IN BRIEF - Loveland Reporter-Herald

IN BRIEF

Candidates announced for BBB ethics awards

FORT COLLINS — Sixteen businesses and 12 nonprofits from Northern Colorado and Wyoming are candidates for the 2025 Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics.

Winning organizations — four businesses and two nonprofits — will be recognized during BBB’s Celebration of Ethics, scheduled for April 22 at Embassy Suites in Loveland.

During the application period, interested organizations completed their own applications based on BBB’s four-point Torch Awards criteria:

Loveland-based business candidates include CorKat Data Solutions, Imprint Digital, Maven and Muse Media, Meyer Natural Foods and Pride Roofing and Solar.

Business candidates from Fort Collins include All Star Cleaning Services, Choice Moving Co., HighCraft Builders, Integrated Computer Consulting and WaterPik.

Other business candidates include DaVinci Sign Systems and Masters Petersen Flooring and Design of Windsor, Endurance Roofing and Contracting of Brighton, T Bare Roofing of Greeley, Steammaster Restoration and Cleaning of Minturn and Fashion Crossroads of Casper, Wyoming.

Nonprofit candidates from Fort Collins include ChildSafe Colorado, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado (now NoCo Foundation), Pathways Hospice, Table Tennis Connections and Unified Workforce.

Other nonprofit candidates include Be The Gift and McKee Wellness Foundation of Loveland, the Estes Valley Crisis Advocates in Estes Park, Evans-based Envision and United Way of the Yampa Valley in Steamboat Springs. Two Wyoming-based nonprofits also made the list: K9s 4 Mobility in Cheyenne and Safe Project in Bosler.

The Better Business Bureau Foundation Serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming is a 501(c)(3) education foundation that provides ethics-based assessment, training and recognition programs for businesses, nonprofits, consumers and students.

Colorado bankruptcy filings climb 26% in 2024

DENVER — Colorado bankruptcy filings increased a slight 2% in December but finished the year up 26% compared with 2023.

The state recorded 7,682 bankruptcy filings in 2024, compared with 6,081 the prior year. Individual filings totaled 7,536, up 26% from 5,961 in 2023. Business filings totaled 146, compared with 128 the prior year.

Colorado recorded 538 bankruptcy filings in December, compared with 527 for the same period in 2023. The state recorded 617 bankruptcy filings in November. Individual bankruptcy filings totaled 531 in December 2024, with seven business filings, compared with 516 individual and 11 business filings in December 2023.

December filings decreased in Boulder and Broomfield counties, while increasing in Larimer and Weld counties.

• Larimer County filings totaled 26 in December, up 4% from 25 the prior year. Larimer recorded 38 bankruptcy filings in November 2024. Full-year filings totaled 439, up 18% from 371 the prior year.