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  • By Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen Staff |
  • May 22, 2020
Loyalty, Excellence, and Honor Bring Success

Loyalty, Excellence, and Honor Bring Success

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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 14, 2024
Sarasota soccer team appoints head of revenue

David Herman will help build sponsorships and grow ticket sales, among other initiatives, to support the men’s pre-professional soccer team in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • March 29, 2013
Cigar City brews just for Florida

There's no shortage of things to do in Tampa, the former “cigar capital of the world” with Latin cultural influences, tourism, transient residents and sun. But instead of strip clubs or the aquarium, why not try something exclusive to Florida and made in Tampa?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2011
Sarasota's Evie's owners buy ASAP Enterprise building

Sarasota businessmen and father and son Steve and Michael Evanoff purchased the 11,700-square-foot ASAP building for $595,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 18, 2020
Insurance plan distributor buys Texas benefits company

Clearwater, Florida-based AmeriLife Group’s recent deal with American Benefits Exchange expands its reach to include government workers and members of the military.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 11, 2019
Fast-growing tech firm plans 100 hires in region

Drift, a Boston-based conversational marketing firm that serves some 50,000 businesses, has opened an office in Tampa, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2019
Fast-growing cybersecurity firm grows again with acquisition

ReliaQuest, a Tampa, Florida-based enterprise cybersecurity firm, has agreed to acquire Austin-based Threatcare, which offers proactive cyber defense services to tech companies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2016
Heading south for development

Canadian homebuilder Alair Homes' franchise model is foreign to Southwest Florida.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 6, 2025
Pasco County Target sets opening date

The retailer's new 147,000-square-foot store is opening at the Grove at Wesley Chapel.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 24, 2015
Ringling College grads hit it big for Oscars

More than 20 alumni from school worked on Academy Award-winning films.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • May 1, 2015
Land attack

Speculative investment in large land parcels is back. But it takes good timing, plus knowledge, to turn dirt into returns.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Follow the Roads

If you want a good indicator of where to invest for future growth, a good place to start is with the state's road-building plans. If you build them, they will come.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 17, 2023
Pulte buys 197 acres in Riverview, plans for 492 homes

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Dollar General sells, a New Jersey car dealer expands, and 500,000 square feet of industrial space is completed.

  • Florida
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 20, 2010
Driving the Bus

Valerie Harwell, a former insurance manager, has taken on new duties as president and CEO of The Omnia Group. It's a company she has been familiar with from the start.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 28, 2010
Syniverse going private

The Carlyle Group will pay $31 a share to buy the messaging company.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 24, 2021
Accountant arrested in murder-for-hire scheme

Tampa accountant charged with trying to hire a hitman on the Dark web and pay for the murder with Bitcoin.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 1, 2013
Recovery ahead* *if Washington doesn't screw it up

The nascent economic recovery will continue if politicians in Washington can settle their differences and agree on the rules.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 3, 2015
Rich lives

With the estate-tax exemption rising every year, only the wealthiest Americans need life insurance for their estate. John and Billie Resnick move easily in those circles.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 6, 2007
Rauch: Investing

The stock market has discounted all the negatives. So the 'momentum market' will continue its upward march.

  • Opinion
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 4, 2024
Report: Collier ranked worst county in Florida to raise a family

A study from FloridaRentals.com purporting to reveal the best counties in Florida to raise a family revealed a big gap in first to worst across the state.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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