Dako to Lay Off 30 in Fort Collins
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NEWS Arts venues see drop in attendance New marketing methods devised to fill seats for upcoming performances Page 2 Real Estate & Development $ 1 Water Valley Aug. 3-16, 2007 Senior Resort Vol. 12, No. 23 nears completion www.ncbr.com Page 15 Tolmar Inc. sees growth in first year Drug maker shows profit after first few months of operation Page 3 Dako to lay off 30 in Fort Collins NitaCrisp crackers going national Cracker maker needs more space to meet is facing some restructuring that Coughenour referred all questions dream come true.” the growing demand End of Eridan will have a direct impact on its Fort regarding the Eridan line and the Thommesen said that some of the Page 3 Collins site. cut positions to the company’s employees affected by the project’s eliminates need Dako is eliminating 30 positions headquarters. discontinuation will be offered sever- in Fort Collins, a company spokes- “Closing down the Eridan pro- ance packages. Others will be offered for employees woman confirmed. The employees ject has been a really tough decision a “retention plan” that will last any- were working on the Eridan prod- to make,” said Denmark-based where from one to six months. By Kristen Tatti uct line, which is being discontin- Dako spokeswoman Anne “I want to express my sincere [email protected] ued. Eridan was a slide-staining sys- Thommesen in an e-mail to the thanks to the team for their great tem used in advanced cancer diag- Business Report. “For seven years work and contribution to Dako’s FORT COLLINS — Just two nostic applications. this system was a top priority for future pathology solutions,” said months after being purchased by a Fort Collins site manager and Dako and we invested a lot of good Dako CEO Patrik Dahlén, in a pre- Otter Products LLC private equity company, Dako A/S Dako Vice President Cindy work and resources to make the See DAKO, 27 cruising safely New protective cases, sleeker case designs, and a new home Weld ecodevo Page 3 Uranium-boom Biofuel founder moves to fix launches new firm Jim Sears left Solix train pulls in January, co-founds financial woes A2BE Carbon Capture Page 5 into NoCo Upstate Colorado THE EDGE could see funding cut from Greeley By Tom Hacker [email protected] Handling body art GREELEY — Weld County’s MONITOR WELL — A crew from Powertech Corp. drills a main economic development in the workplace water-monitoring well on land in western Weld County, agency seeks to enlist “high-energy, The permanent effects of where the company wants to mine uranium. A series of wells will be used to monitor the quality of underground young professionals” to shore up the tattoos, piercings on group’s finances by recruiting and professional image water once Powertech’s in-situ mining process begins, to help prevent contamination from the water coming in retaining private investors in the Page 9 contact with the uranium mining sites. face of dwindling public support. The campaign to re-energize LISTS Upstate Colorado Economic Devel- Steve Porter, Northern Colorado Business Report Region’s largest opment is explained in a mid-July letter that the group’s president, Distributors Job No. 1 is drilling wells to Lilias Jarding of the local group Larry Burkhardt, sent to private Page 16 Powertech says monitor the process. Citizens Against Resource Destruc- investors and local governments At stake are huge potential prof- tion, or CARD.“We just don’t think that provide financial support to Industrial buildings environmental its for mining company Powertech it’s a good fit in our area.” Upstate. Page 17 Uranium Corp., and substantial But Richard Blubaugh, Pow- While the letter documents a list fears unfounded economic benefits for the Northern ertech’s vice president for health, of recent upstate success stories, Office buildings Colorado region. safety and environmental notably the arrival of Denmark- Page 18 By Steve Porter Also at stake, according to those resources, said the proposed in-situ based Vestas Wind Systems A/S [email protected] opposed to the project, is the future water injection recovery process with 460 jobs at a turbine-blade quality of the region’s groundwater has a long track record of safety. factory in Windsor, it also warns of NUNN — Just a few miles west and environment. “It’s very safe,” he said. “There’s trouble ahead for the agency, not- of this tiny Weld County town, “There are a whole host of neg- a good, long history of the safety of ing “in the midst of this good news, crews are taking the first step that ative impacts that historically come (in-situ) operation for over 30 the fact is that Upstate’s operating could ultimately lead to the first from uranium mining, including years now. It’s a method people budget is not what it should be.” major uranium extraction opera- water pollution, air pollution and generally don’t understand, and The nonprofit group spent tion in the region. environmental degradation,” said See POWERTECH, 28 See UPSTATE, 29 2 The Northern Colorado Business Report Aug. 3-16, 2007 Arts venues get creative to put patrons in the seats though our numbers were still enviable, we Sagging ticket sales needed to make some adjustments,” she inspire marketing said. Tickets a la carte for big performances This year, Herlihy said, the Lincoln Cen- ter has introduced an a la carte menu of By Steve Porter tickets called “Pick Five or More,” which [email protected] allows patrons to choose five or more shows from the Center’s various entertainment FORT COLLINS — Local performing series. Those include Showstoppers, Imagi- arts venues are devising new strategies to fill nation Series, Anything Goes Series, Dance seats in an era with more entertainment Series, Classical Series, Adventure Cinema options, less leisure time and a desire for Series and Special Events shows. more flexibility compete for their patrons’ “They can look over the entire brochure time and money. and pick what they want to see,” she said. That’s particularly true when it comes to “It’s a way to create your own series.” getting people to purchase multi-show sea- Herlihy said traditional season ticket son tickets, said Susan Herlihy, public rela- buyers will continue to enjoy a 20 percent tions coordinator for the Lincoln Center in discount on their tickets because of their Fort Collins. season commitment and have the same “Our experience over the last five to seats for all shows. Pick Five or More ticket seven years is we have experienced about a buyers will get a 10 percent discount but 15 percent decline in our Showstopper won’t get the same seats for each perfor- Series,” Herlihy said, referring to the Lin- mance because of the logistics of opening coln Center’s slate of seven shows that run up all the series. from October through April. She said she expects more people will Courtesy Lincoln Center Herlihy said season tickets account for appreciate the flexibility of choosing the about 60 percent of sales for the perfor- shows they’re most interested in even Showstoppers — T he Ten Tenors returned to the Lincoln Center for six wildly popular shows last November, but mances, a ratio that’s about double the though they don’t get the same savings. other recent shows haven't sold nearly as many seats. national average and one that “people all “I think people’s purchasing patterns are around the country are just drooling changing,” she said. “They’re willing to pay ences. Flexibility is key over.” a little more to see the events they want to “Our e-mail program has been very suc- Andrew Segal, marketing coordinator But season ticket holders once accounted see.” cessful this year,” she said. “It goes out to for Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, for 75 percent of the series’ audiences, and Herlihy said the Lincoln Center is also traditional season ticket holders but we’ll said UCCC has been using a la carte-style Herlihy said action was needed to reverse increasingly using e-mail to alert sub- also blast out an e-mail to people who season ticket sales for many years but went the decline. “We began to realize that we scribers when a show is coming that they signed up for information about upcoming See ARTS, 24 would not be increasing forever and even might be interested in based on their prefer- shows.” REGIONAL LOCATIONS AT Southeast corner of I-25 & US 34 RETAIL • OFFICE • LIGHT INDUSTRIAL www.chrislandinc.com Nicholas M Christensen, J.D. Ryan J. Schaefer 970-663-3150 x 3 970-663-3150 x 4 Aug. 3-16, 2007 The Northern Colorado Business Report 3 THE Tolmar’s first year marked with growth tical company Technofarma initiated the pur- Drug maker shows chase of a bulk of QLT USA Inc., then a sub- Tolmar Inc. EYE sidiary of Vancouver-based QLT Inc. For $21 healthy profit after million, Technofarma received the generic der- Founded: 2006 matology and dental products as well as the Management: Mike Duncan, CEO months of operation manufacturing business in a 65,000-square- Headquarters: Fort Collins foot building on Centre Avenue. The enter- Product/Service: Develops and manufactures generic Hey, Nessie, By Kristen Tatti prises employed 140 of QLT USA’s 165 dental and dermatological drugs and provides con- [email protected] employees, most of whom worked in the man- tract manufacturing services. ufacturing facility. Employees: 145 Loveland’s FORT COLLINS — Since splitting from Out of the sale was born Tolmar, Technofar- Web: www.tolmar.com QLT USA Inc.