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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 7, 2013
Media company acquires TV stations

Media Vista expands into new markets with Spanish TV acquisitions.

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  • February 5, 2013
Manatee EDC formally drops Manatee

The new organization is the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corp.

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  • August 1, 2011
New leaders for AMA Tampa Bay

The American Marketing Association's Tampa Bay chapter has new directors.

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  • August 31, 2012
Yardwaste recycling company buys 73-acre Whitfield site

The price equated to $28,767 per acre.

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  • February 4, 2017
Design firm expands market presence

The deal gives Haneke entry into Sarasota and Bradenton

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  • March 5, 2014
Global consulting firm expands to Bradenton

Bosi Global seeks to help second-stage companies boost revenues.

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  • June 5, 2014
Ventas buys land near The Carlisle Naples

BUYER: Ventas Naples LLC (principals: T. Richard Riney, Richard Schweinhart and Brian Wood), Louisville, Ky.

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  • November 19, 2013
Lee and Collier get cozy

Creating a regional economic development effort isn't easy.

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  • October 17, 2014
The pleasure of being prepared

Publix executives see what's happened to other big-box chains in regards to data breach blowouts, from Target to Home Depot, and they want to play a game of what-if.

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  • November 9, 2015
Loan brokers sentenced to prison

A judge sentenced two Collier County loan brokers to prison after they pleaded guilty to violating loan broker laws.

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  • January 6, 2016
Massachusetts investor buys apartment complex for $70.5M

The Yacht Club at Heritage Harbour is a 392-unit apartment complex in east Manatee County.

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  • September 14, 2015
Zynga founder joins food purveyor

Tom Bollich, one of the founders of game maker Zynga, has been named chief information officer at The Fresh Diet.

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  • February 20, 2026
Port Charlotte industrial portfolio gets nearly $4 million refinancing

The Charlotte County properties were about 95% leased at the time the financing package closed.

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  • October 2, 2022
Federal agency opens recovery center to help businesses with disaster aid

SBA’s Business Recovery Center in Tampa will help companies apply for emergency loans in wake of Hurricane Ian.

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  • December 18, 2015
'Feet on the Street'

Marketing can be challenging in any field. One company does it without a website, or even social media.

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  • August 7, 2015
Brand Reboot

Sales plummeted in 2011 at Jim Miller's e-commerce business. His solution: Find, then tell everyone, about the why.

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  • June 12, 2025
Sarasota advertising, marketing firm owner dies at 65

Joe Grano’s Next-Mark LLC celebrated 20 years in business earlier this year.

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  • June 27, 2025
Bradenton action plan seeks to galvanize the city's economy and livability

City leaders aim to capitalize on Bradenton's momentum.

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  • February 4, 2005
Build It, And They Will Come

Philosophically, there are multiple reasons to naysay the latest proposal from the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce to increase the county's hotel-room tax from 3 cents to 5 cents per room night to construct and operate a new downtown conference cente

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  • November 29, 2013
All in the family

Construction of multifamily housing continues to pick up in Southwest Florida. Are condo towers far behind?

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