Mayor Pam Iorio is visiting Canada this week, talking trade, transit and green initiatives with business and government leaders north of the border. ...more

June 2, 2009

Nortrax, a chain of John Deere equipment dealers, plans to open a 60-person back-office operation near Seffner. ...more

April 9, 2009

Robert Rohrlack Jr., a familiar face to the Tampa business community, is returning to the city to lead the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. ...more

March 27, 2009

The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce named Robert Rohrlack Jr. as its new president and CEO. ...more

March 26, 2009

Three Florida business leaders have offered job creation proposals to the state Senate Select Committee on Florida's Economy. ...more

January 15, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist took a pricey 12-day trip to Europe this summer, hitting taxpayers with a large bill amid a sagging economy, according to a report Sunday by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Crist flew to London, Paris, St. Petersburg (the one in Russia) and Madrid to drum up business, but the tab came in much higher than planned. Here's a look at how his trip went, moneywise: ...more

December 9, 2008

VISIT FLORIDA, the state's official source for travel planning, has awarded a Cultural Heritage and Nature Tourism Grant to Florida's Freshwater Frontier for the 2008-09 fiscal year, which began July 1. ...more

July 27, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is urging consumers to take advantage of their free annual credit reports to deter identity theft. ...more

July 20, 2008

A German-based company that builds cabins for cruise ships is looking to put its U.S. headquarters in Hernando County. ...more

July 1, 2008

TALLAHASSEE – Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May 2008 is 5.5 percent. This represents 512,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,261,000. The unemployment rate is up 0.5 percentage point from the revised April rate of 5.0 and is up 1.6 percentage points over the year. Florida's May 2008 unemployment rate is the highest since January 2003, which was also 5.5 percent. The state's unemployment rate is equal to the national unemployment rate of 5.5 percent. ...more

June 28, 2008