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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 21, 2025
School buys $2.1M site in North Port for new campus

Imagine School at North Port purchased a site for its new campus in Sarasota County.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 26, 2024
Study: Money really does buys happiness in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay and Miami made the list of best places in the country for retail therapy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 24, 2024
Sarasota Paradise owner invests in AI platform to develop soccer team

Audigr Group invested in PlaymakerAI through a subsidiary.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 5, 2024
Fort Myers' The Club at Renaissance to get multimillion-dollar upgrade

The Orlando owners of the private club and golf course plan to start a renovation next year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 16, 2025
Dick's Sporting Goods sets opening day for Brandon super store

The sporting good chain's latest House of Sport location will open in suburban Tampa on Halloween.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 1, 2007
Runner Up - Tampa Bay

Jacob BeckelFrank Winston CrumJose Morales Marty Schaffel

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 24, 2024
What an effective president does

Senate President Kathleen Passidomo took her term to confront two threatening issues: workforce housing and doctor shortages. Time will tell whether she will be a goat or a GOAT.

  • Opinion
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 29, 2023
Cannabis industry gears up for potential gold rush

If a ballot initiative succeeds next year, Floridians won’t need a medical card to buy cannabis, and legalization of the weed would be a business bonanza. But risks abound.

  • Strategies
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 20, 2006
Roth-ing Past a Retirement Time Bomb

Ed Slott visits Sarasota on his crusade to keep the taxman from looting your IRA.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2008
Corporate Report

Radiation Therapy sale nearsPreservation Sciences buys EFUEL NetworkBrown & Brown buys Custom OutsourcingFox Electronics buys Seattle's Jet CitySinger Island buyers sue WCI, subsidiaryNanobac Pharmaceuticals buys DNAPrintRaymond James reaches service deal with BuseyFood Lion, Hannaford use nFinanSe systemStinger Systems CEO steps aside, suggests EVPBNY Mellon Wealth opens Tampa officeChico's FAS sales lower, comparables down 22%Checkers Drive-In shuffles executivesNational In-Store founder joins Real Digital Media

  • Industries
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
Clean Technology

Taking an old-tech company high-tech has meant huge savings and a competitive advantage for Platinum Total Fabricare.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2008
Learning Curve

Joe Sterensis helped his own high-school-age children do better on test scores, then started a business to help others.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 2, 2008
Sweet Carolina

As the economy struggles, one Gulf Coast-based insurance firm's expansion to North Carolina turned out to be good timing. Still, Florida remains a lucrative place to write policies.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 14, 2005
High-Rise Follwers

Coscan Homes, contract developer for Alinari at Rosemary Place, knows it pays to collaborate.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 12, 2023
Michelle Grunsted, 34

Highpoint at Cape Coral's executive director is in the business of people service.

  • Class of 2023
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 14, 2022
Kevin Lang, 30

Cru Cups, founder and president

  • Class of 2022
  • By Amanda Postma |
  • September 24, 2022
Online reputation management firm hasn't stopped growing since its inception

The company is expecting to reach $15 million in annual revenue this year, but it won't be long before it hits a cool $50 million.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2007
Beyond the Classroom

Rick Gallegos has found that training managers and employees about collaboration, leadership and selling is increasingly needed on site rather than bringing people to a training center.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Lee-Collier Regional Winner

Brian Stock, Owner, Stock Development, Naples: Almost all of Brian Stock's waking moments are spent thinking about Stock Development, the all-encompassing real estate and development industry firm that bears his family's name.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • July 13, 2012
Return to last resort

The new head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Barry Gilway, has a monumental task in sharply reducing the state insurer's size and risk. It would be a nice legacy.

  • Florida
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