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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 22, 2022
Dealership chain closing half its stores, laying off 30% of workforce

A new store in Clearwater is among those shuttered as Virginia-based CarLotz cuts costs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • September 2, 2022
St. Pete coffee company gears up for new era of franchise operations

Kahwa Coffee Roasters, St. Petersburg’s homegrown answer to Starbucks, has at long last taken steps to franchise its brand.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 21, 2022
Florida homes sales fall nearly 40%

Higher interest rates once again throw a wet blanket over Florida’s — and nation’s — once robust real estate market.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 4, 2005
Orion's Earnings Hit Record

The Naples bank picks up new Sarasota deposits, too.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 24, 2005
Executive Session with Jimmy Stewart

The Gulf Coast Business Review sat down with the new director of Business Development / Westwater Construction Inc.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 22, 2005
Reaper of Reparations

New York City lawyer Edward D. Fagan attracts controversy like a light draws bugs.He is perhaps best known for his $1.3 billion settlement in 1998 with Swiss banks on behalf of Holocaust victims whose savings were never passed on to their families.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2008
Blades of platinum

A new cultivar of grass with roots in the slave ships from Africa may prove lucrative for a Gulf Coast turf company, especially if it ends up on your front lawn.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 15, 2008
TO WATCH (Sarasota-Bradenton): Art Lambert and Ron Simkins

The corporate atmosphere at LexJet, a Sarasota-based digital printing and software sales and marketing firm is anything but corporate. Employees wear flip-flops and T-shirts to work, flip Frisbees over cubicles and can be seen lounging on a couch near the lobby watching sports highlights on TV. But this isn't a case of employees waiting until the boss leaves to slack off.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2004
Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

This week's items: illsborough County judge promoted to circuit benchKiernan picked as chairof grievance committeeZinober & McCrea hires new associateNational group certifies McCrea as trial advocate

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Letter:What happened to affordable housing?

I thought that after reading your article there were only two "developers/respondents" that counted: Trammell Crow and my group, Rocco Santomenno & Wanda Di Paola.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 28, 2004
Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Castillo appointed to Hillsborough JNCBush promotes Judge Williams to circuit benchThree new associates join Ruden, McClosky

  • Law
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 31, 2009
COVER UPDATE: Clawback Continuation

Burton Wiand has a new law firm on his business card. But his focus remains laser-like in trying to recover millions of dollars victims lost in one of the Gulf Coast's biggest-ever alleged Ponzi schemes.

  • Law
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 26, 2010
Land bankers on the prowl

A few brave land bankers are scouting for residential-development sites in Lee and Collier counties, suggesting homebuilders may not be too far behind.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 1, 2010
An eye for business

40 UNDER 40 WINNER: Farrell Tyson, 39, Cape Coral

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 28, 2012
Follow the Plan

An insurance company launched with a risk, but it's since grown steadily. More growth is projected in 2013.

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  • By Janet Leiser |
  • April 19, 2013
Continuing a legacy

The Peninsular Paper Co. has been run by the Clarke family for more than 100 years. Each generation faces new challenges.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 16, 2009
A Successful Climb

Joe Disanti, 39 Wachovia/Wells Fargo Bank

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 10, 2011
Data Forecast

Mark Cecil's software company, DataWorks, helps hospitality customers peer into the future.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2012
TV station faces asset sale

Sarasota's 24-hour TV news station must pay back a $400,000 debt.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • March 17, 2012
Mauve No More

With scarce financing, hotels delayed renovations. But the Marriott in Tampa International Airport just got a facelift.

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