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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 30, 2025
Big Top Brewing shutters Lakewood Ranch Boulevard location

While one location is closing, Big Top's owner remains steadfast that this is not related to any lawsuits the company is facing over debts. The company overall, he says, is "not going anywhere."

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 2, 2007
Focus on Fuel

A national power company chief executive - whose livelihood depends on more energy usage - publicly supports power conservation.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 9, 2021
Startup real estate brokerage targets 500 agents by 2023

The Osbornes have big plans to earn more market share utilizing a different, if not entirely new, mousetrap.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 20, 2023
Prominent accounting firm seizes opportunities with Tampa expansion

Philadelphia-based Centri Business Consulting, after increasing its gross revenue by 40% in 2022, has arrived in Florida in search of even greater growth.

  • Finance
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  • By John Haughey |
  • October 12, 2018
Chemical romance: Entrepreneur creates new ways to grow lab-based firm

American Compliance Technologies meets a growing need for expertise in complying with environmental regulations.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2020
Honor system: Residents return restaurateur's missing $180,000

Restaurateur Dan Bavaro's $180,000 coronavirus relief loan mistakenly went into the account of a retired lawyer, whose daughter returned the money.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • June 21, 2013
Designed to sell

Creating a lifestyle brand requires designing a unique customer experience, Tom Henken and Juan Romero agree. Understanding the customer's psychology of shopping is what their architecture firm does best.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 28, 2025
Sarasota marine construction company pays $2.5M for new space

New Pass Dock & Seawall bought the property previously belonging to SignZoo.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 10, 2024
Laura Richardson Bright, 39

40 Under 40 winner Laura Richardson Bright is the chief advancement officer at Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 5, 2025
Three men ordered to pay $129M in fraud that began in Lee County

The company that operated the commodity pool scheme was based in Fort Myers, according to state records.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 11, 2019
Experts feeling cautious, but good, about commercial real estate outlook for 2019

Following a robust 2018, commercial real estate markets along the Gulf Coast are poised to be equally active in the year ahead.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Emery Ellinger |
  • April 6, 2022
Family business transition can take unexpected turns

There are myriad factors to consider when looking at selling a family-run business.

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  • October 13, 2017
Matt Bernhardt, 37

CEO, Stickboy Creative

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 1, 2015
Deep dive

The Florida Aquarium was one of the first attractions to spur development in Tampa's Channelside district — long before Jeff Vinik's bold redevelopment plan. Two decades later the aquarium is going strong.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 10, 2010
Floridians love taxes - on New Yorkers

Floridians have another reason to thank New York for sticking its wealthiest residents with higher taxes.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 15, 2011
RJF starts new training program

Raymond James launched a new two-year adviser training program.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 1, 2013
New service boosts air traffic

Good news for the hospitality industry in the Fort Myers-Naples area: Airport passenger traffic rose substantially in January.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2004
Remember the Mission Statement

Defining the company's mission is like taking a trip in a time machine to some point in the future.Stephen Garber provides executive coaching in the Sarasota area

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2020
Real estate executive doesn't mask the truth about reopening

Some industries are roaring to go.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 17, 2017
In Memoriam

Nathan Bisk, 1940-2017

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