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Strategies

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Profit Makers

The two most profitable securities firms, Citigroup Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co., overcame the longest bear market in 50 years by focusing on the wealthiest clients.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Solution: Imagination

Stodgy isn't allowed at Fawley Bryant Architects Inc.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Real Estate Recovery (Sara/Mana edition)

Good news: The value of new construction and starts grew by about 12% in 2003 compared to a year earlier.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
General Store No More

New blood revives a century-old, family-owned retailer of home furnishings.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Millionaires Club

The four finalists for developing a project at Palm and Cocoanut avenues appear to have the experience and the funds to deliver.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Inside Perspective

Former Tampa federal prosecutor Eleanor Hill discusses the joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Wall Street Bound

What's behind the biggest bank merger in five years? For one, Bank One CEO Jamie Dimon will returnto New York take on his former mentor.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 23, 2004
Politics & Money

Holland & Knight LLP is one of the top political campaign contributors of all law firms in the nation.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Janelle Makowski
  • January 23, 2004
Never Give Up

In 2002, Gevity HR was in a survive-or-die scenario. Erik Vonk was the right guy at the right time.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Janelle Makowski
  • January 16, 2004
Florida's Largest Private Landholder

St. Joe Co. sees record earnings and profits as it develops North Florida. But environmentalists want to slow it down.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
More than Mortgages

Developer. Mortgage broker. Real estate broker. There's no pigeon holing Sarasota's Horizon Mortgage Corp.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
No Sale

A recent SEC filing explains why F.N.B. Corp. decided it had to split in two.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Largest Jury Verdicts

Juries, upset over corporate scandals such as Enron, awarded $13.8 billion for fraud in 2003.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Who Owns This Gem?

When Shannon Hotel Group acquired the Longboat Key Club, it had the help of some of Wall Street's savviest and most endowed investors. Meet the owners.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 16, 2004
Trailer Lawyer

Forget visions of a lawyer in cheap suits glad handing trailer park owners selling decrepit metal boxes on wheels. St. Petersburg attorney David Bernstein handles multimillion-dollar mobile home park transactions.

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