• Pampered Passions Care Wear has opened a post operative care boutique in Porter Adventist Hospital. The boutique concept caters to patients for their pre and post-operative care garments, bras, and pajamas.
• NewsGator is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region in response to escalating demand for social computing solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• Denver-based Pure Brand Communications is accepting applications for its second-annual Pure Good Works program, which will award one non-profit organization, a year of integrated creative services valued up to $75,000.
• MRW Consulting Group of Fort Lauderdale, Fla, announced that it has opened a Rocky Mountain regional office in Denver. The firm provides forensic accounting, consulting and advisory services for law firms, law enforcement, government agencies, businesses and individuals.
• Curvy Riders LLC of Grand Junction, a designer of custom-fit apparel and accessories for female motorcycle riders, received a $5,000 grant from for Brother International Corp. that will allow Curvy Riders to have a sales booth at the 2012 International Women & Motorcycling Conference this summer. Curvy Riders was one of five small businesses nationally to receive the grant.
• Denver-based MusclePharm Corp. announced that beginning in April, Eurpac Service Inc. — the primary distributor of consumer products to U.S. military exchanges, Navy ships and veteran’s canteens — will begin distributing the MusclePharm product line.
• Broomfield-based Ball Corp. will produce an old-fashioned three-piece, flat top steel can, for craft beer brewer Churchkey Can Co. The can harkens back to the day of the original flat top steel beer cans, invented in the mid-1930s,
• Boulder-based OPX Biotechnologies Inc. announced a milestone in commercializing its more-economical and renewable alternative to petroleum-based acrylic acid. The company successfully demonstrated its fermentation process for bio-based acrylic acid at the 3,000-liter scale. Acrylic is used in products such as diapers, detergents, paints and adhesives.
• Kutak Rock LLP was ranked number one bond counsel in Colorado in 2011, aggregating more than $1.9 billion in bonds for 53 financings, according to Thomson Reuters.
• Twin Peaks will open its second Colorado restaurant in Broomfield in May at 299 East Flatiron Drive.
• Loveland Ready Mix Concrete Inc., recently added 8 new concrete mixer trucks to their fleet that are powered by compressed natural gas.
