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Business Observer Staff
October 12, 2007

Prescription for Success

Get doctors and nurses involved in the medical-supply buying process and an amazing thing happens: hospitals save millions of dollars. Here's how a cooperative effort by two Southwest Florida hospital groups does it.

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Business Observer Staff
October 12, 2007

Business Theater

Executives beware: Communicating with employees and customers is more than simply speaking.

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October 12, 2007

Do not pass GO

Capeopoly is no game. The economic development gathering in Cape Coral took on a more somber tone this year, but participants were comforted by the certainty of a rebound.

Entrepreneurs

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Green Backs

One of the greenest of green buildings in the Gulf Coast takes, well, a lot of greenbacks. It's worth ever dollar, its owners say.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

'A Second Skin'

A Sarasota firm is first in line to use a building material that protects against a constant Gulf Coast threat: Humidity.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Corporate Report

Bank of Florida unveils Silverlake system Radiation Therapy Services acquires Greenville centerNew majority owner for Advanced Bio-TechnologiesVäxa International adds new presidentQRS Music Technologies selling SMK piano productsLutz's Prizm Group merges with Berryhill & Associates

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Pump Pocket 'Mompreneurs'

Two Wesley Chapel moms start a business to help diabetic children after seeing the clothing challenges firsthand. The business is taking off.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Foreign Born

After surviving the paperwork gauntlet, a hip overseas firm is officially open in the U.S. It chose Sarasota for its U.S. headquarters.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

The Serial Entrepreneur

St. Petersburg executive Mark Swanson has started a number of technology companies over the years, including Telovations, a telecommunications firm in Tampa.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Fewer Chiefs

Johnson Engineering reorganized the way its leaders make decisions and became one of the fastest-growing engineering companies in the country.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

Designs for Learning

Harvard Jolly Inc., a St. Petersburg architecture firm, is teaming with an education think tank to design new schools that promote student success.

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Business Observer Staff
October 5, 2007

A Piece of the Rock

A small but vocal band of residents in southeast Lee County is threatening Southwest Florida's economy. Who will stand up to them?

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Business Observer Staff
September 28, 2007

Total Control

A pair of executives with established Gulf Coast construction firms has taken going independent to new heights. One's already hit $20 million in annual revenues.

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Business Observer Staff
September 28, 2007

Commercial Clouds

Office-space vacancies are creeping up, rents may fall in some areas and prospective tenants are becoming more hesitant about leasing new space. But that's not stopping new development of offices along Interstate 75 from Tampa to Fort Myers.

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Business Observer Staff
September 28, 2007

Parts on Tap

Carter|VerPlanck, a Tampa-based supplier of parts for water and wastewater plants, never stops searching for product innovations.

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Prescription for Success

Business Theater

Do not pass GO

Green Backs

'A Second Skin'

Corporate Report

Pump Pocket 'Mompreneurs'

Foreign Born

The Serial Entrepreneur

Fewer Chiefs

Designs for Learning

A Piece of the Rock

Total Control

Commercial Clouds

Parts on Tap

$50M east Manatee renewable gas plant breaks ground

University of Tampa president to step down

Sarasota County sees spike in $10M-plus home sales

Baltimore firm buys Sprouts-anchored Pinellas shopping center

Pinellas County TV studio on the market

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