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  • By Denise Federer |
  • February 24, 2017
Create a culture of engagement

To get the most out of your team, sometimes all you have to do is show you care.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 26, 2017
See it through

After a decade of success in Great Britain, a company has brought its different kind of doors stateside. It has some hurdles to overcome.

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  • April 4, 2014
Outsourced laboratory

Celeste Dockery sought an edge when she re-entered the employee leasing industry. She discovered one in a place few peers have dared to try.

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  • By Denise Federer |
  • July 15, 2016
How to work with millennials

Having an attractive firm for millennials doesn't mean pandering to their demands. Instead, find people who are a good fit with your company's values and culture.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 17, 2014
Solar power

An entrepreneur with big goals and a creative streak discovered a way to increase his lending capacity by $10 million. The solution requires some green thinking.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 22, 2015
Reflecting growth

Product partnerships are sometimes good for more than sales increases and exposure. For some smaller firms the arrangements provide another perk: access to success.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 8, 2016
Man of iron

Road-building executive Joe Bonness is so admired for his athletic exploits and cycling advocacy that he has a cycling event that draws hundreds of people named after him: Iron Joe Turkey Ride.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 27, 2017
Hitting the Gas

Following a secretive search process, a new Hillsborough plant will create 350 jobs and occupy a spec industrial building.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2008
Tumblers and Jewelry

Two Gulf Coast businesses are surviving the downturn in their narrowly focused markets.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 29, 2013
Kolter Group files plans for revised Gulfstream project

The developer of the undeveloped 17-story Grande Sarasotan project for downtown Sarasota has submitted new plans to the city for a condominium-hotel development on the 2.9-acre parcel.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • June 8, 2012
Legal Raid

The Gunster law firm has opened its first Gulf Coast office in Tampa by taking all of Ruden McCloskey's Tampa lawyers.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 25, 2021
Waterfront hotel embarks on ambitious renovation, expansion

A renovation beginning in May at the Ritz-Carlton Naples will add new suites and a lounge and redesign interiors at the five-diamond resort.

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  • October 6, 2020
New restaurant opens at area art museum

Bistro at the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College launched Oct. 1.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Bonnie Lee Polk, ATTORNEY, WILLIAMS PARKER, SARASOTA |
  • October 18, 2018
Making Florida Your New Home: How to Ensure Florida is Deemed Your Domicile

Making Florida Your New Home: How to Ensure Florida is Deemed Your Domicile

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  • June 14, 2018
New hospital chooses founding president

Longtime Florida health care and hospital executive Sharon Roush has been named the founding president of one of the newest hospitals in the region,  Sarasota Memorial Hospital – Laurel Road. The 65-acre medical campus and hospital is being built to serv

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 9, 2017
Critical Mass

Dilweg Cos. has spent more than $135 million this year on office buildings to establish itself along the Gulf Coast.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 27, 2013
Diamond Days

A real estate developer's strategy to combat competitors, in what's become a busy marketplace, is to accentuate the positives in his own project. The plan is working.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 10, 2014
Perfect pitch

Banker Jim Gburek indulges his passion for the piano, entertaining bank clients with recitals.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 30, 2015
In the family

A real estate-focused clan, with little fanfare, has millions at stake on a wide variety of projects. with little fanfare.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 21, 2024
IMG Academy adds softball, appoints Olympic medalist as director

The Bradenton school for student-athletes announces its 16th sport, the groundbreaking for facilities and a new Olympic bronze medal-winning director.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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