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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 28, 2014
In a pod

A Gulf Coast business discovered how to grow — a lot — in a declining industry. The secret: Think like frogmen.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 19, 2018
High-end home sales surge

Pending sales in Naples are up 39% in the $2 million and over price category.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 16, 2024
Developer pays nearly $18M for 195 acres along I-75 in Punta Gorda

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota tower is approved, four Tampa properties are included in $1.5 billion portfolio sale, and a Cape Coral pizza joint opens.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 14, 2024
Sarasota office building sells for $5.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Nordstrom Rack is expanding into Fort Myers, a St. Petersburg property locks down half a dozen tenants, and an investor keeps getting bigger in Manatee.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2003
Regional Roundup

This week's items:REALTOR SUES ASSOCIATIONMINING CHALLENGE DELAYEDMALL REDEVELOPMENTCONVENTION CENTER STUDYREPTRON ELECTRONICS FINANCIALSSURPLUS SALE

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2019
Social entrepreneurship conference brings together students, business leaders

The conference was held Sept. 21 at New College in Sarasota.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 10, 2016
Tech firm to add 150 jobs

New Jersey-based technology firm eMaint Enterprises is expanding in Southwest Florida and plans to hire 150 people in Bonita Springs.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 11, 2024
Packaging manufacturer hiring 500 for new Pasco County plant

Garyline, a New York packaging manufacturer, is hiring more than 500 people at its new Spring Hill facility and will hold its first job fair Saturday.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2012
We want to know about business, not politics

Perhaps you might try to lower the incitement of our uncivil political discourse in this country.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2019
Air Conditioning company plots major expansion

Conditioned Air of Naples recently announced plans to build a 52,710-square-foot operations center in Fort Myers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 28, 2018
Kick save

Hertz, Germain Arena, Florida Everblades

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2014
Pat Neal chatted up for Florida CFO post

Homebuilder has been in politics before, going back to the 1970s.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 21, 2023
Sarasota County to get its second Costco

National warehouse club chain Costco is planning to open its third store in the Sarasota-Manatee market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • January 20, 2025
Polk County art museum completes $8 million expansion

The latest expansion brings The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art’s size to 50,000 square feet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 3, 2023
Venice manufacturer spends $54.3 million to open Virginia plant

PGT Innovations will open a facility in a former Rolls Royce plant south of Richmond.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2018
Master-planned community names vice president

Laura Keller will be senior vice president of marketing and sales for Babcock Ranch.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 1, 2016
German firm grows in U.S. through Tampa

Trans-Market Sales & Equipment Inc. does about $30 million a year in sales.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 15, 2008
TO WATCH (Sarasota-Bradenton): Art Lambert and Ron Simkins

The corporate atmosphere at LexJet, a Sarasota-based digital printing and software sales and marketing firm is anything but corporate. Employees wear flip-flops and T-shirts to work, flip Frisbees over cubicles and can be seen lounging on a couch near the lobby watching sports highlights on TV. But this isn't a case of employees waiting until the boss leaves to slack off.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 10, 2011
Data Forecast

Mark Cecil's software company, DataWorks, helps hospitality customers peer into the future.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2012
TV station faces asset sale

Sarasota's 24-hour TV news station must pay back a $400,000 debt.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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