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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2012
Willis A. Smith Construction Inc.: 40 years

Willis A. Smith Construction's strategic shift in 2002 helped it respond to the recent recession's construction collapse.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 27, 2021
Design, remodeling supplier announces expanded services with acquisition

With the acquisition of Kirkplan Kitchens, Florida Design Works can now offer direct-to-consumer kitchen, bath and outdoor home improvement.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 13, 2021
Developer buys busy Publix-anchored plaza for $15.5 million

About 30% of the center, Daniels Crossing, is vacant.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 21, 2021
Foundation names nonprofit exec to be its first VP of knowledge and equity

Community Foundation of Sarasota County appoints nonprofit veteran Ranata Reeder to be its first vice president of knowledge and equity

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2020
Clean living: Booze maker embraces shift to hand sanitizer

St. Petersburg Distillery has fully embraced its shift to hand sanitizer production, hiring 50 out-of-work bartenders, musicians and restaurant and service industry professionals to help with packaging, labeling and distribution of hand sanitizer.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 28, 2020
Foundation names two new members of leadership team

The new positions have been funded by the Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust and an anonymous donor.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2020
Marketing firm aims to help pandemic-stuck companies

Pushing the Envelope targets smaller, shorter client contracts — with a big push for long-term success.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2020
Logistics firm plots new $11M HQ project, 140 new hires

Scotlynn USA was founded in 2010.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 10, 2018
Bromley Cos. taps Cushman & Wakefield to lease Midtown Tampa office towers

Bromley Cos. hires Cushman & Wakefield to lease a trio of planned office buildings at 22-acre Midtown Tampa mixed-use development

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 14, 2018
Kolter Group begins work on Ritz-Carlton Residences in Sarasota

The Kolter Group has begun construction on an 18-story, 73-unit condominium tower in downtown Sarasota to be known as the Ritz-Carlton Residences, the result of its affiliation with the Marriott-branded resort next door.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 23, 2022
Software giant seeking to hire 500 people dangles perk: Fridays off

Avanade, a tech firm jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, has opened its first U.S. location and plans to hire scores of software engineers over the next three years.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 1, 2014
Tuscan Treats

Sasse's serves Northern Italian and European dishes to a business crowd in the center of Fort Myers.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 27, 2013
Kitchen help

Restaurants are ditching the paper menus for computer tablets. Now, they're turning to the same technology to train their staff.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 8, 2016
No insurance, no problem

Gulf Coast Family Care doesn't accept insurance, but it passes the savings in administrative costs to its patients.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 18, 2016
Emergency call

McKenney Home Care will send a nurse to the emergency room to be your advocate if you need hospital care.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 10, 2014
Filling the gaps

Orlando-based GrayRobinson senses a growing need for more legal services between Tampa and Naples. Fort Myers is a target.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • June 12, 2015
Check this

Alex Chamberlain turned frustration over regulation in one business into an opportunity for another company. Now he eyes national expansion.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2015
Cold storage planned for Tampa port

An Orlando business is scheduled to start operating the first cold storage logistics facility in recent history for Port Tampa Bay next year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 27, 2025
Prominent Sarasota nonprofit leader to retire after 10 years

Teri Hansen, the president and CEO of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, was initially hired as the organization's first employee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 12, 2023
Regions Bank appoints new market head for Naples

Regions Bank has named Cynthia Valenti Smith, who has more than 20 years of experience in mortgage lending, as market executive for the Naples area.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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