Business Archive

Proponents of Florida’s film industry are back in Tallahassee for the third year in a row, trying to get funding for a new tax incentive program.

Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), recently announced that the agency’s Boots to Business program has trained 25,000 transitioning service members.

Gulf Power received unanimous approval from the Florida Public Service Commission April 16 to build solar energy farms at three different facilities across Northwest Florida in partnership with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Florida) is pressing federal officials to disclose technical data and other information about a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed evidence that the spill is far worse than a company or government regulators have publicly reported.

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward joined representatives from Silver Airways and Visit Pensacola last week at Pensacola International Airport as Silver launched new service between Pensacola and Jacksonville International Airport , with connecting service to Fort Lauderdale.

An oil consortium says an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico today can be cleaned up far faster than five years ago when BP’s Macondo well blew out 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana, spawning the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.

Covenant Care named Angela Bottesini executive director of major gifts for the not-for-profit health care organization, which includes Covenant Hospice, Covenant Alzheimer’s Services and Covenant Palliative Care. 

Home BancShares, Inc., parent company of Centennial Bank, which has a branch in Navarre, recently acquired $289 million in national commercial real estate loans from J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC. This pool of loans originated within the former Doral Property Finance portfolio and will now be housed in a division of Centennial known as the Centennial Commercial Finance Group (CFG). The Centennial CFG will be responsible for servicing the loan pool and originating new loan production. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings.

The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce announced its member and business of the month at its Commerce & Coffee March 27.

Since 1995, Publix Super Markets, Inc., has worked alongside the March of Dimes toward its mission for stronger, healthier babies. During those 20 years, Publix customers and associates have raised $51 million to help give all babies a healthier start.