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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Who Owns This Gem?

When Shannon Hotel Group acquired the Longboat Key Club, it had the help of some of Wall Street's savviest and most endowed investors. Meet the owners.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2003
Ordinary Loss or Fraud? (Tampa edition)

A former stockbroker who sold to Tampa's business elite says large losses should be blamed on the market, not him.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2003
How High the Rates?

A slight boost in interest rates won't faze bankers in 2004.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2004
Affordable Housing: Not a Problem

Editor Matt Walsh discusses the affordable housing problem and why its an issue for the market not government.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2003
Coffee Talk

This week's items:Entrepreneurial slump over?Fraud detectionMCC offers security technology certificateLegal appealThe missing linkOne more dig at the anti-bridge crowdBanker of the Year Nomination

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2003
2nd Runner-Up: Charlie Brown III

President and CEO Charlotte State Bank, Port CharlotteCharlie Brown did not intend to become a banker. He wanted to become a financial analyst at a big firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2003
1st Runner-Up: David Dunbar Chairman

President and CEO Peoples Bank/Peoples Floriday Banking Corp.In his 28 years of banking, David Dunbar has worked for the largest bank in the state and the smallest bank in the state.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 28, 2004
Throw Away Stereotypes

The U.S. is wasting the economic benefits of immigration from Mexico. It's time to include the human factor in NAFTA. Johannes Werner is a Sarasota-based business journalist, who publishes a trade monthly Cuba Trade & Investment News

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 25, 2004
Firm Accused of Malpractice

New owners of a St. Petersburg nursing home inherit legal controversies involving a malpractice claim against Holland & Knight LLP, and a contract dispute with a management company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2004
Developement Oasis

Downtown Fort Myersi left-behind status is yielding new waterfront condominium developments with great vigor o $1 billion worth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2008
Fanning the Flames

Fannie Mae's unsold $5 billion worth of homes tugs down the market and brings peril to shareholders.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 15, 2010
Cut it CLOSE

A Gulf Coast advertising firm's top national client was in dire need of a creative, and a winning, campaign. The result could be a glimpse at where online marketing is headed.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • March 4, 2010
One Big Litter Box

Environmentalists' federal lawsuit to force designation of 3.1 million acres of Southwest Florida as a critical habitat for the Florida panther could cost businesses and governments tens of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 10, 2009
Long for Short

Tony Leo is trying to save Peninsula Bank short term by long-term planning.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 26, 2010
Dreams With Teeth

A bold group of entrepreneurs hopes to take a big bite out of an even bigger market. Plans include going from 20 to 280 employees in five years.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 4, 2011
In Good Time

Scott Boose brings a host of leadership lessons to his new role at the helm of a $200-million company on the cusp of a transformation. His refined attention to detail will surely be tested.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • September 3, 2010
Hero of Gyros

Salem Gharsalli is in expansion mode with his Salem's Gyros & Subs chain, with a goal of making his name a national brand. He's starting by steering customers away from the drive-through lanes of burger joints.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 3, 2010
High Hopes

A Gulf Coast inventor has learned many lessons in a two-decade effort to turn his creations into mass-market triumphs. He hopes 2011 will be a breakout year.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 9, 2010
Flood of Risk

The federal flood insurance program presents another kind of risk these days for real estate lenders and borrowers: congressional risk.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 15, 2010
Corporate Report: April 16 - April 22

New information from Nicholas Financial, US Natural Gas Corp., and more.

  • Strategies
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