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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 3, 2024
Boar's Head faces more lawsuits over listeria-recalled meat

The deli meat company headquartered in Sarasota is being sued for personal injury, wrongful death and other causes after selling meat contaminated with listeria.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • September 22, 2025
Manatee County commissioners end funding of Bradenton EDC

Other public and private sources remain intact, but commissioners question the value of the county's contribution, which is close to $350,000 a year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 27, 2025
Once-powerful Sarasota developer Henry Rodriguez reshapes, refocuses life

A go-star in development and politics, Henry Rodriguez now laments the direction his life took. "I was young, influential and making a ton of money," he says, "but I was miserable."

  • Leadership
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • June 5, 2023
Scrappy, innovative real estate entrepreneur reaps rewards of hard work

In just six years, Josh Marzucco, thanks to a strong housing market, has transformed his real estate startup into a statewide player.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 20, 2023
Prominent accounting firm seizes opportunities with Tampa expansion

Philadelphia-based Centri Business Consulting, after increasing its gross revenue by 40% in 2022, has arrived in Florida in search of even greater growth.

  • Finance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Tailor Made Merger

John Landrum better enjoy challenges: The new Gulf Coast CEO is running a U.K.-based company and a large portion of a billion-dollar merger.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Finalists Named for 2005 Technology Innovation Awards

Twenty-four companies and not-for-profit organizations in Sarasota and Manatee counties have been nominated for the 2005 Technology Innovation Awards, sponsored by the Gulf Coast Business Review and 82 Degrees. Read about them for free.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

The Old-Fashioned Way: Alex Sullivan and Adam Schoenbaum have earned their keep the old-fashioned way.Coast update: Stock down: Coast Financial Holdings Inc., the Bradenton-based parent of Coast Bank of Florida, will be selling another 2.5 million shares of its common stock for $15.50 a piece.He's alone, for now: One of those walking oxymorons, a Republican trial lawyer, is kicking off his campaign for a third term in the Florida House of Representatives.Bankers coming to Bay area: The Florida Bankers Association has chosen St. Petersburg as the site for its first annual Banker Education Expo.Locals dot FBA board: Jerry J. Williams isn't the only Gulf Coast banker taking over a leadership post at the Florida Bankers Association.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 28, 2006
'Not Good Enough'

The Cyberstates technology-jobs ranking places Florida No. 2 in the nation for adding tech jobs. The not-so-good news is Florida still ranks below the national average of tech positions per 1,000 jobs and in tech pay.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2008
Walsh: Review and Comment

The bailout: Proof again that socialism doesn't work

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 4, 2008
Home Base

When First National Bank of Pennsylvania bought Seminole Bank in 1998, former Seminole employees organized First Home Bank, another community bank in Seminole.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 23, 2009
The price for equality: You lose freedom

It's happening before your eyes every day, more than it has since the dark days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The takeover of your life by the Next New Deal.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2004
Real Estate Briefs

This week's items: Corvus International buys near Riviera Dunes project ComCenter at Lakewood Ranch expected to open this month Axcess Diagnostics to build Bradenton officeFred Starling, Osprey s.a. plans Cattleridge Financial Center

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Argus to host Bush basher George SorosMorton, Currin to receive lifetime achievement honors from ArgusSupreme Court to consider government takingsPlaza Veri deal: Stalled or dead?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: New accounting problem at SunTrust may have implications for other financial institutionsAndrew Greenberg recognized as expert in copyright and intellectual property law'Negligent misstatement'

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
YP: Marc Blumenthal of Intelladon Corp. Tampa

USINESSProfile: Tampa's Intelladon Corp. offers online learning to corporate customers, government organizations and non-profits. Company founder Scott Gostyla designed the company's main asset, a software program called Advanced Learning Platform, whic

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
Running Hot

A safety incident at Tampa International Airport offers the federal courts a fresh chance to clarify the rightsof whistleblowers in a deregulated airline industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2003
Deadline Filers

Attorneys at Ward Rovell & Van Eepoel aren't quite so frenzied this week. The deadline for employers to rewriting pension plans is past.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 24, 2003
Survival of the Strongest (Tampa edition)

Some law firms, unable to afford the new upfront costs associated with medical malpractice lawsuits, are expected to shift to other practice areas.

  • Law
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Charging Forward

The head of RARE Hospitality International explains his vision for the companyis restaurant chains and the consequences of inconsistency.

  • Entrepreneurs
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