10 years and counting…

This edition of the Northern Colorado Business Report has been a decade in the making.

Ten years have passed since our newspaper first hit the streets in a crowded market, with at least four other competitors or would-be competitors.

Throughout the past decade, our newspaper has grown along with Northern Colorado itself. We’ve chronicled the emergence of Northern Colorado as a region and the growth of industries such as agribusiness, banking, health care, high technology, real estate and retail. We’ve seen Larimer and Weld counties grow from a population of 380,000 to half a million. We’ve seen, within the past several weeks, Greeley and Weld County declared the No. 1 fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country. And we’ve seen our own staff quadruple in size.

As the years have passed – all too quickly, we might add – we’ve become increasingly indebted to our readers, advertisers, sources, employees and friends who have helped us become a must-read source for local business news, features, data and statistics.

That gratitude prompted us to go beyond a typical anniversary supplement celebrating ourselves. Rather, we embarked on an ambitious project to describe not what makes our newspaper special – though we believe it is – but what makes Northern Colorado special.

In this edition, you’ll find updates on 10 major stories of the past decade, one from each year. You’ll find a timeline of major business-news events from 1995 through 2004. And you’ll find 40 profiles of what we believe are iconic people, places, things and companies that make Northern Colorado a special place in which to do business.

We are so grateful to those individuals and companies that have helped us succeed that we’ve dedicated 80 pages to this project, more than any other issue in our history.

Of course, you’ll also find in this edition some of the hallmarks of our success: solid, breaking news stories; in-depth industry analysis, and comprehensive public-records data and statistics.

We hope you enjoy this special edition of the Northern Colorado Business Report. Now, our staff must begin the long task of preparing the next decade celebration in 2015.

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