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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2017
Publix expands to new turf: Hospitals

Collaboration will also see BayCare HealthHubs installed in Publix stores

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 16, 2017
Work It

Florida firms find fame for being fabulous.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2018
Fire It Up

PR pro shares secrets of success for her company.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2015
Cancer diagnosis startup plans $25M investment

Inspirata Inc. launched in March, following a chance meetup at a medical conference in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2015
'A unique spot'

Investor and entrepreneur Mario Garcia Jr., CEO and managing partner of Tampa-based Validus Group Partners, recently came across a rather unusual buying opportunity: To get back a unit his firm sold last year for $80 million.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2015
Big-time asset goal within reach

The billion-dollar asset mark in banking is increasingly being recognized as an industry threshold: Get over it, and a bank can survive, thrive and even buy some other banks.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2015
Finfrock Enterprises buys buildings, plans Fifth Avenue Hyatt House

Apopka-based Finfrock Enterprises Inc. purchased a former Joe's Crab Shack 15,173-square-foot waterfront restaurant and the nearby Docks on Fifth marina property for a combined $7.25 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 19, 2024
Prolific SWFL developer names chief operating officer

Dale Evans, a former senior-level manager in process, operations and technology at Chico’s FAS, has been named COO of Seagate Development Group.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 27, 2024
Library and learning center dedicated at Bradenton college campus

The State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, honored its president with a building dedicated in her name.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon |
  • June 25, 2024
Miami bank expanding services to Gulf Coast market

Miami-based City National Bank of Florida is expanding to the Gulf Coast with the appointment of new leadership in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 7, 2025
Sarasota Memorial opens freestanding ER in Lakewood Ranch

This is the second freestanding emergency room for Sarasota Memorial Health Care System.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 24, 2025
TSA PreCheck enrollment available at SRQ

CLEAR is offering TSA PreCheck enrollment at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 14, 2023
Fort Myers landscaping firm expands out of Florida for first time

Fort Myers-based Juniper Landscaping has acquired Shooter and Lindsey Inc., a landscaping maintenance and installation provider serving the greater Houston market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 31, 2025
Naples travel agency acquires firm, expands to Pinellas, The Villages

Naples travel agency Preferred Travel & Co. is growing into the Tampa Bay and Central Florida regions with an acquisition of Anchors Away Cruises & Tours.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 8, 2025
Sarasota software development firm opens office in Pakistan

The new overseas office will support custom software and platform development.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 31, 2024
West Coast shipping giant offers $450M to buy Tampa company

A freight company with $5 billion in sales is in the market to possibly buy a publicly traded Tampa shipping company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 1, 2025
Sarasota Memorial appoints president for Sarasota campus

The new leader of the Sarasota hospital campus has worked for SMH for more than 20 years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2006
Let the Competition Begin

Sweetbay Supermarket CEO Shelley Broader says Kash n' Karry was "an aging beauty that was never really beautiful." Sweetbay will go head-to-head with Florida's largest supermarket chain, Publix, on its home turf.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2007
Cell-ing the Future

T3 Communications, a Fort Myers-based telecommunications company, is growing at a rapid pace as it continues to add new business customers. Enter Adam Sewall, the company's new president and CEO.Sewall comes with impressive telecom credentials. Most recently, he was senior vice president of business development and operations for Fastmobile, a mobile-phone messaging provider. Previously, he was a venture partner at Comventures, a leading venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, chief executive officer of Spectrum Wireless, and director of sales and strategic planning for Omnipoint, a cellular phone company that T-Mobile bought in 1999 for $11.6 billion.T3 Communications offers voice and data telecommunication services exclusively to business customers. The company provides services that include local and long-distance calling, toll-free lines, messaging, Internet and e-mail.The Review recently spoke with Sewall about his personal interests and his strategy for T3 Communications.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 5, 2007
LASDAY: Street Smart Marketing

The secret to what your customers really want from you and your team.

  • Opinion
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