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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2018
Prominent attorney to step down from firm

Law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will bid farewell to Rhea Law, shareholder and chairwoman of the firm’s Florida offices, at the end of the year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 28, 2019
Convention center, estate names new general manager

Anna Pohl previously worked at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 7, 2019
Locally based bank expands leadership team with four new hires

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Freedom Bank has grown its leadership team with four strategic hires in several areas of the locally owned and headquartered institution.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 15, 2019
University's new leader targets Silicon Valley-style success

Steve Currall was inaugurated as president of the University of South Florida on Thursday during a ceremony in which he discussed his vision for the institution’s future.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 15, 2019
Hertz holds fifth annual Hackathon

Estero-based company invites college students to pose solutions for real-world challenges.

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  • June 22, 2018
Wanted: region's top business stars

It’s time for the annual rite of passage for the best of the best young stars of the region’s business community: the Business Observer’s annual 40 Under 40 issue. We are looking for true rock stars — risk-taking entrepreneurs, fast-rising executives a

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  • July 26, 2018
Florida business grades: Good, but room for improvement

The Sunshine State was ranked the No. 10 best state to do business score in in a recent 10-category survey compiled by CNBC Global, the CFO Council and the Young Presidents Organization.

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  • April 21, 2022
Logistics IT firm, on heels of private equity investment, appoints new leaders

Renee Krug will serve as CEO of Tampa-based Transflo; Bill Vitti has been named president and chief revenue officer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 17, 2016
Best Buy founder pumps capital into wealth firm

Meristem Family Wealth hopes to grow Naples office with capital infusion.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 13, 2016
Florida trumps Nebraska, will keep tech firm in region

ACI Worldwide considered moving some jobs to Nebraska.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 7, 2017
SPP hires contractors for Water Street Tampa

Strategic Property Partners has unveiled both the name of its planned $3 billion redevelopment in downtown Tampa and the firms that will build it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 11, 2017
Publix snags trio of centers

Publix Super Markets Inc., following a flurry of purchases of shopping centers it anchors in the waning days of the last economic recession, may be at it again.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 19, 2018
Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • October 4, 2013
Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, appoints new exec

Damien O'Riordan will move from Ireland to take over the 266-room hotel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • July 31, 2014
Revenue Management Solutions names top executives

The firm promoted its president of North American operations, George Fougeron, to president of business development.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • August 8, 2014
Blue Rock Partners, Konover South LLC buy third Fort Myers apartment

A joint venture of Tampa-based Blue Rock Partners LLC and Deerfield Beach-based Konover South LLC purchased the 288-unit Montego Bay Apartment Homes for $16.13 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • August 26, 2014
Former Hooters CEO bringing new breastaurant to bay

Coby Brooks' La Cima Restaurant Group is expanding the Twin Peaks restaurants franchise to Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 22, 2014
Homes sales spike 33% in Sarasota

Area Realtor predicts more “great numbers” in April and May.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 20, 2014
Sarasota's Rakay Family Investments buys new Clearwater Beach Walgreens

Three affiliates of Rakay Family Investments purchased a 25,000-square-foot drug store building for $12.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 1, 2013
Former FCC chairman joins Sarasota firm

William Kennard will work for Grain Management's new Washington, D.C., office.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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