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  • May 17, 2016
Food distributor's sales rise 22%

Specialty foods distributor Innovative Food Holdings says sales grew 22% in the first quarter compared with the same quarter one year ago.

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  • May 16, 2016
Insurance firm brings in executive from California

Rads Mydam previously worked for Capital Insurance Group in Monterey, Calf.

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  • May 16, 2016
Architect leaves mentor to launch his own firm

The new firm is called Hive Architects Inc.

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  • May 16, 2016
Punta Gorda airport traffic jumps 31%

More than 98,000 people traveled through Punta Gorda Airport in April, the second-highest month on record for the Charlotte County airport.

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  • May 13, 2016
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE: Don Paxton

Don Paxton has been involved in the development of more than 175 multifamily communities throughout Florida and two dozen other states throughout his career.

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  • May 13, 2016
Commercial Real Estate Profile | Don Paxton

Don Paxton has been involved in the development of more than 175 multifamily communities throughout Florida and two dozen other states throughout his career.

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  • May 13, 2016
CEO of state's largest credit union retires

Tom Dorety has been CEO since 1996.

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  • May 13, 2016
Former Sun Hydraulics CEO gets new job

Al Carlson spent 16 years as the CEO of Sun Hydraulics.

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  • May 13, 2016
Hospital system changes name

Lee Memorial Health System, the state's largest public health care system, changed its name to Lee Health.

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  • May 13, 2016
Class conflict

Bad news for companies: After four years of declines, spending on class-action lawsuits rose 3.4% in 2015, according to a survey by law firm Carlton Fields.

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  • May 13, 2016
Home is where the stay is

Some creative marketing people at Medallion Home have turned the test drive concept into a test stay.

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  • May 13, 2016
Gulf Coast apartment growth to continue

The 2008 foreclosure crisis, an improved job market, population gains, increased household formations — especially among millennials aged 21 to 37 years old — have combined to make the multifamily sector along the Gulf Coast one of the hottest in the country in the aftermath of the economic recession of the last decade.

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  • May 13, 2016
Tailor made for risk

The unexpected Sept. 2 death of his mentor and friend, Rick Fawley, left more than a hole in JB Taylor's heart.

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  • May 13, 2016
Deeper than Ditches

Construction Career Days returned to Tampa last month after a nine-year absence caused by the recession.

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  • May 13, 2016
Dollar doesn't scare tourists

The stronger U.S. dollar didn't scare tourists away from Collier County last year.

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