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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2009
Florist uses Facebook to find more fans

Art Conforti, a gregarious New York transplant who runs one of the Gulf Coast's most successful independent florists, has long said he cherishes the personal connections he makes with customers when selling flowers.

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  • November 20, 2009
Sunnyridge Farms buys Plant City warehouse

Winter Haven-based Sunnyridge Farms purchased a 51,000-square-foot warehouse building with refrigerated storage on Jim Johnson Road north of Roberts Ranch Road for $2.9 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2009
Job market shows signs of stabilizing

A new hiring survey from a national accounting and financial services firm shows that sometimes little or no growth can be a good thing. That's the message from the Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index, which shows the employee markets stabilizing in the accounting and financial industries in the 2010 first quarter.

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  • November 19, 2010
EPA water rules may prove costly

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved final rules designed to cut water pollution causing algae blooms.

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  • June 4, 2010
Invenio Capital buys U.S. 41 development site

Fort Myers-based Invenio Capital and two New York investors purchased 18.24 acres of vacant land for $2.1 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2011
United Insurance posts loss

United's fourth quarter was successful, but the company lost money in 2010.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • February 28, 2011
Chain rocks and rolls to growth mode

A national guitar store chain is in expansion mode for the first time in four years, with the Gulf Coast an integral part of the growth.

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  • January 11, 2013
Restaurant chain hires in bunches

If Florida Gov. Rick Scott comes through on the 700,000 jobs in seven years pledge he made in 2010, he might want to eat a celebratory burrito.

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  • March 15, 2013
Ashton Woods Homes buys first of Rosedale Links lots

The price equated to $86,000 per lot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2013
Re/Max Alliance building sold, new owner plans to subdivide

The price equated to $73 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2011
Southern Corporate Packers buys larger packing warehouse

Southern Corporate Packers Inc. purchased a roughly 40,000-square-foot warehouse building on 6.62 acres on Global Drive for $950,000.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • December 9, 2011
Bradenton broker, foreign investors buy Charter House Apartments

Bradenton real estate broker Lenny Longo and Swedish investors Eastomo Holdings Limited purchased the 57-unit Charter House Apartments for $2.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • August 20, 2013
WCI swings to profitability

WCI Communities says homebuilding sales and average prices rose significantly.

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  • September 25, 2013
WellCare hires N.C. Medicaid director

Carol Steckel resigned her North Carolina position effective Oct. 11 to become WellCare's senior director of public policy.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • August 2, 2013
Homebuilder Toll Brothers plans 54-acre Spanish Wells community

The price equated to $84,537 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • June 17, 2011
St. Petersburg couple buys, renovating Grayl's Hotel

Real estate developer Chuck Prather and and Kathy Reilly Prather purchased the 22-unit Grayl's Hotel for $1.85 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • November 25, 2011
New Jersey investor buys Tampa Denny's

A New Jersey investment group purchased Denny's restaurant buildings in Tampa and Largo for a total of $2.44 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 7, 2012
Avesta Homes buys 43 apartment units

Tampa-based Avesta Homes LLC purchased a 43-unit portfolio of three adjacent apartment properties for $27,326 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 16, 2012
Micro Control Systems buys Emerson Control buildings

Micro Control Systems Inc. purchased the 39,819-square-foot former Emerson Control Techniques industrial buildings for $1.23 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • August 31, 2021
Sarasota company names new senior official following acquisition

Jean-Pierre Parent comes with more than 35 years of managerial experience.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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