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  • August 15, 2018
Bank lands senior executive

Former SunTrust president and CEO Allen Brinkman joins Seacoast Banking Corp. He will lead commercial banking for its new Tampa market.

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Manufacturer acquires distributor for $26 million

Helios Technologies acquired Custom Fluidpower, an Australian distributor that serves mining, material handling, agriculture, construction, energy/oil and gas markets.

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Preeminent producer joins rival realty firm

Don Winkler leaves John R. Wood Properties for Premier Sotheby’s in Naples, takes his $1 billion in sales volume skills with him.

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Airport surpasses benchmark for passenger service

Punta Gorda Airport surpasses 1 million passengers in 2018, six million since 2007

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  • August 14, 2018
Lawyer who helped recover Madoff's billions named firm's local partner

Quarles & Brady adds Mark Kornfeld to Tampa office, worked on liquidation and recovery of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

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  • August 13, 2018
Budget airline to start flights out of airport

Frontier Airlines will fly out of Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport starting Dec. 10.

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  • August 13, 2018
Loan officer gets 18 months in $700K mortgage scam

Daniel Cardenas, 37, of Tampa, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a wire fraud scheme dating back to the early days of the housing bust that cost mortgage lenders up to $710,000 in losses.

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  • August 13, 2018
Attorney named chairman of Big Brothers Big Sisters chapter

ttorney Michael Lehnert Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt chairman of Lee County Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Suncoast

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  • August 10, 2018
Health care group lures Arizona executive for leadership post

Lee/Sar and Cooperative Services of Florida hire Jeremy Owens vice president of supply chain logistics

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  • August 10, 2018
Insurance agency partners with national organization to fuel growth

Sarasota-based Al Purmort Insurance, with $33 million in 2017 revenues, quietly became part of Carmel, Ind.-based Shepherd Insurance, a five-time Inc. magazine 5000 winner with 340 employees and 18 offices nationwide. The move, in which Purmort and the a

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  • August 10, 2018
Florida, behind a surprise No. 1 and No. 2, ranks third in business climate report

A metric that put Florida among the top three is exports: nearly seven out of 10, 69%, of Florida’s’ large export total comes from small businesses, the report shows.

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  • August 10, 2018
Area beer sales leader laments 'drinks with umbrellas'

Alcohol beverage drinkers picked beer 49.7% of the time in 2017, down from 60.8% in the mid-90s, according to Beer Institute data.

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  • August 10, 2018
Football stadium name game

Lee Health, School District of Lee County agree to naming rights deal for Bonita Springs High School football stadium

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  • August 10, 2018
Architecture firm expands to Sarasota with acquisition

Goodwyn Mills and Caywood of Montgomery, Alabama, acquires SaltCo of Sarasota

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  • August 10, 2018
Casto Southeast Realty Services in a sweet spot with plethora of projects

Casto Southeast Realty Services has differentiated itself through mixed-use commercial real estate projects that require expertise in places like Tampa, Lakewood Ranch, Sarasota, Daytona, Clemson, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina

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