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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2016
Paint a nice future

National paint retailer Benjamin Moore is looking for, well, more sales, and it's using a successful store in Sarasota to lead the way.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2014
Radio companies swap stations

Beasley Broadcast Group exchanged five radio stations in Miami and Philadelphia for 14 stations in Tampa, Charlotte and Philadelphia owned by CBS radio.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 5, 2014
Sarasota bank eradicates problematic legacy loans

Sabal Palm Bank has been profitable every month in 2014.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2014
Winter Haven's Cassidy Family buys 370 acres for residential development

The Cassidy family purchased 369.5 acres of former farm land on a portion of McGrady Road east of U.S. 301 for $4.5 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2014
Read Properties affiliates buy Palm Vista, adjacent apartment

Two tenant-in-common companies managed by Read Properties of Brooklyn, N.Y., purchased the 136-unit Palm Vista Apartments and an adjacent 16-unit apartment complex for $6.7 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 10, 2015
Collier County man gets six years for health care fraud

Adam Parrish and two others defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for more than $350,000, prosecutors say.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2015
Company looks to master buggy domain

A Tampa-based pest control company seeks to boost its over-the-counter Pink Sheets portfolio by joining forces with a Nevada-based competitor -- as a franchisee.

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  • July 10, 2015
Property management hits on growth

The fast rise in sales and holdings at Gulf Coast Property Management continues to impress the firm's founder and CEO, Andy Moore.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2015
Arkansas lender buys C1 Bank in $402M deal

Trevor Burgess will become chief innovation officer for Bank of the Ozarks.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2015
Naples home prices rise 17%

The median sale price of an existing single-family home in Naples in October rose 17% to $385,000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 4, 2015
We love FGCU, too

When Dana and Barron Collier III gave nearly $11 million to the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business this summer, you might have forgiven the folks at Florida Gulf Coast University for feeling a little bit left out.

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  • December 25, 2015
Two airports fly high

If you're traveling by air for the holidays from Tampa or Fort Myers, consider yourself lucky.

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  • July 31, 2015
Regulatory burdens light

Florida is no Texas when it comes to the amount of regulations its small businesses face. But at least it's not New Jersey.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 14, 2015
SugarOak Holdings buys office building near Wildewood center

Herndon, Va.-based SugarOak Holdings Inc. purchased a 20,807-square-foot office building south of Cortez Road for $1.4 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2015
College wins back national hoops event

Florida SouthWestern State College will host one of the nation's top high school basketball tournaments next year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • September 22, 2015
Boat business targets Hispanic market

Maurice Amaya is the multicultural sales and marketing manager at Freedom Boat Club.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2015
Life after Beasley

Denyse Mesnik wants you to know she's not retiring.

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  • December 5, 2014
U.K. firm buys 80% of Veredus

Hays plc acquired the majority of the firm to expand its U.S. presence and services.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2014
Lone Star Funds company buys Tampa/Busch Gardens Hyatt Place

A company organized by the Dallas-based private equity firm Lone Star Funds purchased the 126-room Hyatt Place Tampa/Busch Gardens for $7.04 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2015
Real Estate investor buys Main Street building

Business owner and real estate investor Chris Brown purchased a 7,386-square-foot auto repair shop at the corner of Pine Place for $1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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