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Strategies

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  • February 8, 2013
Play or Pay

The anxiety level over what to do about the health care law is high in the hospitality industry. One business, a quick-casual restaurant chain, searches for answers.

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Under Fifty

Hospitality companies are carefully counting their employees, but health care may not be the only costly mandate they face.

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  • February 8, 2013
Decisions, Decisions

With an upcoming health insurance renewal comes a deadline for sorting through the uncertainty of Obamacare. The choice remains overwhelming.

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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.

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Outsource the Headaches

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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Corporate Report: February 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • February 1, 2013
Caviar Dreams

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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