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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 28, 2022
Show Business: SMR cancels $30M theater project in Lakewood Ranch

The show will not go on for The Players Centre of Performing Arts' new complex that was planned to reside within the Waterside Place development.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 25, 2019
Business slow? Try taking a Nickel Ride

One part mobile marketing agency, one part eco-friendly transportation service, The Nickel Ride, headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, has grown rapidly as communities seek new and improved ways to move people and boost commerce year-round in downtown bus

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 12, 2021
Florida defeats all others states in adding taxable income

Sunshine State attracted a net gain of 126,789 new people and $17.7 billion in new taxable income in 2019.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2019
Let them eat cake: Grocer takes dessert offerings to new level with imports

Publix Super Markets Inc. has struck a deal that will see the Lakeland, Florida-based grocer import premium, handmade cakes from La Rocca, a Canadian cake maker.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 1, 2015
Chain reaction

Wawa spares no detail when it comes to designing its convenience stores. This helps explain why it has developed a cult-like following of raving fans.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2010
Fly Punta Gorda to Grand Rapids

Allegiant Air connects the Charlotte County Airport to western Michigan.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 24, 2012
Doctor donates $5M to FGCU

The gift from Dr. Elaine Marieb will support FGCU's health programs.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
Risk Eliminators

Surgeon and pilot Richard C. Karl expects his startup to play an important role in the national trend to reduce operating room mistakes. The company is working with hospitals to make surgery safer.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 19, 2013
Freedom Boat Club buys marina for new corporate headquarters

enice-based Freedom Boat Club LLC purchased the Tarpon Center Marina for $1.31 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 1, 2017
Airport ends year in expansion mode

Tampa to Panama City flights go daily in July.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • October 29, 2010
Government Digest: Oct. 29 - Nov. 4

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 2, 2015
Savvy users

Executives with a St. Petersburg-based tech startup believe 2015, which marks five years in business, will be a sizable leap forward.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2009
Pinellas County losing grip on Rays

An independent coalition of businesspeople is recommending that the new home of the Tampa Bay Rays likely not be in Pinellas County.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2019
Credit union opens new branch in vibrant area

GTE Financial has relocated its South Dale Mabry Highway branch to 4202 W. Kennedy Blvd., in South Tampa, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 21, 2019
RV giant names new finance, insurance head

Lazydays, a Tampa, Florida-based RV dealership that also operates in Arizona, Minnesota, Tennessee and Colorado, has promoted Jamie Mangold to senior director of finance and insurance, effective immediately.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2015
Sarasota-Manatee home sales market sizzles

Sales rise again in May in both Sarasota and Manatee counties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anita Todd |
  • September 25, 2015
Flying high

The mission at a Polk County business is simply ambitious: to change how global contracted military training is conducted.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 23, 2014
Neutral Zone

Naples physician Michael Dent is building a website that will bring together sellers and buyers of non-acute medical supplies. It's a hugely complex business.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 12, 2022
CBS News asks federal judge to unseal Hertz court papers

CBS News says information in sealed documents on vehicles reported stolen violate public's right to know

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2009
Insiders to lead Barron Collier

Paul Marinelli will have been the last family outsider and chief executive of the family owned Barron Collier Companies, at least for a while.

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