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October 19, 2007

Some Pain, Some Gain

The Gulf Coast's top business managers offer widely varying views on the economy's prospects. But overall, '08 is seen as a bit sunnier.

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October 19, 2007

Optimism Remains

While the national economic picture remains in flux, Gulf Coast companies are planning optimistically for the coming year. But it is not unbridled.

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October 12, 2007

Power Source

Solicore, a tech company and thin film battery manufacturer, is gearing up to take advantage of a patented polymer product.

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October 12, 2007

In the Family

The Bellini brothers began ConnectWise as an IT services firm, but now the company also sells its own software that manages IT work.

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October 12, 2007

Connecting customers

Telovations, which uses the Internet to offer phone service, also bundles it with Internet service and connects cell phones and email to the mix.

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October 12, 2007

(Mc)Clash of the Titans

A rising public clash between Lakewood Ranch President Rex Jensen and Manatee County Commissioner JoeMcClash is becoming more common on the Gulf Coast.

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October 12, 2007

Get doctors and nurses involved in the medical-supply buying process and an amazing thing happens: hospitals save millions of dollars. Here's how a cooperative effort by two Southwest Florida hospital groups does it.

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October 12, 2007

Business Theater

Executives beware: Communicating with employees and customers is more than simply speaking.

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October 12, 2007

Do not pass GO

Capeopoly is no game. The economic development gathering in Cape Coral took on a more somber tone this year, but participants were comforted by the certainty of a rebound.

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October 5, 2007

Green Backs

One of the greenest of green buildings in the Gulf Coast takes, well, a lot of greenbacks. It's worth ever dollar, its owners say.

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October 5, 2007

'A Second Skin'

A Sarasota firm is first in line to use a building material that protects against a constant Gulf Coast threat: Humidity.

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October 5, 2007

Pump Pocket 'Mompreneurs'

Two Wesley Chapel moms start a business to help diabetic children after seeing the clothing challenges firsthand. The business is taking off.

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October 5, 2007

Foreign Born

After surviving the paperwork gauntlet, a hip overseas firm is officially open in the U.S. It chose Sarasota for its U.S. headquarters.

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October 5, 2007

The Serial Entrepreneur

St. Petersburg executive Mark Swanson has started a number of technology companies over the years, including Telovations, a telecommunications firm in Tampa.

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October 5, 2007

Fewer Chiefs

Johnson Engineering reorganized the way its leaders make decisions and became one of the fastest-growing engineering companies in the country.

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Some Pain, Some Gain

Optimism Remains

Power Source

In the Family

Connecting customers

(Mc)Clash of the Titans

Prescription for Success

Business Theater

Do not pass GO

Green Backs

'A Second Skin'

Pump Pocket 'Mompreneurs'

Foreign Born

The Serial Entrepreneur

Fewer Chiefs

$27M beach restoration project in Venice underway

Report: Florida CEOs post record high optimism levels

St. Pete mayor chooses team for coveted Gas Plant project

Is Polk County the next stop for Gov. DeSantis?

$1 billion Tampa development grows tenant roster

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