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If you work in the HR industry, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard something to the effect of “the annual performance review is dead” discussed among your colleagues. The trend toward moving away from annual performance reviews began to ramp up in 2015, when a small but prominent list of large corporations began making...

After a whirlwind thirty-day, $1 million renovation, the Gainesville Health & Fitness Women’s Center held it’s grand reopening and more than 500 attendees got a sneak peek into the newly transformed GHFWomen, the ultra-modern fitness center and the only center in Gainesville exclusively for women. Guests toured the 14,000 square foot, completely renovated facility in...

Attributes revenue growth to price point, agency-focused business model and overall demand for marketing automation. SharpSpring, Inc., the Gainesville based global provider of cloud-based marketing technologies, today announced it ranked 391 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Technology...

One of the most dangerous possible pitfalls that can be made in business is to blindly sign a partnership agreement with no real understanding of how it might impact the company and each of its partners down the line. Prior to entering into a partnership agreement often under an LLC, it is imperative to familiarize...

“Millennials” is a popular buzzword in the news, and it’s not a topic that should be ignored. It’s often said that “20-something” employees don’t stay put in one job for very long. If this is true, why? Instead of focusing on why millennials aren’t the same as previous generations, let’s shift the conversation to how...

Dave’s New York Deli started out in a small location just a bit west on Newberry Road from where it is now in the Tioga Town Center. Its loyal following and big lunch crowds enabled them to move into their current location. It’s no accident. They serve great cuts of meat (mostly Boar’s Head), offer...

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Advanced Manufacturing Council kicked off its second annual Manufacturing Month with facility tours for Alachua County middle school and high school students. More than 200 local students visited 16 manufacturing facilities to learn about the many things #madeinGNV! Regional manufacturers providing tours included Fracture, Sandvik, Phalanx Defense Systems, Exactech,...

Mérieux NutriSciences, a leading international network of accredited food testing laboratories, announced today that it will begin relocation plans to move its food testing facility from Southwest Gainesville to a 22,700 square foot location one mile east of Downtown Gainesville, close to the University of Florida campus. The new location, slated to open in April 2017,...

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The relationship between business and banking is most certainly grounded in the numbers.  Business loans, lines of credit, deposits, withdrawals, all play daily roles in the necessary transactional partnership. But the interaction between the small business owner and the local, community bank has been one keenly interlaced with each other’s mutual success.  Amidst the turmoil...