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  • October 19, 2012
NFL star buys into Tampa firm

Baltimore Ravens All-Pro Ray Rice is now a part owner of Tampa-based VertiMax.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • 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.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • August 15, 2015
Trader Mac

A Tampa e-commerce business with an outsized commitment to advertising and marketing competes against industry giants Craigslist and eBay.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 19, 2006
They've Seen It Before

For two well-known home builders, experience of past slowdowns is an ally in the fight against the current downturn. Patience and population trends will be the savior, not excessive giveaways.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2021
Developer buys 215,000-square-foot shopping center for $22 million

Mishorim Gold Properties buys Horizon Park in Tampa and immediately announces Ross Dress for Less will move into 30,000-square-foot space

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 8, 2019
Pair of Tampa-area apartments sell for $230 million

Buyers in two separate apartments transactions in Brandon and downtown St. Petersburg cite the area's growing population as the primary reason behind investments in excess of $100 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2020
Boutique design agency relocates to area

Purple Fish Creative provides website design, hosting, maintenance and support packages as well as graphic design, brand development, copywriting and illustration.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • March 21, 2011
Texas group buys Naples shops

The Collection at Vanderbilt offers 226,000 square feet of retail space.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • May 2, 2011
Ronto buys 1,414 acres for $18M

Naples-based Ronto Group, Rockpoint Capital buy Bonita Springs land.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 16, 2018
Top 500: A unique treasure trove of information

The Business Observer's 2018 Top 500 ranks the top 500 companies from Tampa/Lakeland to Naples by revenue.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • November 21, 2005
Stayin' Alive

A cutting-edge biotechnology company learns there is more to building a successful company than science. Now, it's looking to grow by buying other companies.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • July 10, 2015
The master of TripAdvisor

In the hospitality business, there's probably no bigger arbiter than the online review site TripAdvisor.

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  • March 21, 2025
Tampa-based Coca-Cola bottler president to retire

Leadership changes are taking place at different points this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • December 11, 2009
Estero dentist buys unit in Coconut Point Center

Dentist Scott Johnson and his wife Kelley Johnson purchased a 1,900 square foot unit in the Coconut Point Center Condominiums on U.S. 41 south of Coconut Drive for $576,300.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2020
Grocery sales see gains in some expected and unexpected categories

Shopper intelligence firm finds a shift in buying behaviors brought on by the pandemic.

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  • April 10, 2014
Court rules against investors in Channelside case

A bankruptcy judge dismissed four challenges to the sale of Channelside Bay Plaza brought by the Liberty Group and Santosh Govindaraju.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 14, 2015
Time to buy a business?

In the Tampa Bay area there's more choice than ever for an entrepreneur to buy a ready-made company.

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  • August 12, 2011
TJM Properties buys, renovating St. Pete-Clearwater Airport Inn

Clearwater-based real estate firm TJM Properties purchased the 118-room St. Pete/Clearwater Airport Inn for $800,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 23, 2009
Sembler's Winter Garden wins design, development award

Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves, developed by The Sembler Co., won the inaugural International Council of Shopping Centers' U.S. Design and Development Shopping Center Awards in the category of 'Innovative Design and Development of a New Project over 500,000 square feet'.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 28, 2011
Chocolates, panties and financial reform

We're not sure we trust the palates of experts who test washing machines, but you can't deny Consumer Reports' reach with more than 7 million subscribers.

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