for second straight year

For the second year running, XanGo leads the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum's “Top 25 Under Five” Awards list.

In releasing its 2006 edition of the top performers, an Orem luncheon meeting Thursday also honored previous honoree, Omniture, for its recent initial public stock offering and listing on the Nasdaq exchange.

Besides XanGo, this year's awards list includes Agel Enterprises, AK Designs, Alianza, Allegiance, Aribex, AtTask, Beehive Brick, Best Vinyl, Cymphonix, Doba, Exact Wave, HealthEquity, Herman Street, LignUp, Mindshare Technologies, My Princess Pearls, PilmerPR, Precision Concrete Cutting, Renasis, Seastone Consumer Products, Server Plus, ShopSite, Snapp Norris Group, TopTenReviews and VitalSmarts.

Healthy growth at Schiff

Utah's Schiff Nutrition International Inc. on Thursday reported healthy revenue growth and a profit for its fourth quarter.

Net sales for the Salt Lake City-based maker of vitamins and nutritional supplements hit $45.3 million for the quarter ending May 31, up from $39.9 million this time last year.

For fiscal 2006, Schiff Nutrition's sales hit $178.4 million, compared to $173.1 million in fiscal 2005. Net income for the year was $15.8 million, or 59 cents per share, compared to $6.6 million and 25 cents last year.

Web tracks cattle health

Beef and dairy cattle at Utah State University's College of Agriculture are about to get on the Internet.

The Logan school said it has signed a deal with North Salt Lake's TekVet to install sensors in the herd to track health data in real time via the Web.

"The ability to track, trace and monitor the health condition of individual animals is a monumental leap towards better understanding animal well-being in different research situations," said DeeVon Bailey, USU professor of agricultural economics.

Terms of the deal with the privately held developer and manufacturer of advanced agricultural technologies were not released.

- Bob Mims