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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2013
Commercial real estate hits the auction circuit

Local commercial real estate brokers have largely avoided the mass property auction method of selling properties during the recession.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2021
Single-family home median price reaches $405,000 — first time in region

The median price increased 19% from last year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2020
Area manufacturer acquires company for $218.5 million

Balboa provides electronic controls for the health and wellness industry.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2013
Booze rules loosen up

Government regulations sometimes smother the alcoholic beverage industry, but one recent rule change is a breath of life for local rum entrepreneur Troy Roberts.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 4, 2025
Rock star selling waterfront Sarasota estate for $10 million

Stu Cook, the bassist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, put his San Remo Estates house on the market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 23, 2024
SWFL gourmet company sells nearly $700K in cheese

Innovative Food Holdings Inc. expects to see profits in early 2025.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation |
  • May 12, 2022
Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation: Growing & Diversifying the Economy of Sarasota County

Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation: Growing & Diversifying the Economy of Sarasota County

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  • December 3, 2009
Kadampa Meditation Center plans Buddhist temple

Kadampa Meditation Center New York purchased a 9,500-square-foot office building on the east side of U.S. 301 between 7th and 8th streets for $1.25 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 27, 2011
Retail Rules

One of the Gulf Coast's largest companies has high hopes for a new executive. It searched wide to find a star.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 20, 2015
Follow the rooftops

If you want to know where the Gulf Coast's economy is headed in 2016, follow the homebuilders and residential land developers.

  • Strategies
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 9, 2006
Reduced Risk

Utilizing a niche in the market, a pair of Sarasota money managers has discovered a way to invest without obsessing over the daily Wall Street news barrage.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 24, 2015
Ant man

A termite and pest business that only recently surpassed $1 million in annual sales has an audacious goal.

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  • December 6, 2019
Entrepreneur goes from debt to $37M business to now Hall of Fame

Kyle Taylor launched The Penny Hoarder in 2010.

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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • April 14, 2026
International private college expands office, staff and student body in Tampa

The campus is located on the 17th floor of the Park Tower building in downtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Matt DiMauro, 26

Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Fyzical

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • July 20, 2022
Inventor strings together a business by solving a common tangled cord issue

Necessity forced a 30-something entrepreneur to adapt — and invent a solution. His product could have a solid shelf life.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 20, 2023
Naples home sells for $46.8 million

The house in Port Royal is one of the most expensive single-family homes to sell in the county's history.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2018
Area company's prepared meals hit Publix shelves

Tampa-based Eat Fresco has expanded into 21 Publix stores.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2016
Sunny days for tourism

Forget being like Mike.

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  • By Kat Wingert |
  • August 20, 2013
'But wait ... there's more!' Top 10 infomercial sayings of all time

We've all been there. Watching TV, perhaps late at night, when a booming, animated voice snaps you out of your sleep to pay attention to the latest gizmo or gadget that will solve a longstanding annoyance of domestic life.

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