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Made in Colorado 2022 — Emerging Manufacturer
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by trad[...]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Top Food and Beverage Manufacturer
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by trad[...]
Made In Colorado 2022 — Best Designed Goods
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by trad[...]
Made in Colorado: Fall 2022
Farm to Summit — Dehydrated Meals Durango Louise Barden saw a void in backcountry cuisine while working as a research ecologist in the Yellowstone backcountry. “These grown men were just complaining about food and how they hated their meals,” Louise says. She subsequently teamed with her culinary-focused wife, Jane, to l[...]
Made in Colorado 2022 — Outdoor Edition
LavaBox Portable Campfires Joshua Thurmond’s background as a rafting guide led to the launch of LavaBox in early 2021. A fellow board member at the Colorado Whitewater Association asked Thurmond if he could come up with something better than the big, round fire pits used on overnight trips. “I said, ‘Yeah, I can make one […]
Communication is the Key: High 5 Plumbing Explains the Unique Nature of Working with a Spouse
Starting an independent business can be a difficult venture. Along with having the money to fund the project, one must develop a business plan, create working systems, hire employees, convince customers to purchase the product or service, and a multitude of other important business management issues. It is a long and sometimes d[...]
Gina Klawitter: Maternity Sculptures
Gina Klawitter’s art has evolved over the course of her 40-year career in the Denver area. “At CSU, I trained as a graphic designer so I had a way of making money,” she says. “But I realized I had to make art with my hands.” After starting as a painter, Klawitter moved into mixed-media portraits, […]
OPOPOP
The company “wraps” kernels with seven different flavors (including Fancy Butter, Chedapeño and Cinnalicious) at its facility in Englewood. Serial entrepreneurs and DJs Jonas Tempel and Brad Roulier have followed up success with Beatport with a move into a totally different industry than music samples and beat[...]
Smart by Nature Soaps
Smart by Nature soaps contain no parabens or synthetic chemicals, using essential oils for scents and natural and organic ingredients wherever possible. Denise Weaver bought her soap-making business from the founder in 2008. Smart by Nature soaps contain no parabens or synthetic chemicals, using essential oils for [...]
Earth Love Gardens
Aaron Michael says he started Earth Love Gardens in 2018 because he “wanted people to connect with the Earth” by building them redwood and cedar garden beds, providing seeds and soil, and offering hoop houses to extend the growing season from summer to year-round. “They act like mini-greenhouses and they work great,” Mic[...]
Denver’s interviewIA Drives Interviews with Data
Initial Lightbulb: Founder and CEO Joe Thurman has seen the pain points involved with job interviews firsthand. Through his 15-year career in human resources, Thurman came to realize the interviewing process was fundamentally broken at most companies. “This largely unmanaged yet expensive process that is interviewing is where [...]
2021 Made in Colorado
If the pandemic-induced manufacturing phenomena taught us anything, it’s easier to boost manufacturing in your own country than it is to reach overseas in times of need. It’s a lesson that could boost manufacturing in Colorado for decades to come.
