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  • By Denise Federer |
  • February 12, 2016
How to choose a trusted adviser

Having skilled professionals to help navigate issues and provide advice is essential for any family business. Make sure you know what qualities you seek to help you select the right ones.

  • Strategies
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 26, 2016
Social studies

The Tampa Bay Rays, even with well-documented attendance issues, have more than 1 million social media participants. How other businesses can score that kind of success.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 12, 2015
Hard throw

Naples attorney James Morey is a nationally ranked javelin thrower in his age group. Watching the summer Olympic Games in 2012 rekindled his interest in the sport.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 13, 2015
Euro angels

Bethann Kassman is part of a growing network of angel investors in Naples scouting for investments in early stage companies.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 2, 2024
Siesta Key pioneer, newspaper founder and businessman dies at 93

The community leader started Davidson Drugs in 1958, founded and published the Pelican Press and tirelessly served his fellow islanders.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 15, 2018
Q&A: Bruce Erhardt

Bruce Erhardt of Cushman & Wakefield reflects on four decades of land deals and changes in and around Tampa Bay

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2008
Corporate Report

Roper Industries buys Georgia software makerAerosonic hires new COO,exec VP/CFO to resignpring Air Co. CEO resigns,COO, Sales VP step inUtek Corp. makes acquisition,enters licensing agreementIntertape Polymer Groupadds in-house solvent coaterBusch Gardens exec to manage Dubai parksWalter Industries subsidiarypurchases Taft Coal SalesMIVA Media debutingonline ad platform

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2008
Writedown Countdown

Investors are implementing writedowns checkson bank stocks as a new Wall Street ritual.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 19, 2009
Corporate Report: Roper Industries buys UTS, plans to also acquire Verathon

Sarasota-based Roper Industries Inc. has acquired the assets of United Toll Services LLC, a Montgomery-Ala. based provider of software and hardware systems for vehicle toll and traffic adjustment, and also signed a definitive agreement to acquire Verathon Inc. of Bothell, Wash., a maker of specialty medical devices.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 1, 2019
Freezer space is catching fire

With new grocery chaIns, restaurants and other users in the market, refrigerated and freezer space is poised to gain momentum along the Gulf Coast as never before.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 15, 2026
Rural 1,675-acre Manatee County site up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Bradenton used car lot is sold, an 60-acre parcel sells in Fort Myers, and a hotel and restaurant sell in Clearwater.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 18, 2022
Prominent business, finance executive points out recession indicators

PGT Innovations' Jeff Jackson details what he looks for to get to the if and when of a recession.

  • Strategies
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
Gateway to Sales

The right connections got N.J. Olivieri in the door. Planning and technology then helped him close on $124 million in real estate sales in three states.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2008
Pssst ... need a job?

QuietHire seeks to fill the niche ofjob-seekers who do not want their employerto know they are looking elsewhere.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • November 5, 2009
Preventive Care

It seems like common sense. The point of hiring an IT expert is to save money on technology costs. But according to Terry Hedden, that's not always how it works. He says it all comes down to incentives, and that his company has the right ones in place.

  • Strategies
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  • By John Haughey |
  • March 29, 2019
Highly-touted driverless car testing track in region nears several milestones

Commercial clients are coming into view for SunTrax. Will Google or Uber be next?

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2018
New Markets

In modernizing PhosLab, George Fernandez didn't forget its roots: passion

  • Strategies
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 9, 2018
The perfect elevator pitch

How to use 'red light, yellow light, green light' approach like a pro.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 13, 2013
Take the profits

Gulf Coast banks boosted profits 14% in the third quarter, buoyed by a recovering economy.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 15, 2016
The judge rules

Michael McHugh, the chief judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit in Fort Myers, ran his first marathon so fast last year he qualified for the Boston Marathon.

  • Entrepreneurs
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