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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 5, 2024
Tesla set to open Sarasota store by end of April, employ 50 people

The electric vehicle manufacturer has built a 55,000-square-foot showroom and service center at University Town Center just off I-75.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2007
Murphy Goes Nationwide

The Clearwater-based business brokerage, which expanded into real estate, wants to take its formula outside Florida through franchises.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 24, 2006
Corporate Report

Look at briefs from Gulf Coast businesses for free.

  • Industries
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 9, 2012
Better Noobs

There's always a finite amount of time and money. Wise entrepreneurs like David Crisp Jr. understand this.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2007
Nano-Nano

Using the USF incubator, Tampa-based TransGenex Nanobiotech is developing drugs for the treatment of cancers and chronic lung diseases.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2007
Hiring in commercial real estate

Turns out commercial real estate is a hot and lucrative career for new MBAs. While that's good for them, it presents a challenge for commercial real estate executives, according to Stan Ross, chairman of the board of the University of Southern California's Lusk Center for Real Estate and co-author of the book, The Inside Track to Careers in Real Estate.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • October 9, 2015
Rental revenues

Hotels up and down the Gulf Coast are fighting new competition — individual property owners with access to the masses.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Alex Walsh |
  • March 11, 2010
Recording Growth

Ren Scott Productions is a young Tampa-based video production company that's growing financially and geographically. Owner Ren Scott says his beginning-to-end approach to building a campaign helps him produce successful material.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 3, 2017
Change Agent

An insurance firm with high aspirations for industry disruption recently scored a big win, with a $12 million capital raise. Now comes market acceptance.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Michael B. Gentile, 32

President, CEO, Founder, The Gentile Group LLC; Director, Gentile Family Foundation

  • Class of 2013
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Bobby Harris, 39

CEO, Blue Grace Logistics

  • Class of 2013
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Bart Knellinger, 32

Founder, CEO, Progressive Dental

  • Class of 2015
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 10, 2022
Naples ultra-high net worth services firm finds exit strategy

Benson Blackburn founder Michael Benson says he considers the deal more of a "merger than an acquisition."

  • Finance
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 8, 2005
How to Become a 'Benchmark' Firm

Start with the customer 'experience.' By: Lou Lasday

  • Opinion
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 2, 2011
Corporate Report: Dec. 2

The latest news from Park Royal Hospital, Valpak, and other Gulf Coast companies.

  • News
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 21, 2016
Dial it up

Fast-growing Lightspeed Voice hopes to convince more businesses to ditch old-school phone service plans.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 31, 2014
Corporate Report: Jan. 31

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2015
Corporate report

Walter Investment Management settles false-claims lawsuit; Gunster law firm names shareholder, adds H.R. consulting group; Oxis International subsidiary licenses new cancer treatment; Academy of Soccer opens new Brandon school; HemCare Health Services buying majority of Tampa medical practice; HealthCare Partners hires new Florida CFO

  • Strategies
  • By Jim DeLa |
  • June 24, 2024
Meet the crew at SRQ that helps keep planes up in the air

Sarasota-based Aviotec is the airport's 'eyes and hands' that maintains private aircraft and commercial jets.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 14, 2020
How to succeed with a legacy business in a digital age

Rob and Kerri Stuart, co-founders of Creating Magic Vacations, a St. Petersburg-based travel agency, are riding high on a surge of interest in travel agency services.

  • Travel-Tourism
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