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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 22, 2015
Hertz announces equipment spinoff

Under pressure from activist investors, car-rental giant Hertz says its long-awaited plan to spin off its equipment-rental business will be completed by the middle of 2016.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 28, 2015
The butler did it

Sarasota entrepreneur Bill Merritt recently found success in front of an unusual audience for his low-tech product — a cup holder that attaches to a laptop computer, called the Laptop Butler.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2014
Ken Neal Corp., Matrix24 moving to 301 Mower Shop building

Sarasota's Ken Neal Corp. purchased the 17,086-square-foot former 301 Mower Shop industrial building for $825,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 30, 2015
Western Global Airlines affiliate buys Estero Park Commons

A company affiliated with air-cargo carrier Western Global Airlines LLC purchased a 22,480-square-foot office building for $2.5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2015
Future depends on millennials

Baby boomers are credited with trending real estate into the suburbs, but now it's millennials making the push back to urban cores.

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  • February 11, 2015
Nicholas buying back $70M in shares

Company CEO set to make up to $1.6 million in the Dutch auction.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 20, 2015
Leveraging LinkedIn

Entrepreneur Terry Hedden uses LinkedIn to snag top talent.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 27, 2015
Tampa neighborhood house-flipping hotspot

Town 'N Country area joins neighborhoods in Detroit, Los Angeles, Jacksonville and San Diego were buying and selling quickly still rules.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2015
New partnership targets 300 supply chain jobs

CareerEdge Funders Collaborative and St. Petersburg College team up.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 3, 2015
Mallah's Equity Management Partners buys, renovating Boardwalk at Morris Bridge Road

Equity Management Partners Inc. purchased the 146-unit, 580-bed Boardwalk at Morris Bridge Road student housing development for $17.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 3, 2015
Mallah's Equity Management Partners buys, renovating Boardwalk at Morris Bridge Road

Equity Management Partners Inc. purchased the 146-unit, 580-bed Boardwalk at Morris Bridge Road student housing development for $17.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 9, 2015
NASA, Vology sign potential $20B deal

The 10-year agreement will give the Oldsmar company first crack at providing information technology services to the federal government.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 24, 2024
Tampa Bay eye specialists combine

Sight360, a vision-care service company, has merged with Florida Eye Specialists and Cataract Institute, an ophthalmology and optometry practice.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • January 25, 2024
Startup accelerator program aims to transform climate technology

The Tampa Bay Innovation Center is launching its next startup accelerator, which will focus on innovations in climate technology, sustainability and resilience.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 9, 2023
Mellow Mushroom pizza chain plans Cape Coral location

National stone-baked pizza chain Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers plans to open a Cape Coral location in 2024.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 11, 2024
East Coast pizza franchise coming to Collier County

Ledo Pizza will open in late August in Ave Maria.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 5, 2024
$7.5M St. Pete Beach luxury hotel renovation nearly done

The work, which is due to be finished in the fall, will change the boutique property into a four-star luxury hotel.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 1, 2024
Hoffmann's Midwest buying spree continues with cruise company purchase

The Naples business conglomerate has bought a Michigan cruise business with two ships.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 6, 2024
84-unit affordable housing community to open in Sarasota

Cypress Square opens at a time when finding affordable or attainable housing is getting more difficult and bridges “the affordable housing supply-demand gap.”

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 24, 2024
IRS names new top cop for Tampa criminal investigation field office

The IRS Criminal Investigation Tampa Field Office has named veteran investigator Ronald Loecker special agent in charge.

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