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Tampa Bay–Lakeland

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  • September 10, 2020
Law firm promotes business lawyer to managing partner

Business lawyer David Cellitti has been tapped to lead Quarles & Brady LLP’s Tampa, Florida, office.

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  • September 9, 2020
E-commerce giant to hire 500 at new facility in region

Amazon’s new fulfillment center, under construction in Auburndale, Fla., will create 500 full-time jobs that start at $15 per hour with benefits.

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  • September 8, 2020
Telemarketer to serve four years in prison for health care fraud

Land O' Lakes, Florida, telemarketer Samuel Friedman, has been sentenced to four years in prison for a health care sales scheme that defrauded Medicare-aged people and involved bribes paid to doctors.

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  • Brian Hartz
  • September 4, 2020
Area cybersecurity firm inks deal with NFL team

While offensive linemen protect new Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, Tampa, Florida-based cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest will safeguard the team’s digital network.

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  • September 3, 2020
Baseball star lists area home for $3.5M

Engel & Völkers will handle the sale of the South Tampa, Florida, property owned by Minnesota Twins third baseman Josh Donaldson.

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  • September 2, 2020
Area hospital shuffles leadership team

Bayfront Health St. Petersburg has named a new president, CFO and IT director.

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  • September 1, 2020
Rapidly growing insurance company welcomes new COO

Tim Calvert has been named COO of AmeriLife, a rapidly growing Clearwater, Florida-based insurance company.

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  • August 31, 2020
Charter flight service expands at area airport

Indiana-based TRYP Air Charter begins operations at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida.

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  • August 28, 2020
RV dealer expands long-serving executive’s role

Lazydays — a Tampa, Florida-based dealership that also operates in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota and Tennessee — has named Linda Stephens vice president of customer and employee experience.

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  • August 28, 2020
Long view: Developer sees post-lockdown surge of activity as trends converge

The pandemic forced Naples, Florida-based Ronto Group to temporarily shutter its sales office for an ambitious new condo tower in Tampa. It used the downtime to keep interest high — and deposits flowing.

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  • August 27, 2020
Newly formed manufacturing consultancy names CEO

Stephan Biller has been appointed CEO of Advanced Manufacturing International Inc., founded earlier this month as a subsidiary of Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group Inc.

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  • August 26, 2020
Gourmet grocery store opens new location at airport

Mazzaro’s Italian Market, a popular St. Petersburg, Florida, gourmet grocery store and cafe, has expanded to St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, opening in the Gates 7-11 post-security departures area.

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  • August 25, 2020
Cybersecurity firm, riding high on 450% growth, lands $300M investment

Tampa, Florida-based cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest has raised a total of $300 million in growth financing from global investment firm KKR, Ten Eleven Ventures and Brian Murphy, the firm’s founder and CEO.

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  • August 24, 2020
Business law firm acquired by larger area practice

Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns LLP has acquired Ford & Ford P.A., a family-owned St. Petersburg, Florida, business law firm.

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  • August 21, 2020
Despite 90% monthly drop in sales, travel tech firm soldiers on

Squaremouth, a St. Petersburg, Florida, company that operates a travel insurance comparison website, has, for the eighth consecutive year, been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies.

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