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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2016
Health care giant shakes up executive team

Rhonda Mims was named Senior vice president and chief public affairs officer.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 24, 2016
Naples CEO behind $1.3B firm to run for Congress

Francis Rooney has invested in banks and other business in Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2016
Food fusion

Tampa-based World of Beer is going digital.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2014
Chris Brown, Mike Granthon buy Siesta Village property

Sarasota businessman and real estate investor Chris Brown and business partner Mike Granthon purchased several Siesta Key Village buildings including the Siesta Market for a combined $2.8 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2014
Interesting year on horizon for Calusa Bank

Charlotte County-based Calusa Bank's recent successful growth in Venice has gone so well executives hope to move even further north into Sarasota County in 2015.

  • News
  • By Michael Hinman |
  • May 15, 2015
Entrepreneurs of the Year | Chris LaFace

Ripa & Associates Tampa

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 29, 2015
Edwin Watts store purchased, renovated for new furniture chain

Investor John Summerfield used the proceeds from the sale of Chicago real estate to buy two Naples properties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 29, 2015
Waramaug Hospitality buys Holiday Inn Express & Suites

Private investment firm Waramaug LS Hotels LLC purchased the 123-key, 69,000-square-foot Holiday Inn Express & Suites-Tampa-USF-Busch Gardens for $8.04 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2015
Housing inventory: It's coming

At first blush, this may seem like a challenging time to be opening a new residential real estate brokerage firm.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2015
Another billion-dollar bank

In the accounting world for banks, loans are classified as assets.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 2, 2015
Mobile health firm wins $17M investment

Latest infusion brings total capital Voalte has raised to nearly $60 million in three years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 15, 2015
Adviser sentenced in fraud scheme

A nearly six-year sentence follows a guilty plea.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2015
Homebuilder builds on triumphant return

The recession, and the carnage it brought to the homebuilding industry, forced Jeff Eslinger to shutter his family-run new-home construction firm in 2009.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2015
Pippenger donates $10M to USF

Retired Raymond James executive was inspired by $25 million gift that renamed the school's Muma College of Business.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2015
Sykes sells investment firm to Ameriprise

JHS Capital Advisors was founded in 2009, building a team of 150 financial advisers working across the country.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • February 20, 2024
Southeast architecture firm names Tampa Bay practice leader

Goodwyn Mills Cawood has named Jeff Middlebrook its architectural practice leader at the Tampa office of the engineering and architecture firm.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 16, 2024
Construction giant names VP to run Tampa, Southeast market

Ryan Cos. U.S., a national commercial real estate company, names Brad Hill vice president of construction operations in the Southeast region.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 3, 2024
Outdoor bar and entertainment experience to open in Fort Myers

Bay Street Yard features bars, food trucks, a stage and other entertainment.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • March 19, 2024
Raymond James promotes CFO to president, CEO-in-waiting role

St. Pete financial giant says move is part of multiyear plan.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 21, 2023
Sarasota County to get its second Costco

National warehouse club chain Costco is planning to open its third store in the Sarasota-Manatee market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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