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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2003
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: FNB joins Big BoardThe Hillsborough Clerk of the Court has quickly quashed an unauthorized interpretation of the recent state Supreme Court order Tampa developer Jim Shapiro joines Hall of Fame

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Clearwater Bar Association just earned the single largest rebate, $19,830, in the programis recent historyBank spars with analystFire intensifiesMr./Mrs. Clearwater

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 10, 2004
Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Housing authority: Tail between its legs?Criminally dumbChange of plansIndustry ownershipGuardian Solutions in the spotlight

  • News
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 19, 2009
Want to buy a bridge?

Researchers at the University of Maine figured a new way to build a longer lasting, easy-to-assemble bridge for the U.S. Army. Now, a Bonita Springs-based company plans to sell it to states and municipalities.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2010
Corporate Report: Tigrent hires interim CEO, revises licensing agreement

Cape Coral-based financial educational training provider Tigrent Inc. has appointed Steven C. Barre as interim CEO after the departure of Charles M. Peck.

  • Strategies
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  • By Bloomberg News |
  • January 7, 2011
U.S. Unemployment at 9.4%

The nation's employers added 103,000 net jobs in December 2010.

  • News
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • October 15, 2010
Changing the Channel

Tampa's WMOR promotes itself as one of the nation's top independent TV stations. By way of digital conversion, it has evolved from one channel to three.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 4, 2011
Tool Guy

Jeff Brown's power-tool stores faced the twin challenges of the construction recession and competition from big-box stores like Home Depot.

  • Strategies
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 14, 2013
Sorry, not enough people have died yet

Put another way, not enough people died or suffered irreversible maladies on their hour-long or 30-minute ambulance rides to one of the far-away hospitals.

  • Opinion
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jay Brady |
  • August 19, 2011
Rules Redux

Bruce Mitchell, president of Clearwater-based Rally Stores Inc., and chairman of the Florida Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, sees the bottom-line benefit to the proposed repeal of a redundant state rule impacting his industry.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 25, 2012
On the Loading Dock

Tenants aren't vacating warehouses like they did during the economic downturn. In some areas, they're starting to fill space again. Could development be far behind?

  • Strategies
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • May 20, 2021
Brewing company relies on out-of-the-box thinking for success

Jen Whyte used the pandemic to try new business practices

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 15, 2021
Local law firms get creative in recruitment

The current hiring environment for law firms, like in most industries, is complicated. A few firms have found new ways to move head, while keeping some features that work.

  • Law
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • November 11, 2020
Insurance firm builds up leadership team in recent months

Insurance executive Steve Herrig has learned some big lessons about hiring top leaders over the years. A big one: don’t do it alone.

  • Insurance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 2, 2020
Area bank scores big win in PPP loans

Valley Bank beats out larger competitors in handling PPP loans for clients.

  • News
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 21, 2020
Bioscience firm makes progress on another kind of vaccine

Making good long-term decisions, the lifeblood of any thriving business, is a pressure-packed task at Morphogenesis. The impact — good or bad — could take years to materialize.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • September 25, 2020
OK Boomer: Lawyer builds niche with a certain demographic

With a strong background in business, an area lawyer has focused his firm on a specific demographic group — baby boomers.

  • Law
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 9, 2020
Service winner: Sports exec overcomes long odds to pull off premier event

Stacey Allaster, a St. Petersburg, Florida, resident and longtime tennis executive, in June became the first woman to be named tournament director of the U.S. Open in the prestigious event’s 140-year history.

  • Leadership
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 15, 2020
Ali St Cyr, 32

Broker/co-owner, Tomlin St Cyr Real Estate Services

  • Class of 2020
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 15, 2020
Entrepreneur tackles pandemic — after beating cancer

When you’ve started your business in the recession, and are in remission from cancer, it can help put things in perspective.

  • Strategies
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