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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 25, 2014
Global Touch

After a Foreign Service career with stints everywhere from Moscow to Indonesia, Rob Weisberg can speak five languages. He can also speak with authority on a host of leadership and management principles.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Adam Flood, 32

Manager of process excellence, LeeSar

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2006
Corporate Report

Gevity downgrades outlook through rest of yearTourist council adds Lakewood Ranch to area's tourism enterpriseOswald Tripp buys BMC Insurance in DenverSarasota 1450 news station becomes 'The Dove'Tampa's ICAT benefiting from State's P&C underwriting programTenby Pharma buys Sirion Therapeutics, adds capitalRemember this: Drink more coffee

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 2, 2007
Signs of Hope

Lee County is widely considered ground zero for the state's housing bust. But there are finally some tentative signs of the market's recovery.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2010
Corporate Report: UTEK expands network, partners with MEDEC, MedilinkUK

UTEK Corp., a Tampa-based intellectual property licensing and innovation services company, will showcase its growing network of registered companies and professionals to more companies.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 24, 2011
CHASE-ing the Sunshine

Making up for lost time, Chase bank is making a big expansion push into Florida. The company is snapping up a variety of properties for at least 13 new branches planned along the Gulf Coast this year.

  • Industries
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 9, 2025
Sarasota County pays $1.3 million to protect Venice land

In the week's top commercial real estate news, developers buys Wimauma land to build 196 townhouses, a Sarasota theater is being upgrading, and a day care chain is expanding in Southwest Florida.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • May 20, 2021
Urn artist stays focused on the product at hand

This philosophy has led Andrea Bogard to increase revenue 68%

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 7, 2006
Real Estate Briefs (Tampa)

California investors' group buys Wyndham WestshoreTampa partnership buys former Eckerd headquartersFormer ranch land slated for residential development

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 30, 2009
Off the Vine

The economy's nosedive began just as some entrepreneurs bought a Gulf Coast family business. They are still hanging on a year later.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 6, 2013
Sandwiches in Paradise

Chip and Katie Beeman own two popular downtown Sarasota eateries. The couple's mantra, built on making subs in the Northwest, is consistency sells.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 9, 2012
Condo construction is back

One intrepid developer has started construction of new condos in Cape Coral, one of the hardest-hit areas of the country during the real estate collapse.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2012
Universal Growth

A Gulf Coast window firm hopes a new headquarters and larger showroom will yield oversized results. The shift is the culmination of several smaller growth moves.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 1, 2012
Brokers start stockpiling optimism

After nine quarters of negative absorption, increases in transactions and price stability seem to herald a mending industrial market.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 14, 2021
Home Builders Institute buys related trade group

Deal for Future Builders of America provides an opportunity for nationwide expansion, Home Builders Institute says.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 13, 2020
TerraCap embarks on office buying spree

Deals in Denver, Orlando and Plano, Texas, totaling more than $85 million close within a one-month period for TerraCap Management.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 27, 2020
Bridge Investment buys Tampa Commons offices

Bridge Office, a Bridge Investment affiliate based in Atlanta, plans roughly $4 million in improvements to the 13-story Westshore office building.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 14, 2020
Top cookie entrepreneur combines hard work, friendliness to become sales success story

The area’s top Girl Scout Cookie seller in 2019 was Catelyn Holcomb.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 30, 2016
Blow the doors off

Crown Roofing LLC expects another year of growth and expansion, after it surpassed $50 million in revenue in 2016. One big sign: It might buy a crane in 2017.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2017
Realtor Harry Robbins dies

The real estate executive died Dec. 6. He was 86

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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