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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 19, 2007
Cut Taxes, Build Wealth

Who doesn't want to hold on to hard-earned dollars? Financial experts, from Naples to Tampa, offer tips to reduce taxes and protect wealth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 9, 2007
e-Learning Entrepreneurs

Brent and Rachel Fisher have created a company that offers online education to businesses, non-profits and organizations, such as school systems.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2008
Sublease Undercut

The housing slowdown means companies in that industry don't need all the office space they leased during theboom. The result is an increase in sublease space and that's putting downward pressure on Gulf Coast rents.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 3, 2006
Immigration Quandary

Employers already face severe limits on hiring foreign workers in the United States. And attorneys warn that stronger enforcement of immigration laws is looming.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana)

Saunders donates $100,00O to USF's Sarasota-Manatee campus: Michael Saunders, the head of the well-known Sarasota-based real estate firm that bears her name, is donating $100,000 to the University of South Florida's Sarasota-Manatee campus.First Watch continues aggressive growth: First Watch Restaurants Inc. has beefed up its management team with three newly created positions in an effort to support its aggressive growth strategy.Sanibel resorts for sale in a "seller's market": Meristar Hospitality Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust in Northern Virginia, has five properties for sale on Sanibel Island in Lee County.Confusion from our bank rankings: Well, we know the bankers are reading our annual banking edition. We heard from them.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 2, 2006
R&D Hit Parade

Striving to become a major research institution, the University of South Florida leads the region in recent patent approvals.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 21, 2006
2006 Entrepreneur Nominees

Look at the GCBR's 2006 Entrepreneur Nominees for free.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Lee-Collier Regional Winner

Brian Stock, Owner, Stock Development, Naples: Almost all of Brian Stock's waking moments are spent thinking about Stock Development, the all-encompassing real estate and development industry firm that bears his family's name.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 8, 2005
Nominees for Lawyer of the Year

The Nominees for Lawyer of the Year are available free of charge.Twenty business people in the Sarasota-Manatee region were nominated for Gulf Coast Business Review's "Lawyer of the Year" award by their colleagues, peers and others. Two top lawyers, including one under the age of 40, will be singled out for "raising the bar" in GCBR's April 22 edition.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2003
Runner-Up PPM Technologies LLC

At first glance, it sounds like a Biolife copycat, but it's not. PPM is in the same business as Biolife - finding innovative, faster ways to stop bleeding and close wounds - but with a very different product.Biolife's product, QR, absorbs the blood and

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2010
Rubio, Meek, Scott, Sink win

The Business Review has the full results from last night's Gulf Coast elections.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2011
Staging an Encore

Veteran banker Tom Ray and a group of investors from Ohio and Naples are betting the community bank model can survive the financial crisis.

  • Industries
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 7, 2021
Missy Hurley, 39

B2 Communication, co-founder/principal

  • Class of 2021
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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • March 5, 2021
Area company chases vaccine for niche markets

The vaccine business isn’t a fit for small-thinking companies. One area firm, despite more than $50 million in losses, eyes a significant win in the field.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 20, 2021
Bank leads the way on developing high-performing leaders

Deposits and loans pay the bills at The Bank of Tampa. But its comprehensive leadership development program, while not as public, is equally essential.

  • Leadership
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 9, 2021
Startup real estate brokerage targets 500 agents by 2023

The Osbornes have big plans to earn more market share utilizing a different, if not entirely new, mousetrap.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 4, 2020
Tying faith between their teeth

Craig Sher and Will Conroy’s Backstreets Capital is a family affair that reflects the pair’s commitment to St. Petersburg.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 15, 2021
Construction commodity prices rising

Hikes in the cost of lumber, copper and other necessary materials could result in higher rents and prices in 2021

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • January 29, 2021
Area company seizes on growing beverage category by bringing nonalcoholic Italian wines to U.S. market

The challenge for Buonafide Foods? Educate consumers about the availability of its products — and prove they're high-quality and taste good.

  • Entrepreneurs
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