► Buddy Brew Coffee won a distribution agreement with Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, the parent company of Winn-Dixie, Fresco y Mas and others, which will carry Bolt, Buddy Brew’s organic, ready-to-drink, canned, cold brew coffee in original and nitro at 110 Winn-Dixie locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
► ServisFirst Bank, a subsidiary of ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS), promoted Patrick Ahern to ServisFirst Bank Tampa senior vice president for commercial banking.
► Keith Sedita and partner Jill Faline Sedita opened plant-based Florish, in south Tampa, across from Plant High School.
► Ron and Ronnie Oats opened Brightway, The Oats Agency at 1211 Tech Blvd., Suite 162, in Tampa.
► BDO USA, a Tampa accounting and advisory firm, named Cristina Hale the tax office’s managing partner for the firm’s Central Florida offices.
► Cammie Chatterton, owner of Bay Food Brokerage, joined the executive board of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Devin White’s charity, Get Live 45 Foundation.
► Sophia Turner-Smith was named chief marketing officer at Kelley Kronenberg, in Tampa.
► Tampa-based Peerfit, an exercise technology company, was bought by Los Angeles-based FitOn.
► Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of Refresco Beverages, an industrial property located in Tampa, for $39.25 million.
► CareerSource Tampa Bay named Byron Clayton senior vice president and chief of sector partnerships and Michelle A. Zieziula as senior vice president and chief impact officer.
►The South Tampa Chamber named Charles Lockwood, senior vice president for USF Health, dean of the Morsani College of Medicine and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and public health at the University of South Florida, the 2022 citizen of the year.
► Joy Randels, founder and chief executive officer of the Prowess Group and chairwoman of New Market Partners, joined the University of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center as entrepreneur-in-residence.
► Bryant Miller Olive elected Kareem J. Spratling as the firm’s Tampa office managing shareholder.
► Corestream, a voluntary benefits technology company in Tampa, named Mark Cope as its chief revenue officer.
► Bank of America presented a $145,000 donation to Feeding Tampa Bay to help address local food insecurity.
