Employee Training Made Easy: Workforce Florida Grants Help Companies Create...
The Florida workforce system's consistent ranking among the nation's best is a testament to its steadfast focus on connecting businesses and job seekers to strengthen the state economy. Workforce...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BRIO, Columbus, Ohio Rustic Italian goes suburban. Cool feel with firedup cooking, charred and earthy. Great outdoor seatings, sophisticated brunch. Boca Raton, Hallandale Beach,...
View ArticleColombia Connection: Stability, Economic Growth and a New Trade Agreement Are...
On the 11th floor of a midrise office tower on the north side of Bogota, Colombia's capital, the 2,400-sq.-ft. offices of law firm Holland & Knight offer a vista that includes the Andes mountains,...
View ArticleAuthentic Florida
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The fun begins naturally with agri-tourism and shuttle trips to Mixon Fruit Farms, Dakin Dairy Farms, Hydro-Taste Hydroponic Growers and even several local wineries, all with...
View ArticleGame Changer? Here's What You Need to Know When You Cut through the Hype...
Florida is that rare state with a trade surplus; thanks largely to south Florida, it exports more than it imports. Florida's 15 deepwater ports plan to spend $2.6 billion over five years deepening...
View ArticleBusiness Is Good ... and Getting Better: In Terms of Attracting New...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "In this year alone, we've landed 20 projects," says Sharon Hillstrom, Manatee Economic Development Corporation president and CEO. "I think we're getting...
View ArticleSpace Invaders
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As Miami-Dade's volume of international trade increases dramatically, owners and users of warehouses are grabbing space. Cargo volume at the PortMiami seaport increased by 6.8%...
View ArticleRising Tide
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bay County, home to northwest Florida's largest port and its only container port, is riding a wave of international trade growth. > Port Panama City wrapped up its fiscal year...
View ArticleTriton Submarines
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When you're in the business of making $3-million personal luxury submarines, you need to do everything you can to broaden the market. The first sale at Triton Submarines in Veto...
View ArticleClarifications & Corrections
In November's story on Gov. Rick Scott, FLORIDA TREND wrote that "under circumstances that remain unclear, most of Scott's emails and the emails of his transition team were deleted" An FDLE...
View ArticleVote of Confidence: Florida Pollster Bruce Barcelo Is Making a Name for...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bruce Barcelo is well known in Florida political circles, having worked on the campaigns of everyone from former Jacksonville Mayors Ed Austin and John Delaney to the late U.S....
View ArticleTo EB or Not to EB: A Federal Program That Gives Immigrants Permanent...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When lenders tightened the screws on construction financing after the 2008 real estate collapse, south Florida developer Rodrigo Azpurua decided he'd try to ride out the storm...
View ArticleMajor Area Employers
The diversity of employers in Manatee County--from entertainment to manufacturing--may surprise some people. Recent business expansion and relocation activity includes: * Feld Entertainment is...
View ArticleFlying High: Sarasota Bradenton International Airport Makes Travel to...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The top domestic locations for the more than 1.3 million passengers flying to and from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) are Boston, Chicago, New York, Atlanta,...
View ArticleBuilding Abroad
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just off a runway at Kuala Lumpur's Subang Airport is Spirit AeroSystems' new Southeast Asia headquarters. The 244,000-sq.-ft., $35-million manufacturing and design facility for...
View ArticleHot Spots: Restaurants, Aviation, Agriculture and the Creative Fields...
Agriculture Exports on the Hoof Earlier this year, rancher Renee Strickland boarded a chartered 747 loaded with 195 head of dairy cattle and flew to Oman to deliver 28 of the cows to the Sultan and 167...
View ArticleUniquely Located: A Lot of Exciting News Is Coming out of Port Manatee These...
The Fortune 300 global industrial gases company, Air Products and Chemicals, based in Pennsylvania, will build a 300,000-square-foot facility and projects it will create more than 250 new jobs over the...
View ArticleInternational Trade
38.8% Northwest Florida had the highest growth rate in export value of any region in Florida between 2010 and 2011. 92.1% Panama City/Bay County had the highest growth rate in 2010-11 for any metro...
View ArticleHunting Lodges
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jon Williamson, 35 COO / Honey Lake Plantation Greenville (east of Tallahassee) Four years ago, when the Williamson family purchased the original 3,600...
View ArticleBeing There: Expanding Abroad Doesn't Necessarily Mean Opening an Office...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Florida-born Holland & Knight has offices in four foreign countries. Greenberg Traurig has attorneys in six. Miami's Diaz Reus ["Danger Zone," August] built its reputation on...
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