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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 13, 2016
Podcasting profits

A target audience that willingly tunes in to a show to hear about a business and its message is marketing gold. Several entrepreneurs dig in early.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 20, 2025
Manatee entrepreneur uses social media to build crafty business following

Papercrafting company Pink and Main fills a niche that big-box retailers cannot, according to owner Michelle Currie.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 25, 2023
Farm, winery squeezes new revenue streams with fruitful expansion

Sometimes the best business ideas come from raw experimentation, rather than a specific plan. A fast-growing Plant City winery is Exhibit A.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 8, 2025
Pasco County affordable housing development brings 360 units, 234 for seniors

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota Starbucks sells, a Polk County Carrabba's is on the market, and Naples apartments are sold.

  • Florida
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 7, 2025
Historic, yes; could be better

Credit Speaker Perez and his House colleagues for finally reining in spending. But there are still political gimmicks and pet projects in the budget.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • February 27, 2024
Florida CBD retailers worry statewide hemp legislation will crush them

A pair of legislators from the region remain steadfast in their beliefs: Current regulations on certain hemp products need to be tighter.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 25, 2024
$2B Tampa REIT: NYSE listing allows it to 'raise equity much more easily'

Days after ringing the bell at Wall Street's famed New York Stock Exchange, Sila Realty Trust's CEO talks about the future, the process and lessons he learned from his father.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • September 12, 2025
Tampa physician invests in AI-powered preventive medicine app

Dr. Lyda Lindell, wife of Tampa real estate investor Carl Lindell, is pioneering new technologies in longevity medicine

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 14, 2025
SWFL media exec pursues long-shelved dream: Running for Congress

The president of Fort Myers-based radio and television station company Sun Broadcasting is vying for Florida's 19th district seat to serve the community and fulfill a lifetime goal.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
From the Trenches

There are pundits, ivory tower profs and media purveyors of doom, then there are those entrepreneurs and businessmen in the trenches of everyday business warfare. Here is their boots-on-the-ground outlook.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 12, 2023
Students as young as 14 forge entrepreneurial paths

As young workers struggle to keep up with Tampa Bay’s rising cost of living, educators have responded with programs aimed at cultivating business development skills at an earlier age.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 22, 2022
Health products firm rises above industry challenges, founder's vaccine comments

Despite the noise over Dr. Joseph Mercola's vaccine opinions, the company that bears his name continues to thrive.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 24, 2022
Command performance: Theater enters new era with leadership change

As its CEO of more than 30 years retires, the Straz Center for the Performing Arts welcomes a new leader and heads down a path that will radically reshape it physically.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2007
Still Booming

New shopping centers, hotels and office buildings are in the plans as the Tampa Bay region continues to see low vacancy rates, growing rental rates and steady demand.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 17, 2007
Coffee Talk

Sarasota company hopes to shine in India: Sarasota-based cartridge valve manufacturer Sun Hydraulics has a good grip on at least six global markets, from Korea to Germany.Lee County: Anotherday, another tax: Not a week goes by in Lee County that county government doesn't dream up another tax on builders.Cold storage creates trifecta for Sarasota warehouse: The latest tenant for the Meridian Distribution Center, a 950,000-square-foot warehouse facility on Clark Road in south Sarasota, is especially apropos, given the sweltering Gulf Coast summerAnother public company going private: First, there was Outback Steakhouse. Now, St. Petersburg-based Catalina Marketing is headed to the private companies club.Nightline dumbs down Ave Maria: Ave Maria, the new town being built in eastern Collier County around the newest Catholic university, has been getting lots of national publicity lately opening to new residents, students and faculty.Good guys sometimes lose: Ethical companies don't always win, even when their employees do the right thing.Call the sign shop, again: MacDill Federal Credit Union, an institution of sorts in the Tampa area financial services industry, is changing its name to Grow Financial Federal Credit Union.Kottkamp bashes Hometown Democracy: Gov. Charlie Crist has been notably absent from the raging debate over the Hometown Democracy movement that seeks to put every major land-use change in Florida on the ba

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2006
Coffee Talk

What's the future for Source Interlink? Sarasota County is considering nearly tripling its impact-fee assessments on new developments, despite the sluggish housing market.MarineMax, left out of Boating Industry magazine's annual top 100 listCoffee Talk realizes, obviously, that no one who reads the Review can be categorized as a bad boss. Still, the results of a Florida State University study on the employee-employer relationship are telling, in terms of what it means for employee performance and retention.Here's another indication that Florida's growth is pushing inland: Naples-based TIB Financial is opening a TIB Bank branch in Sebring. Gary Hoyle expected to be busy when he announced plans earlier this year to take the Peach's Rise and Dine breakfast/lunch concept national on a franchising basis.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
Coffee Talk

Health Management Associates sent a clear message to the private-equity vultures circling the Naples-based hospital chain: Back off. Steven Kossoff, principal of Clearwater's Meridian Development Group paid $7.3 million for Lakeland Interstate Business Park in September 2005. It was his firm's first investment in Florida after relocating to the state from Buffalo, N.Y.t's no surprise that companies in Florida lack easy access to venture capital. Still, it's disconcerting to realize last year's VC funding in the Sunshine State dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade.The strategy of knowing your customers, making sound asset and loan decisions and going after condo association deposits might not be exciting, but in the case of Sarasota-based People's Community Bancshares, it sure has been profitable: The bank is regularly one of the top performing community banks in the Sarasota market.It wasn't a good week to be either an executive or a shareholder - or both - with Bradenton-based Coast Bank.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2007
Corporate Report

HMA backs off two-hospital sale to Shiloh Health ServicesGeneral Dynamics lands $60 million contracts for ArmyRoskamp Institute's study positive on Alzheimer's drugSource Interlink keeps its Nasdaq Listing Oddpodz adds product placement to virtual buildings, peopleUnlimited Priorities, Access Innovations partnerGerdau Ameristeel changes auditor Radiation Therapy Services hires new CFO Tampa area companies start SouthernTravelNews.comTampa area companies start SouthernTravelNews.comE-commerce site donating 20% of new revenue to charity

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 6, 2007
'Best Year Ever'

Rising interest rates boosted income at Bank of Tampa, which had as much as 36% of its deposits in checking accounts in 2006. As for real estate loans, the bank has a lower percentage than other community banks.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2007
Coffee Talk

Lee County imposes moratorium: Incoming Lee County Commission Chairman Ray Judah had some explaining to do when he appeared before a group of builders and developers recently.Shells goes to the Middle East: It's not where you normally hear about international expansion.Construction firm looks forward to next year: T. Craig Campbell, president of Palmetto-based Zirkelbach Construction, uses phrases like "cautiously optimistic", "hopeful" and "still watching pennies", when predicting what kind of year the company is looking at in 2008. Commercial brokers seek access to TICs: If the National Association of Realtors has its way with federal regulators, some commercial real estate brokers will have another way of making money next year.WCI gets reprieve from lenders: WCI Communities got a one-month extension from lenders to Jan. 7 to renegotiate the terms of its loans. So what?Homebuilder celebrates the holidays with sales: November turned out to be a pretty good month for Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder Neal Communities.Tampa to get Ritz-Carlton: For years, city and tourism officials have lamented that the Ritz-Carlton's flag hasn't flown over Tampa.

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