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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • May 12, 2022
2022 Top Entrepreneur: Jim Miller, JMX Brands CEO, Sarasota

On the other side of a crisis, Jim Miller is learning how important pacing is when it comes to growth. “I like to drive fast. But if you don’t have the resources to support the growth, then all of a sudden you’re speeding along the cliff.'

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • August 20, 2025
$15M Naples project to provide office space, apartments for actors

Wynn's Downtown is taking shape after a creative land swap and a yearslong public-private partnership.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 11, 2023
Surgeon’s passion is to jump out of planes — with a parachute, of course

Dr. Jennifer Bocker has performed somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 jumps.

  • Executive Diversions
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • July 12, 2019
In the flow: Co-working firm aims high with new concept

Founder Phillippe Houdard explains the strategy behind Pipeline, the shared workspace concept he launched in Miami in 2012 that recently expanded to Tampa.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 3, 2018
Margaritaville Holdings planning a pair of Gulf Coast hotels

Margaritaville Holdings unveils plans for new hotels in Fort Myers and Anna Maria Sound with TPI Hospitality and Floridays Development Co. as part of a major brand expansion nationwide.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 28, 2015
Corporate report

Lazydays RV sites featured on Big Time RV show; Tampa's Meadow Burke hires new manufacturing director; Heritage Insurance, Casualty approved to offer policies in North Carolina; Heritage Insurance, Casualty approved to offer policies in North Carolina; Aerospace company president joins Morphogenesis board; Krexconsulting founder named H.R. Consultant of the Year; Medical Center of Trinity clearing building portion; Medical Center of Trinity clearing building portion

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 19, 2025
Boston restaurant chain opens new Naples location

Kelly’s Roast Beef now has two restaurants in Naples with others on the Gulf Coast in development.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 28, 2012
Tip of the hat to early entrepreneurs

The next time you visit downtown Tampa, take a walk along the Historical Monument Trail and spend a few moments appreciating the efforts of the city's business pioneers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 9, 2013
Will the real fake Outback please stand up?

An Australian retail consultant has taken exception to Outback Steakhouse's “unabashed lack” of authenticity as well as its overly attentive service.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2020
EDC to promote sports performance industry with Netherlands

The initiative will include hosting a business delegation and soccer team in Manatee County in April 2021.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 18, 2024
Inpatient hospice unit opens at Lee Memorial Hospital

The VITAS Healthcare Inpatient Hospice Unit is only hospital-based hospice facility in Lee County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • April 30, 2010
Banking on a Business Plan

Florida CFO Alex Sink's campaign for governor includes a new business plan to revitalize the modern Florida economy. But she has not forgotten her tobacco farming upbringing.

  • Florida
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 5, 2017
Branching out

Barron Collier Cos. has deep roots in Collier County. But a new CEO says the company may look beyond its home for new projects.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Liz Ramos |
  • May 21, 2024
Manatee County dairy farm sold to relatives who plan to grow the business

The new owners of Dakin Dairy Farm in east Manatee County plan several changes amid the hunt for new revenue streams. But on aspect — the farm itself — will remain the same.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2006
Framing the Fight

After several business gyrations, Ken Sanborn thinks he's found his focus: Cameras that serve as life preservers for overseas soldiers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk: Southwest may add Fort Myers flightsThe real estate market may be in the dumps, but at least one segment of the advertising industry that caters to it - billboards - is booming. Sarasota employers are not an optimistic bunch, according to Manpower Inc.'s most recent employment outlook survey.Coral Gables-based Cornerstone Group is touting its new all-concrete town home community as the cure to homeowners' insurance woes.If the residential real estate market is in a slump, you wouldn't know it based on investors' appetites.Morgan Stanley executives say they've raised $1.75 billion for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V U.S., the institutional fund that recently bought Babcock Ranch in partnership with West Palm Beach developer Syd Kitson. Tampa-based Suncoast Roofers Supply (profiled in the May 12 Review) has opened its 15th location, this one in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida Gators.When the public sector borrows from the business world, it tends to raise eyebrows and lower costs. In Sarasota County, that lesson is coming home in the Office of Financial Planning.Pulte Homes and its DiVosta subsidiary are two of the best homebuilders on the Gulf Coast for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Yet another Palm Avenue development RFPThere's an anti-development fight in St. Pete Beach, a south Pinellas County coastal community of 10,000, and Wa

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2006
Hollywood on the Gulf

Two television show pilots have been shot locally, thanks to an actor turned entrepreneur who plans to bring Hollywood to the Gulf Coast through his production company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 28, 2023
Daughter’s drug overdose fuels insurance exec’s new life mission

Michael Ortoll scaled the peaks of the insurance industry for 30 years. But the challenge that brought him to his knees didn’t come from work.

  • Leadership
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2008
King Cash

Stocks are the cheapest they have been since 1995, and now many strong companies' cash exceeds their market value.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • November 12, 2009
Cracking the Code

While legislators look for a science-based, politically acceptable plan for oil drilling, new technology for extracting natural gas is aligning with state and federal energy policy to potentially unlock Florida waters and the eastern Gulf.

  • Florida
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