Tampa Bay Business News, Companies, Real Estate & Economic Development
►Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Charities announced it will donate $5 million to more than 240 nonprofit organizations, including Feeding America member food banks, which focuses on alleviating hunger across Publix’s operating area. ►GTE Financial opened a Community Financial Center located at 5320 U.S. Highway 98 North, Lakeland. ►After a national search, Florida Orthopaedic Institute hired … Read more
► Construction began on Doc Ford’s Rum Bar and Grille at The St. Pete Pier. ► St. Petersburg’s Hunger + Thirst Group will shutter Kings Street Food Counter in the Edge District and will establish a new unnamed concept in the same location. ► The Pinellas Community Foundation moved into new offices in the Bayside … Read more
► The International Union of Police Association purchased an office building for $2.6 million located in the RidgeGate Center at 5632 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota for its new headquarters. ► Minnesota-based Key Surgical LLC acquired Sarasota-based Encompas Unlimited. ► Interior Logic Group acquired Sterling Manufacturing, a Sarasota-based countertop and cabinetry business. ► Venice-based PGT Innovations … Read more
A roundup of leadership moves, promotions, mergers and investments across Hillsborough County.
Autumn is here which means pumpkin latte’s, and that’s about the extent of it for Tampa Bay, at least for most days. We Floridians know that there are few chances to wear our boots and scarves, until closer to the holidays. But that doesn’t change our desire to dress for work, and fun, like it’s … Read more
St. Petersburg residents watch as the cranes hover over The St. Pete Pier construction site, and they wait to enjoy the new iteration of a city landmark, but people of a certain age will always remember the “inverted pyramid” and the time they spent there. Nostalgia is great, but progress and evolution of tastes and … Read more
The annual Martinis for Moffitt cocktail reception, or “Summer’s biggest party,” was held July 21 at The Straz Center for Performing Arts. The reception was hosted by Bay Area Advisors.
The Association for Corporate Growth held its 8th Annual Wine Tasting at Raymond James Stadium. ACG’s members include professionals from private equity firms, corporations and lenders that invest in middle-market companies, as well as from law, accounting, investment banking and other firms that provide advisory services.
How would the people in your life describe you and what drives you? How would your colleagues at work and clients describe working with you? How consistent are the answers? Change is inevitable. Think about the technology and environment that frame our day-to-day life. How many of us have a camera, a day planner or … Read more
Recently, I spoke to an organization that spent an ungodly amount of time, energy and money on social media to create lead generation. I asked, “Now what? How’s your closing ratio?” They looked at me like I had three heads. Just because we believe that we’ve found a new way to generate business, it doesn’t … Read more