Florida: News

Aerospace Technologies Group, Inc. (ATG) unveils new corporate headquarters in Boca Raton. The 65,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, newly renovated facility is home to 130 manufacturing, administrative, research and development personnel and functions as the site for Aerospace Technologies Group's production lines. (Read more)

Two Florida cities are ranked among America's Best Small Towns: Naples (#9) and Key West (#16). (Read more)

Manatee's Hann Powerboats was one of just eight companies highlighted in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Annual Report. (Read more)

Allegra Direct Communications Inc. will invest $1.2 million to bring a health care-related call center and 200 jobs to Baldwin Park during the next three years. (Read more)

Florida is home to 58,310 exporting companies--second only to California. One out of every five, or 20%, of the nation's companies that export are located in Florida. (Read more)

Cleantech Group ranks Florida among the nation's top 10 states for green-tech patent registrations. (Read more)

Gainesville ranks among America's Hardest Working Towns, according to a PARADE study based on factors such as employment rate, average hours worked and willingness to work during personal time. (Read more)

Indian River State College's Brown Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a $21.5 million, 65,000 square foot facility, represents a unique partnership between the college and local business partners, including FPL. (Read more)

Orlando-based AcariaHealth Inc. plans to create up to 80 new jobs in the next three years. (Read more)

Florida Hospital and Sanford-Burnham celebrate the opening of the Florida Hospital-Sanford-Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes' (TRI) new state-of-the-art facility in downtown Orlando, dedicated to the advancement of a new paradigm of personalized approaches to researching and treating diabetes and obesity. (Read more)

Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance wins Business Facilities' first ever Achievement in Public-Private Partnership Award. (Read more)

Health Management Associates Inc., parent corporation of Venice Regional Medical Center, plans to expand its regional central business office in Sarasota County, a move that is expected to preserve 148 local jobs and add 217 positions over two years. (Read more)

Google Inc.'s top technology guru expects Central Florida's military-oriented simulation industry to be at the forefront of the country's next wave of advances in training-and-education technologies. (Read more)

The 35,000-square-foot hangar will house a heavy-lift helicopter used by the U.S. Marine Corps that is being assembled on the campus. (Read more)

MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services Company, plans to open its first major U.S. Development Center in Gainesville. MindTree's expansion of its U.S. presence is expected to bring some 400 new jobs to the Gainesville area beginning late this summer. (Read more)

A German company that builds clean energy power generation systems will open a U.S. manufacturing plant in St. Augustine, creating 125 jobs with an average salary of $50,000. (Read more)

ThePeoplesVote.com, an internet-based, non partisan public policy service provider, has selected Palm Bay to begin its start-up operation. (Read more)

Medtronic, a medical technologies company, will build a new 75,000 square-foot building to expand its surgical technologies division headquarters in Jacksonville and expects to create 175 new full-time jobs by the end of 2015. (Read more)

GSE Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. that manufactures aircraft ground support equipment and accessories, plans to relocate its Hobart Ground Power business from Troy, Ohio to Palmetto, Florida, creating 42 new Florida jobs. (Read more)

IRISS, which manufactures infrared windows for inspecting industrial electrical equipment, will consolidate its U.K.--based manufacturing operation and U.S. headquarters at a new global headquarters in Manatee County. (Read more)

ConMed Linvatec celebrated the grand opening of its new Center for Orthopaedic Education in Pinellas County. The 16,000-square-foot training facility will provide advanced surgeon education, surgical skills training and professional development on the company's existing medical device development and manufacturing operations. (Read more)

Justin Wetherill launched uBreakiFix Co. three years ago and now has 21 stores nationwide, 2011 revenue of $8.5 million and 42 new stores planned for 2012. (Read more)

Modernizing Medicine, Inc., a software company that delivers IT solutions for small and medium-sized specialty medical practices, plans to more than double its space and move to a new facility at the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University. (Read more)

Locus Traxx, a fast growing company focused on food safety and security of food shipments, will expand its operations to a 60,000 sq. ft. facility at the Florida Research Park, allowing the company to expand from 50 employees to 160 employees by the end of this year. (Read more)

Seaborn Networks LLC, a Boston company, plans to lay an underwater fiber optic cable stretching more than 6,000 miles from South Florida to Brazil that will create up to 50 jobs at the end of the line in Miami. (Read more)

Florida East Coast Industries, a Coral Gables real estate and transportation company, intends to develop a $1 billion passenger rail service that would use existing tracks north to Cocoa and then build a new rail extension from Cocoa to Orlando. The total length of the route would be 240 miles, with the possibility of expansion to Tampa and Jacksonville. (Read more)

Technology companies sometimes complain about the difficulty of finding skilled workers, but Citrix Systems and Broward College have taken a big step to deal with the issue. The college and the region's largest software company are creating the Citrix IT Academy at Broward College's North Campus in Coconut Creek. (Read more)

Another great testament to Florida's business-friendly climate, Florida is home to 3 of the nation's most cost competitive large metros: Orlando (#3), Tampa (#4) and Miami (#11). (Read more)

Florida's strides in growing a business-friendly state are attracting national attention as the state ranks among the America's top 10 states for entrepreneurship and among the top 10 most improved over the last decade. (Read more)