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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • November 7, 2025
Florida tortilla manufacturer seeks to conquer retail with new chips brand

Steve Allen, the Pinellas County-based retail manager for Florida-based industrial tortilla manufacturer Easy Foods, is helping the company launch its first snack food: Island Time Snacks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 31, 2025
Massive master-planned community starts blooming near Bradenton

Patience and deep pockets are in play as a shrewd development group makes progress on the 1,175-acre SeaFlower, the biggest master-planned community in west Bradenton in a generation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Art Carden |
  • February 27, 2009
Minimum wage, discrimination and inequality

Minimum wages laws perversely affect the people they are trying to help by destroying opportunities to learn in the marketplace.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • August 27, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 16, 2021
Entrepreneur creates technology that reaches help within seconds

After his mom fell, Mark Gray got to work on developing technology that would call for help in seconds. Now he aims for commercial success.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 7, 2021
William Diaz-Garcia II, 35

Narrative Coffee Roasters, co-owner

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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 1, 2021
Telehealth firm prepares for a breakout year

After nearly a decade to get to market, a Tampa telehealth company finds it has an in-demand product and service. It aims to capitalize on the opportunities quickly.

  • Healthcare
  • By CGI Windows & Doors Staff |
  • May 13, 2021
Meet the CGI Windows & Doors Celebrating Strength finalists and vote for the Grand Prize winner!

Meet the CGI Windows & Doors Celebrating Strength finalists and vote for the Grand Prize winner!

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 4, 2020
Hospital forges a way forward — in spite of coronavirus

Health care executive uses his leadership fundamentals — kindness, visibility and more — to overcome COVID-19 challenges.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 10, 2019
In the zone: Firm banks on targeted, local approach to online ads

Conlon launched MyArea Network, a Tampa, Florida-based digital marketing company that specializes in maximizing exposure for local businesses to both tourists and residents. He plans to compete for advertising dollars with tech giants like Google, Faceboo

  • Technology
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 8, 2019
How to get a business loan when you need one

Commercial banker recommends developing a relationship with a lender, doing your homework for the smoothest and quickest possible approval process.

  • Finance
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • March 27, 2015
Elegant flair

Brent Kraus is in his third year of building his Tampa-based bow tie business, Ella Bing. Jonathan Boos, a successful Sarasota-based entrepreneur, shares advice for growth.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 10, 2024
Kate Massey, 35

40 Under 40 winner Kate Massey is the executive director at IMG Academy Foundation.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 7, 2023
The friendly business card has a new foe: Digitalization

The business card industry considers a paperless future.

  • Florida
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • April 1, 2021
Private investigators overcome pandemic-era obstacles

You’ve seen them in old black-and-white movies — hardscrabble private investigators who do whatever it takes to break the case. Today it's a bit different, and PIs have to overcome some uncommon business hurdles.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 20, 2022
Physician looks to turn region into hotbed for clinical trials

Dr. Raymond Wynne Phillips shines a light on an essential, yet often unknown and underappreciated, side of health care: clinical trials. The move has high stakes for the Southwest Florida's medical community.  

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2007
Travel Survivor

Industries going through wrenching change can learn from the travel-agent business. A survivor in Naples tells how she adapted.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2007
Out of the Box

Fort Pitt looks for high equity returns on undervalued stocks.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 16, 2007
Not Just Talk

An entrepreneur's chat with others about starting a bank turns into reality as the group hires a CEO and files an application with state regulators to form GulfShore Bank. It has raised several million dollars in the first couple weeks of its capital campaign.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2007
Coffee Talk

Donut entrepreneur focuses on Far East: Sarasota entrepreneur Marvin Kaplan is selling a majority of his stake in 18 Gulf Coast Dunkin' Donuts shops, just as he gets closer to his long-stated goal of opening a series of stores for the franchise in China.Downturn claims advertising victim: AdvertisingWorks, a 12-year-old advertising firm in Naples that recently won several awards at the Collier Building Industry Association's annual Sand Dollar Awards, is closing its doors.Downturn claims advertising victim: AdvertisingWorks, a 12-year-old advertising firm in Naples that recently won several awards at the Collier Building Industry Association's annual Sand Dollar Awards, is closing its doors.Tampa International needs more international flights: CEOs that travel appreciate Tampa International Airport after sprinting through endless terminals and riding trams, escalators and moving sidewalks for what seems like miles at other airports.Nationwide pullout opens opportunity: You can appreciate cost cutting if you run a business. But it's a tad different when the cost cutting may affect you.Bank of America surge: made in Tampa: Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis made some headlines earlier this year when he urged his top managers to "Go for the jugular" in taking more market share.WCI's winners: Bankers and lawyers: Shareholders and bondholders of Bonita Springs-based WCI Communities are licking their wounds as the value of their holdings h

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