Top execs at Tampa Bay’s Inc. 5000 companies on their best business decisions

Hundreds crowded into 3 Daughters Brewing in St. Petersburg Tuesday night to celebrate the craft brewer and two other Tampa Bay-based companies that made the Inc. 5000 list for the first time this year.

“Getting on the Inc. 5000 list is not easy. It means these companies have grown at a pace that is incomparable to most small businesses,” said Topher Morrison, managing director of leadership development firm Key Person of Influence, which hosted the party to honor its clients, Source 1 Solutions and Sourcetoad.

Key Person of Influence also has a close relationship with 3 Daughters, which was one of 27 companies that also won the “coolest products” award among Inc. 5000 class of 2018, said Morrison, who is a candidate for mayor of Tampa.

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Aircraft and medical manufacturing firm moves to Seminole, hires 80

Low taxes, good weather and a welcoming community all played a role in the decision to move S.S. White Technologies Inc. from New Jersey to Seminole, according to Rahul Shukla, president and CEO.

But the top reason the manufacturing firm relocated? “The No. 1 factor was Florida makes me happy,” Shukla said.

S.S. White cut the ribbon its new 90,000-square-foot headquarters, manufacturing, research and development facility at 8300 Sheen Drive Tuesday, as Pinellas County and Seminole officials officially welcomed the company to the area.

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After the Retail Apocalypse, Prepare for the Property Tax Meltdown [City Lab]

Big-box retailers nationwide are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole known as "dark store theory." For the towns that rely on that revenue, this could be a disaster.

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