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Presented by UF Small Business and Vendor Diversity Relations This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to publish the below excerpt on the White House blog The United State of Women, a global collective committed to improving the lives of women and girls everywhere. I also attended a summit in Washington D.C. featuring celebrities,...

Eat the 80 is a locally owned and operated healthy meal delivery service co-founded in 2014 by husband and wife team Chris and Carlee Marhefka. The Business Report sat down with Carlee to discuss her passion for helping people eat healthily, and how Eat the 80 evolved from an idea into a successful business.  ...

Ameris Bank announces its 7th Annual Helping Fight Hunger food drive initiative. Helping Fight Hunger is a bank-wide project with one goal: to collect as many non-perishable food items as possible during the month of October. A food bank in every town with an Ameris Bank location will receive the donation of goods collected at...

Preparing a company for sale – whether through a disposition of its equity interests or its operating assets – entails cataloguing the enterprise’s assets, liabilities, contracts, files, licenses, and other operating and regulatory documents, and preparing them for presentation to a prospective acquirer, who will carefully review those items with the aid of accountants, lawyers,...

The United States has a reputation for prioritizing work over health or recreation. Productivity is highly valued, and the majority of Americans work long hours and, often, endure lengthy commutes getting to and from work. Because of long work weeks, many Americans feel they lack sufficient time to relax, connect with family and friends, exercise,...

Pokémon GO has taken Gainesville, and the nation, by storm. You may have heard the popular Pokémon slogan, “Gotta catch ‘em all!” Well, local businesses are also trying to catch ‘em all – customers, that is. This free mobile application (app) features an interactive game for smartphone users. In its first week alone, the app...

Healthcare. Often a divisive term, it almost immediately draws sides concerning politics, high cost, availability, waste and corruption. And when stories flood the news concerning a healthcare executive jacking up prices for an antibiotic drug by fiftyfold, or the cost of EpiPen®, so critical to so many lives on a daily basis, skyrockets from $57...

If you are a small employer, there is a tax credit that can put money in your pocket. The small business health care tax credit benefits employers that: have fewer than 25 full-time equivalent employees pay an average wage of less than $50,000 a year pay at least half of employee health insurance premiums To...

Research dollars are a key component of the University of Florida’s drive toward preeminence. UF secured a record of $724 million in fiscal year 2015, a 2.4 percent increase over the previous record of $706.8 million set in fiscal year 2014. The 2014 total ranked UF 26th among all U.S. Universities in total R&D expenditures....

With this agreement, the two companies will provide the tools and solutions necessary to support critical advancements in neurology research Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. is focused on developing a blood test that could be used by physicians and healthcare providers to rapidly and objectively detect the presence of mild and moderate TBI and improve the medical...