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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • December 31, 2009
COVER UPDATE: Merging isn't easy

Companies can often generate savings by merging with similar firms to benefit from economies of scale. But while cost savings are all well and good, Florida Blood Services has found that completing those beneficial mergers takes work.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 5, 2014
Collaboration Nation

An area design college unleashed its talented minds on the business community. Potential for a variety of interesting, and revenue-generating, projects is high.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2014
Hudson medical center hires chief medical officer

Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point has chosen primary care doctor Joseph Pino for the post.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2011
Firm that finds others work finds going good

With unemployment high statewide, Karen Rehn, who runs a staffing and job placement business, is an odd candidate to report sales growth of 200% over the past 18 months.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 22, 2019
University names new leader

Steve Currall has worked for major universities in California and Texas.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 4, 2025
Jabil to pay $750M for energy management company

The St. Petersburg company says it has agreed to pay $750 million for the Northern Virginia and Irish company that specializes expert in power systems and energy optimization.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 7, 2014
Keeping it Fresh

After spending eight years working on the Freshy product line, C-5 Biotechnologies is on the brink of its first major distribution accounts. Now it just needs to be able to fulfill the orders.

  • Industries
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 4, 2015
Ultimate convenience

Walgreens will go head-to-head with convenience stores when its Rite Aid deal goes through, furthering a trend.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • August 1, 2019
Our View: English binds us together

The Voting Rights Act created a special class for Puerto Ricans. Once of the consequences is the weakening of the incentive to assimilate.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 9, 2011
Condo Restart

Tarpon Point in Cape Coral was the crown jewel in a $340 million foreclosure case against the developer. The bankers tapped John Rymer to fix the mess.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 6, 2025
Sarasota company buys $3.4M building, moves HQ to Lakewood Ranch

McLeod Land Services is relocating to Corporate Park off University Parkway.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • January 30, 2025
Clearwater marketing firm posts nearly $120M in revenue, sets new record

It was a 14% increase over the previous year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 13, 2011
1% of Sarasota homes are REO

Through October, banks owned 1% of Sarasota-area homes with a mortgage.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 20, 2022
Accountant pleads guilty to murder-for-hire plot involving dark web and Bitcoin

Tampa accountant was charged with trying to hire someone to kill the wife of an ex-boyfriend

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 31, 2023
120,000-square-foot retail and commercial center planned for Babcock Ranch

Developers to pitch City Hall plans, fashion company buys Cape Coral property and more storage coming to Pasco top the week's top commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 9, 2019
Rainier buys Woodlands Square for $64 million

A Dallas-based investment firm has spent $64 million to acquire the Woodlands Square Shopping Center in Oldsmar in the wake of a multimillion renovation.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 6, 2024
Pinellas medical manufacturer will close facility, lay off employees

BioDerm has notified the state that is cutting about 50 employees at its facility in Largo but says it will eventually relocate in the county.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 2, 2023
Florida Ag Commissioner sells his Pasco land to egg producer for $11 million

Tampa picks an affordable housing developer, condos come to a racetrack, and a Sarasota building sells in the week's top commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2014
Blackstone buys Westin hotel, Convergent Capital buys nearby Knights Point

Wilder Corp. has sold the 299-room The Westin Tampa Harbour Island and nearby Knights Point Retail Center in downtown Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 1, 2013
Fort Myers starts affordable-housing project

Sen. Bill Nelson will attend groundbreaking of a affordable-housing project.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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