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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 25, 2022
Well-known restaurateur acquires prominent Sarasota restaurant

The owners will take the reins of the St. Armands eatery Feb. 1.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2018
Report: finding — and keeping — top salespeople is getting harder

Some 20% of a company’s salespeople account for more than half a company’s revenues.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2014
Hydro-Dyne Engineering buys, relocating to Pinellas Park building

Hydro-Dyne Engineering Inc. purchased a 107,500-square-foot industrial building for $5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2016
Developer wins in long-term play

September marks six years since The Ronto Group, partnering with a New York investment firm, bought TwinEagles, a 1,115-acre master-planned community in Naples where home sales stalled in the downturn.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 21, 2015
How to ... Manufacture in China

Four times a year, Daniel Fisher travels to China with a small entourage of agents and translators to meet face-to-face with some 60 manufacturers.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 13, 2024
Michael Saunders & Co. buys land for south Sarasota County office

The real estate company plans to construct an office and a building for lease in Wellen Park.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2024
Bankruptcy judge OKs Hoffmann's $21.25M purchase of Midwest dairy

The Hoffmann Family of Cos. won a bankruptcy auction last week for the Illinois dairy company.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 15, 2020
Area manufacturer, after ousting CEO, names new top leader

Josef Matosevic brings global industry experience to Helios Technologies.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 31, 2024
Facing $25M loss, Allegiant hires consultant for Port Charlotte resort

Just months after it opened three years late and nearly a quarter-billion dollars over budget, Allegiant Travel Co. has hired a firm to review the resort's prospects.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 20, 2026
Tampa's Sila Realty Trust sold for $2.4 billion

The NYSE-listed health care-focused trust will go private when the deal closes later this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 1, 2026
Longtime Naples hotelier pays more than $20M for Four Seasons resort condo

Phil McCabe was the first person to close on a unit at the newly revamped Naples Beach Club.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
Coffee Talk

WCI Communities: A buying opportunity?: At what point do the stocks of homebuilders become so ridiculously cheap that they're worth buying?Military salute: Sarasota resident Burt Bershon has been recognized for his efforts to bring military academies back to U.S. communities. Bershon, who founded the Sarasota Military Academy in 2002, was recently awarded an Eagle Laureate for creating The Charter Military Schools Development Corp. in late 2003.Former Buccaneer Warren Sapp is back: NFL Star Warren Sapp, a defensive tackle who helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win their only Super Bowl, plans to open a HipHopSodaShop on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, near the University of South Florida.Davis Lucas offers business-ethics insight: Davis Lucas, the chairman of Bonita Springs-based residential developer The Bonita Bay Group, makes few public appearances and when he does, it's usually for the benefit of a local charity.Condominium's loss is apartment's gain: So with the condo conversion market way down, is it truly gloom-and-doom time for the apartment market? Not completely.Paying premium prices at the pump: The high price of gas is reaching into entrepreneurs and executives' pockets yet again.Bleak showing for Florida venture capitalists:Just two Florida firms made Entrepreneur magazine's 2005 list of the top 100 venture capital firms, and both, Palm Beach Capital Partners and HIG Capital Management of Miami, are based in South Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Charles Craig, bailing out of Gevity HRJennings opens the parachuteSunCoast responds: Reporting damaging, below standards

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Chief judge stands behind Rapkin's decisionRe/Max Properties cretaing commercial division1st National Bank & Trust net down, stock upSarasota's purchasing department has Q&A with Palm developers

  • News
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 22, 2024
Sarasota County tourism falls in August

The head of tourism for Sarasota County attributes the drop in visitors in part to Floridians.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2008
Tent Revival

Brian Boyle and his two sons survived some early mistakes in their first family-runentrepreneurial effort. Now the business is actually growing in a down economy.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2020
Area hospital within a hospital for cancer patients opens

The Gulf Coast Medical Center’s Regional Cancer Center is solely dedicated to treating cancer patients.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 17, 2017
Sudden entrepreneur

An unexpected tragedy led to an unusual opportunity for an affable dentist. She has since overcome several obstacles.

  • Strategies
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  • By Alicia Ceccarelli |
  • September 16, 2016
Big ideas

Forget the comedy clubs and seafood joints. Brien Spina has some grand plans for a new performing arts hall.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
The rush is on

Commercial real estate brokers and developers have seen the recent growth in Southwest Florida. They want in on the action.

  • Entrepreneurs
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