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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 27, 2022
Once way ahead of its time, homebuilding franchisor takes risks to evolve

AR Homes could have withered following the death of its visionary founder. Instead, new leadership embraced change without losing touch with the past.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Janelle Makowski |
  • February 18, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

Don't be like Carly: Talk about great timing. The day after Carleton S. "Carly" Fiorina got dumped by Hewlett Packard Co.'s board, who should roll through town but a guy touting a book called "Why Smart Executives Fail."Just among friends: Palm Harbor attorney Jeff Brown just couldn't make it work as court-appointed attorney for death-row convict Robert Gordon.Bankers to meet: The Florida Bankers Association is holding a workshop for bank directors in Tampa this month.Smart growth: Tampa recently made national news and not because of a blond schoolteacher's affair with a student.Outback's net falls: Rumblings about last year's hurricanes are still being heard in Florida.Downtown residential trend

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Executive Session with Phil LeBlanc

The Gulf Coast Business Review sat down with Phil LeBlanc. The Franchise Development Manager for Signs Now

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 19, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week' items: Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't budged on his budget proposal to fund the state trial courts.Court becomes hazardous waste siteHenry Andringa will be interviewed today by the 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission for the seat

  • News
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 31, 2006
Coffee Talk

No fools here: The list of debtors with claims against Infinium Labs just continues to grow.Then there were three: Two companies purchased an 11-acre portion of the much-ballyhooed $65-million Bay Street Village & Towncenter in Osprey. Should there have been three?Big bird could flyinto Fort Myers: Coffee Talk hears rumors that Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers could one day be home to a maintenance and repair facility for the world's biggest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A-380.Mad Money's Jim Cramer sides with Chico's: Jim Cramer, the screeching host of the business-news show Mad Money on CNBC, told Chico's Chief Financial Officer Charlie Kleman that he was ready to rip up a recently published J.P. Morgan research report critical of the Fort Myers-based retailer.Real estate investors eye State Road 29: Bet you never heard of a small Florida town called Felda. How about the hamlets of Jerome, Sunniland or Rock Island?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 3, 2004
Charley Blows into Sarasota

Hotel rooms and rental cars and trucks have been hard to come by. The economic windfall is just beginning for local businesses.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Charging Forward

The head of RARE Hospitality International explains his vision for the companyis restaurant chains and the consequences of inconsistency.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • December 2, 2021
Longtime traveler takes on new adventure of owning a business

Travel entrepreneur Michael Distler goes the distance for clients — such as traveling on his own dime to navigate COVID-19 protocols so his clients don’t have to.

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 3, 2020
Retail-focused developer returns to CEO role of prominent firm

Greg Sembler sees opportunity among the carnage ecommerce brought to retail.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 28, 2020
Food distributor moves quickly to meet rapidly shifting needs

While Sysco West Florida adapts to the market, its top executive follows an important leadership creed: slow down.

  • Leadership
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 12, 2019
Disruptive doctors: Health care provider blazes a new path

ChenMed, a Miami, Florida-based company, is disrupting health care as we know it — and it sees Tampa Bay as the ideal market for its rapidly growing brand.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 24, 2015
Nothing small about it

A federal Small Business Administration loan, for years an afterthought for a new or expanding business, has grown up. Now some banks are fighting for more.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • April 30, 2010
Banking on a Business Plan

Florida CFO Alex Sink's campaign for governor includes a new business plan to revitalize the modern Florida economy. But she has not forgotten her tobacco farming upbringing.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • January 10, 2023
Trust company executive finds opportunity during pandemic

Instead of sitting around waiting for places to open in 2020, Kelly Caldwell became a pilot.

  • Executive Diversions
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  • By Nicholas Zaffiris, Chief Executive Officer at UnitedHealthcare of Florida Health Plan |
  • June 6, 2025
How a modernized health plan is lowering total cost of care and improving employee experience

Less than a decade ago, the Surest health plan came on the scene, driving a trend toward simpler, more modern employer health benefits and empowering people to shop for care.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 4, 2005
Free Press (Sara/Mana edition)

Sarasota builder's homes entered into Phaidon AtlasManatee's future builders attend showSarasota advertising agency to market Tampa Bay StormAdvertising group shortens name Sarasota financial firm joins with Pinellas firm

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 9, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: July 9 - July 15

Regional business news at a glance.

  • Industries
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 26, 2019
Lease sparks office activity at Water Street Tampa

Accounting firm RSM US LLP becomes the first office tenants announced at Water Street Tampa, a $3 billion redevelopment transforming downtown Tampa

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 2, 2014
Corporate Report

Riverchase Dermatology buys West Coast Dermatology; Women's Tennis Association debuts new marketing approach; Hertz Equipment Rental opens Cheyenne, Wyo. oil-focused facility; Metro Development Group, Bright House building gigabit communities; Florida Career College campus relocates to Tampa; Biltres Staffing owner sentenced for invoice fraud, identity theft; Lee health system foundation hires Noise to promote hospital

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 19, 2023
Construction starts on $220 million Sarasota cancer center

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota gas station is sold, a St. Pete office building brings $7.9 million, and an apartment complex opens in Fort Myers.

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