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The Ledger, January 22, 2010
LAKELAND | Damien Lamendola took a circuitous and impressive route to Lakeland, and he thinks it's an ideal location for his ambitious business plans. Lamendola, 54, is owner and chief executive of WellDyneRX, a company that manages prescription
health benefits for unions and employers. It competes with companies such as Caremark.
The Ledger, December 04, 2009
LAKELAND | The University of South Florida Polytechnic has hired a new director, Jean-Pierre Emond, who will assume leadership in February of the Division of Technology and Innovation. He also will be
a professor there.
The Ledger, September 26, 2009
LAKELAND | Craig Hardwick thought Lakeland was just an exit off the interstate before the University of Florida student got a summer
internship here. And then he discovered Common Ground Park.
Hardwick found common ground in Lakeland thanks to a local Summer Leadership Program, donating $1,000.44 to the city-owned Common Ground Park.
The Ledger, September 16, 2009
LAKELAND | Attention entrepreneurs and innovators: The University of South Florida Polytechnic wants to make your business plan a reality. With two local business "incubators" just weeks away from opening their doors, USF Poly is ramping up its search for applicants who wish to pair with the university for research and development partnerships. USF wants to hear from both established and fledgling companies...
Polk County Business Journal, September 14, 2009
The term "RFID" might still be unfamiliar to much of the business world, but Polk County is already well-acquainted. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the technology behind the SunPass toll collection devices, and it's playing a growing role in the supply chain industry, where it could eventually replace the barcode as the go-to tracking tool. Some observers also expect RFID to lead the charge in improving food and drug safety. All of this bodes well for Lakeland...
The Ledger, August 26, 2009
Business people usually say specific goals, in numbers and time terms, need to be set in order to succeed. Dr. David Misch took a different approach - quality over quantity - and much success has followed, although he hesitates to call it that. Misch founded the Center for Retina and Macular Disease in Winter Haven in 1991.
Polk County Business Journal, July 19, 2009
You can't deny that USF Polytechnic's campus alongside Interstate 4 will forever change Polk County. You can't build something that involves a world-famous architect and the potential to nearly quadruple enrollment without leaving a significant mark. But what could the economic impact of the new campus be on the county?
LAKELAND | University of South Florida Polytechnic Chief Executive Officer Marshall Goodman can start taking deep breaths again now
that Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a state budget that includes $16.4 million for its new campus.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, May 15, 2009
Tampa General Hospital has doubled the number of pharmacists on its staff since 2001 and is looking for more. So is the James A. Haley Veterans Administration Hospital. There’s a continuing shortage of pharmacists nationwide, and Florida, with its above-average number of senior citizens, ranks among the states most in need of professionals...
Tampa Bay Business Journal, May 15, 2009
The first of what will eventually be 700 workers are on the job at WellDyneRx Inc.’s new facility in Lakeland. WellDyne — a pharmacy benefit management company that administers drug benefit programs, processes claims and operates a mail-order pharmacy — opened the $20 million, 66,000-square-foot operation in March. It will provide 100 jobs by the end of this year and another 578 jobs...
In response to recent media inquiries regarding travel by USF Polytechnic's CEO, the office of University Advancement is contemplating a new children's video game, "Where in the World is Marshall Goodman?"
LAKELAND | Despite the state's budget woes, the University of South Florida Polytechnic fared better in the new state budget plan than it has in the past two years. The state's proposed budget includes construction
money and additional funding for future faculty members.
LAKELAND | David Robinson can't wait for USF Polytechnic to embark on its new mission. "We need to wake up," says 45-year-old Robinson, an information technology entrepreneur who presides over three companies with about 30 employees and the largest data bank for
private use in Central Florida.
Maddux Report, May 01, 2009
Good things can come in small packages, even when it comes to architecture. That's the message architect Tim Hoeft of Straugn Trout architects in Lakeland would like to get across with his company's newest "green" project. The project is a 4,151-square-foot branch office for Magnify Credit Union
The Ledger, April 08, 2009
LAKELAND | Marshall Goodman and Tom Patton aren't talking about hatching baby chickens with the business technology incubator both want at the University of South Florida Polytechnic. Their focus is nurturing entrepreneurial businesses by creating a place where USF Poly professors and students can work with businesses in developing innovative technology.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, March 27, 2009
University of South Florida Polytechnic signed a collaborative agreement with France’s Euromed Marseille School of Management. USFP also agreed to host students from Polytech Marseille. The agreements are designed to help USFP align with institutions that operate with the polytechnic vision, a release said.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, January 30, 2009
WellDyneRx Inc. will create more than 670 jobs when it opens a new facility in Lakeland, more than tripling the Colorado company’s prescription mail order capacity. WellDyneRx said Monday it is building a $20 million southeastern operations center that will be able to fill more than 30 million mail order prescriptions annually, the Lakeland Economic Development Council said...
USF Magazine, December 17, 2008
Since his arrival, USF Lakeland CEO Marshall Goodman's tagline has been "Dream no small dreams." Lakeland and Polk County listened and responded. President Judy Genshaft recently accepted two gifts totaling $10 million, given to support the construction of USF's new campus in Lakeland. Two of the region's premiere economic development organizations, the Central Florida Development Council and teh Lakeland Economic Development Council (LEDC), each gave $5 million...
The Ledger, August 25, 2008
WellDyneRX, a mail-order pharmacy and benefit management firm, has selected Lakeland for an expansion that could bring 670 new jobs. The $20 million expansion is the first for Centennial, Colo.-based WellDyne, which will do the bulk of its hiring in 2009 and 2010, with salaries averaging roughly $42,000. The private company is leasing a 66,000-square-foot facility off Swindell Road, near County Line Road, that will serve WellDyne clients nationwide...
The Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Foundation has donated millions of dollars to a number of small colleges throughout Florida. Now, it's Florida Southern College's turn. On Thursday, John Rinker, president of the West Palm Beach-based foundation, was at a groundbreaking
ceremony for a sleek new $1.5 million technology center off Ingraham Avenue equipped with dozens of computers...
Maddux Business Report, September 12, 2007
By: Melissa Wells
Right under our nose, yet largely out of sight, international flavor and fragrance companies do big business in the bay area. Every three years the world's top noses meet for something called the World Perfumery Congress. Held in ritzy Cannes, France, it's a chance for...
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