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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 26, 2016
Social studies

The Tampa Bay Rays, even with well-documented attendance issues, have more than 1 million social media participants. How other businesses can score that kind of success.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 12, 2015
Hard throw

Naples attorney James Morey is a nationally ranked javelin thrower in his age group. Watching the summer Olympic Games in 2012 rekindled his interest in the sport.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 20, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Dan Woodward | Developer and Investor, Tampa

Dan Woodward has spent the past three decades refining and honing skills across the commercial real estate spectrum, from brokerage to management to development to finance, with some of the top names in the business in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 11, 2025
Report: Tariffs to add $10K to cost of Florida house, $7K to cars

Florida TaxWatch says the Sunshine State's exports and imports are at risk, and both consumers and businesses will be hit.

  • Florida
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • June 3, 2016
Flavor frenzy

Spend more to make more — sales and products — is an ongoing theme at a St. Petersburg ice cream making business. Growth has followed.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2007
Corporate Report

WCI delays earnings, assets worse than expectedDowning-Frye Realty ranked 81st by Realtor MagazineInvestor loans Tampa energy company $750,000Brown & Brown bets on horse insuranceStockholders back GeoPharma and Dynamic Health mergerWalter Industries' United Landbuying Tuscaloosa ResourceSeminole Electric buying landfill gas energyXCPT reaches rep dealwith Lifecore Biomedicale-Path Communications offering WiFi to Long IslandHSN partners with Ellefor week of showsTervis Tumbler lands license with Rally for the CureWabasto Marine hiresDesign Marketing GroupCAE USA developing chopper trainer for NavyTampa company introduces Hispanic Web siteChico's June sales up, comparables continues fall

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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 5, 2023
Multimillion-dollar gym to open in north Manatee County

The Crunch Fitness is the fifth owned by the franchisee in the Sarasota-Bradenton area.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 15, 2023
Women’s retailer names financial leader after previous CFO’s short stint

The new CFO has been with Chico’s for more than a decade.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 19, 2023
Housing prices go up as mortgage rates go down

Two reports show that dynamics are improving for homeowners looking to sell.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 28, 2004
Newsmakers (Sara/Mana edition)

The latest move from the top area movers and shakers is available free of charge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 19, 2010
Bank regulators whiffed in regulating

Hindsight is always perfect, but you've got to wonder where bank regulators were during the real estate boom.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 15, 2010
Mosaic hopes new HQ attracts workers

The Mosaic Co. had plenty of reasons to build its $20-million state headquarters in southeastern Hillsborough County.

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  • April 16, 2010
Top Deals: Apartments Sold

The latest Gulf Coast real estate deals, updated daily with new transactions.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 25, 2011
Will TRC CEO's ouster open way for takeover?

The only thing clear lately at Clearwater-based Technology Research Corp. is that Owen Farren is no longer its chairman, president and CEO.

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  • July 19, 2013
Tampa housing authority nearing construction start for Reed apartments

The sale was part of plans to develop the site into a seven-story senior-housing apartment building called The Reed.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 18, 2013
Firm lights the way to new HQ

Evolucia, an LED lightning company, will move into a 61,000-square-foot facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2013
Company hits all-time weekly sales high

Clearwater-based direct mail and marketing firm PostCardMania had a week for the ages in late February, but founder and CEO Joy Gendusa didn't celebrate for long.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 5, 2013
Pair of local residential sales top $10M

Both transactions provide more evidence of a recovery in the high-end market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 28, 2012
Large medical practice to grow more

One of the largest orthopedic medical practices in the Sarasota-Manatee region is primed to get bigger.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 3, 2012
Does Tampa need an antidepressant?

It's currently 79 degrees on a sunny afternoon in Tampa Bay. If only the economic climate matched the actual climate, the Tampa Bay metro area may not find itself in first place on another depressing survey.

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