Membership-based group overcomes industry obstacles

How has an area business group maintained steady growth? By keeping its focus on what its members want — every day, with every event.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. June 8, 2018
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Heather Kasten is the president and CEO of the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance.
Heather Kasten is the president and CEO of the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance.
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It started over coffee.

Four businesspeople got together with the idea they wanted to support each other’s businesses, specifically in Lakewood Ranch.

 

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