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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 17, 2025
Citrus industry withers as Florida's groves flounder

Despite the best efforts and hopes of the citrus industry, hurricanes and a bacteria continue to batter Florida's diminished defining crop. Yet some survival strategies are beginning to sprout.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 13, 2023
Despite rosy long-term outlook, women’s retailer’s stock gets punished

Wall Street investors who sold off Chico’s FAS shares might have missed some notable progress the company made in year one of an ambitious three-year plan, including reaching $2.5 billion in sales.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2007
Get the best to Trump the Slump

Only 45 of the 246 units at Signature Place remain available. One of the two largest penthouses, a three-level luxurious unit, sold for $3.6 million to a rock star. The developer owns the other.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 25, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

Ranch's condo rush: Palmer Ranch is in the middle of a condo conversion rush.Stretching for success: It took the loss of an employee who was being groomed for the chief operating officer job to convince Lee Wetherington he needed to diversify his company's top operational position.Health care: businesses still buying despite cost: Two-thirds of small businesses provide health insurance benefits for their employees, according to a new study from the International Profit Associates Small Business Research Board. Consumers like little banks: Banks have had happier depositors and borrowers during the past two years, according to the University of Michigan's latest quarterly American Customer Satisfaction Index.Around and around: The way Irish American Properties is acquiring property for the Fruitville Road roundabout it would seem that it was a done deal.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 3, 2006
Sembler Co. Diversifies

For the country's sixth fastest-growing retail developer, bigger really is better.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Fort Myers LUV fest

Gary Kelly says Southwest Airlines will focus on growing Fort Myers and Tampa traffic on the west coast of Florida. Sarasota will have to wait.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 9, 2006
'True American Spirit'

As revenue at The Hiller Group hits $130million this year, a third-generation Hiller joins the global company that specializes in carbon trading and wholesale aviation fuel distribution.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2009
Baseball Miracle

Can Fort Myers support two minor-league baseball teams? It's tough making money in that business, but the Fort Myers Miracle is witnessing growing attendance even as the economy slows.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 26, 2009
Risk Redux

Developer Steven Kossoff has a knack for turning doubts into demonstrable success. Can he do it during a recession?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
National Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Judge orders Gates to give depositionJohnson & Johnson to settle suits over heartburn drugPlan to force company lawyers to disclose fraud challenged

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 26, 2004
Feds Buck Trend

Why did federal civil trials increase in the Florida Middle District?

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 17, 2004
RBCis Push to Conquer Florida

The Royal Bank of Canadais U.S. banking unit didnit hesitate last year when Provident Financial Group Inc. bowed out of Florida.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 28, 2010
Reset for Recovery

Gulf Coast office buildings now offering cheap rents and plentiful space will eventually attract new businesses.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 17, 2009
Method Men

A Gulf Coast technology company plans to attack the recession in 2010, with a plan that includes hiring at least six more people. A big weapon in its fight: The firm's ability to land work with state and local governments.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2010
Corporate Report: UTEK expands network, partners with MEDEC, MedilinkUK

UTEK Corp., a Tampa-based intellectual property licensing and innovation services company, will showcase its growing network of registered companies and professionals to more companies.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 24, 2010
Precious Coral

Naples-based Coral Hospitality is quickly gaining a reputation for managing luxury resorts. Demand for the firm's skill will grow as banks foreclose on extravagant hotels financed during the boom.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 25, 2013
'Zero In'

U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill has targeted the 1% — not the ultra-wealthy, but the wrongdoers in the business community. He expects to have a busy year.

  • Law
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 8, 2013
Scary Stuff

Entrepreneurs, from startups to established entities, can add one more item to their worry list: patent trolls. One attorney calls the practice 'almost extortion.'

  • Law
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 8, 2011
Merger Momentum

Top performing Gulf Coast community banks from 2010 held tight going into 2011. Banks not doing as well, however, could face more threats.

  • Industries
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 27, 2012
It's cast in bronze: Obama rejects who we are

It is still a stinging welt, the day-after effect of a nasty wasp sting. That would be the now-infamous remark from Barack Obama.

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