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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • September 3, 2010
Open Invitation

TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa is making itself available to a broader audience. Its goal is to outperform all other hotels and similar facilities in the market.

  • Strategies
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • June 11, 2010
Magnetic Attraction

Allen Braswell returns to his hometown of Clearwater to establish an eastern presence for his company, Pico-Tesla. Its mission is helping Parkinson's patients through electromagnetic therapy.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • April 27, 2010
Road Manager

Randy Strutz brings a varied background to his new role as senior vice president of sales at Quality Distribution Inc. He's not inclined to do the job from behind his new desk.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 1, 2013
Mom and the entrepreneur

What happens when your child is an entrepreneurial prodigy? Just ask Patricia Crawford.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 28, 2021
Surprising post-pandemic market means growth for law firm

Hot market leads Shumaker to expand its Sarasota real estate and development practice.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 22, 2021
Market Spotlight: Tampa Bay Office/Industrial

Tampa Bay region set records in both office and industrial sectors in 2020 despite significant office headwinds generated by COVID-19.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 27, 2019
Make a name: Homebuilder's surge led it to branch out with new brand

Riverview, Florida, homebuilder Homes By WestBay launched a foray into the market for more-affordable townhomes in 2019.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 10, 2022
Split decision: New app aims to ease group travel planning, payments

A new app created by a Tampa, Florida, entrepreneur aims to ease group travel planning and payments.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • November 16, 2018
Project about Florida in year 2030 reveals pressure points, opportunities ahead

More than 10,000 people participated in town halls and planning sessions for Florida 2030.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • September 20, 2019
By tapping into potential of puzzling product, area company gains new clients, pursues more

Aaron Watkins is selling promotional BB puzzles through Carab Enterprises.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 18, 2019
'Mad Botter' takes 'MacGyver' approach to tech sales

By taking risks and being willing to adapt, an English major carves out a new future as a software entrepreneur.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 1, 2019
The robots are coming to Florida's west coast — for these jobs

According to a January report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, four of the top 25 and eight of the top 50 metro area most vulnerable to losing jobs to automation are on or next to Florida’s West Coast. No. 3 is Lakeland-Win

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  • By Cheryl O'Neill |
  • July 24, 2014
How to increase sales in a competitive market

No matter what industry you are in, what worked well a few years ago isn't good enough today. This is no time for trial and error or order taking; this is the time to sell.

  • Strategies
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • September 11, 2023
Murder mystery show founders play up big expansion plans

When the Pineapple Kitchen Mysteries began selling out two or three months in advance, Jenny and Mike Schenk quickly shifted to expand.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 24, 2024
Peer group for multimillionaires grows in Sarasota, Tampa

Tiger 21 connects the uber-wealthy with the uber-wealthy across the region, which, it turns out, is a rapidly growing — and rather exclusive — niche.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 27, 2023
Cancer-fighting companies merge in trans-Atlantic alliance

Leaders of two clinical research organizations — one based in Tampa, the other in Warsaw, Poland — offer an inside look at the M&A process that formally joined their closely linked companies.

  • Health Care
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2008
The Return of Hope

A $100 million construction project is underway in Sarasota - an area that's recently been quicksand for large developments. It's a story of determination, mixed in with some luck.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 18, 2023
Tampa-based education consulting firm hires former Hillsborough leader

A former Hillsborough County Public Schools superintendent will help Strategos Group on education consultancy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 7, 2023
Report: Florida is No. 1 in the nation in new home listings

The report found that states in the South and West are hot for new listings. Not so much for the Northeast and Midwest.

  • Florida
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 17, 2023
Tampa Bay soccer team names Sarasota attorney club president

Christina Unkel is also a business owner and a former soccer referee.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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