Sephora.

• Position: Salt Lake City Area

Salt Lake City - SEPHORA, an international beauty product retailer, opened a 320,000-square-foot distribution warehouse, creating approximately 500 jobs in the Salt Lake area. This project was initiated by EDCUtah.

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"[Sephora] considered many sites, but the more that they looked into the Wasatch Front, the more they realized that there were some strong benefits about being in Salt Lake City," says Jeff Edwards, president and CEO of EDCUtah. The goal of EDCUtah is to attract companies to Utah and to keep them here.

According to Edwards, Sephora was impressed by the state's central geographic location and quality workforce. "Salt Lake City is very well located for distribution because it's in the center of everything, which was one reason why they decided to move here," Edwards says. "Secondly, [Sephora] got great...