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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 18, 2022
Area resident gets federal prison for $800K COVID-19 relief fraud

Louis Thornton III applied for federal relief funds in the names of defunct companies

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 24, 2018
Growing community breaks ground on new Publix

Publix will anchor a 105,000-square-foot retail plaza scheduled to open in fall 2019.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 16, 2018
Economic Forecast: Zac Kearns, vice president, Kearns Restaurant Group

Zac Kearns sees rebound from off year for Kearns Restaurant Group because of green algae, red tide

  • Travel-Tourism
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2018
Recently awarded patent is first for technical college

A Manatee Technical College instructor invented a method to teach the theory of the air conditioning system.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2018
Tampa Bay Rays’ $892 million Ybor City dream edges closer to reality

Tampa Bay Rays 2020, a nonprofit group of business and community leaders that’s drumming up support for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, has secured $160 million in support for the project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 30, 2018
STAR search: Development opportunity seeks new direction

The future of Pinellas County, Florida's Young & Rainey Science Technology & Research Center has been thrown into doubt again after the county’s economic development agency rejected three bids for the 96-acre light industrial and technology park in Largo,

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  • December 5, 2018
Digital marketing company names new CEO

John Lemp will transition to a role as chairman of Revcontent’s board of directors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 28, 2018
Area company certifies artifacts from Neil Armstrong collection

CAG is part of the Certified Collectibles Group of companies, which also includes certification services for coins, comic books and stamps.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2019
Let them eat cake: Grocer takes dessert offerings to new level with imports

Publix Super Markets Inc. has struck a deal that will see the Lakeland, Florida-based grocer import premium, handmade cakes from La Rocca, a Canadian cake maker.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 6, 2019
Elvis has left the building

Daniel Peek, who while at HFF negotiated some of the largest hotel sales in area history, has left the firm amid its merger with JLL to join Hodges Ward Elliott, a New York brokerage, where he will be president of its hospitality division.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2019
Prominent real estate development firm names new CEO

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based The Sembler Co., which has developed more than 350 real estate projects totaling 27 million square feet throughout the Southeast and Puerto Rico, has named Greg Sembler CEO, effective Jan. 1.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 11, 2019
Restaurant chain unveils new concept with games, face tracking and robots

Caliburger 2.0 scheduled to open in University Village Shops in Fort Myers sometime this month.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 8, 2019
Bank backs development project with $664M loan

Arkansas bank has increased its construction loan portfolio nationwide.

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  • November 13, 2019
Region’s largest public company to be acquired for $5.4B

Tech Data Corp. has agreed to be acquired, for $5.4 billion, by an affiliate of funds managed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 15, 2019
Company donates portion of sales to coral reef project

Venice-based Enzymedica is helping Sarasota-based Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium with its coral efforts.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2019
Country club debuts $5.2 million renovation project

The new restaurant at Shadow Wood Country Club is named Golfside Grill.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 17, 2019
Tech firm shuffles C-suite, other leadership roles with promotions

Business software company ConnectWise has promoted Jason Magee, who joined the Tampa, Florida-based firm in 2011 and had been serving as executive vice president and chief operating officer, to president.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 15, 2019
Medical device maker gets warm welcome to neighborhood

TouchPoint Medical, a subsidiary of Concordville, Pa.-based TouchPoint Inc. that makes equipment carts and mounts for high-tech medical devices, broke ground Feb. 6 on what will be a $30 million, 142,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in The Preserve,

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 8, 2019
High school students find recipe for success

Teen-operated benefit corporation feasts on triple-digit growth in 2018.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 12, 2019
International focus, delivery flexibility fuel big gains for DHL Express in region

DHL Express, a division of German-based shipping company DHL, continues to thrive in the Tampa Bay, Florida, region, citing 20.5% growth in shipping volume over the past year.

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