►Goodwill Manasota won the “Market Leadership by Share of Used Goods” award for having the highest market penetration of its donor market, and the “Market Leadership by Donations” award for capitalizing on the highest proportion of its available used goods market during the Goodwill Industries International summer conference in Austin, Texas.
►The Sarasota YMCA Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Youth Shelter was the beneficiary of a $15,000 donation from Personalized Estate Liquidation Benefiting Youth.
►Habitat for Humanity Sarasota named Jay Berman as major gifts officer.
►Intertape Polymer Group, a Sarasota-based company specializing in packaging products, acquired Springfield, Ohio, plastic fabrication company Maiweave for $21 million.
►Manatee County commissioners elected District 3 Commissioner Steve Jonsson as chairman of the board for 2019.
►Allegiant Private Advisors in Sarasota named portfolio manager Luke Nicholas a principal of the firm.
►Danielle Mikesell, senior vice president of marketing and product management for PGT Innovations in Venice, was appointed to serve on the board of the All Star Children’s Foundation.
►Re/Max Platinum Realty broker-associate Amy Worth has been installed as the 2019 president of the Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee.
►Vancouver-based Trez Forman Capital Group funded a $19 million loan used to acquire a 279-acre tract in Lakewood Ranch for $9.35 million.
►California-based Teledyne Technologies will acquire the scientific imaging businesses of Sarasota’s Roper Technologies for $225 million in cash.
►University Park-based First Watch opened Sun & Fork by First Watch—a new, fast-casual, all-day-breakfast-and-lunch restaurant—in Nashville.
►Halfacre Construction, a Lakewood Ranch-based company, completed an interior renovation on a 32,000-square-foot, multi-auditorium house of worship for Bayside Community Church.
►Scott Cietek joined Michael Saunders & Co. as director of its commercial real estate division.
►Advice Solutions, located in Sarasota and owned by Linda Gross, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in the advertising industry.
