Venerable accounting firm to merge with younger competitor

St. Petersburg-based Spoor Bunch Franz inks deal with Tampa’s 71-year-old Dwight Darby & Company.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 12:43 p.m. September 23, 2021
Courtesy. Spoor Bunch Franz partners W.G. Spoor, Rich Franz and Steve Bunch, with Dwight Darby’s Dawn Lopez, who will become a principal at SBF.
Courtesy. Spoor Bunch Franz partners W.G. Spoor, Rich Franz and Steve Bunch, with Dwight Darby’s Dawn Lopez, who will become a principal at SBF.
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ST. PETERSBURG — Spoor Bunch Franz, a St. Petersburg accounting firm founded in 2016, plans to merge with Dwight Darby & Co., a Tampa accounting firm that has served the region for more than 70 years.

 

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