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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 4, 2004
Competency Issue

The appointments will soon expire for all of Florida's senior judges over the age of 70. For the first time, each one must submit to an annual evaluation. Locally, the review committee is headed by 2nd DCA Chief Judge Chris W. Altenbernd.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Maronda Homes buys 48 lotsMiami investment group buys Sunstate centerOhio investors buyBrantley buildingsStonehenge Capital buys Dixie-Southern, landEntrepreneur Ben Pricebuys bowling lanesSayco, Aqua Fasteners relocate to Bell RoadBallast Point Group buys 23 acresAmprop Development buys building for bankTrust buys Largo units, leases to Kramski

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 18, 2020
Firms find ways to help employees through pandemic

Keeping employees engaged — and mentally strong — at work is now a pandemic-era challenge like no other. Strategies, from providing clarity to espousing empathy to toilet roll basketball, are in the offing.

  • Strategies
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 10, 2022
Company sniffs unique opportunity with nasal COVID-19 vaccine

With a new CEO at the helm and a radical pivot in product strategy, Tampa-based Oragenics has taken risks that, if successful, could make it the next big name in pharmaceuticals.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2007
Static Success

Good thing Anthony Murfin doesn't listen to doubters. The former airplane mechanic's defiance toward nay-sayers has been the catalyst in launching a $3 million-plus flooring company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 5, 2007
Fewer Chiefs

Johnson Engineering reorganized the way its leaders make decisions and became one of the fastest-growing engineering companies in the country.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 1, 2007
Coffee Talk

Company, family leaves little time for politics: Turns out Laura Benson won't be in for a primary fight after all in the race to be the Republican nominee for the District 69 State House seat in 2008.Chamber bill dies, then resurrected: A bill to make it a crime for a for-profit business to use the words "chamber of commerce" died in the Florida House of Representatives' economic development committee back on May 4.Get ready for some good eats: Hungry entrepreneurs interested in owning a fast food restaurant with an old Southern feel - all-day breakfast including country ham and buttermilk biscuits anyone? - will have their chance when Bojangles' Restaurants returns to Florida.Medicare payments threaten radiation company: Medicare, the government's health-insurance system for older people, is examining how it reimburses for the use of equipment and that could hurt Fort Myers-based Radiation Therapy Services, the country's largest publicly traded operator of radiation treatment centers.Lennar staying put in Southwest Florida: As homebuilders flee Southwest Florida's moribund homebuilding market, one national builder plans to be here for at least another five years.Suffolk plan for the long haul: Michael Beaumier just smiles patiently as the question is asked. He's heard it dozens of times.Gulf Coast airport traffic rises: Passenger traffic at airports along Florida's Gulf Coast registered healthy increases this spring over last y

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  • By Janelle Makowski |
  • February 18, 2005
W'holy' Grail

John Mackey explains why shareholders don't come first at Whole Foods Market. Not that they're complaining.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 4, 2006
Matt Walsh: Save Our Homes should be repealed

Sometime in the next two weeks, a Gov. Bush-appointed committee will begin meeting to figure out what, if anything, should be done to change Florida's infamously discriminatory Save Our Homes amendment - the amendment that is driving property taxes beyond tolerance for so many of Florida's part-time property owners and the amendment that, a decade after its adoption, has become a spreading cancer across Florida's economy.The conclusion and recommendations should be clear: It should be repealed.

  • Opinion
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 30, 2005
New Thrust at SunTrust

SunTrust bankers deny they're losing market share in Florida. But they like the Atlanta bank's renewed focus on pleasing customers.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 16, 2005
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana/Tampa)

Better than Buffet, Branson: The comparison has been made before, but we're just glad he's one of ours.Looking for capital?: The Florida Venture Forum's 2006 conference is Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at the Sawgrass Marriott, Ponte Vedra Beach.WCI stock inflates as competitors deflate: Shares of WCI Communities, the Bonita Springs-based residential builder, got a boost when the company predicted a rosy outlook at its first-ever investor conference in Hollywood earlier this month.How do you pay the bill?: When Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley recently spoke to Sarasota's Downtown Partnership about his suggestions for urban revitalization, Coffee Talk wondered: Who paid for all of Charleston's wonderful improvements touted by the mayor?Make sure you like dad: When entrepreneurs are looking for venture capital, there's a lot more involved than the financial aspects of the transaction.Entrepreneurs speak: The University of Tampa is adding a new wrinkle to its speaker series on entrepreneurship.King of all Bay area media: Joe Redner has done it again.

  • News
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 12, 2005
Legal Briefs (Tampa)

Top Florida creditors' rights firms mergeLawyer dismisses complaint against child welfare agency6th District JNC chooses judicial nomineesSchwartz joins bar grievance committeeCarlton Fields elects Sasso new presidentPhelps Dunbar adds associateWolfe joins Bricklemyer Smolker & BolvesFowler White adds insurance attorneyCarlton Fields receives awardFoley & Lardner recognized for workAttorneys receive board certification

  • Law
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 9, 2005
Entrepreneur 2005: Judges Choose Finalists

It was a struggle, but the field of top executives has been narrowed to 10 for the 2005 Entrepreneur Award. Take a look at the finalists for free.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 6, 2008
Impact resistant?

Market realities have forced PGT Industries, one of the oldest, and largest, window and door manufacturers on the Gulf Coast, to make some big changes.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2008
Fly Guy

Four decades of running a company that flies small planes across the world has taught Steve Hall one valuable business lesson: Nothing beats being prepared.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 9, 2009
A Second Chance

The banking industry shakeout is underway. Former top executives of once high-flying banks are seeking — and finding — new jobs.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2004
Good Value in Valrico

A tiny east Hillsborough County bank bounces back just in time to go private.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 23, 2004
'We all have to eat'

The legal community and insurance industry await a decision by the Florida Supreme Court on a challenge to insurance tort reforms enacted in 1986.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 7, 2004
Capital Guy

At 37, Trenam Kemker's Nelson T. Castellano is one of the area's top lawyers in complexbusiness transactions.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 20, 2009
See Through Success

When Greg Burkhart launched a window-installation firm during a recession — the one in 1992 — his inner circle thought he was a tad mad. Crazier still: He's now pumping money into the company to outlast the recession.

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