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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 7, 2006
Corporate Report

Look at briefs from Gulf Coast businesses for free.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2004
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr: Why Libertarians Aren't Whacky Cranks

A common accusation against libertarianism is that we are unnaturally obsessed with tracing social and economic problems to the state, and, in doing so, we oversimplify the world.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2004
National Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Judge orders Gates to give depositionJohnson & Johnson to settle suits over heartburn drugPlan to force company lawyers to disclose fraud challenged

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2003
Court Opinion:Camp Illahee

SECOND DISTRICTCase No. 2D02-4324CAMP ILLAHEE INVESTORS, INC., a North Carolina Corporation, Appellant, v. MICHAEL BLACKMAN and PATRICE BLACKMAN, Individually and as the Parents,Natural Guardians and next best friends of Olivia Blackmanand Sophi

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2008
Logical position

Why should air-traffic controllers have all the fun? One Gulf Coast-based company has developed software to track almost any global-positioning device anywhere.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • January 28, 2010
On fire online

Consumers' willingness to buy online has dramatically increased. One local company is helping manufacturers capitalize.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2011
Corporate Report: Apr. 1

The latest news from General Dynamics, Triad Retail Media, and other Gulf Coast companies.

  • News
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 6, 2012
Ich Liebe Florida

Crisis? What crisis? More Europeans plan to visit Southwest Florida than last summer despite trouble brewing at home, tourism professionals say.

  • Industries
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 13, 2021
Workplace Redefined

Chico's FAS says it is adopting a "hybrid" workplace model post pandemic and will shed headquarters office space in Fort Myers with subleases.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 19, 2020
Results-oriented accounting firm makes bold move to stand out

Accounting firm Hancock Askew & Co. LLP has launched Clarity Capital Advisors, a Tampa-based spinoff firm that handles interim/fractional CFO solutions, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate finance advice.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 30, 2014
Skin in the Game

Naples dermatologist Srdjan Prodanovich created an electronic medical health program that helps doctors manage patient records more efficiently. So far, it cost $3 million to develop.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 21, 2014
Corporate report

SRN, Atlanta's D-Unity Group agrees to barrier reselling deal; Vology raises $40 million in new financing; St. Petersburg's Uptown Title joins Florida Agency Network; and more corporate news.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 11, 2015
Familiar bankers

Fifteen former bank CEOs work for Seaside National Bank & Trust. The bank is expanding its network from Tampa to Sarasota and Naples.

  • Finance
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 20, 2022
Longtime Sarasota furniture store owner, philanthropist dies at 101

"It doesn't cost anything to be nice, and it pays dividends" was one of Ed Kalin’s favorite sayings.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2007
Hair Space

How 500 square feet translated to a 55% jump in revenues at a Fort Myers hair salon. It's a lesson in maximizing the use of commercial real estate.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 24, 2005
Twixters and Kippers By Lou Lasday

First we had the empty-nesters, then the Boomers and X-gen. Now there's a new market segment - the betwixed and between.

  • Opinion
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: One to One Gulfcoast

Many not-for-profits have an important message to deliver. Unfortunately, more times than not, direct mailings to prospects end up unopened in the bottom of the garbage can next to other generic mail labeled, "You may already be a winner" and "Don't throw this away." In fact, only .5% of all of direct mail generates response, according to Brian Weiner and Dana Place, founders of One to One Gulfcoast.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2008
Still Fighting

Two surveys show that small business owners,both in the Gulf Coast and nationwide, are bulking up on one intangible asset for 2009: Hope.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2009
Language Master

Calls come in from across the world to Day Translations in Tampa, which offers document translations and interpreters.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • January 14, 2010
Government Digest 1/14/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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