Business report for May 11

Staff Reports
May 11, 2008

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ON THE MOVE

«Cynthia Hohs has been named local sales manager for the Northern Colorado Communications Group.

She will help motivate the group's advertising representatives and work with them in focusing on the Greeley market.

Hohs has been with NCCG for about two years. In that time, she has implemented several new projects in management, beginning with a new business team, the launch of the Fort Collins Now sales team, sales training and the online sales focus.

«Archie Randall has been named corporate director of admissions for the Institute of Business and Medical Careers, while Amy Hayes has been named school director at Cheyenne.

Most recently, Randall was director of admissions at the Cheyenne campus and will now serve as director of admissions for the Cheyenne, Fort Collins and Greeley campuses.

Randall has been at the Cheyenne campus since its opening in 2005. Under his leadership, it has grown and experienced many milestones. Prior to joining IBMC, Randall worked in admissions management. He will relocate and work from the corporate office of the Fort Collins campus.

Hayes was the associate dean of education at Cheyenne for the past year. Prior to joining IBMC, Hayes held leadership positions in the health care field.

«Brian C. Scholz has been accepted as a fellow of the American Guild of Court Videographers. Scholz owns Greeley Legal Video Services LLC, 5202 32nd St.

The AGCV only accepts professional videographers in its membership who are willing to complete an extensive certification process. In affiliating with the AGCV, Scholz is capable of meeting the needs of any attorney, institution, government agency or contractor desiring legal video work anywhere in the nation through the network of qualified AGCV forensic videographers.

Scholz may be reached at (970) 330-4642 or by going to www.greeley legalvideo.com.

«Rita Greywood and Ceri Anderson have earned the Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager designation from the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Realtors earning the designation have completed a comprehensive program combining experience with management education.

Greywood is a broker associate/partner with The Group, Inc. Real Estate; Anderson is the managing broker of The Group, Inc. Centerra Office. They can be reached at (970) 613-0700, 5401 Stone Creek Circle, Loveland.

The Group, Inc. Real Estate has six offices in Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley.

PORTFOLIO

«Jesus and Mary Tellez have opened Stratus Building Solutions of Northern Colorado, a franchiser of commercial cleaning service franchisees in Loveland. The business offers cleaning services for retail, commercial, industrial and office buildings in the Front Range.

The business, 375 W. 37th St., Loveland, may be reached at (970) 744-3392.

«Mountain Plains Farm Credit Services has reported net income of $5.2 million for the first quarter of 2008, which ended March 31.

Loans outstanding increased $40.5 million to $1.05 billion; total assets were $1.09 billion, an increase of $37.8 million. Terry Anders, president and CEO, noted the cooperative's loan portfolio continued to perform well as the rural economy continues to be one of the bright spots in the overall economy.

A copy of the 2007 annual report to stockholders is available at www.ifeedtheworld.com.

Mountain Plains is a member-owned lending cooperative serving rural areas from offices in Greeley, Grand Junction, Montrose and Durango.

«Chipotle Mexican Grill is the first national restaurant company to serve exclusively naturally raised chicken.

The burrito restaurant has announced it reached that milestone by adding naturally raised chicken to all its restaurants in California, Oregon and Washington.

Chipotle began serving naturally raised chicken at its restaurants in Washington, D.C., in 2002 and has since been working with its suppliers and identifying other like-minded farms to constantly add to its supply until reaching the goal of serving 100 percent naturally raised chicken.

«Days Inn, 5630 10th St., has been recognized with the Chairman's Award for Quality and has been ranked No. 1 of the 1,850 Days Inns worldwide.

The Greeley hotel is owned by Frank Brewster and his sister, Cathy Brewster, who bought the hotel about two years ago and have completed several changes since that time. Both are natives of Greeley.

«FastFrame Expert Picture Framing at St. Michael's is expected to open in mid-June.

The new store, which will specialize in high-quality materials and craftsmanship and a quick turn-around, will be in the St. Michael's Town Square, 6560 29th St., Unit 105. St. Michael's is south of U.S. 34 Bypass and west of 65th Avenue.

Submissions for the Business Report should be sent to Bill Jackson, bjackson@greeleytribune.com, (970) 392-4442 or to Sharon Dunn, sdunn@ greeleytribune.com, (970) 392-4439.