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  • By Ted Carter |
  • February 10, 2017
How to... Do business in Cuba

Jason Woody, head of a Tampa nonprofit specializing in cornea transplants, has worked hard in recent years to get a foothold in Cuba.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2007
Walkabout Air Lifts Off

By offering an array of services and simple fees, the executive aircraft services company wants to double the number of planes it services by year's end.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 26, 2016
Set sights

The developers of the Heights are armed with a keen sense of urgency for a project with decade-long timeline. Another key driver? Avoid debt.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 6, 2011
Out of the ER

Health Management Associates continues to cement its reputation as one of the nation's premier hospital operators in the nation. The numbers show it.

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  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • February 10, 2012
Healthy Money

The key to reining in health spending is changing behavior. UnitedHealthcare touts products that will make being healthy more than just physically attractive.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 10, 2021
Area executive named president of national pain practices network

Badertscher has held chief executive roles and other senior leadership assignments at 360 Orthopedics, Coastal Orthopedics and other organizations.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Dan Posada |
  • July 17, 2020
Top Five Best Practices: Employers Supporting Employee Mental Health

Top Five Best Practices: Employers Supporting Employee Mental Health

  • Manatee-Sarasota
Sponsored Content
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 25, 2020
Nonprofit works to keep delivering meals during coronavirus crisis

Meals on Wheels of Sarasota has changed some procedures to keep volunteers and clients safe during coronavirus.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 25, 2020
CPA firm reacts to coronavirus in midst of tax season

Cavanaugh & Co. is offering clients and employees tax prep options.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2020
Area campaign — Share The Love Not The Virus — grows quickly

Knickole Barger started the campaign mostly to relieve her anxiety about the pandemic.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2020
Talk show hosts laud brewery's giveaway of hand sanitizer

3 Daughters Brewing's generosity caught the attention of “Kelly & Ryan,” the nationally televised morning talk show hosted by Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2020
Virtual shift for tech conference

Synapse Florida has created a virtual tech conference for the COVID-19 age, and it costs just $25 to attend.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Aashish Patel, 33

Owner, Wooten’s Airboat Tours, Captain Jack’s Airboat Tours, Everglades City Motel

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Albert Arguelles, 39

Partner, Vice President, iPartnerMedia

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 23, 2015
Research city

After enduring the recession, a research hub anchored by Florida Gulf Coast University's Emergent Technology Institute takes shape.

  • Strategies
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 11, 2025
Manatee County buys Seafood Shack property in Cortez for $13M

Acquisition of the Seafood Shack property will have a "generational impact" on his district, one commissioner says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • September 22, 2025
Towering 250-foot Ferris wheel could come to downtown Tampa

Tampa City Council will soon consider plans to build a 250-foot observation Ferris wheel near the cruise ship terminals in downtown's Channel District.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 16, 2026
Shuttered SWFL college lives on with $10M scholarship fund

Hodges University closed in August 2024.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 7, 2023
National builder chooses SWFL for new unit, its fourth in Florida

Veteran homebuilding executive Kevin Brown was appointed to run the Fort Myers/Naples unit for M/I Homes.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 1, 2023
Longtime Jabil Inc. exec Kenny Wilson promoted to CEO

He succeeds Mark Mondello as leader of the St. Petersburg-based global manufacturing company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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