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  • June 29, 2011
Unemployment tab is $61M for Florida

Employers already paying record sums in unemployment compensation taxes can't be all too pleased to owe even more.

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  • June 28, 2011
Scott signs unemployment bill

Gov. Rick Scott OK's cost-saving reform measure for employers.

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  • June 28, 2011
Foreclosures up in April

Tampa and Sarasota's foreclosure rates increased by two percentage points.

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  • June 28, 2011
RSW Airport connects to Cuba

Southwest Florida International Airport was approved for flights to Cuba.

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  • June 28, 2011
New plant for Seaway Plastics

The firm began construction on a 24,000-square-foot facility in Port Richey.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 28, 2011
New Johnson Engineering chair

Kevin Winter is the new chairman of the board at Johnson Engineering.

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  • June 28, 2011
Hot Properties: Real estate at full speed

Speed dating and speed networking is so passe, so 2009. The new speed trend? Super speedy real estate sales.

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  • June 27, 2011
Community Bank plans 25 hires

The Lakewood Ranch-based bank will hold a job fair in St. Petersburg.

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  • June 27, 2011
Dunkin' Donuts adds 12 stores

Dunkin' Donuts will develop a dozen new locations on the Gulf Coast.

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  • June 27, 2011
Former TIB CEO Carrigan retires

NAFH's head of commercial lending for Southwest Florida will step down.

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  • June 27, 2011
Lee Memorial expands locally

Lee Memorial Health System acquired Jennings Behavioral Health System.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • June 27, 2011
New pizza franchise in Florida

The Gulf Coast pizza market will get a new player: Papa Murphy's, a Vancouver, Wash.-based chain that sells uncooked fresh pizzas that consumers buy and bake at home.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • June 24, 2011
Quality investor may want out

A Quality Distribution investor could soon sell its shares of Quality stock.

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  • June 24, 2011
Citadel opens Tampa office

A Utah-based specialty insurance broker opened a new regional office.

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  • June 24, 2011
USAF vet Long named USF COO

Former Air Force officer John Long is USF's new chief operating officer.

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