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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 23, 2006
Not Par for the Course

A college student juggles class assignments with selling golf novelties. It's a crash course in entrepreneurial spirit.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 27, 2004
LandMark Finds the Formula (Sara/Mana edition)

After a slower start than some of its peers, LandMark Bank's directors learned a community banking lesson - the importance of a locally known CEO.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • November 14, 2005
Independent Streak

A Tampa investment consultant says clients want somebody else besides their banker or broker telling them where to park their assets.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 8, 2005
Brothers Bet on Concept

From a hole-in-the-wall spot to four locations, Barnacle Bill's annual revenue approaches $7 million. A new concept is planned.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 22, 2005
Developer Goes Solo

Former accountant plans to develop a new 100-home subdivision in Seffner.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 6, 2004
The Target

Trial lawyer Kevin C. Ambler finds his occupation to be a liability as he seeks a second term in the Florida House of Representatives.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2003
Harris Plugs FTAA (Sara/Mana edition)

Free Trade Area of the AmericasJohannes Werner is a Sarasota-based business journalist. He carries a German passport, is married to a Mexican, and publishes a trade monthly, Cuba Trade & Investment News

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2003
The Future Isn't Now

Bay area leaders have reached a consensus that biomed is how the region can broaden its economic base. But that's not going to happen until well after 2004.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2004
Managing for Growth

Budge Huskey is now president and COO of Coldwell Banker's Florida West operation.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 6, 2010
Built on a Hunch

Jay and Susan Weiss made plenty of mistakes when they launched their natural-products business for pets. But the entrepreneurial couple never gave up, even when corporate calamity nearly put them out of business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 31, 2013
Ride the wave

A local IT firm with big aspirations has separated itself from the competition, to a projected $30 million in annual sales. Other supersized ambitions are in the works.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 1, 2013
Caviar Dreams

Forget widgets. The manufacturing inside a rural aquaculture park in Sarasota County is all about potentially lucrative egg harvesting.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 9, 2019
New developers breathing new life into Pineapple Square project in Sarasota

Pineapple Square, an ambitious, $200 million plan to transform downtown Sarasota didn't quite reach fruition after last decade's recession, but the legacy of the project's developer, Isaac Property Co., lives on.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 22, 2019
Epoch developer says Sarasota condo tower will be epic project

Seaward Development says its planned 23-unit Epoch luxury condo tower in downtown Sarasota will embody all of the attitudes toward quality the company has been focused on.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 18, 2017
School's In

As the demand for more nurses increases in Florida and nationwide, one area campus gains recognition for its quality education programs. How will it continue to meet the demand?

  • Healthcare
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 3, 2017
Growth Spurt

Even with one market nearly cornered, and explosive revenue growth, Stratus Video has no intentions to slow down. How will it win over new customers?

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 11, 2014
No Wolves

A $116.6 billion-asset bank seeks an expanded Gulf Coast presence. But it turned inward and reenergized employees before it targeted new customers.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 29, 2013
Success collectors

A Gulf Coast-based billing collection center for a $5.9 billion hospital chain dumped its 'dungeon'-like office. The new home fostered a major turnaround — in appearances and results.

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  • By Tom Hall |
  • November 6, 2025
The Florida Aquarium at 30: How one building truly changed a city

A belief in Tampa — and a hope in an unseen vision — led a major success that defined three decades of growth.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 28, 2025
$200M Sunseeker resort sale among brokers' most interesting deals of 2025

Local commercial real estate insiders look back at 2025 in the region and forward to what's to come in 2026.

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