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By Bryce Petersen Jr.SALT LAKE
CITY -- Two companies announced Monday they will open or expand operations in the Top of Utah.
Smith Sport Optics, a Ketchum, Idaho-based company that makes goggles and other ski gear, announced that it has purchased a company that manufactured some of its products in Clearfield's Freeport Center. The facility's 201 employees will be retained and the company projects 64 additional employees will be needed -- 33 within three years and 31 more within nine years.
Peregrine Outfitters, a Vermont-based wholesale distributor of about 6,000 outdoor products, announced that it has leased a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in Business Depot Ogden. The warehouse will create about 25 jobs. The first openings, for the facility's manager and some seasonal jobs, have been posted on the company's Web site, www.peregrineoutfitters.com.
Peregrine also has broken ground on a $150,000 construction project that will expand the warehouse to 50,000 square feet, according to Tauni Everett, spokeswoman for the Economic Development Corp. of Utah, which works to draw companies to the state.
Smith will invest $1.7 million in improving the Clearfield manufacturing facility and benefits to current employees will immediately be improved, Everett said. Salaries also will gradually increase until the plant's average wage is about 137 percent of the Davis County median, Everett said.
The announcement was made on the last day of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, an annual event where retailers get a first look at the latest in winter outdoor gear from more than 800 exhibitors.
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