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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 29, 2025
Sarasota window and door company completes equity investment

As one investment partner exits, another emerges for All Glass & Windows.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 24, 2025
Roper Technologies to make $1.65 billion acquisition

A Sarasota-based software and technology company is buying a niche software provider.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2025
Massachusetts restaurant software firm grows Florida presence

Forbes Snyder, which has been in business for nearly 90 years, is expanding with an office in Fort Myers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jay Heater |
  • November 6, 2022
Host of factors forces Bradenton farm owners to consider selling

A deluge of obstacles leads a couple to put Mixon Fruit Farms up for sale. "This is so hard. Anyone who knows farmers knows they love their land," Janet Mixon says.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 12, 2023
Kendal Potesta, 37

A new chicken salad franchisee quickly earns companywide national recognition.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 12, 2023
Cole Richardson, 30

An entrepreneur and girls' high school soccer coach follows her heart.

  • Class of 2023
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 11, 2025
Homegrown Lee County bank hits $1B asset milestone

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank becomes second bank in Lee County to surpass $1 billion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 11, 2025
Bradenton biopharmaceutical company acquires North Carolina business

Continuity Biosciences has acquired Focal Medical.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 22, 2024
Want to be a better leader? Get curious.

A pair of leadership consultants press the case: Strong leaders must be driven by curiosity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 6, 2024
Public-private partnership addresses affordable housing crisis in Tampa

The city of Tampa provided a developer with $12 million to build a 354-apartment community and ensured it remains available to low-income residents for the next 99 years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • September 16, 2024
The secret to a long-running private clinical research firm? Lead with your gut.

Clinical Research of West Florida is acing every test in its business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 9, 2025
Morgan Odum, 30

40 Under 40 winner Morgan Odum is regional affairs manager at Tampa Electric Co.

  • Class of 2025
  • By Andy Stultz, President of Atlas Building Company |
  • October 31, 2025
Q & A with Andy Stultz, President of Atlas Building Company

Founded in 2011, the Gulf Coast CEO Forum connects our area’s business leaders, allowing them to find new ways to grow and thrive.

  • Gulf Coast CEO Forum
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 26, 2022
Rock-star investor puts stamp of approval on St. Pete

Cathie Wood and her company, ARK Investment Management, have gone all-in on the Sunshine City as the nation's next top tech hub.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 23, 2024
Entrepreneur invests millions into 'no senior left behind' model

Not yet 40, Kris Chana has already been in the senior living industry for nearly 15 years. He has a lot more to offer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • January 5, 2026
Marketing executive caught the bug for collecting vintage Volkswagens

When she’s not running Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive, Ginger Galloway is likely driving around town in one of her three beloved vintage Volkswagen cars.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 16, 2025
YIGBY picture gets clearer as Gulf Coast localities work on adoption

Yes in God's Backyard is a tool to spur the development of affordable housing by allowing religious organizations to bypass zoning rules to build on their land.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 16, 2023
Tampa businessman charged in conspiracy to kill Haitian president

Feds allege that the 64-year-old man worked to provide vests and lodging for a military group that carried out the assassination on Jovenel Moïse.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 26, 2026
Over $126M in Tampa Bay health fraud alleged amid federal crackdown

The alleged schemes involve Sarasota, Ellenton, Apollo Beach, Tampa, Bradenton and Pasco residents now charged in connection with fraud.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2023
Sarasota County Commissioner Nancy Detert dies at 78

Detert mostly represented areas of south Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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