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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2021
Equity firms acquire pair of homegrown Sarasota tech companies

One company started as a subsidiary of the other business.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • February 14, 2020
How to handle online reviews

Respond to every review from a customer, negative and positive.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Samantha Hernandez, 39

Executive director of human resources, Pro-Link Global

  • Class of 2016
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Matt Simmons, 31

Partner, Maxwell, Hendry & Simmons

  • Class of 2015
  • By James R. |
  • March 27, 2015
BRANDSTORM: When does a brand lose its cool?

With a focus on customer service and treating its employees well, JetBlue used to be a model for how to build a loyal following. What happened?

  • Strategies
  • By Amanda Postma |
  • September 11, 2023
Murder mystery show founders play up big expansion plans

When the Pineapple Kitchen Mysteries began selling out two or three months in advance, Jenny and Mike Schenk quickly shifted to expand.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 1, 2023
Tampa Bay, Sarasota become alluring options for financial services

With Miami and New York becoming more expensive, a number of firms are looking at Tampa Bay and Sarasota for locations and talent.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 16, 2023
Former university official faces 20 years for siphoning payments

The school’s vice president created a company to take payments from the university for marketing work done by a New York company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2022
Helios completes a complementary acquisition

Taimi R&D Inc.previously joined Faster S.r.l., an earlier Helios' addition.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 7, 2009
Entrepreneur: 'It's time to buy land'

Prominent Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder Pat Neal knows the real estate market is strewn with the remains of investors that were positive the residential market had hit bottom. Even so, he is willing to bet it's fallen far enough.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 24, 2011
Foreclosure outlook grim

A backlog and poor market could send foreclosures soaring.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2013
Coach pours some sugar

Hall of Fame football coach Joe Gibbs, in Sarasota recently to plug his book, “Game Plan for Life,” says adversity, in life and business, can really be a secret weapon for success.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2012
Banking regulator attempts to dispel myths

Myth: The government has a number of banks in mind it wants nationwide, and it will shut down enough to reach that number.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2019
Builder chosen for new $2.6 million Realtor association office

The Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee is building a new location in Bradenton.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 21, 2017
Tech on the rise

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

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2013
Attorney leaves his mark

A revised law regarding how limited liability companies can operate in Florida, designed to give entrepreneurs more flexibility, goes into effect Jan. 1.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2016
FBI makes eight arrests in $633M pharmacy scheme

Defendants allegedly used compounding pharmacies in New Port Richey and Miami.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Not gone for long

Count hospitality industry veterans Al Clarizia and Terri Noyes as the latest people on the Gulf Coast to not really get the whole retirement thing.

  • News
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 20, 2015
Creative craft

Research, on both the candidate and the client, is essential when filling tough-to-fill spots.

  • Strategies
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2024
$548 million hospital to open in Manatee County

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Miami developer borrows $65 million to build Fort Myers apartments, and a retail building in an artsy Sarasota neighborhood is for sale.

  • Florida
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