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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 24, 2014
DOW expands to east coast of Fla.

The electronics wholesaler's new distribution center is located in Ft. Lauderdale.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 18, 2019
Strategic Property Partners CEO James Nozar going full speed ahead

Strategic Property Partners CEO sees a busy year ahead for the $3 billion Water Street Tampa project, with roughly a dozen new buildings under construction.

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  • December 10, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Housing authority: Tail between its legs?Criminally dumbChange of plansIndustry ownershipGuardian Solutions in the spotlight

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  • By Janelle Makowski |
  • February 18, 2005
The Duel

Why is the Bank of St. Petersburg expanding so fast? Maybe the bank's new chairman wants to show upa former colleague who fired him.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 10, 2014
Passwords or 'pain' words

I'll let you in on a little IT humor. We techies are a wild and crazy bunch, so be warned. Picture the scene, your friendly neighborhood computer consultant — think Brad Pitt in glasses — is typing away feverishly on a user's computer when he suddenly turns — his muscles rippling and his flowing blond locks cascading in a wave off his neck — to ask, “Okay, what's your password?”

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  • October 28, 2016
Cancer treatment firm seeks big boost

After $10 million in research and product development into treating animals with cancer, officials with Tampa-based biotech firm Morphogenesis believe the firm is on the verge of what could be a big breakthrough: Adding a line of immunotherapy-based cancer treatments for humans, particularly people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and melanoma.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 5, 2018
2018: ISSUES TO WATCH

Florida' west coat is primed and ready for the new year.

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  • June 22, 2022
Fitness chain backed by Drew Brees to expand in region

The St. Petersburg Stretch Zone will be the company’s 200th location.

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  • November 29, 2011
Task force heads down a long road

A statewide group of political and business leaders assigned to find ways for Florida to save billons of dollars, headed by a Sarasota entrepreneur, is looking hard at highways.

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  • May 9, 2016
Region posts best new homes data since 2006

Closings in the quarter were also significantly higher year-over-year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
Indelible Impression

Cody Fowler Davis walks in big footsteps - those left by his grandfather, Cody Fowler, one of the founders of Tampa's Fowler White law firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2010
Buy property, get iPad

Trying to take a bite out of sour loans on the books, Community Bank of Manatee is falling back on something that always sells: Apples.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 26, 2018
Haley Crum, 36

Executive vice president, FrankCrum/FrankCrum Staffing

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 17, 2017
Gone fishing

Entrepreneur Austin Abney did the next best thing when he couldn't find an on-demand smartphone app for a niche industry. He invented one.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 4, 2010
Band together

Building for government was always a tough business, but companies like Sunshine Structures that focused on that sector have the inside track today. The key is to find the right team.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 10, 2024
As one manufacturer opens $15M Pasco facility, another closes

A Colorado compound pharmacy opened in Pasco County spec space days after a Dade City bottler announced it was closing.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 19, 2004
Newsmakers (Sara/Mana edition)

The latest news on area movers and shakers is available free of charge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2010
FDIC: Most banks lose money

New data shows 62% of Florida's banks have lost money in 2010.

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  • May 6, 2011
Kvetko takes over after $4M loss

If you're going to be president and CEO of Shamrock Bank in Naples, it might be helpful to have a little Irish blood running through your veins.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 3, 2018
Two area counties top list of fastest-growing luxury markets

Sarasota and Naples were the only Florida counties on the top 10 list of the fastest-growing luxury markets in the U.S. by Realtor.com.

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