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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2017
St. Louis pharmacy giant buys Tampa firm

Tampa-based myMatrixx will be acquired by St. Louis-based Express Scripts.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2018
Financial services firm names director

Carl Watkins was named wealth advisor director at Sarasota-based Allegiant Private Advisors.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 19, 2004
The McDonald's of Home Services

Forget the plumber jokes. VenVest sees heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical services as a huge market ready for standardization and consolidation.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 14, 2022
Christi Scherer Bock, 37

TDS Construction Inc., CEO

  • Class of 2022
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 3, 2018
Well built: Furniture maker overcomes, learns from adversity

Andrew Watson founded Built, a Tampa, Florida-based custom furniture maker, after dropping out of architectural school, but he has learned plenty on the job.

  • Industries
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2004
Case for Balanced Trade

The full text of this article is available free of charge.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 28, 2010
MediHealth bought by Conifer

Conifer will add MediHealth's 12 employees to its existing staff.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 7, 2012
SRI and Synergy Health merge

Domestic and overseas healthcare companies combine.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2011
Colliers International hires brokerage head

Ryan Kratz joined Colliers International as the director of brokerage.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 25, 2010
SDI acquires Stratus Healthcare

Tampa-based SDI Diagnostic Imaging, a radiologist-owned provider of healthcare-imaging services, acquired Brandon-based Stratus Healthcare, a full-service teleradiology provider, to form SDI Teleradiology Inc., which will provide day-and-night teleradiology services.

  • Strategies
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 19, 2014
Fuel service

Africa-based investors plan to transform a small Fort Myers company into a fuel-service giant.

  • Industries
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 1, 2013
Sweet Symphony

A pair of executives bring their history of business success to an IT services firm. Their goal is to help clients do it all.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 17, 2013
Bold business

Startup struggles are so 2007 for Tricia Bolds. Now, with a company nearing $5 million in annual sales, she has other pressing challenges.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 23, 2016
Honor to fly

Debi and Sean Lux launched a nonprofit organization that flies area veterans to visit memorials in Washington, D.C.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 19, 2023
Software entrepreneur finds his footing after personal medical scare

Chris Abbott turned a dreadful few weeks into a new opportunity to get back to what he calls his "entrepreneurial roots."

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2015
Corporate report

Paramedics Plus promotes two execs; Paramedics Plus promotes two execs; Wesco Turf wins industry excellence award; Tampa's No Mo Nausea wins Venture Hive pitch; NetDirector provides services to mortgage firm; Walter Investment Management approves poison pill

  • Strategies
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 20, 2025
Cape Coral shopping center sells for $4.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a day care chain is growing in Lee County, a beachfront property sells in Pinellas County, and a medical building is going up in Sarasota County.

  • Florida
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 23, 2023
Industrial services company moves into Water Street Tampa HQ

Boasso Global presented to Mayor Jane Castor a miniature model of one of the ISO tanks that it services.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 1, 2023
Tampa International Airport adds direct flights to California, Puerto Rico

The nonstop routes will bring travelers to and from San Diego and Aguadilla.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 27, 2012
WRH Realty Services buys, renames Coral Cove Apartments

St. Petersburg-based WRH Realty Services Inc. purchased Coral Cove Apartments for $9.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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