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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 10, 2024
Naples medical device firm picks up $20M in funding

Catalyst OrthoScience seeks to hire more people and grow into new markets.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 13, 2024
Storms force noted Clearwater restaurant to close after 51 years

Capogna’s Dugout owners say the economy played a role in the decision, too.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 8, 2024
New tenants coming to north Manatee shopping center

Market Walk in Parrish will contain restaurants as well as beauty, fitness and pet offerings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • December 16, 2025
Longboat Key to get first-ever Goodwill store

The used bookstore and donation drop-off location will hold a grand opening with a local author signing and giving away books. The store will hire seven people.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • March 31, 2026
Pizzeria closes on Main Street in Sarasota

Bravo’s Pizza & Italian Eatery has shuttered next to the Hollywood 11 movie theater.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 16, 2026
Naples financial services and senior care firm names new president

Kimberly Spiker is an attorney with 30 years of experience in the field.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • August 14, 2025
Marriott Vacations Worldwide to cut 136 jobs in Lakeland

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. is laying off 136 employees from its Lakeland office, blaming the cuts on a new operating model

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2007
Coffee Talk

JBM Realty Advisors goes California dreamin' : Another Tampa company, JBM Realty Advisors, one of the nation's premier institutional multifamily brokerage firms, recently connected with a large out-of-state business, Sperry Van Ness.Sarasota Chamber looks to tomorrow with optimism: Sarasota Tomorrow, the capital campaign designed to prove businesses aren't just a necessary evil, kicked of its donation season with a big announcement: It has already raised $1.22 million - 60% of its $2 million goal.Condo project goes retro, sells most units: The following sentence wasn't lifted out of a 2005 Coffee Talk item: A Sarasota condo developer has been selling units at about the rate of one a week for three months, with the majority going to the contract stage Sarasota money manager dies from stroke: Gary Wood, founder of a Sarasota-based money management firm bearing his name, died Nov. 29, a few weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 68.HMA highlights chairman's stock sales: It's usually a routine affair when top executives sell stock of the company they manage.Foreign tourism slips, security issues blamed: Security concerns are making it more difficult for the Tampa Bay area to attract foreign visitors, a key component of the area's important tourism industry.Commercial brokers seek access to TICs: If the National Association of Realtors has its way with federal regulators, some commercial real estate brokers will have another way of m

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2016
Millennial Speak

Sunnie Schuster, Tampa; Zach Katkin, Bonita Springs; and Brandon Taaffe, Sarasota

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 22, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

Never miss an opportunity: The Florida Bankers Association used this month's deadline for filing personal income tax returns to tweak credit unions.A Good Deal?: Akerman Senterfitt apparently secured a good deal for the Class A space it just leased in the SunTrust Financial Centre.Not that positive on Fourth Street: Banks have become to St. Petersburg's Fourth Street North what automobile dealerships do for Tampa's North Dale Mabry Highway.Deadline approaches: Judging by the lack of sensational headlines, Hillsborough County Attorney Renee Lee just may sail through her upcoming annual performance evaluation. CRA insurance: Bank of America must not be through buying other financial institutions.A vacation with bite: Exactly what consumer is the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota targeting?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank is really pushing its purchasing-card systemLakewood Ranch postal opportunityd Sarasota attorney Miles Ferris from suspended for his work as a psychotherapist

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2008
Glass Ceiling Breakers

Gulf Coast womenbusiness leaders makea showing on a list of Florida's top executives.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • May 13, 2011
Arching Achievement

Since taking the helm of his family's McDonald's franchise, Blake Casper has seen local sales grow throughout the recession. Getting things right and meeting customer needs are his keys to success.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • February 12, 2021
Area program equips people with entrepreneurial skills

The Goodwill MicroEnterprise Institute has notched some big successes — more than 900 graduates and 460 new businesses.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • February 25, 2022
Entrepreneur grows company over 730% in just a year

Courtney Schomburg has discovered a solid niche in the space between real estate brokerage work and interior design.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
Will Conroy, 34

Partner, Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel and Burns

  • Class of 2016
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 17, 2023
Pioneering cigar company progresses on Ybor hotel conversion project

The family behind J.C. Newman Cigar Co. in Tampa has its eyes on a unique boutique hotel project — now that's it gotten past the bats.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 13, 2023
$6B Michigan credit union seizes strong acquisition opportunities in Florida

DFCU Financial, now in Southwest Florida and Tampa, aims to grow its presence more in the Sunshine State — even as a community banking lobbying giant sours on the acquisition strategy.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 8, 2022
USF, major Tampa hospital have big plans for helping to craft better leaders

Two of the biggest institutions in the region — a hospital and a university — near the successful end of the first year of a unique leadership program. Big expansion plans are on the horizon.

  • Leadership
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 21, 2009
Stimulus you can believe in

Successful Gulf Coast entrepreneur and commercial real estate investor Harvey Vengroff has long said the region's economy lacks diversification. He sees the recession as a chance for real change.

  • Entrepreneurs
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