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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 1, 2012
Organic Growth

Executives at a Sarasota-based natural and specialty foods chain say they will be ready if competition escalates in 2012.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 8, 2013
Florida's No. 1 in oranges, wood and cement

Florida ranked fifth nationwide in goods exported in 2012 with $65.5 billion worth of products.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2018
Take it to the bank

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank awards bonuses or paid time off to employees

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2018
A healthy ranking

Lee Health ranked among Forbes 2018 America’s Best Employers for Women

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2024
Tampa's Morgan Automotive adds country's No. 2 Kia dealership to growing roster

The dealership group, one of the largest in the U.S. has now bought 10 South Florida dealerships this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 28, 2025
Lakeland mortgage company lays off 58 as it shifts policies

Amerant Bank is looking to focus on in-Florida mortgage originations.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2008
Michaels: Marketplace of Ideas

The most recent climate change report is neither scientific orlogical, but a paean to the politics of so-called global warming.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2019
Super Bowl hype machine kicks into gear

Excitement about Tampa, Florida’s fifth turn as host of the biggest of big games went next-level with the recent unveiling of the Super Bowl LV host committee leadership and logo.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2007
Coffee Talk

Big payout looms for Radiation Therapy: Who says private equity deals are dead?Switching up,not giving up: To a developer with major moxie, bad news is just a niggling detail - even bad news like, say, a seriously slumping housing market, where in particular, downtown Sarasota condo sales are as rare as towels in a nudist colony.Another knock against Hometown Democracy: Add Tampa land broker Bruce Erhardt to the list of business people questioning the wisdom of Florida Hometown Democracy, a statewide ballot movement that, if passed, would require citizens to make all major land-use decisions via referendums.Expansion knows no bounds: Brown & Brown, a Tampa- and Daytona Beach-based insurance company, continued its national expansion march this month with the acquisition of Professional Risk Managers of New York.A complicated simplification: Gevity, the Lakewood Ranch-based human resources outsourcing firm struggling with a battered stock price and more recently, a resigned chief executive, says the answer to its problems is to regroup and undertake a simplified and solidified approach to its business.Exodus continues from troubled WCI: The exodus from the corporate ranks of WCI Communities continues as the Bonita Springs-based homebuilder struggles with a brutal housing market.Atlanta nightclub owner hits the links in Naples: Atlanta-based strip club owner Jack E. Galardi of Galardi South Enterprises, has turned his attention

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 25, 2022
Bradenton, Manatee officials take first steps to sell waterfront city hall and public library

City and county leaders see the two waterfront properties as assets to produce revenue.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 21, 2020
Top brokers join new firms in Tampa, Fort Myers

Avison Young and Colliers International add veterans Ayers, Stoneburner to their rosters.

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  • March 17, 2016
Furniture store opens outlet

Furniture Factory Outlet has opened a store at Miromar Design Center in Estero, promising deeply discounted furniture.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2015
Hospital opens store at mall

Hospital operator Lee Memorial Health System plans to open a store at Coconut Point Mall next week.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 6, 2015
Foreclosure rate falls in Sarasota-Bradenton

The foreclosure rate was 3.08% in December, down from 6.08% in 2013.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 2, 2010
Grade Inflation

Two prominent business groups give liberal Gulf Coast legislators higher grades this year than last, but that may have more to do with a few slam-dunk votes and election year politics than any philosophical shift by Democrats.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 17, 2024
South Florida developer buys three-parcel lot in Fort Myers for $3.5M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a great month for a SWFL firm, warehouse sales in Tampa Bay and a nonprofit gets corporate office update in Sarasota.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 3, 2006
Battle Royal

Billions of dollars in home sales are at stake - even in the down market - as luxury realty firms duke it out for the tip-top of the well-heeled homebuyers. Two firms have hired 25 agents during the past month.

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  • May 6, 2009
People must eat, grocers doing better

Department stores maybe be closing stores and pulling back, but another large retail anchor sector, grocery stores, looks to be holding its ground on real estate and still growing.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 3, 2025
SWFL Harley-Davidson entrepreneur buys two dealerships

Scott Fischer has been selling Harley’s for some 40 years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2006
Insurance tops agenda

Florida Governor-elect Charlie Crist jumped tracks en route to fulfilling his pledge to make his "anti-murder" bill the first order of business. Now, he is focusing on an issue with broad economic implications: Insurance.The insurance jam threatens the health of the Gulf Coast's construction industry - one of the primary engines in our economic vitality.

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