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Industries

  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 23, 2024
Entrepreneur invests millions into 'no senior left behind' model

Not yet 40, Kris Chana has already been in the senior living industry for nearly 15 years. He has a lot more to offer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 23, 2024
Transportation, logistics entrepreneur behind the wheel of 2 companies

The president and CEO of FleetForce and ParkPro is "being methodical" about growth as he looks to fill the pipeline with CDL drivers and empty parking lots with truckers in need of rest.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • August 23, 2024
Tech leader creates statewide women-empowering platform

Raechel Canipe is helping women find their way in technology — one Slack post at a time.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 23, 2024
Polk County education exec links employers, job seekers

Naomi Boyer is focused on how to change the way the world looks at skills.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 23, 2024
Developer pushes tiny homes as solution to affordable housing crisis

Dan Dobrowolski has been building small houses for two decades and believes they provide homeowners what they need and are more humane than traditional apartment blocks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 23, 2024
Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business

Reinhold Schmieding says little publicly about the company he founded, Arthrex. His silence belies the company’s resounding, generational success.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 23, 2024
Legoland Florida president sets sights on new ways to grow market share

The newly minted top executive at Legoland Florida takes on the role just as the hyper-competitive $30 billion amusement park industry begins to show a slight dip in what was a post-COVID surge in attendance.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 22, 2024
128-unit affordable housing community addresses 'enormous' Tampa need

The complex connects two neighborhoods that are near Busch Gardens and the University of South Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • August 22, 2024
Former state House speaker appointed to Florida Blue board

The organizations are the latest of which the former speaker has been appointed.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 22, 2024
Texas company buys Manatee County apartment complex

Venterra Realty has acquired Trevesta Place Apartments in Palmetto.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 22, 2024
Fort Myers airport traffic up 17% in 2024

July 2024 was second-best ever in the history of Southwest Florida International Airport.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 22, 2024
Parent company's economic distress doomed 120-year Badcock furniture

A Texas retailer crushed by inflation, interest rates and more bought a 120-year-old Polk County business in a Hail Mary move. It didn't work out.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • August 21, 2024
St. Pete travel marketing firm acquired

Aqua Marketing and Communications, a firm specializing in destination marketing organizations, was recently acquired by another firm’s CEO.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 21, 2024
Brandon shopping center sold as part of $137 million deal

Lake Brandon Village is one of three properties bought by Winter Park-based CTO Realty Growth in deal that expands its footprint into Tampa and Charlotte.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 21, 2024
IMG Academy adds softball, appoints Olympic medalist as director

The Bradenton school for student-athletes announces its 16th sport, the groundbreaking for facilities and a new Olympic bronze medal-winning director.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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