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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 12, 2024
3 area restaurateurs create Waterside Restaurant Group

Seven restaurants in Florida will merge operations, including Nokomis and Ellenton businesses.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • November 5, 2024
Canadian drone show company lands US headquarters in Tampa

The expansion is part of a vision for company and creative growth.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 8, 2025
Buc-ee's makes $11.5M land buy in Port Charlotte

The national travel center chain plans a fuel station with at least 100 pumps off Harborview Road in Charlotte County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 22, 2021
Mask company battles supply and demand dynamic

Running a mask manufacturing business isn’t the cinch it was 12 months ago. One company’s path shows the pitfalls — and promise.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 30, 2014
Bright Shiny Objects

A high school dropout with an appetite for learning is the master builder behind a rocket ship-like success. His firm has gone from $2 million to a projected $30 million in annual sales in four years.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 28, 2011
Cup Runneth Over

Tervis Tumbler executives are ecstatic about future prospects at the company. Managing the growth is the looming challenge.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • October 20, 2017
The Cover Up

After Stefani Schuetz was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer, she got serious about sun protection. Now she's serious about growing her clothing company.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 11, 2023
Sales at Tampa residential tower quickly approaches $200 million

About 65% of sale at One Tampa have come from people living within 10 miles of luxury downtown development.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 29, 2023
Lazydays buys Tennessee RV company

Lazydays, the Tampa-based RV retailer, has bought a Knoxville, Tennessee-based RV that will bring in $40 million a year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 5, 2023
Baltimore firm buys Lakeland shopping center for $78 million

A Baltimore real estate investment firm bought the open air center in Polk County whose tenant roster includes Kohl's, Books-A-Million and Burger 21.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 30, 2022
Transit authority receives $18M state grant to buy more electric buses

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection funds are from the federal government’s Volkswagen settlement.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 12, 2022
Report: Cheaper to rent than buy in several areas

In markets including Sarasota and Naples, the pricing power, even in the current environment, belongs to renters.

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  • By Elizabeth M. Stamoulis and Adrienne C. Phillips, Corporate and Intellectual Property Law Attorneys, Williams Parker |
  • September 13, 2022
What Are You Getting When You Purchase an NFT?

What Are You Getting When You Purchase an NFT?

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 20, 2022
Atlanta developer working on almost 190 build-to-rent units in Manatee County

RangeWater expects to begin construction on 3-bedroom units later this fall and to open the community in a year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
Sarasota-Manatee Runner-Up

Steve Herrig, President, Progressive Employer Services: People have said Steve Herrig is the classic entrepreneur, someone who can see the big picture but doesn't like to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks.

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  • July 13, 2009
Mainsail Development Group buys lodge

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2009
Casey Key couple buys Osprey Inn

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  • November 5, 2009
$24K per clunker claim fuels White House backlash

The federal government's $3 billion investment in last summer's Cash for Clunkers program ended up costing taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis by an Edmund.com team of Ph.Ds and statisticians.

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  • November 6, 2009
Target sells Cypress Creek site back to its developer

National retailer Target Corp. has sold its 16-acre site in Cypress Creek Town Center back to developer The Richard E. Jacobs Group LLC for $4.5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 19, 2010
Raymond James could return to acquisition mode

Raymond James Financial Inc. could return to acquisition mode as post-recession valuations level off.

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