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Talk of the bay
Briefs and news of note.
By TIMES STAFF AND WIRES
Published February 13, 2007
TALBOTS CHIEF ZETCHER, 66, TO CALL IT A CAREER Arnold Zetcher, chairman, chief executive officer and clearly the guiding force behind Talbots Inc. for the past 20 years, on Monday disclosed he will retire as chief executive at the end of the 2007 fiscal year. The apparel retailer, which employs 180 people at its computer operations center in Tampa, hired an executive search firm to find a successor. The company also will consider internal candidates to replace Zetcher, 66, who once ran Bonwit Teller. He led Talbots from a mail-order catalog operation with 109 stores to one with 1,125 Talbots stores, a venture in men's apparel and 239 J. Jill women's apparel stores. The company mails more than 100-million catalogs a year. The company endured a weak holiday season, however, reporting declines in sales of stores open at least one year at both Talbots and J. Jill. Eye of Storms still trained on ports Ronda Storms wasn't afraid to make waves during her tenure as a Tampa Port Authority commissioner. As a new senator, she's looking to shake things up for ports statewide. Storms took Tampa port staff to task at a committee meeting last month. She didn't know port security cameras in Tampa weren't being watched 24/7 until a briefing last year from local law enforcement chiefs, she said. Storms plans to sponsor a bill requiring port board members statewide to sit through such briefings once a year so they don't just get a "filtered" security picture from port staffers. The Port Authority added security officers to watch cameras around the clock after a story appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, said port director Richard Wainio. Park puts Pasco in the big leagues Has Pasco County broken the spell of New Tampa? Corporations scouting business parks often stop short of the county line, at places like New Tampa's Highwoods Preserve at Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and Interstate 75. Highwoods is full, and Pasco aims to capture tenants with ComPark 75, which boasts 700,000 square feet in Wesley Chapel off County Road 54. Clearwater's Haydon-Rubin Development started Monday on the 60-acre park. Correction Biomass Investment Group's proposed power plant in South Florida will generate 130 megawatts of electricity. A story on Sunday stated an incorrect amount. . tampabay.com All about money Times personal finance editor Helen Huntley talks about money topics and answers your finance questions at blogs.tampabay.com/money.
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