Regional Black-owned companies participate in weekend retail knowledge

SALT LAKE CITY — All-Star weekend in Utah brought exposure to so lots of great issues about the Beehive State. Numerous Black-owned companies saw a welcomed financial enhance.

Now, the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce desires to retain that alive and support Black-owned companies thrive. So they hope a new weekend retail knowledge will support with that.

Lavarro Greer is a busy man.

“Heavens finest flavored butters hand-packed by angels of course!” mentioned Greer, owner of Heavens Very best Flavored Butters.

When he’s not operating as a radiologist, Greer serves up “Heaven’s Very best Flavored Butter.”

“I don’t forget getting a youngster and getting garlic bread. Effectively, we didn’t go to the grocer’s to invest in garlic bread we created our personal. We basically mixed fresh garlic, we mixed with butter, we whipped it, and we place it on a excellent bread,” he mentioned.

He’s been satisfying taste buds in the Beehive State for a couple of years now, and his corporation has been progressively increasing, but issues took off in the course of All-Star weekend.

“I took away the knowledge that Heaven’s Very best Flavored Butter is generating a mark, not just on Utah, but on the planet,” Greer mentioned. “We had everyone right here — every single nationality, every single creed, every single race, every single gender landed in Salt Lake City for a short moment in time.”

Greer’s enterprise wasn’t the only Black-owned enterprise that saw a spike in income in the course of All-Star weekend, and that is why Dr. Sidni Shorter, CEO of the Utah Chamber of Black Commerce, is pairing with Zions Bank to launch a Black enterprise retail knowledge named “Utah, Black and Open for Company.”

“It did produce income, but I also assume it defeated a myth that Black folks and Black companies do not exist in Utah,” Shorter mentioned. “We are right here, we are vibrant, we are properly, and we are really increasing. Now that we have the momentum, why not ride the wave?”

So now, they’re riding that wave, but also calling on Utahns to come shop at their pop-up showcasing dozens of Black-owned companies in downtown Salt Lake.

“I would hope that folks will start out to accept that reality that Black companies do exist right here, that they are inventive, they are prosperous, and that they can come down and share that knowledge with us,” Greer mentioned. “We like Utah. We like Salt Lake City. We’re a melting pot, and so to be integrated as an African American entrepreneur is a single of the most awesome experiences due to the fact I moved right here.”

The occasion is every single Friday and Saturday from ten a.m. to six p.m. till April eight. It requires spot in the old Zions Bank building…