The bay area's silent giant
Epix Holdings may be the biggest Tampa Bay area company you've never heard of. It has 53,000 employees and $1.3-billion in annual revenue. And the privately held company is the fifth-largest professional employer organization.
Matching bags with passenger stories
Surprisingly, things have been going smoothly since airlines adopted "bag matching," removing luggage from a plane if the person who checked it doesn't board, as their leading method to meet new federal security rules this month.
Kudos for bay area's new Neiman Marcus store
The Neiman Marcus store in Tampa's International Plaza has been named one of the 13 best new retail spaces opened worldwide in the past year.
Bay area tossed Bank of America bone
When Tim Laney replaced Cathy Bessant as Bank of America's Florida president this month and moved the "unofficial" headquarters of the state's largest bank from Tampa back to Jacksonville, he promised the bay area wouldn't be forgotten.
Stock market's not, but NexTrade's booming
Traditional brokerage firms may be suffering, but business is booming on NexTrade's electronic stock trading system.
How much is that pupcake in the window?
The smell of fresh-baked bones may not excite people like the sign that lights up when the doughnuts are hot at Krispy Kreme, but it sure makes for a lot of waggly tails.
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