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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Courthouse Center developer plans University Center buildingPark Charles Prime Properties buys Bianco Sands villasSarasota Business Center to start second phaseHouston company buys Timberlake Apartments

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2004
Court Opinon: Anderson, Watson v. Smithfield Foods Inc. and Luter

A group of landowners appeals the district court's judgment dismissing their civil action and imposing sanctions on their counsel in the amount of $128,563.43. We affirm dismissal of the action, but reverse the award of sanctions.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 26, 2003
Unified Front (Sara/Mana cover)

Gulf Coast chambers of commerce mostly agree on the important issues for the upcoming legislative session: Affordable health insurance, education and transportation.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 17, 2003
Neighborhood Builders

Charlie Funk and Jeff Meehan have found a wealth of commercial and residential development opportunities in Manatee, Sarasota and Hillsborough counties since forming a tightly controlled partnership nearly a decade ago.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Sand Pebble owners buy Alamanda VillaCED-Concord Management buys land for Rolling Green SouthLepore family plans Blackburn Point Business CenterChamp Products buys larger Bradenton building

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 9, 2004
A Risky Market - Going Nowhere

The stock market remains overvalued and in a position where the average investor could get hurt again as badly as he did in 2000. George Rauch is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 17, 2004
Corporate Payout or Deceit?

A retired lawyer says allegations he defrauded an Italian manufacturing group are lies.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2004
Breaking the Molds

Sarasota-based UniqueShield Products plans to make its adhesive the construction industryis solution to toxic mold.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2008
Attractive debt

Large institutional investors, including the largest pension fund in the U.S., are finding debt funds more attractive than stocks. It could be a risky, but lucrative, bet if the economy turns around.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2008
A Tough Word

From a large plate of difficult questions for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke comes this: Which financial institutions can he save and which ones does he have to let fail?

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2009
Metal Moxie

The Weber family has always run its recycling business conservatively, paying cash for new equipment and never taking debt. It's paying off now.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 9, 2009
Window on the Future

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is using every available resource, including his teenage son, to ensure that Windows 7 isn't another Vista.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 19, 2010
High Risk

Ralph Gross craved his own airline industry business for more than 10 years. His ultimate choice was all high-risk, high-reward.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • March 25, 2010
Drill This

The stakes just got higher for Florida to get into the multibillion-dollar oil-and-gas-leasing game.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 25, 2009
Kingpin

Patrick Ciniello polished bowling balls as a boy in exchange for free games. Today, he runs one of the biggest bowling-equipment companies in the world.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 1, 2010
A New Structure

Manufacturing companies will have to get creative about financing their growth. Structure Medical's founder says commercial banks and financing companies today refuse to fund even the best customers.

  • Industries
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 10, 2010
No-fly zone

Pamela Templeton did more than halt the construction of a road overpass in front of her Toyota dealership. She stopped a $1 billion road project that was going to be one of the biggest in Lee County's history.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 16, 2010
No Cheap Talk

The Gulf Coast is fast becoming a major stop for big-name speakers, but they're not giving lectures in traditional university venues. Speaker fees are so high that it's tough to make money, too.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 4, 2010
Cape Comeback

The residential downturn devastated Cape Coral's once-thriving homebuilding industry. The survivors see signs of a revival in the state's second-largest city by landmass.

  • Industries
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 4, 2010
King of the Cape

You have to be nimble and aggressive to master Cape Coral's wild swings in property prices. John Carney has mastered the crazy market.

  • Entrepreneurs
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