorado Convention Center.
Denver-based Herman Mil ler Workplace Resource and the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver are uniting with 18 area architecture and interior-design firms to host the fifth annual “We Care” holiday celebration for 300 underprivileged children Thursday.



