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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • July 5, 2024
South Carolina hospitality group brings pair of restaurants to Tampa

Two new restaurants are slated to begin serving in 2024 and 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • November 26, 2005
Harsh Climate

Value-added jobs rose 0.5% in Sarasota between 2003 and 2004, and average wages improved 1%. This hasn't helped businesses much in finding and keeping qualified employees.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2008
Dear Linda

A Gulf Coast advertising guru is expanding her horizons. Now, Linda Gross is allabout giving advice to other businesses.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 2, 2011
Corporate Report: Dec. 2

The latest news from Park Royal Hospital, Valpak, and other Gulf Coast companies.

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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • July 12, 2019
Home health care franchise owner grows up in the business

Danielle Dyer’s bottom-to-the-top journey — she went from part-timer to business owner of a 220-employee enterprise — smoothed out her learning curve.

  • Health Care
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 17, 2019
Tiara Rubio, 34

Project manager, Suffolk Construction

  • Class of 2019
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • October 17, 2019
Emmalee Legler, 33

Director of marketing and operations, Jon F. Swift Construction

  • Class of 2019
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 22, 2019
Restaurant chain first in line for kindness

Being nice, at First Watch, isn’t only for greeting customers. It’s a company-wide belief that kindness goes a long way.

  • Leadership
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2013
Corporate Report: Oct. 18

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 10, 2024
Investors pay $3 million for seven downtown Bradenton properties

In the week's top commercial real estate news, newcomers commit to longer leases in Tampa, and $400 million in sales triggers new tower along Estero Bay.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • September 12, 2023
Troubled private flight business CEO remains optimistic about turnaround

A hangar lease extension and active plane maintenance have contributed to a more positive outlook.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 20, 2006
High Tech, High Growth

Radiation Therapy Services' stock price has nearly tripled since going public in 2004. There's good reason: It has $100 million and the highest-tech machines to continue its fast expansion as the largest radiation center operator in the nation.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adrian Moore |
  • March 24, 2017
Vacation rentals? What's the issue?

The commercial nature of vacation rentals does not warrant any special restrictions because we already have nuisance laws to protect us.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 15, 2013
'Monumental task'

Rick Mills faces a slew of problems in his first year at the helm of a Gulf Coast school district. His strategy to get ahead of the trouble combines military precision with creative collaboration.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 5, 2023
Tampa health care giant takes over ownership of behavioral health center

The deal went into effect Jan. 1.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2020
Former Rays player to open gyms in region

Former Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Matt Joyce, and his wife, Brittany Joyce, are co-owners of several F45 Training franchises that are set to open in the Tampa Bay region.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jennifer Fowler-Hermes |
  • May 23, 2018
Employers Take Note: A New W-4

At this time, employers should, at a minimum, have all new hires and any employee that has a change in their tax status, complete the new 2018 W-4

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 9, 2016
Passco buys Bradenton apartments for $75M

Fueled by potential future yield and a desire to beef up its Florida portfolio, California-based Passco Cos. LLC has invested $75 million to acquire the ParkCrest Landings apartments, in Bradenton.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 15, 2025
Sarasota-Bradenton airport sets all-time monthly passenger record

Nearly 600,000 passengers traveled through the airport's two concourses.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 30, 2024
Walmart closing all 23 Florida health centers, including 9 in Tampa Bay

The retail giant joins Walgreens in closing medical offices in the state and nationwide.

  • Florida
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