Before applications opened for Paycheck Protection Program relief loans, our phones in the business banking office were ringing off the hook. We spoke with entrepreneurs and business owners who were concerned, even terrified, about their businesses surviving the lockdown. Three or four months prior, they had record sales and were thinking about expanding – and … Read more
►Royal Pets Market & Resort, a retailer providing a range of services including veterinary care, Royal Resort hotel, top-of-the-line nutrition, indoor dog daycare and a pet spa will open its first urban flagship store at Midtown Tampa. (Pictured above) ►Telepathy Labs, a Tampa technology company with an artificial intelligence platform, raised $6.6 million in an … Read more
►A new scholarship, named for Florida Polytechnic University trustee Frank T. Martin, was established to provide more opportunities to African American students and help them achieve their STEM career ambitions. ► Watson Clinic, based in Lakeland, added physician Yeneneh Desta to the infectious diseases department at Watson Clinic Main and Melissa Kham, a registered nurse … Read more
►Benefactors and retired businesswomen, Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton donated $1 million to the University of South Florida Foundation to create the Tiedemann-Cotton Endowed Professorship in Finance position at USF’s St. Petersburg campus. ►Rich Hume, CEO of Tech Data Corp., joined the board of directors of The AllState Corp. (NYSE: ALL). ►Bassano Cheesecake opened at … Read more
Quick business updates across Hillsborough County, including Axiom Bank, Joffrey’s Coffee, real estate deals, new hires and local company news.
►Sprouts Farmers Market will open a store at 8620 Hunters Village Road, Tampa, in August ►Axiom Bank, a Maitland-based community bank, named Richard Jensen as senior vice president, commercial relationship manager in Tampa. ►Former Raymond James senior-level executive Bob Anastasi has joined the board of Abacode, a cybersecurity protection firm in Tampa. ►Refresco Beverages US … 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
Blockchain technology might seem like a mystery at best. But as the foundation of cryptocurrency, an intriguing but unpredictable form of digital money, the financial sector must prepare for its inevitable arrival. In a cryptocurrency marketplace, a digital coin is given a unique identifying code. Each owner of the coin also has an identification number … Read more
A roundup of leadership moves, promotions, mergers and investments across Hillsborough County.
