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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 23, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Delano Stewart accepted this year's Herb Goldberg Award David Russell Stahl talks about $18 million jury verdictTECO Energy Inc. faces role reversal in current caseBrothers' favorite

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2003
Judge to Mediator

Former Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Corcoran opened a mediation practice following his unplanned retirement from the bench.Timothy Corcoran says he was a superb judge in Tampa's Middle District bankruptcy court.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 9, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: H&K scores big in Florida First National Bankshares of Florida Inc. buying moreNational Federation of Independent Business report says state GOP favors business

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2004
Conquering Foreign Lands

Bob Williams, of Vengroff, Williams & Associates, pushes the Sarasota collections and receivables company into the European market. Next up is Central and Latin America.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Tech group makes hireHelping othersIs Fifth Third first again?Small world

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • February 4, 2010
GOvernment Digest 2/5/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 4, 2009
Kickin' It

The ability to earn a black belt in taekwondo can help an entrepreneur battle through just about any business issue — recession included. Here's how one group of local executives does it.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 17, 2013
Sporting life

Soosie Lazenby has lived several business lives, including growing Adidas into a billion-dollar business.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 28, 2013
Happy fields

A cavernous former hotel in downtown Fort Myers will get new life as senior housing, removing an obstacle to growth there.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 1, 2011
Go with Gusto

The group charged with the longtime-coming revival of downtown Bradenton doesn't have an easy task. Its new leader, however, isn't afraid to think big.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 17, 2011
Steady Aim

The Hull family's engineering firm didn't make the same mistakes as some of its Gulf Coast competitors. Instead of chasing more lucrative private development, it stuck to government work. It's paid off in the recession.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 24, 2012
The Patriot

The business model at one Gulf Coast construction firm depends largely on how well it can successfully balance two strategies.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 5, 2021
Local brands hope to score big wins in signing college athletes

NCAA rule change opens floodgates for businesses — but vague and varying details of the regulations could pose issues.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • September 23, 2021
Entrepreneurs excited about potential for cannabis café concept

Starting not only a new business, but also a new niche, has taught some bold Southwest Florida entrepreneurs an important lesson: from cops to clients, customer education is an ongoing task.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 23, 2021
Better days ahead for waterfront high rise, developer says

Miami investor targets Fort Myers in recently buying a pair of residential towers for a combined $120 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 7, 2021
Vanessa Castro, 31

V Partner Solutions Insurance and Payroll, owner

  • Class of 2021
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 15, 2021
Community bank makes its first-ever acqusition

In keeping lesser qualified suitors at bay, Hillsboro Bank finds the just-right merger partner next door.

  • Finance
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 3, 2021
Health care double down

Sila Realty Trust’s plan to shed its portfolio of data centers will further focus the Tampa company and better position it for its future goal.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 9, 2021
County plans to kill tax that funds local EDC

Commissioners will stop tax funding to the EDC by 2024 and reallocate economic development incentive fund monies to the general fund budget

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • December 2, 2021
Longtime traveler takes on new adventure of owning a business

Travel entrepreneur Michael Distler goes the distance for clients — such as traveling on his own dime to navigate COVID-19 protocols so his clients don’t have to.

  • Travel-Tourism
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