The pandemic has had disparate effects on disparate industries. This week that played out in living color as Disney reported a loss of $2 billion on its attractions, complicit with tourism in general, while Publix…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: RETAIL EVOLUTION
It is not surprising that JCPenney, among other traditional retailers, is shuttering some 154 stores, including its store at Orlando Fashion Square. Nor is it terribly surprising that Amazon has captured 49% of all e-commerce…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: STARTUP PRIME TIME: Entrepreneurship
Square and Twitter have one thing in common. They emerged out of economic crisis at a time in which traditional solutions weren’t solving problems. For each of them, headed up by a charismatic entrepreneur with…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FATTMERCHANT
Kudos go to Fattmerchant co-founders, Suneera Madhani and Sal Rehmetullah, whose downtown Orlando fintech firm has been recognized by both U.S. News & World Report and Forbes — the first awarded its top rating for…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REVISITING SEARS
While business literature has for over a decade concluded that, in the face of current competition for the retail dollar, Sears either needed a reset, or was best served liquidating its assets, paying off vendors…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ROSEN’S PHILANTROPHY
Harris Rosen’s planned gift of $12 million to the University of Florida-led research collaboration combatting deadly brain cancer expands his record of targeted gifting. As an entrepreneur with an extensive portfolio of hotel properties, Rosen’s…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: Amazon Increases Wages
Amazon has an almost insatiable appetite for workers with a current workforce surpassing 250,000 employees in the United States alone. In addition, at a time in which unemployment is less than 3.9%, Amazon also plans…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: The New Economy
California Supreme Court’s ruling imposing employment status on independent contractors providing services made possible by the rapid expansion of digital platforms has no place in the state of Florida. Employment law has generally served the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: First Green Bank
With a healthy dose of corporate social responsibility, First GREEN Bank always did beat to somewhat of a different drum than other financial institutions. With branches solar-powered and environmentally friendly, customers who received sustainability incentives,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AdventHealth Emerges
The Adventist Health Systems’ nationwide name change from individual monikers like central Florida’s Florida Hospital to AdventHealth is textbook perfect in having captured under one substantive brand the essence of its business operation, point of…