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Strategies

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  • Mark Gordon
  • February 8, 2013
Makers and Takers

The medical-device tax imposed on companies for the health care law will have a direct impact on one company — that doesn't actually make any devices.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 8, 2013
Outsource the Headaches

A Gulf Coast bank uses an outside firm to navigate the health care law. The strategy has several benefits.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Denise Kalette
  • February 8, 2013
The small company's dilemma

Although the new health care regulations will affect medium and large companies most, small firms are concerned about rising costs, too.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • February 8, 2013
Examining every option

A manufacturer considers self-insurance as an affordable way to deal with smaller claims while continuing to cover employees.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • February 8, 2013
Health Care Scramble

Insurance brokers, accountants and lawyers are poring over the details of Obamacare and helping their clients make decisions that at this point are sometimes little better than educated guesses.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 8, 2013
Radiant rays

A local engineering and manufacturing business made a conscious effort to focus on strengths and outsource most everything else. The plan is working.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 8, 2013
Still Going

The thrust for growth is energized at one of the region's biggest business insurance underwriters. The challenge: Fend off competition.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Denise Kalette
  • February 1, 2013
Turning Point

For 30 years, Roy Sweatman's plant has manufactured parts with lofty destinations—the Mars rover, missiles, satellites, and aircraft. Now, as he plans his succession, the company is growing again, but can it find qualified workers?

  • Strategies
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • February 1, 2013
Corporate Report: February 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 1, 2013
Caviar Dreams

Forget widgets. The manufacturing inside a rural aquaculture park in Sarasota County is all about potentially lucrative egg harvesting.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 1, 2013
Charged Up

Lack of capital to fill orders can be an entrepreneur's worst nightmare. One local executive, in a niche auto parts business, lived it — and survived.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • February 1, 2013
Room to Grow

Luxury homebuilder BCB Homes recently hired Jamie Pirrello to be its chief financial officer, one of the architects of the biggest deals during the last residential boom.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • February 1, 2013
Wheels Up

Opening a $25 million luxury auto dealership in a recession was dicey. But one local dealership now reaps the benefits of thinking big.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • January 25, 2013
Ahead of the game

Development firm Cameratta Cos. foresaw the residential resurgence in the Estero area and secured land that is now in high demand.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Denise Kalette
  • January 25, 2013
Green Strategy

Tampa developers Charles Funk and Jeff Meehan rang up a $108.5 million multifamily sale, and found that going green attracts more green — money, that is.

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