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Retail

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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 13, 2024
Tervis to lay off 60 of 129 total employees

Drinkware company Tervis Tumbler is dramatically reducing its workforce with mass layoffs.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Beth Luberecki
  • September 13, 2024
Sarasota entrepreneurs buy three Florida companies in six years

Gavin Broadfoot and Morne Hobson have learned a lot about buying established businesses, having done it three times in six years. One key: Be open for any opportunity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • September 6, 2024
SWFL food services company sells e-commerce unit for $700K

Innovative Food Holdings plans to grow its gourmet cheese business.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 3, 2024
New Jersey family pays $14.6M for Fort Myers shopping center

The Lee County center on College Parkway was bought by a family of investors who owns a popular amusement center in New Jersey.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • September 3, 2024
Report: Retail real estate is in demand, but supply is shrinking

Retail would seemingly be in the dumps, given brick-and-mortar store challenges. But the opposite is happening.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 30, 2024
Mall owners turn from new tenants to complete redos

While the future of traditional malls continues to be in flux, new mall owners see the huge pieces of land as an opportunity to reinvent.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 29, 2024
Barnes & Noble shutters nearly 30-year-old Carrollwood store in Tampa

The bookstore chain closed its store on North Dale Mabry and will move to a new space in a former Bed Bath & Beyond just north of it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 28, 2024
As it shuts stores globally, Foot Locker plans HQ move to St. Pete

The retail chain is planning to relocate its headquarters from New York as part of an effort to streamline costs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • 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
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  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • August 20, 2024
$25M Sarasota-UTC area furniture store to go big and green

City Furniture will open a 120,000-square-foot showroom in UTC's East District by summer 2025.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 16, 2024
Bradenton boating company president steps down

Boaters World Marine Centers will have a new interim president following the departure of Stewart Thompson.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 15, 2024
Retail space near Rays stadium site sells for $2.4M

A Miami developer has bought the ground floor retail space at a 20-story tower in downtown St. Petersburg.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 14, 2024
Bankrupt flooring company closing 2 stores in region

LL Flooring, which declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will close locations in Clearwater and Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 14, 2024
Snack company hits $100M in Florida sales, targets market share

Utz Brands bought a series of routes that include Fort Myers and Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Andrew Warfield
  • August 13, 2024
Project to turn Sarasota mall into apartments moves ahead

Benderson Development plans to redevelop the site, now called Crossings at Siesta Key, into a mixed-use town center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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