Category: Business
ITEN Wired: 2016 Geeks on the Beach
The ITEN Wired Summit comes back to the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front on October 12–14 as a bigger, better, three-day conference. Co-hosted by IT…
Pensacola Chamber releases responses to local candidate questionnaire
Today, the Greater Pensacola Chamber released the answers submitted by candidates running for Pensacola City Council and Escambia County Board of County Commissioners. Candidates were…
Okaloosa developer finances medical pot nursery
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Panhandle developer Jay Odom is bankrolling a Northeast Florida operation licensed by health officials to grow, process…
Studer to speak at UWF Center for Entrepreneurship workshop
The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of West Florida College of Business is hosting a workshop on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 9 a.m. in…
Century Town Council approves food trucks
NorthEscambia.com reports that tThe Town of Century has voted to allow food trucks and other portable food vendors to purchase a business license. When Sonny’s…
Study Reveals The Characteristics of Good Leaders
Researchers at PsychTests analyzed the personality profile of 7,379 leaders who took their Leadership Style Test. When comparing excellent to poor leaders, 20 distinct differences…
Gas prices drop for another week
Average retail gasoline prices in Pensacola have fallen 2.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.21/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of…
2015 Tough Mudder Race had $1.5M impact
Santa Rosa County and the surrounding northwest Florida area saw a generous economic impact from this spring’s Tough Mudder event. Nearly 6,000 participants turned out…
How to get a job in Pensacola [podcast]
Pensacola has the third best job market in the state of Florida. Dr. Katie Hudon, Assistant Director of Career Services and an instructor at UWF,…
Case could force pot grower to reveal investors
Editor’s note: Watch this case closely. The list of investors in Loop’s Nursery’s medical marijuana growing venture could be a who’s who of Pensacola. STATE…
County collects all taxes due on Big Wheel
It took a year but Escambia County Tax Collector Janet Holley reports to Inweekly that the owner of the Big Ferris Wheel, known as “360…
Atlanta, Miami, Orlando and other cities to get direct flights to Havana, Cuba
Passenger flights may begin between Havana, Cuba and up to 10 U.S. airports, including four in Florida, as early as this fall. Pensacola area passengers…
Charlotte’s Web creators fight for Florida license
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA More than two years after lawmakers legalized a limited type of medical marijuana, an administrative law judge…
Jacksonville lands Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz USA, a division of Daimler AG, will move an engineering division from New Jersey to Florida, adding about 50 jobs to the company’s Jacksonville…
Gas prices drop, cheapest July 4 weekend in 11 years
Average retail gasoline prices in Pensacola have fallen 2.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.24/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of…
Insurance industry now wants nearly 20 percent hike on workers’ comp
The workers’ compensation insurance industry is seeking a nearly 20 percent rate hike, following a pair of recent Florida Supreme Court rulings and a change…
Florida Chamber warns rate hike jeopardizes job growth
Florida’s 59 consecutive months of private sector job growth may soon be in jeopardy as job creators prepare for a proposed 19.6 percent workers’ compensation…
Pensacola ranked third best Florida city to find a job
Wallet Hub has ranked Pensacola the third best Florida city for finding a job, trailing only Sarasota and Jacksonville Beach. Pensacola ranked #10 in Job…
Bubba’s Sweet Spot opens July 1, with local talent behind the counter
Bubba’s Sweet Spot opens Friday, July 1 with 15 talented members of the Pensacola community on staff. “We are very excited about the staff we…
Mobile County bags Walmart Distribution Center with millions in incentives
While incoming Florida Speaker of the House, Richard Corcoran, wants to move the state away from giving corporations millions to create jobs, Alabama has no…





















