Table of Contents
January/February 1998
- Inside Corner
Is the I-4 shoot-out turning into a lovefest? Maybe not, but Orlando's chamber held out a friendly hand in January, deliberately scheduling a high-level conference at the Don CeSar in St. Pete Beach. In Tennessee, they have the No. 1 college football team and a director of the new Cornerstone Community Bank -- there's a connection. And, everybody loves a list, especially Florida cities, towns and businesses with high rankings.
- Leads & Deals
Hernando County's first home-grown business-oriented public relations firm is now open in Brooksville, founded by Ivette Bonilla of Palomo, Bonilla & Masters. Michael Saunders & Company of Sarasota named Karen Cook to its commercial real estate division. And in St. Petersburg, Robert Decker of the law firm or Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell is the new president of the city's Downtown Partnership.
- Growth Strategies
ISS Landscape Services tends exotic plants at Busch Gardens, but the Tampa division of BHI Inc. has also planted a strong growth strategy.
- Technology & Communications
The only way to attract high-tech companies is to offer them high-tech facilities, most developers believe. That where GTE SmartParks come into the picture.
- Corporate Meetings, Travel & Getaways
Saddlebook Resort just made itself more attractive to the convention business by tending to basics: It added more phone lines.
- Education & Training
USF's graduate business students come off the blackboards to get a taste of street-level business under the university's new Kauffman program.
- 1999 Economic Yearbook
Five bay area community and business leaders reveal the strategies of their own sectors of the cultural, manufacturing, high-tech, tourism and financial scene, looking ahead to 1999 and beyond. Essays from Patricia Caswell of the Sarasota County Arts Council; Edward F. Venner of Ven-Tel Plastics Corporation; Scott J. Brown o Raymond James Financial; Robin Carson of Busch Gardens; and Paul J. Plante of Reptron Electronics Inc.
- Pasco County
Low costs, improving roads help county build a solid, small corporate base.
by Melissa Wells
- Gateway, Clearwater & North Pinellas
Size doesn't matter in Pinellas County as businesses of every description keep growing.
by Melissa Wells
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