Industry Insights

Walk into Kahwa Coffee’s corporate office and the rich scent of roasting beans hits you like a tidal wave. Tucked into an unassuming strip mall in St. Petersburg, Kahwa’s small office and roasting room belie the growing reputation and reach of this beloved, locally-grown coffee company. With 12 locations between Tampa, St. Petersburg, Bradenton, Sarasota,

Former NFL quarterback Vinny Testaverde is selling his six-acre lakefront estate in Odessa. The 12,700-square-foot home in the gated Dolce Vita neighborhood, overlooking Lake Keystone, has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms. Listed at $4.999 million. The home underwent a $1 million restoration and renovation in 2018. The estate features an open floorplan, a great room with

The vision of a four-hour high-speed rail trip from Tampa to Miami is becoming closer to reality. Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn gave strong support for the expansion of Brightline’s service to Tampa during a tour of the rail service’s sprawling MiamiCentral station complex. He was accompanied by an array of business leaders from the Tampa

Eleve’61, one of the newest towers in development in the Channel district, is being constructed with a particular demographic in mind, and unlike some of the recent trends, it’s not millennials. In Tampa, there are two types of condominium residences currently available, very large, very expensive luxury properties and smaller, apartment-sized properties, said Ken Stoltenberg,

Interview transcribed by Melissa Razdrih Dewey Mitchell and Allen Crumbley have been in business together for more than 30 years. Both are brokers, and co-owners, of Capstone Tropical Holdings in Trinity. Meeting at the University of Alabama in 1974 as freshman with football scholarships, the two maintained a longstanding friendship that led to an amazingly

Photos by Penny Rogo Michael Saunders is an iconic member of the Sarasota business community, you may know her by her colorful scarves. The woman with a man’s name built her waterfront luxury real estate business during a time when women needed a male signature to get a $5,000 loan. She’s a leader that doesn’t

►The Sembler Company, a St. Petersburg-based shopping center developer, completed construction of Disston Plaza, a Publix-anchored neighborhood center at the corner of 49th St. N. and 38th Ave. N. ►Digital Media Solutions in Clearwater, an independent digital advertising agency, acquired the BetterLoanChoice.com personal lending marketplace. ►Protect My Car announced that funds managed by Crestview Partners,

The theme of this month for Tampa Bay Business & Wealth, and the rest of our country, is gratitude.  We are thankful!  Thankful for you, for this great community we get to live and work in and blessed to have amazing friends and family rallying with us on a daily basis.  The cards, letters, calls,

What’s the first thing potential clients do after they hear about your company? They look you up online, of course. These search results may help them decide if they want to do business with you, so make sure they see that your company does high-quality work, provides an excellent workplace environment, and stays on top

As the holidays approach and year-end is almost upon us, many companies and individuals are preparing for that “final sales push” to reach their annual sales goals. It can be a time of considerable stress on sales teams and managers who are trying to reach the highest possible numbers and reap the benefits for themselves

Cause marketing is a type of corporate social responsibility, in which a company’s promotional campaign has the dual purpose of increasing profitability while bettering society. When done well, cause marketing can produce strong awareness, goodwill and let’s not forget profits for companies. A best-in-class example of cause marketing is TOMS, a shoe company that started

Photo by Rod Millington My downtown St. Petersburg neighbor Roger Dow is a globetrotter. I love running into him unexpectedly, at an outdoor café on Beach Drive, and listening to him describe his worldwide travels. In fact, he’s my travel hero.  As the CEO and president of the U.S. Travel Association, his Washington, D.C.-based organization