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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 24, 2013
Firm's employees trek out

Paul Hoffman, president of SouthTech Solutions, a Sarasota-based IT firm, says he likes to do something “simple” for employees once a quarter, to celebrate their dedication and build morale.

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  • January 4, 2013
C1 Bank opts for 'Plan B'

C1 Bank is moving on after scuttling its planned high-profile merger with Miami-based U.S. Century Bank.

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  • January 9, 2013
County to top boss: Don't leave

Manatee County commissioners want Ed Hunzeker to delay retirement.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • January 24, 2013
Cash flow at sod business leads to sale

Dieter's Sod, in business for nearly 20 years, sells 75% of its ownership shares.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • July 9, 2013
InformedDNA receives $3M infusion

The capital will fund expansion of the national genetic testing provider.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 11, 2013
Luxury car rental service heats up

A local startup that leases high-end cars is about get some hefty competition from Hertz.

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  • July 12, 2013
Charter One Hotels, Resorts relocating to Lakewood Ranch

The price equated to $143 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 22, 2013
Canadian investors find high cap in North Tampa Shores purchase

The price equated to $166 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 21, 2013
Bank oversells target with $5.6M capital raise

Neil McCurry will now officially take over the CEO role at Sabal Palm Bank.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • March 4, 2013
The StartupBus: The hackers, the hustlers and the hipsters

The StartupBus left Tampa Bay on Sunday, March 3 full of Florida-based buspreneurs (see what they did there? Bus + entrepreneurs = buspreneurs.)

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  • April 12, 2013
Boom time: Business brokers forsee upswing

Baby boomers who run their own business have had enough.

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  • September 12, 2011
New business gets frank with the economy

Mitchell Greenberg's hopes for a sit-down hot dog restaurant on the Gulf Coast were extinguished by the recession, specifically the dearth of bank financing available.

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  • September 15, 2011
Tampa Bay clings to scorecard ranking

The 11th edition of the Regional Economic Scorecard showed little change for the Tampa Bay region as its overall ranking in the comparative study remained second to last at five.

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  • September 13, 2013
Myakka River RV Resort sells for $2.58 million

The price equated to $31,790 per space.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • September 16, 2013
Local volleyball spikes growth

Tampa investor, businessman and philanthropist Bob Gries wants to help bring some national attention to the area's youth volleyball teams.

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  • August 2, 2013
Sales tax break idea is broken

Some tax wonks in a Washington, D.C., office are party poopers in Florida's much-celebrated three-day sales tax holiday, scheduled for Aug. 2-4.

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  • May 18, 2012
Troyer property sells for $5.19 million

The 34,742-square-foot restaurant building was developed in 1999.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2012
Firm exports its way to excellence

MyUS.com received an award from the U.S. Department of Commerce for exports.

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  • April 8, 2011
Incentives suffer from impatience

When it comes to government incentives, the lure du jour, some observers, including Coffee Talk, have often wondered: Wouldn't a lot of these companies still move or expand without the subsidy?

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  • April 13, 2011
Jax Labs doing the dance

It appears the Bar Harbor, Maine-based research lab may be moving legislators in the direction its lobbyists want them to go.

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