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  • By Chuck Merlis |
  • October 9, 2025
Jake Halusic, 36

40 Under 40 winner Jake Halusic is founder and CEO of Trofeo.

  • Class of 2025
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 23, 2024
Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business

Reinhold Schmieding says little publicly about the company he founded, Arthrex. His silence belies the company’s resounding, generational success.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 26, 2025
Charlotte County resort aims for 'sweet spot' after $200M sale

Sunseeker Resort plans to expand its meeting space, events-driven programming and culinary offerings to boost business in 2026.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk: Southwest may add Fort Myers flightsThe real estate market may be in the dumps, but at least one segment of the advertising industry that caters to it - billboards - is booming. Sarasota employers are not an optimistic bunch, according to Manpower Inc.'s most recent employment outlook survey.Coral Gables-based Cornerstone Group is touting its new all-concrete town home community as the cure to homeowners' insurance woes.If the residential real estate market is in a slump, you wouldn't know it based on investors' appetites.Morgan Stanley executives say they've raised $1.75 billion for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V U.S., the institutional fund that recently bought Babcock Ranch in partnership with West Palm Beach developer Syd Kitson. Tampa-based Suncoast Roofers Supply (profiled in the May 12 Review) has opened its 15th location, this one in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida Gators.When the public sector borrows from the business world, it tends to raise eyebrows and lower costs. In Sarasota County, that lesson is coming home in the Office of Financial Planning.Pulte Homes and its DiVosta subsidiary are two of the best homebuilders on the Gulf Coast for customer satisfaction, according to J.D. Power and Associates. Yet another Palm Avenue development RFPThere's an anti-development fight in St. Pete Beach, a south Pinellas County coastal community of 10,000, and Wa

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2006
Coffee Talk

The annual Capeopoly real estate conference in Cape Coral drew more than 400 people recently. It's easy to understand why: Cape Coral was the nation's fifth-fastest growing city last year.Cannon seizes commercial opportunity in housing slowdown The tech company accelerator located in Pinellas County might be one of the best-kept secrets a startup can find.John Cannon: Housing slowdown not carrying other sectors downOutback buyback done deal?Fox Electronics was honored with the 2006 Southwest Florida Blue Chip Community Business Award, an awardthat recognizes businesses in Lee and Collier counties that have successfully overcome adversity.The ongoing Wilson family saga is set to add another chapter Nov. 14, when an empty land plot in a Sarasota subdivision goes up for public auction. Downtown Tampa is finally on the cusp of becoming a 24-hour city where people live and work, as the first phase of Grand Central at Kennedy in Channelside nears completion and other residential towers take shape, according to the newest office market report by GVA Advantis Real Estate Services Co.Bonita Bay gives more money to schoolsWCI Communities outlook remains grimHappy birthday to you, DooleyMack

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 27, 2004
No Laughing Heirs (Tampa edition)

Philip Winston Dann lost his right to practice law for his representation of an elderly miser who left his fortune to Dann. Should he be a lawyer again?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2004
Welcome to Skip Sack's Neighborhood

Burton 'Skip' Sack made his Applebee's neighborhood restaurants one of the chain's most successful franchises.Now he's bringing his recipe to the National Restaurant Association.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2008
Bond Buyers

Forget stocks. Bonds are where the action is this year. Wasmer, Schroeder & Co. is one of the most skillful at picking fixed-income investments.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 7, 2023
The friendly business card has a new foe: Digitalization

The business card industry considers a paperless future.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 19, 2023
Ex-attorney successfully ventures into winemaking

A happenstance discovery of historical documents led attorney Desiree Noisette to quit her job and go full on into a new career: winemaking. The high-risk move is paying off.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • September 21, 2022
Elevator business CEO projects business boom

The home-based elevator business, despite a looming economic downturn, continues going up and up for one Southwest Florida company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 4, 2022
Road less traveled: Tourism campaign charts an unconventional course

Faced with a steep challenge from their client, a destination marketing organization, FKQ Advertising + Marketing took a much different approach to selling vacationers on the appeal of Tampa Bay.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2007
Travel Survivor

Industries going through wrenching change can learn from the travel-agent business. A survivor in Naples tells how she adapted.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 3, 2007
Corporate Report

Yacht Clubs of the Americas partners with Legendary Inc.Seminole Electric Cooperative suggests CO2-capture projectSuperior Bancorp buys four Florida officesProgress contracts with Biomass wood-waste energyChico's FAS June sales upGeneral Dynamics producing Unitary Warhead for Army

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 24, 2006
Coffee Talk

Coffee Talk smells a trend brewing. On Nov. 10, we reported on Sarasota-based luxury homebuilder John Cannon's plans to open a commercial construction business, partly to make up for decreasing revenues stemming from the residential building slump. A recent report shows that Bradenton professional employer organization Gevity HR is the largest PEO in Florida and the third largest in the country. Members of Florida's largest nonprofit business group, Associated Industries, spoke at a Nov. 17 public hearing before the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, urging the government to open two million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling. Inventory is up 180% from a year ago and sales are down, way down, but the Pinellas Realtor Organization says the housing market is stabilizing.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust bought 887,000 shares of WCI, or 2.1% of the shares outstanding, for about $15.5 million. Finance chiefs and other top executives responsible for complying with federal accounting requirements are in line for some hefty raises in 2007, a leading staffing services firm reports. Top bankers, information technology managers and auditors will also have thicker wallets and purses.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2006
Going Up

Phil Camillo, who once sold training materials to rocket scientists, really knows how to make a sales pitch. His latest success? Winning a national elevator pitch contest for entrepreneurs.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 19, 2007
Water Watcher

Inventor and entrepreneur Ron Sargent explains how his newest invention is coming to life. His advice helps creative people make financial sense of their ideas.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
Corporate Report

Sirion gets European license for eye treatment HMA converts equity into debt, issues $10 one-time dividendPeach's hands out 25-store Missouri franchiseSarasota Cay Club, Reds reach spring training dealIA Global avoids AMEX stock de-listing

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 9, 2007
Royal Delight

Roy Yamaguchi built a successful chain of high-end restaurants called Roy's. Entrepreneurs can learn from his success.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 16, 2007
Genetic Growth

Neogenomics is rapidly becoming a force in the world of cancer testing. Its president tells how he manages the company's growth and how the company will expand.

  • Entrepreneurs
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