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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 7, 2011
OnCall Staffing comes to Tampa

A Jacksonville-based staffing firm will open a new office in Wesley Chapel.

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  • February 8, 2011
Oragenics shuffles leaders

The Tampa firm's CEO and president is out, and a new chairman is in.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2014
Doctors Hospital hires new COO

Steve Young previously worked at Osceola Regional Medical Center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 19, 2016
Rays sign new player: a Realtor

Jennifer Zales is the official real estate agent of the Tampa Bay Rays.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2016
Architect leaves mentor to launch his own firm

The new firm is called Hive Architects Inc.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • January 8, 2016
Accounting firm adds three new partners

Kerkering, Barberio & Co. was founded in 1972.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2016
Airport posts best February in history

The St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport posted an 18% year-over-year increase for the month.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Commercial Real Estate Briefs

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 16, 2020
City leaders believe new convention center will be big win

Years in the making, Fort Myers officials are confident a world-class convention center will be a crowning achievement — and a big boost for businesses.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 21, 2018
Nexus of influence: Bank looks to set a trend

Regions Bank has debuted its next-generation style of branch, dubbed "Nexus," in South Pasadena, Florida.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 17, 2010
A Model Business

A onetime model planned ahead for the day her flashy career would end. She's now behind an anomaly on the Gulf Coast: A fast-growth business.

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  • October 14, 2016
Robert Savage, 32

Vice president of strategy and business development, The Symphony Agency

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  • October 10, 2014
Gustavo 'Gus' Cobeaga, 34

Naples City President, Regions Bank

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2015
Corporate report

Gold Coast Eagle, Pepin Distributing bringing Rochester Mills beers to Gulf Coast; PikMyKid receives funding, partnership with access to 30,000 schools; Motorworks Brewing designing beer line around the Donut Experiment; SBA looking for business owners for Tampa's first Emerging Leaders Initiative; Davis & Associates merging with Howard F. Crossman CPA; i9 Sports league signs agreements adding two franchise markets

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • November 29, 2023
Young entrepreneur learns from early marketing mistake

Larissa Lippe is working a delicate balance between growing her student-led tutoring business in Sarasota and her other life as a college student.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • October 10, 2024
Andrew Blitch, 39

40 Under 40 winner Andrew Blitch is the owner of “A” Locksmith.

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  • August 4, 2006
Matt Walsh: Save Our Homes should be repealed

Sometime in the next two weeks, a Gov. Bush-appointed committee will begin meeting to figure out what, if anything, should be done to change Florida's infamously discriminatory Save Our Homes amendment - the amendment that is driving property taxes beyond tolerance for so many of Florida's part-time property owners and the amendment that, a decade after its adoption, has become a spreading cancer across Florida's economy.The conclusion and recommendations should be clear: It should be repealed.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 30, 2011
Acquisition Simulation

The top executive for a $60 million Gulf Coast medical technology business took on a complicated mission: Find a buyer for the firm without sacrificing price. It was an exacting operation.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 8, 2005
Nominees for Lawyer of the Year

The Nominees for Lawyer of the Year are available free of charge.Twenty business people in the Sarasota-Manatee region were nominated for Gulf Coast Business Review's "Lawyer of the Year" award by their colleagues, peers and others. Two top lawyers, including one under the age of 40, will be singled out for "raising the bar" in GCBR's April 22 edition.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 2, 2009
How Miami has lessons for the GM Rescue

Here in Florida it's difficult to feel the emotions, fears and depth of the implosion of General Motors and Chrysler and the firing of General Motors' Rick Wagoner.

  • Opinion
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