New era for business advocacy begins with creation of Utah Chamber

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The Utah Chamber is a newly created statewide business advocacy group.

The effort aims to unify and elevate the state's 60 current chambers of commerce.

The Salt Lake Chamber remains focused on capital city business community.

Remarkably, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce has been advocating on behalf of the business community since 1887, an inception date that beat Utah’s rise to statehood by nearly a decade.

And even though the moniker suggests the group is a specific champion of Utah’s capital city, the Salt Lake Chamber has been working on behalf of all businesses in the state for nearly the entirety of its 138 years of operation.

Now, in a move that recognizes Utah’s nation-leading economic performance and population growth, the creation of the Utah Chamber was announ