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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 26, 2017
McKibbon wins top Marriott award

McKibbon Hospitality has been awarded Marriott International's top hospitality manager award, the only company in Florida to receive the designation for 2016.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 20, 2016
POWER BROKERS: Franklin Street Real Estate Services

Franklin Street scored with three agents on the Power Brokers list, Chad Rupp for office leasing and Brian Bern and Ryan Derriman for retail leasing.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • October 15, 2020
Travis Ray, 35

Dapper Bowtique, owner; Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, associate managing director

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 1, 2016
Package promoters

A successful shipping company seeks a new approach in the fight for repeat customers. It might be on to something.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 8, 2025
Tampa office closing, 150 jobs cut after tech company sold

CyraCom, a translation services company, is cutting the local jobs two months after announcing it had been bought by a Kansas competitor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 5, 2023
Sarasota Ford opens multimillion-dollar restaurant inside the dealership

With both big goals and customer loyalty top of mind, an auto sales entrepreneur drives forward with an industry-first concept.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 10, 2025
Tampa youth program shutters, 144 employees laid off

The offender rehabilitation program, which was run by Tennessee based Wayne Halfway House, was located at the Tampa Bay Girls Academy on Columbus Avenue.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2019
Law firm hires top-level fiduciary services executives

Williams Parker filling what it has seen as a gap in the marketplace. That includes working with clients serving as a fiduciary who may need assistance. It also includes the firm’s partners who have been asked to serve as fiduciary on behalf of clients wh

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Real estate wiki spreads

Sanjay Kuttemperoor is spreading the real estate wiki to more cities.

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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • September 23, 2025
Tampa area ranks third in Florida for job growth

According to the most recent report from FloridaCommerce, Tampa had 12,700 more private-sector jobs in August than it did last year – a 0.9% increase that accounts for 15% of the state’s gains.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 17, 2007
LEONARD: Web 2.0 is us

The trick to understanding the phenomena of 'Web 2.0' is realizing how amorphous it is, and taming it.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2020
Despite 90% monthly drop in sales, travel tech firm soldiers on

Squaremouth, a St. Petersburg, Florida, company that operates a travel insurance comparison website, has, for the eighth consecutive year, been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 29, 2024
Naples-based Hoffmann wins auction to buy famed Oberweis Dairy

The Hoffmann Family of Cos. says it was the winner in a bankruptcy auction for the Illinois dairy company.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 9, 2024
Bradenton foundation with $200M in assets names first-ever CEO

Wendy Deming, a nonprofit executive with more than 25 years experience in the region, has been named CEO of the Bishop-Parker Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 16, 2023
St. Pete apartment complex gets $40.6 million in financing

A Boston-area lender provided the loan to Vantage St. Pete, the EDGE district apartment complex.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 21, 2023
Clearwater tech executive and once-famed hacker dies at 59

Kevin Mitnick was once a hacker. Then he helped run Clearwater's KnowBe4.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 22, 2021
Shopping, dining destination adds eight new merchants

St. Armands Circle has about 140 existing establishments.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2020
Marketing adviser offers companies tips for marketing during crisis

Ryan Dohrn shared strategies during a webinar hosted by the Observer Media Group.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 23, 2023
Health care company lays off 290 employees, 198 in region

The Pennsylvania company with a Tampa office is shutting down 11 education centers in the state after failing to bounce back from setbacks caused by the pandemic.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 5, 2022
Seminole employees to lose jobs as company outsources services

Nearly 60 jobs in Pinellas County will be cut as a Dallas-based company partners with a global manufacturer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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