Junior Achievement announced the completion of the 2009 Junior Achievement Business Week. First-year students in the program worked with Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard to create a new Halloween- inspired Spoonbender flavor, which will be sold in stores this October, and the students will share in a portion of the profits. Second- year students teamed up with Wal-Mart and Natural Capitalism Solutions to develop a marketing plan to promote the “green” awareness fair, to be held in July at the Wal-Mart store in Lakewood, and third-year students worked with the Colorado Health Foundation, the Colorado Association of School-Based Health Care and Denver Health to design a marketing campaign and floor plan for a potential school-based health center at Manual High School.
Cool Energy Inc., a Boulder-based clean-energy technology company, was honored as the “Most Promising Clean Tech Start-up — Young Green Tech” this month at the Transatlantic Green Platform 2009.
ADA-ES Inc. of Littleton announced it has been awarded a contract to supply a mercury-emission-control system for an existing 275-megawatt coal-fired generating unit in the Midwest.
PetroHunter Energy Corp. of Denver closed a transaction to sell a 25 percent working interest in PetroHunter’s four exploration permits covering 7 million acres in the Beetaloo Basin of the Northern Territory, Australia, to Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd.
Dex Media Inc., an Arapahoe County-based Yellow Pages and online-search company, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1269 have agreed on a new three-year contract. It was ratified by the union-represented employees.
Best Price Boxes opened recently in Denver at 221 Broadway. The business buys and sells gently used boxes.
NexHorizon Communications Inc., a Westminster-based provider of broadband solutions to rural communities, has finalized plans to complete the next phase of its infrastructure growth in the Chula Vista, Calif., market.
Box Studios, a design firm with offices in Denver and Chicago, received the 2009 First Place Interior Design Award for Excellence in Commercial Design Over 35,000 square feet from the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. Box was cited for the architecture and design of the Newmont Mining Corp. headquarters.
Baxa Corp., a Douglas County-based medical- device company, announced the release of upgrades to its IntelliFlowRx work-flow-management system, designed to improve safety and accuracy in pharmacy-based IV admixture preparation.
