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  • January 7, 2010
Survival Index ranks Florida sixth

The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council published the results of their 14th annual Small Business Survival Index study last month.

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  • January 7, 2010
ULI speaker: Midwest a disaster

A presentation last month at the Urban Land Institute's Trends Conference raised some eyebrows and lowered some hopes.

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  • January 7, 2010
Chief executives stay employed

The year has been surprisingly kind to the nation's chief executive officers, at least when it comes to job security.

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  • January 7, 2010
Franchise company creates new hierarchy

Clockwork Home Services, a Sarasota-based franchise operator of home services companies, is changing the format of its brand leadership structure in 2010.

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  • January 7, 2010
Hoffman Development selling new condos fast

The Review declared that WCI founder Al Hoffman Jr. was back in the real estate game in 2008. Since then, his new firm's results are harkening back to the good old days

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  • January 7, 2010
Homebuilder Neal bets on the ranch

Neal Communities purchased 63.8 acres in Lakewood Ranch's Country Club East from Schroeder-Manatee Ranch's subsidiary LWR Communities LLC for $4.81 million. The purchase price is $75,356 per acre.

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  • January 1, 2010
EXECUTIVE DECISION

Should companies be mandated to give employees sick days?

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  • December 31, 2009
Senior housing not immune to recession

Senior residential housing is feeling the pinch just like the rest of the housing market.

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  • December 31, 2009
Florist uses Facebook to find more fans

Art Conforti, a gregarious New York transplant who runs one of the Gulf Coast's most successful independent florists, has long said he cherishes the personal connections he makes with customers when selling flowers.

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  • December 31, 2009
Find the Bottom

With rental rates down and vacancies up, will 2010 drag commercial property owners further underwater or to some needed stability?

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  • December 31, 2009
COVER UPDATE: Quiet Consulting

The focus on big-headache public sector environmental work has helped Tampa Contracting Services stay successful. But going forward, Dan Harte will need to do more — and plans to do it quietly.

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  • December 31, 2009
Economic Snapshot: South Florida Inflation

Inflation remains tame in South Florida, led by declines in apparel and recreation. The only category that showed a meaningful year-over-year increase was “other goods and services,” which rose 8.6%.

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  • December 31, 2009
Entrepreneur aims at small businesses

Mike Sisti, founder of a Sarasota-based branding and marketing firm, plans to spend some of 2010 getting out a message of his own: Small businesses and entrepreneurs need to start banding together against government power grabs before it's too late.

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  • December 25, 2009
Economic Snapshot: Gulf Coast Employment

The Gulf Coast has lost nearly 91,000 jobs in the one-year period ending Nov. 30.

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  • December 24, 2009
Going to the back to make a comeback

Erik Vonk, a banking and staffing industry executive who has been credited with both saving and nearly wrecking the same Gulf Coast human resources firm, is back in the business.

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