Strategies

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

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

Denise Kalette
February 1, 2013

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

Business Observer Staff
February 1, 2013

Corporate Report: February 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

Strategies

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

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

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

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

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

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.