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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 28, 2010
Oct. 28: HMA, TE

HMA Inc. earnings per share up 40%; TECO Energy net income decreases.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2010
Preview: Sink's business plan

The latest opinion piece from Editor Matt Walsh takes on Alex Sink's proposal for Florida business.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 18, 2020
Nuveen buys Lakeland building from Brennan

TIAA affiliate’s $41.2 million purchase marks the latest disposition of spec-developed asset in the Interstate 4 Corridor by Illinois developer

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 10, 2020
Down Under cuisine on an upswing

Tampa, Florida-based Bloomin' Brands is adding more Aussie Grills in the domestic market. The fast-casual concept debuted last year in Saudi Arabia and then expanded to Hong Kong.

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  • March 6, 2020
Ready to rumble: New gym concept hopes to be a contender

Heavyweight boxing champ Floyd Mayweather's training regimen has been turned into a fitness franchise that recently arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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  • December 10, 2020
Southwest Airlines expands schedule at area airport

The new seasonal service will be in addition to the previously announced daily service to Baltimore/Washington, Chicago, Nashville and Houston.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2023
Six months after Ian, furniture store destroyed in storm reopens

The floods and devastation left by Ian pushed the partners, and some employees, of Badcock Home Furniture & more to the brink. But a sense of normalcy is creeping back.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 29, 2005
Calendar of Events

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 4, 2010
Free to Choose

A revamped “Consumer Choice Act” designed to gain the governor's support, encourage more competition and lower prices in the property insurance market, may run into election year politics and get vetoed again.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 17, 2007
Coffee Talk

Sarasota company hopes to shine in India: Sarasota-based cartridge valve manufacturer Sun Hydraulics has a good grip on at least six global markets, from Korea to Germany.Lee County: Anotherday, another tax: Not a week goes by in Lee County that county government doesn't dream up another tax on builders.Cold storage creates trifecta for Sarasota warehouse: The latest tenant for the Meridian Distribution Center, a 950,000-square-foot warehouse facility on Clark Road in south Sarasota, is especially apropos, given the sweltering Gulf Coast summerAnother public company going private: First, there was Outback Steakhouse. Now, St. Petersburg-based Catalina Marketing is headed to the private companies club.Nightline dumbs down Ave Maria: Ave Maria, the new town being built in eastern Collier County around the newest Catholic university, has been getting lots of national publicity lately opening to new residents, students and faculty.Good guys sometimes lose: Ethical companies don't always win, even when their employees do the right thing.Call the sign shop, again: MacDill Federal Credit Union, an institution of sorts in the Tampa area financial services industry, is changing its name to Grow Financial Federal Credit Union.Kottkamp bashes Hometown Democracy: Gov. Charlie Crist has been notably absent from the raging debate over the Hometown Democracy movement that seeks to put every major land-use change in Florida on the ba

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  • May 8, 2017
MTV reality show to focus on region hotspot

According to Adweek, the show will feature rising college sophomores.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 21, 2025
School buys $2.1M site in North Port for new campus

Imagine School at North Port purchased a site for its new campus in Sarasota County.

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  • October 8, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Oct. 8 - Oct. 14

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • July 11, 2024
$20M Fort Myers Beach portfolio, including restaurant, listed for sale

Bonita Bill's Waterfront Café is part of a multi-property collection of properties that has been put on the market and a sign of the imminent change coming to the community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 12, 2026
Naples apartment developer gets $45 million loan, starts construction

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Tampa building sells for $94 million, a historic Sarasota project gets permits, and Estero’s Ritz-Carlton residences opens tower.

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  • October 16, 2013
So bright you gotta wear Google glasses

Could Google glasses boost tourism?

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 2, 2006
Corporate Report

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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • February 2, 2026
AI, emerging tech at the forefront of annual annual jobs summit

Speakers from multiple industries across Florida cited emerging technologies and artificial intelligence as a one of the key changes in the way they do business in 2026.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 7, 2025
45 years after buying Tampa land, Seminoles keep expanding Hard Rock

What started as a smoke shop and burial ground on 8.5 acres is today a massive casino and hotel that never sleeps.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 9, 2016
Entrepreneur returns

The lure of getting back into home contracting services was too powerful for Jim Abrams.

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