April 19, 2024
Northwest
Tallahassee tung oil
Tung oil was first produced in the United States in Tallahassee 100 years ago, derived from the fruit of seedlings brought from China by a U.S. ambassador. Over the following...
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Published on 6/19/2013
Greenfire Farms in Gadsden County
The politics of lobbying are interesting, says Paul Bradshaw, president of Tallahassee’s Southern Strategy Group, but “for a quiet hour away, it’s nice to be on the farm’’ — a...
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Published on 6/7/2013
Reality check for Pensacola's Downtown Technology Park
Economic Development in Northwest Florida
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Published on 5/16/2013
Lifecycle Containers
Pensacola architect Allen Bounds turned his concern about cutting waste into a company.
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Published on 5/14/2013
Northwest Florida
Population and demographic statistics for Northwest Florida; businesses and people to watch.
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Published on 4/9/2013
Flying high on renewable biofuel
When a Falcon 20 commercial jet flying over Canada's capital city of Ottawa recently logged the first-ever civilian flight powered by 100% renewable biofuel, the trip marked a triumphant conclusion to six years of research at the Panama City offices of Applied Research Associates.
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Published on 3/21/2013
Gear 1 Music
From Mozart to Metallica, business for Kenny Stinnett is all about music.
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Published on 3/12/2013
Acting on His IT Plans
Tim Shoop completed set out for Hollywood to pitch a tent and make movie acting his new career, but an interim job he took with Los Angeles' fastest-growing IT business sent him in a different direction.
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Published on 2/22/2013
Global Business Solutions
Global Business Solutions, a Pensacola information technology services and support company, added 29 employees last year, bringing its workforce to 102, and moved up its Inc. 5000 ranking to 1,201.
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Published on 1/23/2013
Low Flow - Apalachicola River's Falling Water Levels
For decades, northwest Florida's seafood industry has worried about falling water levels in the Apalachicola River, which originates in north Georgia and winds south into Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Published on 1/15/2013
Northwest Florida Newsmakers
Quint Studer, BP, Jim Murdaugh and Navy Federal Credit Union
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Published on 12/26/2012
Landrum Human Resources Cos.
After 42 years of providing human resources services to businesses in some 31 states, H. Britt Landrum Jr. decided it was time to branch out overseas.
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Published on 12/19/2012
Rising Tide - Bay County's International Trade Growth
Bay County, home to northwest Florida's largest port and its only container port, is riding a wave of international trade growth.
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Published on 12/19/2012
'Incubating Ideas'
Seven years ago, Chad Kittrell, a bank executive at the time, and J.T. Burnette, an entrepreneur, founded private equity firm Hunter & Harp in Tallahassee.
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Published on 11/20/2012
HomeRun Holdings
When Willis Mullet sold the garage-door company where he'd been president for some 30 years, he retained his research and development division.
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Published on 11/15/2012
Community Banks in Florida are 'Slow to Recover'
A struggling economy over the past five years triggered the failure of eight banks in the Northwest Florida region.
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Published on 10/22/2012
Northwest Florida
Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Pensacola, Tallahassee
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Published on 9/20/2012
Regional Snapshots - Tallahassee
State government, as it shrinks, has been exercising its right to terminate private sector leases to move to state-owned facilities. “Now more than ever, investors, lenders, everyone’s more concerned about...
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Published on 9/8/2012
Genesis Energy's oil transfer station coming to Escambia Co.
An energy update for Northwest Florida
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Published on 8/10/2012
Business profile: Sunshine Shuttle
Northwest Florida business profile
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Published on 8/2/2012
Port of St. Joe progress update
Update about progress on Port of St. Joe.
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Published on 7/13/2012
FSU students create start-up HTR
A business profile from Northwest Florida
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Published on 7/11/2012
New National Flight Academy targets STEM
Education in Northwest Florida
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Published on 6/12/2012
