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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • October 15, 2015
5 ways to ensure an effective benefits renewal

A bad benefits renewal period is preventable by following some basic steps to ensure that a business has an effective benefits renewal process, one that works for both the company and the employees.

  • AllTrust Insurance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 23, 2015
Favored class

Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut says investors favor real estate, and Florida will continue to be a big beneficiary of this trend.

  • Industries
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 14, 2024
Damage survey opens for businesses after massive Sarasota rainfall

A survey is being used to collect information from area business owners about impacts from the recent rainfall in the region.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jennifer M. Fowler |
  • January 10, 2025
Budgeting Employee Pay for 2025

As budgets for 2025 are finalized and/or implemented, businesses should keep in mind recent and upcoming minimum wage increases and more.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 27, 2025
Prominent Sarasota nonprofit leader to retire after 10 years

Teri Hansen, the president and CEO of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, was initially hired as the organization's first employee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • April 26, 2025
Tampa Gasworx project phase 2 leadership provide visual updates

Work is well on the way at the site of Gasworx, the long anticipated, long planned and long discussed massive 50-acre redevelopment just outside Tampa's Ybor City.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 19, 2025
Pinellas eye care practice to pay $600K in kickback scheme settlement

Pinellas Eye Care P.A., doing business as Gulfcoast Eye Care, will also cooperate with the federal government in the ongoing investigation.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 22, 2025
Eye care practice in $615K fraud case responds to allegations

Gulfcoast Eye Care says it relied on information from an unnamed third-party vendor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Bequest |
  • February 5, 2024
Solve Your Income Challenge in 2024 with Bequest Funds

The Bequest Platinum Event will take place on February 22, 2024 in downtown Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 22, 2024
Mixed-use transformation ahead for 1,175-acre Bradenton flower farm

SeaFlower will open for residents in summer 2025 in a Manatee County community designed to be walkable with shops, a grocer and restaurants.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 25, 2025
Naples nonprofit formed to help small citrus growers

Save Florida Citrus Groves Foundation is aiming to help small growers "bring abandoned citrus groves back to life."

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 22, 2023
Tampa Bay EDC wins top international award

Tampa Bay's organization is named the best metro Economic Development Council in North America.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • November 15, 2023
Outback Steakhouse wins major customer satisfaction award — but who cares?

Tampa-based steak giant wants you to know it knows you don't care if it won a big award.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 30, 2025
Build-to-rent community opens in Bonita Springs

Swell by Soltura will include 200 cottage-style homes when fully built out.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 18, 2025
Tampa law firm with eight attorneys joins national practice

National law firm Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP announced Monday it is absorbing Tampa-based law firm Walters Levine & DeGrave, taking on its eight attorneys and 11 staff members.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 1, 2023
Sarasota Starbucks workers seek to join national union

Starbucks officials push back against the effort.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • December 18, 2023
Tampa General Hospital picks up 'transformational' donation

Following what Tampa General Hospital calls a "transformational" gift, its children's hospital will be renamed "Muma Children's Hospital at TGH" in honor of donors Pam and Les Muma.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 3, 2025
Report: Severe weather, flooding puts billions in home values at risk in region

A new climate risk report finds that the nearly a quarter of the home value on Florida's Gulf Coast is at risk of major flood damage.

  • Florida
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  • By Norlee Group |
  • October 24, 2025
Norlee Group welcomes Beaumont Electric Company to the family!

At Norlee Group, growth is about shared values, expanded opportunities, and stronger connections.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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