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By The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Are you a champion for business in the Greater Gainesville community? Do you consider your business among the elite group of community partners that reinvest in the growth of our community? Then, the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 Circle of Champions might be just what you are...

ProActive Tax & Accounting and the Morgan-Stanley Banks Carroll Group will hold a Shred Party on Nov. 20. The event will be hosted by ProActive from 4 to 6 p.m. and will allow clients to bring personal- and business-related confidential documents for safe destruction. ProActive will also have their latest book, “The Pocket Guide to...

On Tuesday, the University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing, UF TechConnect and the Florida Innovation Hub held the second Empowering Women in Technology Startups (eWiTS) competition. The program is designed to increase the number of women in STEM leadership roles, increase networking opportunities for women in STEM fields and provide mentoring and educational platforms...

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce and Council for Economic Outreach is partnering with Enterprise Florida and the U.S. Commercial Service to offer international trade consulting services in Gainesville. The trade office will be housed at the Gainesville Chamber offices at 300 E University Ave., Ste. 100. As part of the Chamber’s Export Gainesville Initiative,...

On Wednesday, Buchholz High School welcomed five local entrepreneurs into its auditorium for the second annual “Mind Your Own Business” (MYOB) panel event, a program created by DECA students Emma Stetter and Maria Vargas in 2012 and produced entirely by Buchholz students. This year’s panelists included Valerie Sheehan, CEO of ToneRite; Aidan Augustin, co-founder of...

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual Business of the Year Awards on Wednesday at the Best Western Gateway Grand. In attendance were hundreds of representatives from the Gainesville area’s business community, Mayor Ed Braddy and Congresssman Ted Yoho. The two top awards – Best Overall Small Business (less than 25 employees) and...

Mindtree, a global information technology solutions company with over $435 million in revenues, celebrated the first successful year of its U.S. Delivery Center in Gainesville in October. In one year, MindTree has added over 100 jobs to the community, signed several more Fortune 500 companies to its roster of clients and started work on adding...

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce and City of Gainesville are pleased to announce a partnership to launch the Gainesville Small Business Growth Task Force to promote small business growth in the City of Gainesville.  On Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5:30 p.m., the Gainesville Area Chamber, City of Gainesville and business community representatives will discuss small...

In its first round of spending allocated toward the state’s goal of pushing the University of Florida into a Top 10 public university category, the University of Florida will spend $15 million on up to 100 new faculty hires. The goal is to bring in professors who are well-known in their fields, show unusual promise...

Kathy Viehe, Gainesville Regional Utilities’ assistant general manager for customer support services, has been appointed interim general manager for GRU pending acceptance of contractual terms. She replaces Bob Hunzinger, who recently resigned after more than five years of service. Viehe will assume the interim general manager role at 5 p.m. on November 15, 2013. “It’s...