July 8, 2000
Florida Progress earnings are hot
Florida Power's parent says this year's temperatures will bulk up the bottom line in the second quarter.
Investors buy Hyatt Regency Tampa
TAMPA -- A group of pension funds is spending $46-million to buy the Hyatt Regency Tampa, one of the largest hotels in the Tampa Bay area.
Weekly Planet's owner to buy chain
TAMPA -- Ben Eason, owner of the Weekly Planet alternative weeklies in Tampa and Sarasota, will soon have a much larger chain of newspapers under his control.
PowerCerv loses CEO, earnings
TAMPA -- In a terse but loaded news release Friday evening, software developer PowerCerv Corp. said its second-quarter earnings will fall well below projections and that its chief executive officer had resigned.
Independent tire retailers pair up
The purchase by Clearwater's Morgan Tire and Auto creates the nation's second-largest independent tire company.
State Farm raising its rates
Arbitrators overrule Florida's insurance commissioner and okay the increase of some 7 percent, which affects hundreds of thousands of homeowners.
