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FloridaWorks, in collaboration with the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, is hosting a four-part series of breakfast talks for local employers. Company Lifestyle is a series of organizational culture workshops where employers can discuss strategies to build or enhance company culture, address issues in the workplace and establish a network of support. Company Lifestyle provides...

Fracture, a Gainesville small business success story, announced on Friday that it has hired Herb Jones, a local online marketing leader, as its first chief marketing officer. Jones, 43, is a University of Florida alumnus with more than a decade of experience in digital marketing who comes to Fracture from his own SEO, social media...

There’s still time to showcase what makes your company an innovative leader at this year’s Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year awards. Slated for Wednesday, Nov. 6 from 11am-1pm at the Best Western PLUS Gateway Grand, companies can showcase themselves as an applicant for an award, nominate another company for an award,...

Regional Transit System, RTS, has once again set new ridership records due to its partnerships and enhanced services. In the fiscal year 2013, FY2013, the new record for ridership increased to 10,873,061 compared to 10,698,984 in FY2012. Additionally, in FY2013, daily ridership also set a new record at 65,667 and monthly ridership reached 1,386,437. “We...

On Friday, the State University System of Florida Board of Governors approved the business plan for UF Online, a new, fully online bachelor’s degree program at the University of Florida that will allow the university to admit thousands of students that otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to attend UF due to overstuffed facilities. Applications are now...

Donald and Sara Rich understand the power of family in the healing process. That’s why the couple presented a $40,000 check Sept. 17 to support the UF Health Shands Hospital Housing voucher fund and establish the Samaritan Housing Fund. The Riches, who founded The Samaritan Hospitality House Inc. after their daughter, Leslie, was treated at...

The J. Wayne Reitz Union has been the meeting place and first exposure to the campus for University of Florida students since 1967. It’s the iconic heart of campus, and on Sept. 21, Florida legislators, present and former student body presidents, UF trustees and dozens of other celebrated the groundbreaking for the new Reitz Union...

First Appearance on QVC this Friday CordaRoy’s, Gainesville’s successful beanbag furniture company, will be featured for the first time on QVC this Friday, Sept. 27 at 8pm. CordaRoy’s are known for their utility, as the bean bag itself is actually covered in a corduroy slipcover that can be removed to allow the bag to unfold...

Eleven-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte will debut two new Yogurtology flavors for charity on Saturday, Sept. 28. Proceeds from the flavor launch will benefit Lochte’s personal charities (Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy and the Mac Crutchfield Foundation). Yogurtology has pledged to donate $20,000 to Ryan’s charities, with the expressed intention to raise even more. “Community is...

For two consecutive years, the Gainesville Area Chamber has hosted Gainesville Restaurant Week in an effort to support our local restaurants during the slower business months. The hard push on marketing local restaurants to the public over the course of a week-and-a-half aims to increase traffic, exposure and interest in eating locally year-round. To continue...