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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 25, 2015
IT firm on global expansion mission names new CFO

Chris Hourigan leaves an accounting firm he started to help Global Convergence grow internationally.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 4, 2026
Publix opens third local store in a month

Since early March, the Lakeland grocer has opened three stores across the Tampa region.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jay Schlichter |
  • September 6, 2019
Restauranteurs pick out-of-the-way spot to build eatery featuring massive tiki huts

Kearns Restaurant Group knew their latest concept was a hit, so they built a second one. This one's in west Fort Myers.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 15, 2012
Please, say thank you

Randall Kenneth Jones says there's money to be made by being courteous. You can thank him later.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2018
Officials to break ground on $16 million cancer center

The Florida Cancer Specialists center in Lakewood Ranch will allow patients to receive chemotherapy, national clinical trials, physician visits and laboratory services.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 3, 2023
Tampa insurtech startup continues to acquire policies from rivals

Slide Insurance’s latest haul includes $292 million in annual premiums from UPC Insurance.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2009
Calendar: The girls of PostcardMania

Sexy calendars of employees is nothing new — just look at the Hooters business model — but the latest calendar announcement comes from an unexpected source, and that's the point.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 9, 2010
GeoPharma president out

The Largo firm's president resigns just days after a complicated restructuring.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2012
Tech company takes big baby steps

The latest version of 'what recession?' stars a Gulf Coast mobile software firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 4, 2017
Big gets bigger

Walmart's new Davenport facility is designed to be the distribution hub of the future.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 21, 2022
St. Pete illusionists conjure up travel website's top honor

Zubrick Magic Theatre, less than a year after it opened, has earned the 2022 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 7, 2015
Iconic Austin Center sells in Tampa's Westshore

Redstone Investment's purchase of 300,000 square feet of office ends nearly five decades of family ownership.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 2, 2018
Sprouts expanding throughout the Gulf Coast

Sprouts Farmers Market plans to add a pair of new stores in Naples and Clearwater to expand its Gulf Coast portfolio

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 23, 2004
Selling Big Boy Toys

Electronic Specialists Inc. is poised for major growth. The custom integrator of home theater and audio equipment and wiring is building a new high-profile office replete with James Bondesque technology.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 6, 2020
California firm buys Fort Myers apartments

Retreat at Vista Lake complex sells for near-record $96 million

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 17, 2026
Fort Myers land zoned for single-family houses sold

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota office property sells, an investor buys a low-income apartment complex in Tampa, and construction starts on a hotel at a Fort Myers mall.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 5, 2022
Dealer group pays $7.2 million for 13.6 acres

Hendrick Automotive Group purchases Bradenton property, will build a new dealership on the site

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2014
Garb Oil & Power seeking new Bay location

The Utah company is looking for a office/warehouse property in the and a site for a new waste-to-energy production plant north of it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 9, 2010
Survival Trot

Gulf Coast nonprofits are getting pounded by the recession. But one is surviving by embracing for-profit business principles.

  • Strategies
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 11, 2026
Longboat Key, Miami Beach resorts selling $187K World Cup package — tickets extra

St. Regis Longboat Key Resort and St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort offer six-day ultra-luxury packages around the global soccer tournament that include the presidential suites, butlers and yacht tours.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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