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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • January 30, 2025
Clearwater marketing firm posts nearly $120M in revenue, sets new record

It was a 14% increase over the previous year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2016
International swaps

Vinny Antonio is always looking for ways to bring new ideas into his business, Victory Marketing Agency.

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  • April 23, 2018
High-tech, $28M senior living community opens in region

The Brandon facility is expected to create 80 jobs.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 3, 2025
Florida GDP, economy passes a European stalwart, targets Australia

The Florida Chamber Foundation isn’t complacent with its latest ranking of 15. It aims to get into the top 10.

  • Florida
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 13, 2010
GULF COAST 500: Better With Age

Horizon Bay Retirement Living is banking on a development boom as prospective residents live longer. One of its latest projects is being built in its home city of Tampa.

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  • 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.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2018
Inc.'d up: Super-fast growth sets record

Tampa, Florida-based printing and promotional products firm Proforma has seen 26 of its franchisees, who collectively own and operate 12 businesses, make the Inc. 5000 list of the country's fastest-growing companies.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 18, 2019
Moving company finds Florida in good shape

U-haul in its annual migration survey, calculated net gain of one-way truck renters in states and cities versus who left that state or city during 2018. The migration trends data, according to a statement, is compiled from more than 2 million one-way U-Ha

  • News
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 19, 2026
Tampa, Palmetto properties sell for $11.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a private club in Naples starts construction, a restaurant in Sarasota loses its lease, and a mall in Pasco is getting new tenants.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Samantha Hernandez, 39

Executive director of human resources, Pro-Link Global

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 12, 2019
Leader helps build great teams — from Baghdad to fast-food counter

Onetime military logistics expert turns his expertise toward the restaurant industry.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 21, 2013
Fort Myers home prices jump 25%

The median price of a home rises to $176,333 in May.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2019
Discount airline adding five new nonstop routes from Punta Gorda Airport

The routes, scheduled to start in mid-November, will have fares as low as $49 for a one-way trip.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 2, 2018
School of life

How does a school become the community's college? By waging an all-out battle to respond to the needs of students and employers.

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  • October 13, 2017
Matt DiMauro, 26

Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Fyzical

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  • November 4, 2016
A plain and simple path to growth

The jaunt from Southwest Florida to the Keys just got a little easier.

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  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: A Busy Birthday

The Pines of Sarasota turned 60 years old in 2007, one of several significant milestones at the nonprofit nursing home that runs a 204-bed campus a few miles from downtown Sarasota.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 15, 2019
On the move: City a top draw for urban transplants

The Tampa Metropolitan Statistical Area is one of the top destinations for people moving from other U.S. MSAs, according to recent U.S. Census data.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 20, 2023
Publix is doing away with GreenWise-branded stores

The Lakeland chain will transition its GreenWise stores to the traditional Publix brand.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2011
Boat retailer profitable again

Clearwater-based MarineMax posts strongest financial results in years.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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