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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 11, 2024
Fort Myers couple pours their heart into startup tequila brand

Chris and Geri Andrews balance details and determination in looking to make a go of their new brand, Música Tequila.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • April 8, 2024
NY concert promoter, exec brings exclusive private gig club to Sarasota

Barry Weisblatt is using his decades of music business exocrine to jumpstart a new business idea: a private concert club.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2023
Six months after Ian, furniture store destroyed in storm reopens

The floods and devastation left by Ian pushed the partners, and some employees, of Badcock Home Furniture & more to the brink. But a sense of normalcy is creeping back.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 7, 2012
A Welcome Return

Nearly half the community banks on the Gulf Coast have a positive quarterly return on assets, more than double the 2009 tally. Bankers hope the turn has staying power.

  • Finance
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  • By Alicia Ceccarelli |
  • July 14, 2017
Wear and Share

Sam Lewis, founder of a philanthropic-minded screen-printing apparel business, is local in sales. But he's global in mission.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • September 2, 2024
City of Sarasota, developers to deliver 600 affordable housing units

With several projects in the pipeline, the city has earned a Local Action Award from the Florida League of Cities for its attainable housing density bonus program.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 29, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

Resistance is futile: Maybe community bankers should just give up now.Can't get enough Freedom: Another of those pesky community banks is almost up and running.Wells Fargo takes two hits: An advocacy group for low-income families picked an interesting time to go after Wells Fargo & Co. for its lending practices, including those in the Tampa Bay area.Reflecting Actualities: For years, Fowler White Boggs Banker PA recruited heavily at the law schools for its summer associates program, which served primarily as a springboard into a full-time job as an associate lawyer.First to the blocks: Belinda Noah has taken the lead among all candidates who want to topple U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, R-Florida.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 22, 2019
Go deep: Sports exec readies region for a tourism touchdown

With Tampa, Florida, set to host the Super Bowl for the first time since 2009, it’s time for the organization skills of Rob Higgins to shine brighter than ever.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
Indelible Impression

Cody Fowler Davis walks in big footsteps - those left by his grandfather, Cody Fowler, one of the founders of Tampa's Fowler White law firm.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2022
Alarm company secures another acquisition

Security Alarm Corp. has now made five acquisitions in the past 15 months.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2003
Stock Games (Sara/Mana edition)

Did an insider at Sarasota's Uniroyal Technology Corp. manipulate the stock price before the company filed for bankruptcy protection?

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 14, 2003
All in the Family

Sarasota's Atlas Insurance has been in business for 50 years, with a 287% increase in sales in the last 30 years. The company's secret: Focus on what they do best.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2011
Foreclosures down 22% in Q2

Foreclosure sales across Florida dropped significantly in the second quarter.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2011
Foreclosures fade in Fort Myers

Traditional sales exceeded distressed sales in April in the Fort Myers market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 3, 2004
Insider Perspective

Jay Feaster, general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, told Hillsborough Countyis young lawyers how he escaped the confines of the traditional law practice.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • March 25, 2010
Gulf Coast Gaming Mecca?

A state economist developed an analysis to gauge the revenues to the state from gaming in different counties and the Gulf Coast dominated the list — potentially more than doubling state revenues.

  • Industries
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • April 30, 2010
Government Digest: April 30 - May 6

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • By CGI Windows & Doors Staff |
  • April 8, 2021
Nominate Your Hero

CGI Windows & Doors Launches Statewide Contest

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 21, 2020
Simon to get three Gulf Coast malls with Taubman deal

Deal for majority stake in Michigan center developer will add trio of upscale retail hubs in Tampa, Sarasota and Naples

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 13, 2020
Schroeder-Manatee chief talks to RCLCO

Rex Jensen discusses creation of Lakewood Ranch in consultant's "Great Minds of Real Estate" series

  • Commercial Real Estate
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