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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2018
Baby boom

Do baby boomers have an exit strategy ready to go for their business? By one count, not really.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 23, 2022
Software giant seeking to hire 500 people dangles perk: Fridays off

Avanade, a tech firm jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, has opened its first U.S. location and plans to hire scores of software engineers over the next three years.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 12, 2014
Reach deep into cash reserves

There's a lot someone can buy with $139 million.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 26, 2014
Scent of success

MyxnScents lets customers pick from 450 scents and mix them into bath and body products. The first store in Naples is the prototype for dozens more.

  • Industries
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 15, 2015
Trader Mac

A Tampa e-commerce business with an outsized commitment to advertising and marketing competes against industry giants Craigslist and eBay.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • February 17, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $23.5 million golf course sale in Collier County paces the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 17, 2024
St. Pete company buys trio of Manatee beachfront restaurants

Ed Chiles bought the first restaurant for Chiles Hospitality in 1979.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 26, 2023
Construction firm owner heads to prison for multimillion-dollar IRS, insurance fraud

The Polk County woman pleaded guilty last year to a scheme that included underpaying undocumented workers and misleading insurers.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • April 1, 2026
Tampa tire store franchisor rolls into new brands, buys a restaurant

RNR Tire Express has launched multi-brand franchisor company DX3 Brands and is now looking to expand Safety Harbor’s Gigglewaters ‘eatertainment’ restaurant.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 9, 2009
Sox Appeal

Eddy Garcia has always been a disciplined real estate buyer, only choosing well-located sites in the path of growth. He hit a home run when Lee County picked his land for the future spring training stadium of the Boston Red Sox.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2008
Gulf Coast Week

Gonzmarts resignHillsborough service cutsYbor business boostLWR's coming growthBabcock brawl widensAmendment 1 challenge

  • Finance
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 16, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Panel discusses what venture capitalist wantJack Day seems to be leading the endorsement parade against Cynthia NewtonCavey Slowik & Hudson reoganizes after Slowik-Eldridge departure

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2013
Corporate Report: February 15

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 7, 2019
Promoting iconic restaurant opening is all fun and games

To effectively open its Fort Myers location, Dave & Buster's needed to reach its target demographic in a big way. Priority Marketing used its influence — and influencers — to exceed expectations.

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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • December 3, 2024
Longtime St. Pete engineering firm, president reinvigorated after acquisition

The dawn of a new era comes after delays from two storms.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 8, 2023
Sarasota restaurant property sells for $5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Port Charlotte resorts gets a new boss, a church hits the market in Lakeland and workforce apartments are coming to Naples.

  • Florida
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 26, 2025
DeSantis touts $1.3B investment in Tampa Bay transportation

Gov. Ron DeSantis praised a $1.3 billion investment in transportation infrastructure projects in the Tampa Bay region, funding the Howard Frankland Bridge and a major Pinellas County expansion of I-275.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 16, 2018
The road to a new warehouse was long and winding

Maintenance Too Paper Co.'s John Hargreaves' plan to move into a bigger building in Bradenton took more than three years and a lot of heartbreak.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 31, 2006
Real Estate Briefs-Sara/Mana

de Morgan Homes creating Villages of AvignonKaplan, Bennett, others buy land for subdivisionInvestors buy Ellenton Sleep InnLAKESIDE SITE WORK BEGINS

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