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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 18, 2025
Allegiant plane at SRQ features unique wrap

A distinctive design is emblazoned on a plane at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport that officials hope will boost tourism.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 20, 2005
Finalist: Vern Buchanan

Founder, CEO of Buchanan Enterprises

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 24, 2014
Relax max

David and Julie Nodland run the best franchise store in the Relax the Back chain of more than 100 stores. Working with the health care industry is part of their success.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 31, 2023
120,000-square-foot retail and commercial center planned for Babcock Ranch

Developers to pitch City Hall plans, fashion company buys Cape Coral property and more storage coming to Pasco top the week's top commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 2, 2011
Transatlantic Triumph

The recession is all about perspective, say a pair of British siblings who recently moved to the Gulf Coast. Now they aim to make a go of American entrepreneurialism.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2004
Newsmakers (Sara/Mana edition)

The latest news on area movers and shakers is available free of charge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 23, 2011
Innisbrook owner goes Dominican

Gulf Coast businesses big and small have found a recession life raft in going off the Gulf Coast, many times to the Dominican Republic.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 23, 2019
Waltermire joins Colliers International's retail practice

Erica Waltermire, who has worked for the past decade at commercial real estate firm CBRE Inc., has joined rival Colliers International in Tampa.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 7, 2017
Company to expand, add 75 jobs in Tampa

The professional services provider will build a fourth facility in the area.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 17, 2015
Entrepreneurial docs win accolades

By day, Alexander Eaton and Hussein Wafapoor see dozens of patients at their ophthalmology practice, Retina Health Center in Fort Myers.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 14, 2024
Pinellas credit union giant expands to Naples area for first time

Dunedin-based Achieva Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in the region, has opened its first-ever Collier County branch.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • December 16, 2024
Tampa restaurant group announces latest opening and concepts to come

An expansion of a St. Pete Italian pizza restaurant opens this week.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 24, 2014
Lowry Park Zoo receives tax-free loan to build animal care complex

The Lowry Park Zoological Society plans to develop a new animal-care complex.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 19, 2024
8 nonstop flights added at SRQ airport

Allegiant Air has expanded service out of Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2020
Barbecue business opens amid pandemic, builds following

Pinecraft Barbecue, selling and renting a range of grills and smokers, has opened just in time for summer barbecues.

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  • August 17, 2007
Coffee Talk

Sarasota company hopes to shine in India: Sarasota-based cartridge valve manufacturer Sun Hydraulics has a good grip on at least six global markets, from Korea to Germany.Lee County: Anotherday, another tax: Not a week goes by in Lee County that county government doesn't dream up another tax on builders.Cold storage creates trifecta for Sarasota warehouse: The latest tenant for the Meridian Distribution Center, a 950,000-square-foot warehouse facility on Clark Road in south Sarasota, is especially apropos, given the sweltering Gulf Coast summerAnother public company going private: First, there was Outback Steakhouse. Now, St. Petersburg-based Catalina Marketing is headed to the private companies club.Nightline dumbs down Ave Maria: Ave Maria, the new town being built in eastern Collier County around the newest Catholic university, has been getting lots of national publicity lately opening to new residents, students and faculty.Good guys sometimes lose: Ethical companies don't always win, even when their employees do the right thing.Call the sign shop, again: MacDill Federal Credit Union, an institution of sorts in the Tampa area financial services industry, is changing its name to Grow Financial Federal Credit Union.Kottkamp bashes Hometown Democracy: Gov. Charlie Crist has been notably absent from the raging debate over the Hometown Democracy movement that seeks to put every major land-use change in Florida on the ba

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  • August 9, 2010
Aug. 9: TRC, WCG

Technology Research Corp. steadies; WellCare earnings hurt by settlement.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 22, 2022
Busch Gardens, after two year-delay, opens latest thrill ride

Busch Gardens, after two year-delay, opens Iron Gwazi, its latest thrill ride.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 19, 2018
Capstone emerges as mystery buyer of Sarasota theatre

Capstone Management emerges as the mystery buyer of the Players Centre for Performing Arts in Sarasota, which sold last week for $9.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2009
Middle Market

A pair of Northeast transplants is trying to put fun and family into retail banking on the Gulf Coast. So much for bankers' hours.

  • Finance
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