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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 24, 2014
Another investor piles onto Hertz

Now that Hertz consented to Carl Icahn's demands for new management and seats on the board, the car-rental giant is facing yet another activist shareholder.

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  • November 12, 2010
Smooth Move

An entrepreneur who launched a million-dollar business with a $500 loan 16 years ago relocated to the Gulf Coast. She plans more growth here.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 31, 2013
Rinse and repeat

A pair of entrepreneurs hopes to make good, for a second time, on an auto racing business. The risks, however, are thornier this go-around.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 5, 2011
Vroom with a View

A laid off executive-turned-entrepreneur is on a mission. His aim: to bring class, decorum and respectability to the auto and tire repair business.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 12, 2012
Planting Roots

Russ Ringland is a commercial and residential builder in Lee County, but he's best known for planting more than 7,000 trees in Cape Coral. His goal: Plant 20,000 trees.

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  • By Anita Todd |
  • May 6, 2016
Progress not perfection

The success at Lanier Upshaw is predicated on having an elite workforce. Those employees even get to own a bit of the firm.

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  • October 16, 2015
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Senior associate, commercial services, Colliers International Tampa Bay

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  • December 3, 2025
Port Tampa Bay buys two cranes, part of expansion investment

The port purchased two ship-to-shore cranes from Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. that handle larger, wider-beam vessels.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 2, 2025
Sarasota fertility company to acquire Midwest clinic

Invo Fertility plans to purchase an Indiana fertility clinic as part of its strategy to build a national network of fertility centers.

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  • January 18, 2011
Proper makes moves for growth

The Tampa firm has a new president and a new development partner.

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  • December 15, 2010
Colorado firm opens in Tampa

Intelligent Software Solutions, based in Colorado Springs, opens a new office.

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  • April 1, 2011
TD Bank names Florida leaders

Kevin Gillen is TD Bank's new regional president for Florida.

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  • June 27, 2012
Fox News to lease museum

The news channel will lease the Tampa Bay History Center for the RNC.

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  • January 13, 2012
New rules for work agencies?

A new law gives Gov. Rick Scott more control over state workforce agencies.

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  • March 5, 2012
VA project to create 320 jobs

The new VA primary care clinic in Tampa will serve 87,000 veterans.

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  • April 8, 2019
Fast-growing grocery chain plans additional area stores

Sprouts Farmers Market will open two new locations in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area in the second half of 2019.

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  • June 21, 2016
Car dealership revs up 40 new jobs

A new Mitsubishi is coming to Bonita Springs.

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  • March 20, 2015
Businesses see sunny future

The economy is growing so much that 84% of high-revenue business owners and executives say they plan to expand, according to new survey.

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  • June 6, 2008
'A Gideon Moment'

What would drive a successful entrepreneur to drop a six-figure advertising budget to buy 10,000 TV spots urging people to find God? Anthony Leeber Sr. is certain he'll reap the rewards.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • June 21, 2013
Designed to sell

Creating a lifestyle brand requires designing a unique customer experience, Tom Henken and Juan Romero agree. Understanding the customer's psychology of shopping is what their architecture firm does best.

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