Table of Contents
August 1999

• Inside Corner
  Everyone knows that water and electricity don't mix, right? Well, in a way they do for the Duffy Electric Boat Company, which is selling noiseless, battery-powered pleasure craft in Palmetto. Tampa's HLA Advertising & Public Relations has been charged with enhancing the national image of Luna di Luna Italian wines, which are due on the shelves in striking red and blue bottles. And August is the month the Maddux Report publishes it's annual Florida Retail Centers, a separate publication that examines the state of the retail industry i
  n Florida. Readers who want copies should phone Nancy Howe, but only after August 15.
  

• Leads & Deals
  Stephenie Scanlon has been named executive vice president of Audio Visual Innovations Inc., Tampa. In Sarasota, Carla Wise has opened Preferred Commercial Inc., specializing in the sale and lease of industrial/office properties. Mary Jane Stanley is the new executive director of the Pasco Economic Development Council. And in Tampa, developers and commercial real estate executives Jim Burt, Jim Schroder, Gordon McBride and Scott Brown have formed the Capstone Group.

• Top of the Leads & Deals
  The following are samples from this month's Focus Map and Leads listings. For the complete list (new each month), see the current issue of the Maddux Report. For a sample copy or subscription, call Nancy Howe at 727/823-4394, Ext. 300, or E-mail her at the address listed at the bottom of this section.

• Growth Strategies
  Pegasus Imaging Corporation worked hard to become a top-notch provider of imaging technologies and its client roster is an impressive read. However, when it found itself drifting from its niche, it spun off its service-provider wing and has reset its imaging sights, this time on the medical industry.

• Corporate Benefits, Insurance & Healthcare
  A Tampa agency sponsored by corporations, the Employers Health Coalition, is in the midst of studying employees' illnesses and how they impact absenteeism. The success of the work has drawn national attention.

• Women of Influence
  They're a confidence bunch, the half-dozen Women of Influence who happen to be at the top of six different fields of endeavor in the Tampa Bay area. They have much in common, but they're also as different as any six people. The high-ranking six are, in alphabetical order: Sue Brody, Mary Fran Carroll, Judith Lisi, Judith Roales, Mary Repper and Marsha Rydberg.
  by Bridget McCrea

• Brandon Lights Up for the Future
  
  by Melissa Wells

• Retail Space Guide
  
• Focus Map