Tag: Amazon
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Confusion swirls as Colorado imposes new retail delivery fee, catching businesses by surprise
Colorado consumers will start noticing a 27-cent fee on receipts for almost everything that gets delivered to them, including restaurant food, after Colorado’s new “retail delivery fee” took effect July 1. The fee must be collected and paid to the state by retailers “on all deliveries by motor vehicle to a location in Colorado with…
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Metro Moves: University of Northern Colorado names new chief of staff
Welcome to The Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. New hires The University of Northern Colorado hired Jennifer Almquist as its new chief of staff, according to a news release. She’s scheduled to start…
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Adams County leaders tout region’s economic power
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Adams County is poised to embrace the economic growth, development and influx in population in coming years, according to business and government leaders who spoke at the Adams County Regional Economic Partnership “State of the Region” event in Northglenn on Wednesday. “This region is a…
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Children’s Hospital Colorado adds tuition-free education benefit
Children’s Hospital Colorado last week became the latest major employer to add tuition-free education as an employee benefit, joining a growing list ranging from Walmart to The Walt Disney Co. Nearly a fourth of Children’s 7,500 employees have created user accounts to find out more about the benefit through Denver-based Guild Education, said Greg Raymond,…
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Aerospace companies explain Orbital Reef, ‘business park in space’
Right on the heels of the news Sierra Space and Blue Origin successfully completed a key review stage for the Orbital Reef space station project Tuesday, company representatives talked at length about what’s been described as a “business park in space” at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. It took just three months to…
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Amazon picks Colorado company’s Vulcan rocket to carry broadband-enabling satellites
Centennial-based United Launch Alliance inked a contract with Amazon to carry thousands of the online retailer’s satellites to Earth’s lower orbit for its Project Kuiper mission to increase global broadband access, officials announced Tuesday. Amazon will use ULA’s new Vulcan rocket for 38 launches in coming years, helping to create a “constellation” of 3,236 advanced…
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Amazon partners with Colorado institutions to provide hourly employees tuition reimbursement
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Amazon has expanded its Career Choice program to offer its hourly employees fully funded college tuition in partnership with more than 140 colleges and universities, some of which call Colorado home. Hourly employees who have worked at Amazon for 90 days are eligible to participate…
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Amazon launches delivery-within-hours in Denver area
Those hoping to get online Christmas shopping done sooner, or for all the procrastinators who run out of time, Amazon will offer “faster same day delivery” for Denver area customers, the company announced Thursday. The delivery-within-hours packages are made possible by a new Denver fulfillment center that’s closer to customers, officials said. “By storing need-it-today…
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Holiday shoppers find bargains at Mile High Flea Market
Know where there’s no supply chain issues? The Mile High Flea Market in Henderson off of I-76 and East 88th Avenue, which has been open year-round since 1976. Gene and Julie Clark of Northglenn were looking for holiday decorations for their house Saturday. Gene Clark prides himself on putting up a traffic-stopping collection of lights…
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Colorado-based Sierra Space nabs large NASA contract
NASA awarded Blue Origin and Louisville-based Sierra Space a $130 million contract to design, build and operate Orbital Reef, which is described as a business park in space. The news came Thursday, the same day NASA announced another $160 million grant from the Space Act Agreement to Nanoracks, which is owned by Denver-based Voyager Space,…