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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 19, 2024
Toy executive turns C-suite failure into his greatest success

Purpose and clarity are the bookends for retired toy executive Jamie Gallagher’s four leadership must-dos. In between those are two C's: culture and creativity.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 23, 2024
Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business

Reinhold Schmieding says little publicly about the company he founded, Arthrex. His silence belies the company’s resounding, generational success.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 29, 2023
Community foundation exec leaves nonprofit to run another organization

Manatee Community Foundation named former Gulf Coast Community Foundation COO Veronica Thames to lead the nonprofit.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • July 18, 2023
Famous St. Pete resort completes redesigned event space

The Vinoy Resort and Gulf Club completes 60,000 square feet of new event space.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • August 9, 2023
Tampa, St. Pete renters would get moderate space in home buying

If home-buying, renters in Orlando would do better, but renters in Miami would get much less space than Tampa Bay.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 13, 2023
Soap retailer closes out year with four new retail locations

Naples Soap Co. celebrates its 15-year anniversary next year.

  • Florida
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 10, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for March 28-April 3 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A commercial land acquisition for nearly $60 million leads the week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • March 20, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for March 7-13 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Hillsborough County pasture land sale for $35 million leads the week's sales.

  • Transactions
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 28, 2023
Work starts on $42M, 100,000-square-foot student center at USF Sarasota-Manatee

The University of South Florida campus hopes to change its reputation as a commuter college with new residences and a student center set to open at the start of the 2024 school year.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 24, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for April 11-17 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

An $81M apartment complex sale highlights this week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2022
Flight training school partners with Purdue University

Paragon Flight Training aims to bring more commercial pilots online and ready for the field.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 23, 2022
Top First Watch executive, board member to retire

After almost 40 years, the current board member and former CEO of the company's subsidiary is stepping down.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 13, 2022
On the rise: Some Florida markets remain national leaders in apartment rent increases

While there are signs of the trend slowing, Hurricane Ian may change that.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2022
Hertz lands new top marketing executive from a GE brand

Wayne Davis has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 29, 2005
So Far to Go

Florida Bar diversity symposium reveals more challenges than accomplishments.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2009
Gyrocam's Sanborn revels in a victory

The news that giant global defense contractor Lockheed Martin reached a deal to buy Gyrocam Systems, one of Sarasota's rising corporate stars, is a major vindication for local entrepreneur Ken Sanborn.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 10, 2009
Time writer didn't do his homework

For nearly 90 minutes, Harvard educated, liberal writer/author Michael Grunwald droned on to 50 or so growth policy groupies about Florida as the “unsustainable,” “sunset state,” mostly reading his speech — “Smart Growth/Dumb Growth: A Matter of Survival.”

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 1, 2010
German American Style

Reinhold Schmieding incorporated the best management practices from Europe and America to build Arthrex into one of the largest manufacturers of arthroscopic surgical tools in the world.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 21, 2010
Amendment 4: billion-dollar boondoggle?

Opponents of Amendment 4, such as Florida Chamber of Commerce's President & CEO Mark Wilson, are fond of a certain saying.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2010
Darn radicals are local, too

Edward Giunta II, the new chairman of the Hillsborough City-County Planning Commission, has good reason to expect big changes for the state's growth management act.

  • News
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