Business & Real Estate
As the CEO of a major public company, what is your primary focus? Do you implement strategies to improve the long-term viability of the company or to improve the short-term movements in your stock price?
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 09:40 AM EST
Steak specials for less than $10 are helping to bring in customers, but the parent company of Outback Steakhouse still lost more than $20 million in its third quarter.
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 09:24 AM EST
Law enforcement escorts federal regulators into what used to be Orion Bank in Marathon Friday night. (Photo by Ryan McCarthy)
Jackie Eigner, owner of Fish Tales Market and Eatery in Marathon, said she found out about Orion Bank being closed by the feds in a news story posted online Friday. She immediately signed in to her account to check her balance and saw everything was fine.
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:55 AM EST
Another hotel deal under review
The Key Colony Bay Resort is the next multimillion-dollar development agreement on the Marathon City Council's chopping block.
Posted - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:55 AM EST
This is Orion Bank in Marathon -- now IberiaBank. This is where the original First National Bank of the Florida Keys was founded.
Feds take over Orion, Williams is out, IberiaBank is in
Federal regulators on Friday ordered Orion Bank to take immediate action that includes firing Jerry Williams, the bank's founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Posted - Friday, November 13, 2009 06:47 PM EST
INSURANCE
FIRM makes its case to state panel
A group representing Monroe County homeowners says it had a responsive audience Tuesday for its argument against Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s rate increase requests.
Posted - Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:00 AM EST
A seafood lover holds a a large oyster on the half shell, harvested from Apalachicola and sold in the Keys.
Oyster industry steamed over new FDA rules
Before hunting, there was gathering.
Posted - Friday, November 13, 2009 10:20 AM EST
IN BRIEF
Duck Key broker joins American Caribbean
Duck Key Realty owner Kristen Brenner has joined American Caribbean Real Estate in the Middle Keys.
Posted - Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:01 AM EST
IN BRIEF
Commercial real estate focus of new company
Key West broker Doug Mayberry has teamed up with Keith Bland to form Key Lime Commercial Real Estate, a new venture sharing space with his existing company, Doug Mayberry Real Estate, which specializes in residential real estate.
Posted - Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:02 AM EST
Irwin stays at helm of TDC
Rita Irwin, the executive director of the Dolphin Research Center, has been re-elected to chair the Monroe County Tourist Development Council, the agency responsible for tourism marketing of the Florida Keys and Key West.
Posted - Saturday, November 07, 2009 08:00 AM EST