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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 17, 2015
'City within a City'

A billion-dollar Canadian homebuilding firm has ambitious plans for a large swath of the Gulf Coast.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 3, 2007
GULF COAST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Aggregate population growth in Collier and Lee is expected to outpace Hillsborough-Pinellas.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 28, 2011
'A Marvelous Career'

Roxie Jerde turned from the greeting cards business to philanthropy. Turns out some of the challenges are the same.

  • News
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  • By James R. |
  • April 24, 2015
What makes an enduring brand?

Powerful brands have unique touches that cultivate a special customer experience. What you should and should not do to foster this lasting impression.

  • Strategies
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 5, 2024
Commissioners move toward defunding Sarasota County EDC

The local business tax, which helps fund the EDC, is on its way toward repeal.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 18, 2018
Entrepreneur goes for gold with third startup bank

Longtime Charlotte County banker has his third bank, with Tarpon Coast.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 16, 2011
Serve it Up

A Gulf Coast high-tech communications firm is in attack mode, based on a big bet on a new product. The risk is tangible.

  • Strategies
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • May 6, 2016
Tap into it

HCI Group invested $25 million to launch a flood insurance business. It has bold ambitions.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 23, 2017
Executive Profile - David Stevens

Principal, Investment Properties Corp., Naples

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Dan Ping |
  • May 13, 2011
Profit & Ministry

Steve Strang keeps his eye on the bottom line while continuing to spread the word through his Charisma Media publishing company, which has produced 13 bestsellers.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 29, 2020
More hand sanitizer flows from brewery

Big Storm Brewing co-owner L.J. Govoni says the Clearwater, Florida-based brewery's switch to hand sanitizer has helped accelerate its plans to launch a line of distilled spirits. Courtesy photo.

  • Industries
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 26, 2025
5 years later, Gulf Coast executives look back at managing through COVID

On the anniversary of the COVID, several business leaders from a wide swath of fields discuss the decisions they made, their worries and their early response to the pandemic in 2020.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • May 28, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government actions around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2007
The Genius of Cape Coral

A Southwest Florida man came up with an ingenious device to make an oil change less messy. Then a competitor almost sidelined him.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 13, 2026
7 in region make Forbes’ Best Large Employers list

To make the best large employers list, organizations had to have more than 5,000 employees.

  • Florida
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  • By Pam Schuneman |
  • April 6, 2018
It’s time to dust off those partnership agreements

Small partnerships could be spared the toughest of the new IRS audit rules, or partners could take an alternative approach.

  • Transactions
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2004
Hi Hat Goes Ranchette

Sarasota Countyis 2050 plan envisioned new-urban villages on the Turner familyis 10,000-acre Hi Hat Ranch. But why do that when thereis a waiting line for five-acre estates?

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 1, 2009
Your Money Back

The role of court-appointed receiver in an investment scam case — such as an alleged $400 million Gulf Coast-centered fraud — is one part Sherlock Holmes and one part Robin Hood. Burton Wiand plays both roles.

  • Law
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 9, 2023
Construction big job driver across entire region

A just-released study finds that the construction industry is major employer across the Gulf Coast, which tops much of the country with jobs in the field.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 11, 2011
Sock it to Them

A clothing product that has changed little over the years, socks, is ripe for a rebirth. A global company hopes it has the right recipe.

  • Entrepreneurs
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