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Four Sweetbay Supermarkets in Southwest Florida and 33 other stores statewide closed for good Wednesday, a week earlier than previously announced.
Sarasota: 501 N. Beneva RoadManatee County: 5201 33rd St. E.Manatee County: 8750 S.R. 70 E.Ellenton: 3410 U.S. 301
The Tampa-based chain’s store on Beneva Road in Sarasota, stores on 33rd Street East and State Road 70, in Bradenton, and another on U.S. Highway 301 in Ellenton were shuttered as a part of a plan unveiled last month.
In all, the company announced it would close 30 percent of its Florida stores stores by Feb. 13.
The local store closings cost 300 people their jobs. Statewide, Sweetbay’s decision will leave more than 2,000 people jobless.
The supermarket chain will still operate 10 stores in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, including two stores on U.S.
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Business Briefs
Swartz named committee president
The law firm of Mooney & Associates recently announced that George W. Swartz, II, Esquire, was named president of the York County Family Law Committee of the York County Bar Association.
Attorney Swartz has served as vice president of the Family Law Committee for the past two years. He has been a member of the York County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association since 2005. Attorney Swartz is experienced in criminal defense, family law, estate document preparation, and real estate transactions, and practices law in York, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Franklin counties.
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At a conference of dealmakers last October, Sima Griffith of Aethlon Capital in Minneapolis ticked off several reasons that cash-rich public companies, private equity shops and eager sellers would get together in the last several weeks of 2012.
The next day, Ecolab, aiming to get bigger in the oil-and-gas trade, announced a $2.2 billion purchase of Champion Technologies.
Then in December, Northern Tool & Equipment, the Burnsville-based retailer of tools, generators and trailers, announced it planned to pay $215 million to acquire retailers the Sportsman’s Guide and the Golf Warehouse. And then the deals just kept coming.
In all, 107 Minnesota-connected merger transactions were struck in the fourth quarter, the biggest quarter of the year.
“It was a strong comeback year for mergers and acquisitions in Minnesota and nationally,” said Matthew Knopf, who heads the M&A practice at law firm Dorsey & Whitney.
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It can be hard to keep clothes that fit on your kids’ backs when they grow as fast as they do – especially when you’re on a budget.
Not to mention the toys, books and other fun stuff that keeps them busy.
Buying used makes sense, but not everybody has the patience to walk into the neighborhood thrift store where everything, including the kitchen sink, is tossed on a shelf with no rhyme or reason.
But what about a consignment sale, where everything is for kids and maternity needs?
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Jan
Copper prices are rising after two reports boosted optimism that the U.S. economic recovery is gaining traction.
U.S. builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace since the summer of 2008, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The Labor Department also reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to a five-year low last week.
The price of copper, which is used in construction, typically tracks the outlook for global economic growth.
“Undoubtedly, the strength in the housing data was certainly supporting the copper market,” said Dave Meger at Vision Financial Markets.
Traders will also closely follow a series of reports about the Chinese economy, to be published late Thursday, for indications about the outlook for growth in the world’s second-largest economy, Meger said.
Copper for March delivery rose 5.55 cents to $3.662 a pound in trading Thursday, its second-biggest gain of the month.
Gold for February delivery gained $7.60 to $1,690.80 an ounce.
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Jan
Banco Popular North America won a $2.4 million foreclosure judgment against Rock Dove Peg LLC, a Miami company managed by Salomon Yuken and David F. Anderson, for their vacant multifamily property at 1341 Rock Dove Court in Punta Gorda, records show.
Rock Dove Peg LLC borrowed the money in July 2005 to finance its $2.65 million purchase of the property.
Prior to the purchase by Rock Dove Peg, the land was owned by Elliott Watson Ventures, which sold it on July 22, 2005, to Anderson for $1.75 million, records show.
Anderson then increased the value by $900,000 by selling the land on the same day to his own company — Rock Dove Peg, records show.
The property is scheduled to be sold at auction by the Charlotte County Clerk of Court on March 13.
PUNTA GORDA – A property that changed hands twice on the same day in July 2005 — adding $900,000 in value — has been foreclosed on by a bank and is scheduled to be sold at auction.
Banco Popular North America won a $2.4 million foreclosure judgment against Rock Dove Peg LLC, a Miami company managed by Salomon Yuken and David F.
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It’s not just a myth made up by enterprising employees looking to score an office Nerf dart party – office morale is directly connected to the type of productivity that comes out of your employees. At its briefest, employees who are miserable are not likely to be efficient or cooperative, meaning that every day business is going to end up clogged in sluggish office cogs. The business world’s leadership consulting professionals will be the first to tell you that in a lot of cases, improving office morale doesn’t require any huge upheavals or drastic measures. It’s th Full Post…