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  • November 19, 2004
Create Advocates, Add to Bottom Line

Loyal customers spend more, cost less and allow high profit.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • December 17, 2009
Government Digest 12/18/09

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Denise Kalette |
  • February 15, 2013
A Genteel Space

There are no golden arches at the Oxford Exchange in Tampa, but the family that owns 53 local McDonald's has created a vibrant new center as a way to say thanks for its success.

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  • June 21, 2013
Corporate Report: June 21

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • November 23, 2012
Corporate Report: November 23

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • June 8, 2021
Hope Preserve gains traction

Health care-centric, mixed-use development in Fort Myers completes a trio of land sales involving more than one quarter of its 46 acres.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 31, 2020
What They're Saying: JLL

Commercial real estate brokerage firm JLL says the surging industrial sector in Tampa is expected to continue in 2020, while office development remains in the "peaking phase" of the economic cycle in the region

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 6, 2020
Nimble entrepreneurs create opportunities to connect with vendors, farmers and customers

When the pandemic closed the door to one segment of customers, two business leaders, in separate efforts, found new ways to reach people.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 7, 2019
New kind of senior residence blows into town

How to promote the opening of a new type of luxury independent and assisted living community based on the simple rent model? Hook them with the Cat 5 hurricane shelter angle.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • January 4, 2019
Airport poised for more growth in 2019 after airline, flight additions

Big buzz fluttered around Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in 2018 around new airlines and new routes. The airport, its CEO says, is on a continued upward swing.

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  • March 9, 2018
Paying Off

MetLife's Tampa office park will house the area's first new office building with speculative space since 2012. A PwC expansion is making it happen.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • December 20, 2013
Corporate Report: Dec. 20

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • April 28, 2024
Fort Myers school spends $29 million on office buildings

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a major hotel project is OK’d in St. Pete Beach, more land is conserved in Sarasota, and Margaritaville comes to Naples.

  • Florida
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • April 22, 2026
Showroom opens in former Manatee tax collector branch

Quality by Design Kitchens made a six-figure investment to customize its new location.

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  • July 3, 2023
$2.5 billion bank names new leaders for retail, commercial banking divisions

In total Crews Bank & Trust promotes four bankers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: Vox2Data Inc.

Quite a bit has changed since Vox2Data was selected as the second-runner up in The Gulf Coast Business Review's 2004 Technology Innovation Awards. A new name. A new version of its flagship software. And now, some roof damage and flooding as a result of Hurricane Wilma.

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  • July 1, 2010
A Risky Paint

40 UNDER 40 WINNER: Kevin Hanley, 37, Sarasota

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  • April 29, 2011
Cool Opportunity

Service and repair industry entrepreneur John Barbour delayed growth plans for five years. But the time to grow, Barbour believes, is now.

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  • September 28, 2021
EDC, amid restructuring, dramatically grows board

The members will be crucial in guiding the Sarasota County EDC's future.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2021
Biotech firm moves HQ to region, plans 100 new hires

CEO says startup plans to hire a large contingent of personnel in 2022.

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