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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 10, 2011
Wells Fargo expert: Tougher sell ahead

With gas prices nudging toward $4 per gallon, properties in remote locations could be more difficult to market through the remainder of this year.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2011
Phishing project cites most vulnerable sectors

No matter how much you may warn employees to be wary of phishing scams, there will always be a few who can't resist clicking on a link received through their work email.

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  • June 8, 2012
Regional banks clash over failed lender

Stearns Bank and Bank of the Ozarks, recently went head-to-head over a failed bank acquisition in Georgia.

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  • October 19, 2012
Tom O'Brien

President, O'Brien Family Farms | Bradenton | Agriculture, retail and wholesale produce

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  • April 20, 2012
Get to know the Gary behind 1-800-Ask-Gary

Dr. Gary Kompothecras' first name sits on one of the largest outdoor concert venues in Tampa, but to many, the man behind the logo, and dozens of billboards, is a mystery.

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  • March 27, 2012
RNC will spread the hospitality wealth

Politicians, media and pundits are expected to swell tourism revenues for the whole region.

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  • August 12, 2021
Employment agency schedules job-a-thon to fill 1,500 positions

Event is planned for Aug. 24.

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  • October 20, 2021
Pair of arenas to get $7.3M in emergency shelter-based upgrades

Lee County officials have now signed 14.7 million disaster relief and mitigation funding agreements since 2017.

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  • By Jennifer Fowler-Hermes | Board Certified Labor & Employment Attorney |
  • November 5, 2021
Holiday Office Party? Avoid the Naughty List

Holiday Office Party? Avoid the Naughty List

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  • January 8, 2020
Grocery chain pharmacy fills 100 millionth free prescription

Publix Pharmacy launched a low-cost prescription drug program in 2007 and in early January announced that it had filled its 100 millionth free prescription.

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  • July 10, 2019
Funding agency names county commissioner executive director

Sarasota County Commissioner Mike Moran has been named executive director of the Florida PACE Funding Agency.

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  • October 18, 2019
Beat the heat: Custom wire company employees named to industry magazine’s ‘40 Under 40’ list

Heat Treat Today recognizes two employees with Naples-based Pelican Wire.

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  • April 21, 2017
Tech on the rise

High-tech building information modeling prevents schedule delay on high-rise condo.

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  • December 19, 2017
Realtor hits $100M in sales volume, leads county

Roger Pettingell closed $100 million in sales volume and is expected to finish the year with $104.6 million overall.

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  • April 18, 2014
Couple buys building housing Broach School, Extensions

Louis and Joan Robinson of Bradenton purchased a 14,433-square-foot office building for $915,000.

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  • November 1, 2013
AquaRamp

A group of engineering and business students at Florida Gulf Coast University undertook a project in fall 2012 to help Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida design a pool ramp for disabled people at their nature camp. The result: AquaRamp.

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  • April 29, 2016
Kitson earns a Standing O

Ten years after he engineered the blockbuster purchase of Babcock Ranch, Syd Kitson and more than 600 of his closest friends recently celebrated the start of the 19,500-home project on the county line Charlotte and Lee.

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  • December 3, 2014
Clinic owner gets 11 years in $28M Medicare scheme

Defendant also ordered to pay $14.42 million in restitution.

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  • June 5, 2015
THE CREATIVITY ISSUE: Paradise Advertising

There are now more launches from Florida than ever before. Space Florida connected with Paradise Advertising in St. Petersburg to develop a campaign that highlights that fact.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 21, 2015
How To ... Recruit an all-star employee

A LexJet employee went to hhgregg a few years ago to buy a washer and dryer.

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