COMPANY STATS Name: Rivero, Gordimer & Company Established: 1983 Top local executive(s): Herman Lazzara, CPA, Managing Partner No. of employees in Tampa Bay: 70 Year it won Tampa Bay Chamber’s Small Business of the Year: 2018 When Rivero, Gordimer & Company won the Tampa Bay Chamber’s Small Business of the Year award, it was a … Read more
The St. Petersburg Area Economic Development Corp. celebrated five years of impact, at the Don Cesar, last week. Since the organization’s founding in 2016, it has announced nearly 2,000 jobs, opened 267 job creation projects and assisted 45 companies with relocations, expansions or openings, according to a statement. Here is a recap of the five … Read more
The Tampa Bay Chamber’s Minority Empowerment Program will run for another year, thanks to the local businesses sponsoring the program. The sponsors include the founding sponsor of the program AT&T, as well as Amgen, Bank of America, Moffitt Cancer Center, Nielsen, Regions Bank and the Whiting Turning Contracting Company. The Minority Empowerment Program provides one-year, … Read more
Governor Ron DeSantis has activated the Florida Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Program to support small businesses impacted by COVID-19. The bridge loan program, managed by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), will provide short-term, interest-free loans to small businesses that experienced economic injury from COVID-19. The application period opened March 17 and runs … Read more
The Inc. 5000 rankings for 2019 have been released and plenty of America’s most successful companies can be found right here in the Tampa Bay Area. You can view the entire list here. Here are the companies to earn the honor: The Welfont Companies Tampa Rank: 31 Revenue: $20.4 million Number of Times Ranked: … Read more
When the St. Pete Pride Parade marches down Bayshore Drive, principal partner Tech Data will be front and center with a festive float and hundreds of employees and their families walking alongside. “This will be our third year in the parade,” says Cal Jackson, director of diversity and inclusion global programs at Tech Data. “Last … Read more
Expect Laurie and Frank Powell to be a hit at cocktail parties—if they ever have time for them. One day, they could be producing a conference of energy startups pitching the U.S. government Shark Tank-style. Another, they could be powering an animation festival for tens of thousands of people roaming the exhibits in wild costumes. … Read more
Monica Eaton-Cardone is many things — a wife, a mother, a businesswoman, a philanthropist – but one thing she is certainly most not, is easily intimidated. With a career spanning multiple industries and many companies, most of her own making, she most recently made a name for herself in Agile technologies, with a dispute mitigation … Read more
Tampa-based Advanced C4 Solutions Inc. (AC4S), a C4, professional support, cyberspace operations and mission support services company for federal agencies, has been acquired by Hui Huliau, a Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO) headquartered on the island of Oahu. The deal closed in the final days of December 2018. Terms were not disclosed. AC4S customers include the … Read more
Workscapes sold its Miami office to WRK Lab Inc., and will move its corporate headquarters to Tampa, effective January 1. Workscapes, owned by Elizabeth and Richard Dvorak, will continue to operate its four office locations in Florida. “We are excited about the future for Workscapes in the State of Florida and believe that our customers … Read more
