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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 8, 2024
Aldi confirms South Tampa store will open later this year

An executive with the German grocery chain confirms the store’s square footage and says it will be ready some time this year.

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  • October 5, 2007
LASDAY: Street Smart Marketing

The secret to what your customers really want from you and your team.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 2, 2018
Competitively Optimistic

Commercial real estate should continue to surge. But many are growing cautious, given some lurking 'disruptors.'

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2006
A Lion's Share

Kraft Construction's strategy is easy to say, hard to carry out: Plan ahead. The firm has used long-range planning to grow 40% over the last year, passing $500 million in revenues.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 23, 2018
Fifth-degree black belt offers tips for CEOs

Guillermo Gomez’s training center combines martial arts, yoga, meditation and more. He’s targets CEOs — aiming to boost leadership skills.

  • Leadership
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 6, 2016
Building insurance

Commercial real estate brokerage firms have traditionally steered clear of the insurance business. One Naples firm has decided insurance is an integral part of the business.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 11, 2006
Cultivate Friends Not the Business

Trudi Williams started her engineering firm out of her home in 1989. Today, TKW Consulting Engineers is on track to generate $8 million in revenues.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2007
'Refocus & Rebuild'

The new chairman of the beleaguered human resources firm Gevity nearly became a scientist. His laboratory-like focus is now on the company's strategy.

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  • By Steven Benna |
  • June 3, 2016
Corporate report

Food chains hire real estate director; Governing board elects new members; Longtime Chamber leader resigns; Enzyme supplement firm taps new executive; Development sets monthly sales record; Hertz board forms tech committee

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2009
Sarasota County buys land for Honore-Pinebrook extension

Sarasota County government purchased 43 acres of agricultural land bordering Interstate 75 south of State Road 681 for $3.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 13, 2017
Suds and spark plugs

Painting, cleaning and detailing cars isn't just for the driveway, at least not in Paul Viens' world.

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  • April 10, 2015
Money comes to those who wait

There's patient money, and then there's really patient money.

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  • March 25, 2010
Filter Family

Who says American manufacturing is dead? At Melitta USA's factory in Clearwater, they're producing 10 million coffee filters a day.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 14, 2015
Growth discipline

Naples Soap Co. has perfected its products and store site selection process for more than five years. Now it's ready to grow beyond Southwest Florida.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Emery Ellinger |
  • April 23, 2021
Due Diligence and Successfully Selling Your Business.

Plan Ahead or Plan to Fail.

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  • May 13, 2021
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 17, 2010
A Model Business

A onetime model planned ahead for the day her flashy career would end. She's now behind an anomaly on the Gulf Coast: A fast-growth business.

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 27, 2010
No Rock Star-chitect

HOK's Yann Weymouth is building a signature through designs of unique structures along the Gulf Coast and around the world, but he has no desire to be famous. Other relatives have already done that.

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  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • July 6, 2012
Bright New Start

With her new line of sailcloth totes, Emily Stroud is hoping to change the way women go to the beach. The up-and-coming designer explains why she bagged her job in the name of fashion.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 2, 2020
Employment law makes dramatic shifts

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in changes to national and state employment laws that businesses need to be aware of.

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