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  • July 25, 2016
Financial services exec to tackle new role

Beth Countryman has more than 20 years experience in banking.

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Tech firm picks up $4.4M in stock sale

The units sold for $0.685 per share.

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  • July 22, 2016
Bank closes acquisition, names Florida leader

The Arkansas-based bank has 44 offices in Florida.

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  • July 22, 2016
Beer distribution buzz

You know you've made it in the craft brewery business when you sign a distribution agreement.

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  • July 22, 2016
Bike shop team scores

A small bike store in Fort Myers received some notoriety in cycling circles for sponsoring a team in one of the most grueling bike challenges in the nation.

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  • July 22, 2016
Less rattle, more hum

The RV industry is revving up, again, and Coach House, a south Sarasota County manufacturer of a niche line of motor homes, aims to get ahead of the competition.

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  • July 22, 2016
Tampa flexes its muscle

The Tampa business community is on a summertime roll, with three major relocation and jobs announcements over eight days earlier this month.

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  • July 22, 2016
Horizontal skyscraper

Majestic Realty's two-building e-commerce fulfillment center for Wal-Mart in Polk County is massive — and then some.

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  • July 22, 2016
Shake the money tree

Entrepreneurs in Florida and nationwide who seek venture capital are going to have to shake the money tree a little harder.

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  • July 22, 2016
Kauffman Notches No. 15

When work begins in earnest on the Sabal Palm Plaza this summer, it will be the 15th ground-up building developed in Sarasota by retired physician Dr. Mark Kauffman, who began acquiring and redeveloping property in the city in the mid-1990s.

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  • July 22, 2016
Callahan Jumps to Avison-Young

After more than a generation at Cushman & Wakefield, Tim Callahan has joined competing commercial brokerage firm Avison-Young, in Tampa, as head of the firm's capital markets practice in Central and North Florida.

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  • July 22, 2016
Mine, anyone?

For the second time this year, an ongoing mining operation has been part of a major Southwest Florida land sale.

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  • July 22, 2016
Call for 40 Under 40

Do you know a bright and successful leader in the business community?

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  • July 22, 2016
To make America great again

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, several prominent Florida economists, including Christopher Westley of Florida Gulf Coast University and Marshall DeRosa of Florida Atlantic University, urged Donald Trump to consider seven policies to make “America great again.”

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE: Larry Feldman

Larry Feldman is president and CEO of Feldman Equities LLC, an investment and development firm headquartered in Tampa with offices in St. Petersburg.

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