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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2017
Car dealer steers a victory

Tampa-area auto dealer John Williams and some fellow auto executives spent a portion of the past few months checking out all kinds of luxury — for research.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 3, 2017
MARKET SPOTLIGHT | Sarasota/Manatee Industrial Market

Although not typically considered a viable distribution hub -- especially as compared to the Interstate 4 corridor, between Tampa and Orlando — Sarasota and Manatee counties contain many of the same attributes that make Central Florida desirable for logistics firms.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2017
Gulf Coast contractors expect further hiring in 2017

Firms expect to add jobs, but skilled labor is harder to find

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 29, 2017
Sarasota code update progressing

The city of Sarasota's overhaul of its zoning code is on track to be completed by next summer, the official overseeing the effort says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 23, 2017
Sluggish Summers

'The key to dealing with all seasonality is good information and planning.'

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  • June 30, 2017
Risk factor

The war on your data is real, cyber security firms says.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 9, 2018
How to prevent injuries in the workplace

Inspections play a major part in keeping employees safe.

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  • September 5, 2014
'Sellers remorse' unleashes challenge

Tampa area commercial real estate broker Kenny Anderson, like many of his peers, says one of the best parts about the business he's in is clients rarely, if ever, get emotional.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 28, 2014
Smother up some expansion

The Tampa area really goes all in for cheese.

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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • February 10, 2014
10-month-old co. buys 93-year-old factory

That's right, Harry's, an online shaving retailer that focuses on “a great shave, at a fair price,” bought Feintechnik, a company that has been manufacturing razors since 1920.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2014
Mobile firm surpasses milestone

News that Sarasota-based mobile health company Voalte received a $36 million capital investment, courtesy of a New York private equity firm, was certainly a big deal for the fast-growing business.

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  • December 10, 2013
Groups push FDIC for new banks

Federal banking regulators have had an unofficial moratorium on new banks for more than four years — a clampdown that's aided Gulf Coast community banks in at least one big way.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 19, 2016
USAA building spec industrial project in Lakeland

Continuing a wave of speculative industrial construction in the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, USAA Real Estate Co. is building a 275,226-square-foot distribution center in Lakeland.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2016
Hungry for more clicks, and kicks

If some guy from Ohio can raise $55,000 online for a bowl of potato salad, then how about $100,000 for a couple who want to grow their bootstrapped Latin comfort food business?

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  • March 25, 2016
A+ for strategy

Tampa commercial real estate broker David Sobelman, a national expert in net leases, where the tenant pays some or all property expenses, in addition to rent, senses a shift in the niche market.

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  • November 21, 2014
Shady brokers flock to Fla

Collier, Lee and Sarasota counties recently scored high on a not-so-good list, of places nationwide with high concentrations of stockbrokers who face some sort of red flag for alleged shady business practices.

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  • May 15, 2015
Entrepreneurs of the Year | Vinny Antonio

Victory Marketing Agency Fort Myers

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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • May 15, 2015
Entrepreneurs of the Year | Lorna Taylor

Premier Eye Care Tampa

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2015
Teco burns off coal division with new buyer

Kentucky-based Cambrian Coal couldn't close the deal, and Tampa energy company says new buyer will be all cash.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2015
Capitalism leads the way

Officials at Benderson Development, by far the largest retail developer in the Sarasota-Bradenton market, and one of biggest landlords on the Gulf Coast, get the “why?” question a lot. As in, why does the firm continue to build and develop when it already has so much?

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