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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 21, 2012
Small Markets, Big Plans

A Bonita Springs business-telecommunications company is exploring Charlotte and Sarasota counties. It hopes to replicate its successful business model.

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  • By Denise Kalette |
  • November 23, 2012
Growing Pains

Tampa International Airport has whittled down its plan to build a grand new terminal, but its strategic growth could still benefit the region.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 17, 2012
Institutional knowledge

Education software companies load all kinds of charges for extras, making accounting difficult. One company charges a flat fee, and it's winning new customers.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 7, 2012
Pickhardt's Plan

Acquiring companies to grow can be a perilous strategy. Pest control entrepreneur George Pickhardt thinks he's found a way to hedge against the hazards.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2012
CEO Predictions 2012

Leaders from throughout the Gulf Coast business community talk about their expectations for 2012.

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  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • December 23, 2011
Recovery Building

Hardin Construction Senior Vice President Page McKee is one of a dozen industry experts who sat down with the Review to project the direction of the economy in 2012.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2020
Area company hires sports card experts to lead grading service

Certified Sports Guaranty is hiring for positions in grading, receiving, verification, production and more.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 27, 2020
Bankers embrace opportunities to shine for clients

Behind the drive-thru-only branches and iPad meetings lies a core community banker belief: They want to be there for customers.

  • Finance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 16, 2020
Health care company to pay $41M in fraud settlement

A Tampa health lab and clinic were accused of billing government programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 17, 2020
Homebuilders hammer away at digital transformation

With showings plummeting, builders get creative on selling homes.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2020
Retailer names new CEO, shifts board roles

New Chico’s FAS CEO Molly Langenstein joined the company in August.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2020
Company restores executive pay while it staves off bankruptcy

Rental car giant Hertz Global Holdings has until May 22 to come up with new plan to avoid liquidating vehicles or other issues.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • June 17, 2020
Banking leader takes inspiration from the mantra 'Keep Calm and Carry On'

Adria Starkey is the Collier County president of FineMark National Bank & Trust.

  • Finance
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 21, 2019
Get To Know ... Scott Cietek

Scott Cietek, the new head of the commercial division at Sarasota-based real estate brokerage firm Michael Saunders & Co., joins the firm after a career in the mortgage business and in economic development.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 4, 2022
Buzz off: Survey reveals most annoying 'Business English' words, phrases

'New normal' has topped the list of most-hated jargon and buzzwords in U.S. workplaces, according to a new survey.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2022
Area meat stick company picks up $80M investment

Naples-based firm now now valued at up to $300 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 18, 2018
Over the cliff, with no regrets

Chad Nuss, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based serial entrepreneur, is comfortable taking risks, which he says is essential for good business ideas.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 1, 2018
In Memoriam: John Morroni, 1955-2018

The late Pinellas County Commissioner John Morroni is being remembered for leading and inspiring others.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2018
Tampa Bay Rays acquire soccer club

The Tampa Bay Rays appear to have a deal in place to buy the Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer club from St. Petersburg, Florida, businessman Bill Edwards, and gain control of Al Land Stadium, the Rowdies' waterfront home.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2018
Prominent area attorney, firm storyteller and mentor, dies

Robert “Doc” Benjamin used a combination of wit, wisdom and a "yes we can" work ethic, became one of the most prominent business attorneys in the Sarasota-Manatee region for three decades.

  • News
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