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  • September 15, 2015
Adviser sentenced in fraud scheme

A nearly six-year sentence follows a guilty plea.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 15, 2015
Local auto group buys Missouri dealership

Morgan Auto Group and a former Joe Machens executive acquired a Columbia, Mo., Kia auto dealership.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 15, 2015
Ethanol maker plans distribution

Algenol Biofuels has signed a deal to distribute ethanol made from algae from the company's Fort Myers commercial demonstration plant.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 14, 2015
Prominent female bank leader resigns

C1 Bank's Florida Market President Katie Pemble has left the bank.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 14, 2015
Zynga founder joins food purveyor

Tom Bollich, one of the founders of game maker Zynga, has been named chief information officer at The Fresh Diet.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Progressive firm secures new owner

Progressive Employer Management Co. was founded in 1999.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
College wins back national hoops event

Florida SouthWestern State College will host one of the nation's top high school basketball tournaments next year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Party time: event company sold

Big City Events has operated on the Gulf Coast since 2011.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Accounting firm scores a three-peat

Kerkering Barberio & Co. had $19.1 million in 2014 revenues.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • September 11, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Larry Richey: Broker, Tampa

For nearly a quarter century, Larry Richey has been steeped in Tampa business and its commercial real estate market as the head of brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield's office.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Cold storage planned for Tampa port

An Orlando business is scheduled to start operating the first cold storage logistics facility in recent history for Port Tampa Bay next year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
In Memoriam: Rick Fawley, 1949-2015

Architects Rick Fawley and Mike Bryant were friendly with each other in the early 1990s, each running their own companies.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Companies make top performance list

Southeast Florida, the part around Miami and Fort Lauderdale, is more than crowds, traffic and long lines: That portion of the state is also home to five of the top 10 best-performing stocks from the last five years, according to a report from financial data firm SmartAsset.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
Drone on and on and on

Most of Crosby and Associates' property listings are rural, distant from strip malls, fast food restaurants and warehouses.

  • News
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2015
In Memoriam: Bob Johnson 1934-2015

Ask Bob Johnson's friends to describe him, and you get two distinct pictures of the former state legislator. One is the image he seemed to project to the world, the other the personality he shared with the many people with whom he worked closely.

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