Taste Maker Bourbon’s popularity in the 1970s meant wine was an untapped sales niche for Chan Cox, who decided to take full advantage. Today, he is the go-to guru for all things wine in Northwest Florida, with five retail stores…
850 Regional News Originally published in the Apr/Mar 2010 issue of 850 Business Magazine The Mood of Business Interesting research shows Florida small business owners are more concerned with keeping their current customers than the rest of U.S. small…
“The state has a variety of economic stimulus measures in place to encourage economic recovery. I recommended several stimulus measures designed to help businesses and families in my 2010–11 budget recommendations. The focus of my administration’s agenda is job creation…
Bottom Line: Taking a Bite Out of Taxes Your 2009 tax returns are now in the mail, unless you’ve filed an extension. Think you can rest on your laurels? Hardly. Taxes don’t file themselves, and procrastination almost always costs money.…
The secret to Paul Brent’s art empire is talent, tenacity and … tiny steps. The affable, 64-year-old Panama City artist and entrepreneur says his journey of a million prints began with a single step of the kaizen kind — the…
It wasn’t easy for Clair Pease to get her first serious construction job. She had pleaded and argued for more than a year for a chance to join a framing crew, to no avail. The boss didn’t believe a woman…
Dr. Charlotte Maguire gives a whole new meaning to the notion of “golden years.” At 90, after a brilliant career in medicine and government, she’s still in love with learning — and still inspiring others to learn. “A pioneer for…
For me, nothing made this more obvious than the return of the Red Hills Horse Trials to Tallahassee.
He cracks wise with the same affability and witty charm as his Trapper John McIntyre character on the 1970s “M*A*S*H” television series. But Wayne Rogers, the Princeton graduate, has morphed, from a successful actor into a keen financial maven and…
Visitors to the industrial office building might confuse the comfortable waiting room for a doctor’s office, with its chairs, magazines and receptionist window. But if the double helix sculpture in front of the building didn’t give it away, this is…
