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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2013
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of nationwide expansion

Troy Roberts deservedly celebrated a major accomplishment in spring 2012, when Publix liquor stores statewide agreed to stock rum from his locally based distillery.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 12, 2021
Manufacturer signs deal with local star athlete

Company acts quickly on NCAA's noted rule change.

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  • July 20, 2021
State's largest distribution center sells for $126.5 million

Tampa-based Cushman & Wakefield investment sales team brokers deal with IP Capital Partners and Torchlight Investors for former Sears space

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2021
Miami firm invests in St. Petersburg retail space

Tricera Capital buys ground-floor retail in The Related Group’s Icon Central apartment tower for $11.1 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 29, 2021
Duke Realty signs major lease at TRIP

Build-to-suit deal with e-commerce company caps three-building logistics development in Gibsonton for Duke Realty Corp.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2021
Food company names former ice cream exec CFO

Richard Tang has more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 10, 2021
Software, IT firm names new CEO

Felix Lluberes comes to Stickboy with a wide range of career experience.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 2, 2020
Feldman-led partnership buys Sarasota City Center

Tampa-based investor plans multimillion renovation to 13-story building.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2020
Area companies seek to hire laid off, furloughed people

Advocate Health Advisors and Vi at Bentley Village in Naples are both looking to boost payrolls.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 28, 2020
Lodge lowdown: Florida hotels take a beating

It could be 2022 before hotels return to their 2019 occupancy and revenue levels.

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  • August 9, 2019
Strategic Property Partners hires Colliers International for Water Street retail leasing

Strategic Property Partners has hired brokerage firm Colliers International Tampa Bay to oversee retail leasing for Water Street Tampa, a planned $3 billion mix of residences, offices, retail space and hotel rooms

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 27, 2018
Plant City retail center trades for $29 million

JBL Asset Management buys Plant City retail center for $29 million in keeping with its strategy to acquire properties near thriving urban hubs

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • October 6, 2017
Take that, hurricanes

Developer building a strategy to battle storms.

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  • August 15, 2014
Luxury market roars back

A relic of days gone by — the multimillion-dollar spec house — has garnered more attention from Gulf Coast homebuilders.

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  • August 29, 2014
Light shines on 'amazing' product

Manatee County entrepreneur Ruth Brown jokes that she's “an instant overnight success that took six years.”

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  • May 15, 2015
Big gulp for growth

Convenience giant 7-Eleven has made a big push to grow its franchise network nationwide, a move that resonates with Frank Faisal.

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  • June 5, 2015
High-tech expansion is afoot

The first time Bill Robinson helped build a sporting goods chain, a Bradenton company that later became Champs Sports, technology was an afterthought.

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  • January 23, 2015
First Watch serves up substantial move

East Manatee County-based breakfast-brunch-lunch chain First Watch was in business more than 20 years before it opened its first franchise location.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • August 28, 2024
Orioles plan high-tech expansion of Sarasota spring training site

A proposed clubhouse addition would bring high-tech batting cages, player facilities and additional parking.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 14, 2024
Prolific multi-brand firm buys another Midwest manufacturing business

The Hoffmann Family of Cos. in Naples has announced its second manufacturing company acquisition in the past 10 days.

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