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Manatee–Sarasota

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 31, 2014
Bradenton insurance firm lays down $35M anchor

Anchor Property & Casualty Insurance Co. was founded this past summer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 31, 2014
Bradenton's Mermaid Manor mobile home park sells for $2.1 million

A company led by Wisconsin attorney Michael Hickmann and a separate company led by Cindy McFerrin, a Realtor with Future Home Realty, purchased the 80-lot Mermaid Manor mobile home park for $2.1 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 30, 2014
Former Sarasota Jackson Hewitt exec counts new gig

Danamichele Brennen oversaw a Jackson Hewitt call center from 2007 to 2011.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 29, 2014
Sarasota firm calls on former Verizon lobbyist

Shirley Bloomfield joins the advisory board of xG Technology.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 28, 2014
Roskamp scientists make major Alzheimer's finding

Significant breakthrough published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 27, 2014
Broker secures nearly $7M in mortgage deals

Thomas D. Wood & Co. executive Brad Cox cites low interest rates for hot streak.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 24, 2014
Dental group drills in Bradenton for president

Kim Bland is a 1983 graduate of the Manatee Technical Institute.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 24, 2014
Vandyk Group of Cos. buys Seafood Shack, Cortez Village property

Canadian developer Vandyk Group of Cos. purchased about 6.06 acres of waterfront land on Cortez Village just before the bridge to Bradenton Beach for $4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 24, 2014
Super 8 motel owner buys Rodeway Inn

Hotelier Girish Patel of Bradenton purchased the 97-room Rodeway Inn in Sarasota for $2.4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 24, 2014
Attorney-led holding company buys Pines Industrial Park building

A company controlled by Sarasota attorney David Bone and his wife, Carol, purchased a 24,750-square-foot warehouse for $982,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2014
Prominent Sarasota insurance firm sold

Three generations of Ludwigs have run Ludwig-Walpole Co. since 1933.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 22, 2014
Sarasota web firm changes destiny, and its name

Destiny Group moves into a new office and adds employees.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 21, 2014
Atlanta market sizzles for First Watch

Breakfast, brunch and lunch chain now has six locations in Metro Atlanta.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 20, 2014
Bradenton bank with $260M in assets sold

Martin County-based Harbor Community Bank acquires First America Bank

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 17, 2014
Icard Merrill law firm founder dies

William Merrill co-founded the firm in 1956.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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