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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 3, 2015
Tech jobs grow, but wages lag

Florida isn't Silicon Valley quite yet, but it's getting closer.

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 4, 2024
Insurance firm wins contest, donates $10K to Sarasota cancer foundation

The nonprofit helps families whose children are battling cancer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 19, 2023
Strategy shift pays off for locally based homebuilder

No longer one of the little guys, Fort Myers-based Christopher Alan Homes — a $142M business — keeps expanding in Southwest Florida and statewide.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 8, 2013
Health Care Scramble

Insurance brokers, accountants and lawyers are poring over the details of Obamacare and helping their clients make decisions that at this point are sometimes little better than educated guesses.

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  • January 30, 2004
Martha Stewart Bets (Tampa edition)

Investors hope attorney Robert Morvillo will resuscitate the fortunes of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. by rescuing its 62-year-old founder and former chairwoman from six or more years in prison.

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  • November 29, 2007
Survival Time

The homebuilding industry continues to suffer and struggle. In the Sarasota-Manatee area, a big company swallows its contingency plan, while a small one figures out how to grow.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 1, 2005
Fight Over 'X'

Fuente Cigar Ltd. wants a federal judge to order a competitor to stop using its trademarked 'X.'

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • August 5, 2011
Government Digest: Aug. 5

Governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

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  • June 24, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: June 24

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 25, 2015
Commercial Real Estate: An 'amazing year'

Fueled by abundant capital and economic gains, commercial real estate of many kinds hit new highs along the Gulf Coast in 2015.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 29, 2023
Tampa grocery store on brink of opening plans to hire 95

The new Sprouts Farmers Market is one of 10 the company is opening in Florida this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 28, 2023
National pet hospital company expands to Tampa

GoodVets’ local practice will be operated by veterinarian Dr. Andrea Caspary.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2023
Sarasota architecture firm names new partner

Karl Bernhard has been with Sweet Sparkman Architecture and Interiors for over seven years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • February 14, 2014
Rare Hospitality buys Toys'R'Us for future LongHorn Steakhouse

The price equated to $77 per square foot.

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  • July 2, 2009
New technology for Lee County tourism

The travel industry was one of the first to be rocked by the recession. So companies that specialize in lowering the cost of vacation packages have grown in demand.

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  • September 3, 2009
Publix buys former Herald-Tribune building

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  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • November 19, 2010
New Horizons, Qoncert buy in Laurel center

Two Tampa technology-focused businesses purchased 56,000 square feet of commercial condo space in the Laurel Street Commerce Center, plus two acres, for $1.54 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • January 10, 2011
Savtira adds CFO, directors

The young Tampa company has bolstered its executive staff.

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  • August 6, 2010
Yippy for Glenn Beck, he's their man

Fort Myers-based Internet firm Yippy Inc. isn't shy about why it advertises its Web browser on the Fox News channel.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 3, 2013
GTIS Partners affiliate buys North Park land

The price equated to $20,795 per acre.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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