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Entrepreneurs

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Through the Roof

Despite flat revenue projections for 2007 - another condo market victim - a Gulf Coast roofing company is working on big expansion plans.

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Travel Survivor

Industries going through wrenching change can learn from the travel-agent business. A survivor in Naples tells how she adapted.

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  • July 13, 2007
Fast Food Healthy Food

The Tampa-based fast casual restaurant chain has signed agreements to take the chain deeper into the Tampa Bay area as well as out West and in the Southeast.

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  • July 13, 2007
Wrap it up

Sign Zoo was the first into the water wrapping boats in colorful signs. That now accounts for a growing portion of the company's business.

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  • July 13, 2007
Rue Changes Strategy

The online training company is working primarily through institutions to reach more health care professionals.

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  • July 13, 2007
Working University

Hodges University has built a solid reputation helping professionals advance their careers. Starting this fall, most students won't even have to set foot on its campus.

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  • July 6, 2007
More Space on the Way

Despite the real estate slowdown, retail space continues to expand, giving tenants more leverage on rents. The national chains want in.

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  • July 6, 2007
The Magic Touch

The Forbes Co. uses a four-legged stool to develop centers that get shoppers to stay longer and spend more.

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  • July 6, 2007
Open & Mixed

As consumers embraced the open-air, mixed-use centers, retailers have found them more profitable than the enclosed malls.

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  • July 6, 2007
Stay Fresh, Reinvent

Taking a cue from pop-diva Madonna, star jewelry designer Erika Pena constantly reinvents her merchandise. Erika and her sister, Bielka, have big ambitions for their young firm.

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  • July 6, 2007
Rooftops, then Retail

Southern Pasco County has reached enough critical mass in population (doubled twice in 20 years) to draw fast growth in retail development.

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  • June 29, 2007
Growing Pains

Jim Needham tells doctors pondering job offers at the orthopedic and sports medicine practice he runs they should assume this is the place where they will have their retirement party.

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  • June 29, 2007
Reaching the World

The Clearwater-based technology distributor Tech Data wants to expand into new markets around the world and handle more products, such as consumer electronics.

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  • June 29, 2007
What's up doc?

Armed with the newest technology and the best-paying patients, many doctors have hired Stevens Construction to build outpatient centers all over Southwest Florida.

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  • June 29, 2007
Moratorium redux

Collier County commissioners threatened to impose a moratorium on new construction. Builders are worried the anti-growth trend has spread north to Lee County and beyond just as the economy falters.

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