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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2012
Linde closes Lincare deal

The German company completes its purchase of Clearwater-based Lincare.

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  • January 12, 2012
Tampa's Pointe sells for $47M

Parkway Properties bought the Rocky Pointe Island waterfront office property.

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  • January 16, 2012
Ross moves $563K in REO

The Ross Realty Group sold three bank-owned Tampa Bay office buildings.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 28, 2016
CEO buys nearly 2,000 acres

Mark Pentecost is CEO of Manatee County-based It Works Global.

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  • November 28, 2014
TruGreen looking to fill 175 jobs

The Tampa office of the firm is staffing up to handle the busy spring season.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 26, 2015
Moving up

Scott Rimmer; Skip Thinnes

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  • October 27, 2015
Acquisitions pile up for $3.5 billion firm

Lakewood Ranch-based Roper expands its reach in health care.

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  • December 1, 2015
Window company seals $102M deal

PGT bought another company for $111 million in 2014.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 19, 2026
Fort Myers medical office building sells for $4.6 million

A Dallas health care investment firm bought the building on Gladiolus Drive.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 9, 2024
Daniel Lubner adapted to staff ideas and energy to build $100M firm

"When you're starting a new venture, the definition of success is survival. That’s all you’re trying to do in those early years. You're trying to make payroll and live to fight another two weeks." –Daniel Lubner, Clive Daniel Home

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • March 28, 2023
Sarasota developer advances with 16-story luxury condo, hotel tower

Rodrigo Trepp likes the prospect of developing in Sarasota so much that he's moving his company and his family to the area from Bolivia.

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  • August 22, 2003
Profit Comes First

The CEO at Tampa's Global Imaging Systems Inc. learned at two other office-technology distributors that acquisition-aided revenue growth doesn't always boost earnings.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 7, 2021
Sarah Newcomb, 32

The Wine Room, Founder/Owner

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 29, 2021
Ambitious startup aims to capture real estate data market share

Resquared uses data to nudge old-school commercial real estate brokers into the digital revolution. ‘We want to be a $1 billion company — not just a mom and pop thing,’ says a  co-founder

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 20, 2015
Grow your own

Home-Tech has been successful forming its own employees with an apprentice program it has operated for two decades.

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  • May 15, 2008
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR Lee/Collier: REINHOLD SCHMIEDING

Few people have heard of Reinhold Schmieding, but the reclusive Naples entrepreneur has quietly built one of the world's leading medical-device manufacturing companies.

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  • March 16, 2007
Chasing the Best

Secrets are for sharing, not storing. So says the founder of a Gulf Coast-based business who lets all his employees see the firm's financials.

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  • May 22, 2008
Solar Independence

Government subsidies for "green" energy may be generous, but don't bet your business on them. They might disappear when the hoopla over green building fades away.

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  • April 18, 2008
Corporate Report

GunnAllen wins arbitration case filed by ex-managerFort Myers, Tampa firms merge to form ENTRIX Water SolutionsWest Coast firm sues Raymond James over auctionManasota Flooring merges stores; adds cabinetry, countertop divisionProgressive Employer Services markets Salesgenie.com to clientsSunovia and EPIR developing new solar energy alternativeDBS Consulting changes name to Ensite

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 6, 2010
Jobs bill same ol', same ol': subsidies

Maybe it's our cynical nature, but SB 1752 blows.

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