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Our Town Sarasota Corporate Directory
Publix (Sarasota and Manatee) Publix has been ranked by Fortune as one of the 100 best companies to work for in America for the last 5 years.
School
Board of Manatee
School
Board of Sarasota
Tropicana
Products, Inc. (Manatee) Tropicana is the number 3 brand in U.S. grocery stores and is sold in 30 countries worldwide.
Bon
Secours - Venice Hospital & Healthcare (Sarasota) Working Mother magazine named Bon Secours Health System one of the 100 best companies for working mothers in the United States. Named one of the top 100 orthopedic and stroke hospitals by HCIA.
PGT Industries (Sarasota)
Blake
Medical Center (Manatee)
Manatee
Memorial Hospital and Health System (Manatee) Joint Commission Health Care Organization accredited 2002, voted Best Hospital by Bradenton Herald readers for eighth year in a row; won U.H.S. Service Excellence Award for 1998.
Wal-mart (Sarasota and Manatee)
Winn
Dixie (Sarasota and Manatee)
Doctors
Hospital of Sarasota (Sarasota) A listed Top 100 Hospital for the past five years; received JCAHO Accreditation with Commendation; first hospital in Florida and third in the nation to receive OSHA voluntary protection merit award; among the top ICU departments in the country.
Wellcraft Marine Corp. (Manatee)
American
Marine Holdings, Inc. (Manatee)
Tropitone Furniture Co., Inc.
(Manatee) Industry honors include the Apollo IBO contract, Roscoe, French Sisel Vert, design excellence and ADEX design awards.
Bealls, Inc. (Manatee) More than 330 department, outlet and gift stores in Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina and California.
Sun
Hydraulics Facilities in Sarasota and Manatee; other facilities located in U.K., Germany, South Korea and China.
FCCI Insurance Group Recently opened new 300,000-square-foot office complex at Lakewood Ranch.
Shannon
Resort & Club Group
Colony
Beach and Tennis Resort
Dooley
and Mack Constructors, Inc. Recently completed the $18.3 Brookside Middle School, Tessera condominium and Marriott Springhill Suites in Sarasota; nearing completion of the Sarasota County Jail extension.
Take Care
of Sarasota
Vengroff Williams & Associates, Inc. This company has attracted numerous Fortune 100 and high-tech clients, including Microsoft, Cisco, Computer Associates, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Pinnacle
Towers Inc.
Gevity HR (Manatee) Formerly Staff Leasing. Gevity HR is a Fortune 500 company, is listed in Forbes 500; was recognized by InformationWeek for a third year in a row as a leading information technology innovator in business services and consulting. The company was also awarded a ComputerWorld Smithsonian Honors Award for extraordinary utilization of technology. Intertape Polymer Group (Manatee)
Developer and manufacturer of specialized plastic and paper products and
complementary packaging systems for industrial and retail use Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec and Bradenton, Florida (NYSE, TSX: ITP)
Edwards
Systems Technology (Manatee) Introduced a new product called Synergy that integrates fire alarm, access control, closed circuit television and security systems into a cohesive network; first company to accomplish this while meeting all regulatory listing requirements of Underwriters Laboratory.
Correctional Services Corporation and Youth Service International Trades publicly under the NASDAQ symbol CSCQ.
W. G.
Mills, Inc. (Manatee) Five regional offices throughout Florida, including: corporate headquarters in Sarasota, Clearwater, Fort Myers, Palm Beach Gardens and Jacksonville.
Pacific
Tomato Growers, Ltd. (Manatee) Member Manatee Chamber of Commerce and Manatee Economic Development Council; sponsor of Sun Ripe Golf Classic benefiting the USF College of Education Migrant Teacher Scholarship program; recipient of the Florida Commissioner of Agricultures 2000 Ag Environmental Leadership Award.
JCI Jones
Chemicals, Inc.
Taylor
Woodrow, Inc. (Manatee) Taylor Woodrow builds master planned communities combining beautifully designed homes and condominiums with recreational and social amenities to suit home buyers at prices ranging to more than $2 million. Their local communities include The Oaks Preserve, Sawgrass, The Villages of Palm-Aire and The Meadows. Coming soon will be The Beach Residences, next to the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota.
Dental
Care Alliance, Inc. Effective June 1, 2001, the company was re-purchased from its former parent company, Interdent.
Comdial
Corporation In 2001, Comdial moved its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility from Charlottesville, Va., to Sarasota; was ranked No. 160 among the top 250 publicly held companies in Florida by Florida Trend magazine.
RMC South
Florida, Inc. (Manatee) (DBA Singletary Concrete
Products, RMC South Florida Materials and Florida Rock and Sand)
Sysco
Food Services West Coast Florida Inc. (Manatee)
Meridian
Professional Employer Services (Manatee) Supports Boys & Girls Clubs; sponsors ongoing blood drives, school activities, Manatee childrens services and many service club activities.
Invensys
Sensor Systems
Mike
Carter Construction (Manatee)
Selective
HR Solutions NAPEO member; accredited by the Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC).
Uniroyal
Technology Corporation
L-3
Communications, Aviation Recorders A self-sustained division of L-3 Communications Corporation, Aviation Recorders has sold more than 50,000 recorders.
Hi-Stat
Mfg. Co. Division of Stoneridge Inc. (Manatee)
Neal
Communities, Neal Custom Homes (Manatee) Major projects include University Park Country Club (named best master planned community in America), Perico Bay Club, Wild Oak Bay, new communities at Lakewood Ranch and University Place. Winner of 26 Aurora Awards from the Southeast Builder Conference.
Eaton
Aerospace (Manatee)
Schroeder-Manatee Ranch, Inc. (Manatee) Best in American Living Award for best master-planned community in America, Grand Aurora for Best Community with over 150 units, Readers Choice and Readers Preference Awards for Best Community from readers of Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Bradenton Herald.
Ajax
Paving Industries
APAC-Florida,
Inc. Sarasota Division (Manatee)
Westra
Construction Corp. (Manatee) Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award for the De Soto Correctional Institute Annex project, member Suncoast Utility Contractors Association, American Public Works Association Contractor of the Year Florida West Coast for 1996-97.
Administrative Concepts Corp.
Carter
Grandle (Manatee)
Acterna Corp.
Eaton Corp
Oshkosh Truck Corp.
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Hundreds of
area business people mingled, viewed booths and ate well at
the Sarasota County Chamber event.
Chris at Sparkle Brite Pool supply not only knows his
pools, he'll carry out your chlorine.
Chris,
left, from the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce takes five for a
picture at the Chamber Networking event held at the Sarasota Euclid
YMCA. We'll let you know her peers names very soon :)
Deirdre Grigoli, right mans a booth at the networking
event. Deirdre started as Director of Recruitment for the Suncoast
Communities Blood Bank. 3 weeks ago. Warning: do not hold your arm out
in front of her :)
Glenna Palm from Our Town
50 meets with Richard Dreyfus at the Sarasota Film Festival.
Susan
Shaw a licensed massage therapist melts this man into a chair as she
gives him a massage at the chamber event.
Here comes the "Bread Man".
It's the Bavarian Bakery where you can see it all happening. They have
six types of bread. And for those of us on the Atkins diet they have two
no carb breads. Pictured above is Nick Bergbauer who runs it with his
wife Helene. (Southwood Street and U.S. 41)
Kiwanis rep, Carolyn Jones Penn, sells peanuts in front of Publix.
Later in the day there was the Salvation Army. Carolyn is an Investment
Advisor with Edward Jones.
Bruce Harr
from High Tech shows Kat the sound and light system that his company set
up for the event.