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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • February 9, 2018
Use Instagram effectively for your business

How to leverage social media into a powerful business tool.

  • Strategies
  • By Jason Metnick, President and COO of S-One Holdings |
  • September 26, 2025
Q and A with Jason Metnick, President and COO of S-One Holdings

Since 2011, the Gulf Coast CEO Forum has served as a resource for and by our region’s business leaders.

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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • December 8, 2025
Sarasota opens $210M improved wastewater plant to big accolades

Sarasota County cuts the ribbon on its $210 million Bee Ridge project, east of Interstate 75.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2008
Gulf Coast Week

Museum demolition begins: Demolition day has come at the Tampa Museum of Art.County to sell cable TV ads: The Tampa Bay area could soon have another TV station competing for local advertising money, run by the government.Hotel simplification: A group of downtown Sarasota hotel operators and future hotel developers are banding together in an effort to form a Hospitality Regional Activity CenterAn entrepreneurial helpline: Small business owners and entrepreneurs seeking help in running their company can now get some assistance from the Economic Development Corp. of Sarasota County.Big Cypress plans: Collier Enterprises has submitted plans for the town of Big Cypress, filing for a "Development of Regional Impact" for the 9,000-home project.December tourism mixedBabcock hires LWR exec

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 5, 2021
Area auto dealership founder, chairman dies at 85

Dwayne Hawkins was an 'inspirational and visionary leader,' says his son.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 23, 2025
Judge denies bail for Clearwater businessman charged in $100 million fraud

Leo Joseph Govoni, who was arrested Monday morning by the FBI, will stay in jail at least until Thursday when a detention hearing is scheduled.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • April 15, 2023
Real estate tech firm sees big potential in deep data dives

Cape Coral-based My Undercover Agent serves as Realtors’ hyperlocal expert and lets them focus on helping customers buy and sell.

  • Residential Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • September 16, 2022
Amid economic slowdown, cut outreach with caution, branding expert says

Stacey Harrison shares insights about how businesses can "recession-proof" their marketing strategies during tough economic times.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2007
Masters of organic growth

An activist hedge fund tried to force Outback Steakhouse to divest several of its restaurant concepts last year to boost short-term performance, but Emory University Business Professor Edward D. Hess has only praise for the Tampa-based chain.Outback, which has changed its name to OSI Restaurant Partners Inc., is the only Florida company studied by Hess and included in his recently released book, "The Road to Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow Marketshare."

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 15, 2021
Naples real estate pioneer, entrepreneur dies at 92

The real estate brokerage John Wood founded is now one of the biggest in the region.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 20, 2019
Exit ramp: Firm succeeds by smoothing the sale process

Aberdeen Advisors, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based boutique mergers and acquisitions firm, has seen rapid growth as more companies take advantage of the bull market to sell or merge.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • April 1, 2020
Successful remote work strategies require over-communication — and perspective

Firms are shifting from employees working at the office to working from home with whiplash speed. Several steps — maintaining meaningful connections among them — can ease the transition.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • March 14, 2024
British retailer wins repeat business with customer-first strategy

Entrepreneur Carole Lannon loves Tampa Bay, and she loves her native England. Now she combines both with a thriving business, London Pride.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 12, 2021
Oncologist, entrepreneur embraces transformational mindset

Physician with a rock and roll side has long sought to facilitate big change — in an industry that sometimes moves slowly.

  • Leadership
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • August 1, 2025
Colson Hotel to be restored as a business incubator

With a goal of providing business startup space across all demographics, the group preserving the Colson Hotel plans to renovate it as the Colson Collective.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2008
Blueberry Bingo

Big-ticket customers sometimes bring big challenges, too. One company's trick: Be flexible.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 18, 2010
Victory Dance

The lost art of setting specific goals for every employee has been rediscovered at an island resort company. It has helped the business swat the recession.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 8, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

It's not the Rays; the problem is the stadium, location: In the early 1960s, the pathetic Boston Red Sox couldn't attract more than 4,000 baseball fans for a home game. Why, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays draw twice that to St. Petersburg on a bad night.Banks' books say it all; but FDIC is worrying: Florida community banks saw their return on assets rise to an average of 1.19% during the first quarter of 2005, riding strong loan demand from the state's housing construction boom.Moving across town: Lonnie Homenuk has left his job as executive vice president at Tampa's Chesapeake Atlantic Holdings Inc. after about five years.Motion picture group seeks recourse: Paramount Pictures Corp. is suing John Doe in Tampa federal court over the illegal distribution of 7,500 bootleg copies of "Sahara," a movie that won't be released officially on DVD or VHS until next month.Coast Bank settles suit: Two subsidiaries of Coast Financial Holdings Inc. have settled a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former employee, according to a June 28 regulatory filing.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 2, 2020
Crisis relief is tantalizing, but patience, paperwork, will be key

Bankers, attorneys agree: having an up-to-date financial house will be a big asset in receiving federal funds.

  • Finance
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • July 27, 2018
Small, former post office home to big dreams for new cafe

Ann Michelle Stoltzfus has plans in the works for a new restaurant — Postal 98 Cafe — in the former U.S. Post Office in the Pinecraft community of Sarasota.

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