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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 11, 2015
New air service to KC, Pa. and cheese central

Allegiant Air now serves 47 markets with nonstop flights to St. Pete-Clearwater.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2014
Prominent Sarasota marina to get new look

Halfacre Construction Co. will handle renovations of Marina Jack.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2007
A Blossoming Business

The thought of getting bigger once scared Charlie Lenger to death. Guts combined with investments - $1.2 million on in-house, innovative pricing software, for instance - changed all that.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 28, 2006
FCCI: Healthier, Bigger, Wiser

FCCI's $58 million acquisition of an Indiana insurer came with some costly surprises. But the board has no regrets. It helped transform the company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 3, 2020
Baseball franchise's cloudy future in region grows darker

With Montreal vying to be the team's part-time home, 2020 could be a make-or-break year for the Tampa Bay Rays' future in the Tampa region.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 25, 2023
Tampa Bay Rays' top official juggles multiple tasks in building winning team

Brian Auld does a lot of work that doesn't necessarily make the sports, or news, headlines.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2017
Gobble, Gobble

Turkeys delivered by FedEx? Poultry sell-outs in 45 minutes? What in the world of Florida farming is going on? Some of the state's turkey farmers — a rare breed — have carved out a niche.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 13, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana)

Sarasota Investment Group Plans Office DevelopmentBucks County cycles replaces Indian MotorcycleGroup buys land for new Centex developmentSalem Communications purchases 10 acresSan Marco II, IMAX center IN legal battle

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2011
Byrider opens Tampa dealership

J.D. Byrider's Tampa dealership is the company's seventh location in Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2007
How to Wow 'Em

BankAtlantic CEO Jarett S. Levan was in the Tampa Bay area recently to meet employees and personally thank them for their service.Many of BankAtlantic's 300 employees in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties showed up at the Florida Aquarium for the annual employee appreciation event, called Red Carpet Night.Levan, who succeeded his father, Alan Levan, as CEO in January, hopes that his one-on-one interaction with employees will help foster the type of relationship the bank wants employees to have with customers."We have a culture that we call the 'wow experience,'" Levan says. "It's a culture of wowing our associates and wowing our customers."

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 11, 2013
Health care share

A former health care system insider is pushing his company as the answer to the electronic patient record free-for-all.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 25, 2013
Bond Returns

A popular way to finance residential development during the boom is coming back, but skeptics remain. Will investors ever buy community development district bonds again?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 1, 2012
Corporate Report: June 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Industries
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 30, 2021
Anatomy of success: Biotech firm lays groundwork for big 2022

Despite an up-and-down year, Naples, Florida-based Catalyst Orthoscience appears poised for an explosive 2022. One big aid? It has a product surgeons and patients alike love.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 15, 2021
Downtown Sarasota restaurant staple to reopen

The Bijou Garden Café will feature a new menu that incorporates classic favorites from the previous one.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim DeLa |
  • February 4, 2025
DeSantis seeks to bring Ringling Museum in Sarasota under control of New College

The transfer of stewardship is seen as part of larger plan to consolidate campuses along U.S. 41.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 18, 2024
4 Gulf Coast cities on 'best places to retire' list: US News

Naples ranked No. 1 on the list of best cities in the country for retirees in 2025, according to U.S. News & World Report.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 27, 2017
'Fix it'

A Sarasota high-tech company is poised for a giant leap. The current and former CEO, working closely together, will see to it.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 17, 2022
Next-gen high school rises on former ranch land

Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation in Wesley Chapel oozes ingenuity, both in design and curriculum.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 17, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Dec. 17 - Dec. 23

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