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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 26, 2019
WellCare boss aces performance review

Employees at Tampa, Florida-based WellCare Health Plans Inc. seem to like their CEO, even when they have the chance to anonymously share their thoughts about him.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2022
Naples soap business opens another store — its biggest yet

Naples Soap Co. taps into Orlando market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 12, 2018
Banyan Street to buy Tampa City Center?

Banyan Street Capital is poised to acquire the 39-story Tampa City Center skyscraper, which would be the largest transaction in Tampa's downtown in the past three years

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 18, 2019
Retailer, college form valuable partnership

Fort Myers-based retailer Chico’s FAS, through a partnership with Florida Gulf Coast University, recently worked on a bevy of projects with some 50 students, from blogs to software to recruiting

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2017
Free man

Former celebrated banker set for federal prison release.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2024
Report: Cape Coral-Fort Myers leads the nation in rental vacancies

The study found the metro area had the highest number of home rentals that are vacant, metro Tampa was No. 20.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 14, 2025
FDLE develops new, 64,000-square-foot Fort Myers operations center

The new facility will be built on 8.4 acres along the Alico corridor and bring several divisions under one roof.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 27, 2025
Global footwear retailer chooses Fort Myers for debut brick-and-mortar store

The shoe store is located at the open-air Bell Tower shopping destination.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 31, 2023
South Florida global trade firm moves HQ to Manatee County

The Oxford Group Inc. had been based in Boca Raton.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 18, 2025
Hoffmann adds to media holdings with purchase of Colorado newspaper

The Naples company adds another newspaper to its growing roster of print and digital publications.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Elizabeth Thomas, 29

Owner/aesthetician, Pure Skincare by Elizabeth

  • Class of 2017
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 5, 2018
Franklin Street promotes Kersting to managing director

Tampa-based commercial real estate brokerage Franklin Street has promoted Tom Kersting, an Aon veteran who had led the company's Insurance Services division, to managing director.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2014
Walter Investment subsidiary to layoff 60

Green Tree Servicing LLC plans to be out of the whole mortgage lending business by April shaving 60 jobs.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 23, 2006
Organizational Clarity

Harley Davidson dealer Scott Fischer is fanatical about improving employee morale and his customers' experience. He calls it a sickness. But his company is healthier than ever.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 22, 2014
Stomp on it

The grow-through-acquisition tactic is easy to diagram, complicated to execute. A Gulf Coast firm with a new CEO who previously ran a pair of multibillion-dollar businesses leads the way.

  • Strategies
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 14, 2022
Erin Silk, 34

Economic Development Corp. of Sarasota County, vice president of business development services

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • July 1, 2010
Stepping Up

40 UNDER 40 WINNER: Andrew Wright, 29, Tampa

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jamie Kane |
  • June 14, 2013
Discover what matters to your customers

Setting up a selling process that increases customer feedback and contact can enhance the breadth and depth of your relationship — and boost sales.

  • Strategies
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 5, 2024
4 communities in region rank among top 15 for US home sales

Lakewood Ranch, Wellen Park, Mirada and Babcock Ranch rank in the top 15 master-planned communities in the country, according to real estate firm RCLCO.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2020
Southwest Airlines expands schedule at area airport

The new seasonal service will be in addition to the previously announced daily service to Baltimore/Washington, Chicago, Nashville and Houston.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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