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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 5, 2016
Middle East market sizzles for Outback

Bloomin' Brands looks to grow in international markets.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2015
Boat firm swims in the big-time

The ongoing comeback at Clearwater-based boat retailer MarineMax got a national plug recently: Executives, led by longtime Chairman, CEO and President William McGill, rang the NYSE opening bell Jan 21.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 13, 2025
Detwiler’s Farm Market plans new Manatee County store

The grocery store will be off State Road 64 in Bradenton's Braden River Plaza.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 1, 2025
Sarasota-based physical therapy franchise names new CEO

Fyzical Therapy & Balance Centers appointed a new leader for its next phase of growth.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • August 16, 2013
Boca Raton developer buys, restarting Portofino Springs Townhomes

The price equated to $394,832 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • November 1, 2017
Luxury condo tower underway - with $75M in sales

24-story Tampa condo tower nets $75M in sales prior to groundbreaking

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • June 30, 2015
Restaurant chain orders two more executives

First Watch hires a vice president of franchising and a vice president of design and construction.

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  • December 25, 2015
Juicy strategy

Automation, by way of survival, is the big mission for Wish Farms in 2016. The project is off to a sweet start.

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  • February 18, 2011
Rail rejection shows Scott means what he says

He's not a politician. Hallelujah!

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  • June 10, 2011
Local firm finally finds a way to grow

When local entrepreneur Brian Weiner visits his daughter at college in North Carolina, he sometimes scouts for clients for his Manatee County data marketing firm in the downtime.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 19, 2026
The ‘Queen of pitch’ dishes on the secrets to her $2.5B success

Forbes Riley’s success in pitching billions of dollars of stuff, from ab rockers to Zoobooks, has led to a lifetime of hard-earned lessons.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 3, 2021
Former Best Buy CEO: seek purpose, not profits

One of the world’s most respected CEOs, in leading the turnaround of a multibillion-dollar company, learns a new way of leading people.

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  • December 14, 2007
Universal Success

A company's market share goes way up as its revenues go way down. It's now tinkering with its strategy to grow both ways.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 1, 2019
A Crowdfunded Castille

Feldman Equities of Tampa took a distinctly different path --both geographically and in regards to financing -- in making its latest office building acquisition in the St. Petersburg suburban market of Gateway, by using a crowdfunded platform

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 29, 2015
Scare yourself

Greg Murtagh, six months after a spectacular entrepreneurial success, is back in business.

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  • June 25, 2021
Airports add more flights to Milwaukee

Milwaukee is becoming a big destination for airlines flying from Florida — Spirit Airlines announces daily nonstop flights from Tampa and Fort Myers

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  • April 23, 2004
Bias or Poor Marketing?

A Sarasota chemical engineer says he has found a way to greatly reduce pollutants at power plants. But no one is buying.

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 12, 2021
A leap of faith (and some long days) were all one entrepreneur needed to find success

With a coaching and marketing company named Be Your Best You, businesswoman follows her own advice — with some early success.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2008
Follow Follit

Evelyn Follit has spent most of her working life defying stereotypes. The latest: Proving career coaches can be a great asset for any executive.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Fishkind Swims with the Tide

An Orlando economist doesnit like what higher interest rates could do to Florida real estate sales in 2005.

  • Entrepreneurs
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