May 10, 2024
Politics & Law
Florida's Top 250 Public Companies
Once again, Jacksonville-based Winn-Dixie Stores leads the Florida Trend Top 250 Public Companies list, with 1996 revenues of nearly $13 billion, a 10% increase over last year's $11.8 billion, and...
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Published on 7/1/1997
Carnival's Dream Maker
Few of the nearly two million travelers who each year board one of Carnival Cruise Lines' "fun ships" realize it, but the gloss and glitter that dazzles their eyes at...
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Published on 7/1/1997
Around the State
Century --Starter Corp., which pulled out of its new Century factory last year, returned $240,000 to the city to pay off the $290,000 loan it received from Century when it...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Players
Banking - H.H. "Tuck" Tyler was named president of Northern Trust Bank in Naples. He succeeds David A. Highmark, who after eight years in Naples moves to Northern Trust Bank...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Around the State
Daytona Beach --Team Rental Group (NYSE-BD) announced the sale of 7.5 million shares, at $21.625 a piece, in a public offering. The sale will raise about $154 million, which the...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Around the State
Clearwater --Kaydon Corp. (NYSE-KDN) agreed to acquire hydraulic cylinder maker and distributor Great Bend Industries of Great Bend, Kansas, for approximately $22 million. Kaydon makes custom-engineered products for the medical,...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Around the State
Heathrow-- Brite Voice Systems will relocate its Wichita, Kan., headquarters to Heathrow. Brite will transfer 150 jobs and hire about 150 at an average annual salary of $55,000. The company...
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Published on 6/1/1997
THEME PARKS
Big Splash In Brazil Brazilian tourists flock to Wet 'n Wild's flagship water theme park in Orlando. So it was only a matter of time before Wet ?n Wild would...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Openers
COME TO ORDERMan Of The House Mild-mannered young accountant David Dennis doesn't like to call attention to himself. But for the past six months, Dennis, a partner with the Orlando...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Around the State
BOCA RATON --Data Resource Group expanded to a 6,500-square-foot facility and created 30 jobs. The IBM business partner for systems, and service received $36,500 in job growth and training incentive...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Case Watch
In a case characterized by First Amendment lawyers as a threat to Florida's open government tradition and by industry lawyers as an attack on corporate privacy, an Orlando appeals court...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Investing In Diversity
"There are many minorities throughout the state of Florida that are hungry for risk capital," says John A. Hall, vice president of capital and urban initiatives at Miami's Beacon Council....
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Published on 6/1/1997
A Street To Dine For
Fort Lauderdale has its Las Olas Boulevard of no regrets, Delray Beach has Atlantic Avenue, and South Miami Beach (SoBe) both Lincoln Road and Ocean Drive - all streets of...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Resisting Competition
With all the talk in Tallahassee this spring about doing what's good for business, you'd think lawmakers would have noticed the power play in the electric industry. In the last...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Readers
Race RelationsAs John Berry writes in his column for January ["Anger"], it is important for members of different racial groups to discuss in candid, nonthreatening forums the difficult issues surrounding...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Present At The Revolution
For more than six decades, the welfare system has been the target of choice for those railing against waste and profligacy in Washington. Never mind that the cost of welfare...
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Published on 6/1/1997
All In A Year's Work
July 1 marks the first anniversary of Enterprise Florida, the public-private partnership created by the Legislature to coordinate economic development in the state. In privatizing the duties of what was...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Running Out Of Room
If you were a major corporation considering a move to Florida in the early 1990s, you could almost name your terms. Owners of empty office and industrial buildings lowered leasing...
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Published on 6/1/1997
And Now, The Hard Part ...
On a recent sunny morning in Orlando, a group of 21 local business executives and local and state government officials gathered around a boardroom table in a downtown bank building....
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Published on 6/1/1997
Modest Proposals
Paul Hoppes likes Florida and has continued to live in Tallahassee since he moved his fishing boat manufacturing company from Havana, Fla., across the border to Cairo, Ga., in the...
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Published on 6/1/1997
The American Way
As any airline traveler can attest, passing through teeming Miami International Airport is a bewildering, often frustrating experience. A survey of passenger service and convenience at 43 international airports ranked...
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Published on 6/1/1997
Players
Agriculture - Family-owned Lykes Bros. tapped M. Lenny Pippin, 49, as president and chief executive officer. He is the first non-family member to run the agriculture and citrus business in...
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Published on 5/1/1997
They're Coming!
A wrist injury forced Boris Becker to withdraw from this year's Lipton Championships tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, but the comforts of home were never far away. He just hopped...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Openers
FIRST PERSONNow Playing... Growing up in Jacksonville, I had occasion to visit the Gloria Norman dance studio in the city's Arlington section, where my sister took tap and ballet lessons...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Who's To Blame?
The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments this month in a case industry lawyers say has the potential to chill medical research and turn products liability law on its head....
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Published on 5/1/1997
Business Beat - Week of May 10th
