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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 6, 2025
Industrial property outside Tampa sold to Texas investor

Transwestern Investment Group, the Texas real estate investment firm, has bought the 302,940-square-foot Mango I-4 Logistics in Seffner for an undisclosed amount.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 15, 2025
Credit union names market president for three counties in region

Achieva Credit Union has appointed Ryan Cooke as market president for Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 9, 2026
Swedish construction firm to rebuild Tampa school in $77M project

Work to combine Stewart Middle Magnet and Just Elementary schools is set to begin this month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 29, 2022
Flight cancellations, airport updates from Hurricane Ian at TPA, PIE, SRQ, RSW, PGD

Forecast to approach west central Florida on Wednesday, Hurricane Ian is impacting travel across the region.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 20, 2011
The Egg Man

Craig Sweet, a Fort Myers fertility doctor, says there's a business solution to abandoned embryos. He's encouraging their owners to donate them to his company.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 25, 2012
Money Bugs

How hard could it be to sell insect-repellent in Florida? It's not as easy as you think, but one entrepreneur is undeterred.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • December 1, 2021
Six steps to find an attitude of gratitude

Personal signs of appreciation go a long way.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • December 9, 2016
Live and learn

Several ad industry executives opened up about their biggest career goofs. An overarching theme: Humility goes a long way.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Tampa

The top Tampa Bay commercial real estate sales of 2016 stand in stark contrast to those of the prior year, and reversed a trend toward investors buying downtown trophy properties.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 19, 2017
Jump right in

When Rosanne Clementi couldn't find the niche product she wanted, she built it on her own. Translating that to a successful business is the hard part.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Ted Carter |
  • July 21, 2017
Wired In

Despite more than $2 million of losses in two years, a company hopes to turn its valued TV technology into a winning model.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 8, 2017
Change it up

An inventor with a never-quit attitude aims to find success in virtual realty. 'I want to create the technology to catch that wave,' he says.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2014
Corporate Report

Pushing the Envelope wins two Golden Image awards; Hertz debuts new mobile car app for trip planning, in-car GPS syncing; Discount Coupons Corp. buying Conejo Deals websites; Flameret subsidiary introducing hemp oil product and more corporate news.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 7, 2014
Keeping it Fresh

After spending eight years working on the Freshy product line, C-5 Biotechnologies is on the brink of its first major distribution accounts. Now it just needs to be able to fulfill the orders.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 28, 2014
Spy games

A one-man wine retail and brokerage business hit $1 million in sales last year. The goal now: Continue to stick it to bigger competitors.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 5, 2014
Collaboration Nation

An area design college unleashed its talented minds on the business community. Potential for a variety of interesting, and revenue-generating, projects is high.

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  • By Elizabeth Morrisey |
  • September 2, 2016
Demand more

A hip work culture, down to the Frisbee breaks across the street, has fueled fast growth at a Polk County ad agency.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 15, 2016
Changing lanes

Steve Martin gave up a lucrative career in advertising to pursue his cycling passion with a bike shop. Bike Bistro has good coffee, too.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 12, 2016
Driving talent

Hertz's new corporate campus in Estero dispels a lingering misperception that real business doesn't happen in Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
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