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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 15, 2016
Pizza man

Dan Bavaro is a street-smart entrepreneur with an amateur boxer's toughness. His current fight is to seize growth at the right pace.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2010
Premium cigar sellers want break from taxes

Cigars are at the foundation of Tampa's history, but some high-end dealers say they're being singled out unfairly in new efforts to tax tobacco.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 24, 2017
Cart coverage

Florida insurers offer new coverage for golf cars

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 28, 2016
Beer biz goes global, first stop: Shanghai

World of Beer's Chinese location could open by second quarter.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 8, 2015
Sarasota Memorial names new COO

Maryland health care executive Lorrie Liang will start next month.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 19, 2024
HL Asian Market opens on US 41 in Sarasota

A new market selling everything from teapots to live crabs is open for business on South Tamiami Trail.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • October 25, 2024
Tampa Bay foster care nonprofit launches next phase of $8M campaign

The funds will build A Kid’s Place of Tampa Bay a new center and expand other services.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 12, 2018
Public companies pounce on acquisitions, chase $1B in revenues

The two largest publicly traded companies in the Sarasota-Bradenton region have laid out big plans to get even bigger — with each chasing $1 billion in annual sales. An inside look at each company’s strategy reveals some interesting insights.

  • Leadership
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 2, 2020
Top Deals 2019: Tampa Bay

Portfolio sales of the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay and an adjacent office building, downtown and Westshore offices and a pair of Brandon properties spur record transactional volume of nearly $837 million in 2019

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • February 23, 2018
Statement Earrings

Broken earrings led Linda Keefe on a years-long journey. That led to a business, and lots of lessons learned.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 4, 2015
Birkenstocks and ball gowns

It takes a deft combination of patience and persistence to sell something like the opera.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 16, 2025
Tampa RV firm to sell assets for $30M — two years after passing $1B in sales

Lazydays Holdings would sell its assets to a Jacksonville company under the proposed deal.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 4, 2026
Sarasota Architectural Salvage closing storefront after 23 years

Business owner Jesse White will continue salvage and preservation work on a mobile basis.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 1, 2025
New Melting Pot leader dishes on growth goals, culture lessons

John Crawford melds key lessons in building high-performing teams and meeting high-bar financial goals with an empathic side in his new role at the helm of the Melting Pot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 25, 2014
Pie High

Erin Mullins never took a fancy marketing class. But she serves up some hearty lessons in how to sell the same product to diverse audiences in different locations.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 2, 2022
Train horn maker embarks on aggressive expansion plan

HornBlasters Inc. has introduced a highly anticipated new product, acquired the assets of a former supplier and moved its headquarters.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 10, 2025
Southwest Florida housing permits down 13%

Collier County was the only one among the three Southwest Florida counties to post a year-over-year increase.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2006
It takes a Team

To ensure success on his latest project, developer Kimball Woodbury is getting by with a lot of help from his friends. He'll spend $5 million on prep-work with the varied crew before he even closes on the property.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • August 12, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $43M apartment complex sale in Sarasota highlights the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2023
Floridian home prices increased 73.5% over past five years

The state had the sixth biggest increase in the country.

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