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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2022
$11M soap company names new top merchandising executive

Katherine Way has four decades of marketing and branding experience.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 1, 2012
Access to the Acre

Vegetable grower and packer Lipman is diversifying its operations by acquiring companies in other parts of the country.

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  • January 31, 2020
Informed investment: Niche tech company 'moves up the food chain'

Investors continue to throw support to InformedDNA, a St. Petersburg, Florida, tech firm that provides genetic test analysis services to health insurers.

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  • By Jay Schlichter |
  • November 15, 2019
Economic forecast 2020: Boating

Travis Fricke, Fish Tale Boats, Fort Myers

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 16, 2025
Models open at 1,000-home community in Parrish

Sunchase is a residential development being built in Manatee County for those age 55 and up.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2008
Corporate Report

Survey: Investors confident in S&P 500Fox electronics expands XpressO line in EuropeTigris reaches development deal with Cancer InstituteClearwater's Sunsail adds yachts to MartiniqueWellCare cuts 208 jobs, mostly in Florida, New YorkTech Data buying Scribona AB assets7-Eleven expands franchising of local storesPPi opens marketing office, technical training showroomDayJet Corp. adds Sarasota, Jacksonville hubs

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 3, 2011
Rub It In

The tricky art of bilingual marketing meets science at one Gulf Coast pharmaceutical firm. The project holds big potential.

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  • By Anita Todd |
  • October 9, 2015
Sunny days

Operators of a $5.5 million plant nursery learned a valuable lesson in the downturn: Downsizing is OK — in everything but customer service.

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  • March 28, 2017
Luxury liner welcomed at port

Azamara Quest visited Port Tampa Bay on March 23.

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  • March 31, 2020
Southwest Florida job seekers: find the places hiring now

CareerSource Southwest Florida offers a virtual recruiter.

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  • September 28, 2017
A helping hand

Partnership series kicks off Nov. 3.

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  • October 9, 2013
USF offers inventors a larger percentage

The university offers its researchers the option of paying upfront for a larger share of the future profits from their licensed work.

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  • March 10, 2016
Punta Gorda Airport traffic surges

Punta Gorda Airport says passenger traffic rose 37.5% in February as Allegiant Air flies nonstop to 30 cities from the Charlotte County airport.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2015
Olympic-caliber park rows for new operations exec

Nicole Rissler was named COO of The Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • May 1, 2015
Ink gets in the way of inc.

It's hard to find someone without a tattoo these days, especially among millennials, 40% of whom have some kind of body art.

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  • April 23, 2004
Ratings Game

After magazine and bar scores, should Stetson and other established Florida law schools be looking over their shoulders?

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  • June 19, 2008
Coffee Talk

Continental Airlines jets out of Sarasota: Talk about the high price of gas.What's behind Riverside Bank shakeup?: The shakeup at Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast in Cape Coral is not because of pressure from banking regulators, Elmer Tabor, the bank's chairman, assures Coffee Talk.Tampa real estate market seen as deals and steals: Tampa-area Realtors might want to grab a copy of the June 23 issue of Fortune magazine for office framing.Early Father's Day present for Gulf Coast money manager: Money manager Robert Stovall has just about seen and done it all in his 50-year plus career in the stock marketsBanks sell more loans to clean up books: As a way to strengthen their books, some Gulf Coast banks are selling more non-performing commercial loans, sometimes at a discount, to get the loans off of their bookshe Heights shifts to commercial: The Heights, a 50-acre mixed-use redevelopment project along the Hillsborough River just north of downtown Tampa, has delayed its residential work and will instead focus on the office portion of the project first.Riverwalk project gets a boost: Tampa entrepreneur, chief executive and real estate veteran Brenda Doring recently brought a local industry group into the effort to improve downtown.WCI's next big date: Aug. 5 and $125 million: Bonita Springs-based homebuilder WCI Communities is going to face its biggest test this summer on Aug. 5.Landowners seek hotel deals on empty l

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 30, 2025
Punta Gorda restaurant listed for $3.5 million before closure

Dean's South of the Border will close after July 6. The building, its assets and its parking lot are on the market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 28, 2022
Wellness company looks to shine after overcoming Hurricane Ian

While signs of Hurricane Ian remain in and around Cape Coral, a large, community-focused wellness business seeks to get back to its routines — including a delivering a stream of new products.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 17, 2013
Corporate Report: May 17

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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