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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2020
Company, fighting off bankruptcy, names new president, CEO

Paul Stone replaces Kathryn Marinello as the top executive at Hertz.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 6, 2016
Tennis ace

Tennis star Emilio Sánchez Vicario is expanding his tennis academy beyond Naples and Barcelona, Spain.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 29, 2025
2 hospitals in region ranked among top 10 in Florida

Multiple hospitals from the region are ranked on the U.S. News list of best hospitals in Florida.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 1, 2022
Manufacturing CEO reflects on successes as company nears $1B threshold

Helios Technologies looks to hit a big revenue milestone in 2023 — two years ahead of schedule.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 7, 2020
D.R. Horton, Lennar among most prolific Gulf Coast residential land buyers

DR Horton and Lennar Corp., two of the region's largest and most active homebuilders, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into buying land over the past five years here.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 17, 2022
PGA Tour event raises nearly $2M locally, approaching $50M lifetime mark

The Valspar Championship, under Ronde Barber, tops last year’s total as it nears the milestone.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2022
Report: Naples, Cape Coral, lead the the way nationally in second home prices

The vacation home sector keeps on pushing higher.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2022
Business Observer honors six Top Entrepreneurs

More than 150 people attended May 12 event.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Sarasota-Manatee Runner-Up

Steve Herrig, President, Progressive Employer Services: People have said Steve Herrig is the classic entrepreneur, someone who can see the big picture but doesn't like to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 10, 2013
Blast from the past in real estate

News snippets nationwide have documented the recent housing market surge and one recent source, in a front page Wall Street Journal story, is a familiar voice to the Gulf Coast: Budge Huskey, a top Florida executive for NRT and Coldwell Banker, based in Sarasota, in the early and mid-2000s.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2011
Good beach climate poor for business?

By some accounts, Florida is one of the most improved states to do business in, according to an annual report on the subject from cable business news channel CNBC.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 14, 2011
Down home cooking looks up on the Gulf

There must be something in the gravy. How else to explain the dominance of Gulf Coast Bob Evans restaurants in comparison to others in the nationwide 566-store chain?

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  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 27, 2012
Sarasota mulls two proposals for hotels

Two companies are proposing contrasting hotel concepts and financing options to the City of Sarasota for the downtown Palm Avenue hotel site.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 21, 2021
Cybersecurity firm targets $100 million in IPO filing

KnowBe4 was founded in 2010.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 11, 2021
Sale of $13.25 million estate marks second-highest price in county

The property in Sarasota's Harbor Acres sold before it reached the listing phase.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2021
Real estate firm names vice president to oversee Southwest Florida region

Victoria Rivadeneira will oversee 19 offices and 1,350 affiliated agents.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2020
Master-planned community hits sales milestone

Babcock Ranch ended 2019 on a high note.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2020
Cybersecurity firm elevates pair of executives to co-president role

Clearwater, Florida-based KnowBe4, a leading provider of security awareness training and a widely used simulated phishing platform, has promoted two top executives to a co-president role.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2022
$500M franchise company founder to keynote Naples event

Greg Muzzillo is the third speaker in the NextGen Speaker Series for 2022.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 22, 2019
Financial institution fights low unemployment with high wages

GTE Financial, a Tampa, Florida-based credit union with $2.09 billion in total assets, has responded to record-low unemployment levels by raising its minimum wage to $16 per hour — nearly double the state minimum wage of $8.46 per hour.

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