A shout-out is appropriate for Winter Park entrepreneurs Anna and Nathan Bond for not only successfully operating their startup business over these past 10 years, but also for thriving selling paper-based products like planners and…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ORLANDO HEALTH-JEWETT
The acquisition of Jewett Orthopedic by Orlando Health in order to build a $250 million orthopedic hospital in downtown Orlando is not trivial at any level. Ranked fourth in the nation in orthopedic surgery, Orlando…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY DOMINATES
While “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” wasn’t the critical hit Disney had preferred, it nonetheless reinforced the transformation Disney has achieved since launching its first movie in 1937, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ONLINE SHOPPING
With the shortened time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, just about all of us hit our keyboards for more of our Christmas shopping. In fact, as the numbers come in, what becomes clear is that online…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: UCF’S FUTURE
Interim President Thad Seymour’s advice to the next president of the university to focus on quality over quantity is not only appropriate, but critical. Under former President John Hitt, the school went from a commuter…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: WHITE CASTLE
In the spirit of a little news goes a long way, I’m happy to report that White Castle is coming back after abandoning Florida in the 1960s because our state was too far from White…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: RETAIL AUTOMATION
Besides volumes of discounts, Black Friday provided Central Florida consumers with a small microcosm of things to come — automation in a retail setting. Walmart’s machines — scanning shelves, picking up customers’ online orders, and…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: UCF HOSPITAL SPLIT
The responses from Advent Health and Orlando Health, after being cut off as partners with UCF’s Medical School for a teaching hospital, might have been a bit snippy, but not beyond comprehension. Both institutions were…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: MIGRATION CONTINUES
Apparently Mr. Trump is not alone. Billionaire Carl Icahn, at 83 years old, declared he was moving his company to Miami next year, saying “one day I was at my home in Florida and thought,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ELECTRIC SCOOTERS
For anyone who has traveled to virtually every major city in Europe, it is fairly apparent that electric scooters are a fun and convenient method of transportation for pedestrians who want to get around short…