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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 7, 2014
Former Google engineer to lead Voalte Labs

Fast-growing mobile health care communications firm launches new unit.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • September 12, 2014
Unique startup aims to cool off airplanes

Bradenton-based Verde GSE plans to hire 14 employees over the next five years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • June 24, 2014
Builders' group brings back pride

The Gulf Coast Builders Exchange aims to promote its members.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • August 26, 2016
'Brilliant with the basics'

Wall Street analysts credit a sales resurgence at the Olive Garden — a new breadstick recipe helped — with being at the forefront of the so-far successful corporate turnaround at Darden Restaurants.

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  • August 26, 2016
Create a tribe

A core theme of the 2016 Florida Working Women Conference, one of the more prominent Tampa annual events for women executives and entrepreneurs, is overcoming self-imposed limits.

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  • September 19, 2016
Blockbuster acquisition catapults tech giant into new markets

Tech Data will enter the Asia-Pacific market.

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  • October 2, 2016
Tampa real estate firm targets national expansion

Franklin Street was founded in 2006.

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  • October 14, 2016
40 under 40: Going places

The theme of the 2016 Business Observer 40 under 40 issue revolves around people who are going places — and who get there with grace, elegance and style.

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  • June 29, 2016
Chico's rebuts investor

The board battle at Chico's FAS took another turn Wednesday as the women's retailer accused a shareholder of a “self-serving proxy contest.”

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  • July 1, 2016
Chico's reality show

Corporate proxy battles are usually fought behind the scenes in boardrooms with sparse details buried in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 18, 2016
Benderson sticking by Stickney Point plan

Despite the area's economic revival — now five years in the making — the 25-acre property at U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road in Sarasota County has remained fallow.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 1, 2016
Downtown Tampa Office Market

Tampa's downtown office market surged in the final half of 2015, the result of shrinking vacancy, a dearth of new construction and improved leasing activity, an analysis of CoStar Group data shows.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • November 27, 2015
All for one, in lodging

A group of hotel operators in downtown Tampa, Ybor City and South Tampa have teamed up for a unique marketing effort: The hotels, 15 in all, are creating a destination district, where every property will contribute to a pot for an overall marketing initiative.

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  • August 21, 2015
How to ... Create a successful succession plan

A fundamental element for strong succession, says Sarasota business attorney Jo Ann Koontz, is to plan for it, early and often.

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  • December 5, 2014
Fast-growth investment firm to hire 75 people

Global Financial Private Capital will move out of its downtown Sarasota offices.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 20, 2015
Creative craft

Research, on both the candidate and the client, is essential when filling tough-to-fill spots.

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  • March 24, 2015
WellCare chair, former CEO, steps down

Christian Michalik replaces David Gallitano as the leader of the Tampa-based managed health care services company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 10, 2015
Lawyer fights against wage ordinance

The St. Petersburg City Council will give a new localized wage theft ordinance a second reading April 16, but one attorney hopes to stop it.

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  • July 30, 2024
Fort Myers airport gets new CEO, executive director

Steven Hennigan joined the Lee County Port Authority in 2021 and will now lead operations, administration and development at Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 27, 2024
Work officially begins to transform long-vacant St. Pete hospital site

Ten years after Edward White hospital closed in St. Petersburg, work has started to convert it into affordable housing for seniors.

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