Collier Citizen Business

Naples-based Health Management Associates Inc. was the target of a protest by about a dozen people when it held its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday in North Naples.

Naples-based Health Management Associates Inc. has found itself a target of an aggressive health-care union, which is protesting the way the company determines the pay for its top executives.

As a managing principal of Anderson Pacific Corp. (APC), a Chicago-based private investment firm, Christopher Jensen began thinking in early 2011 about the fate of the vital documents he shared with his business partners, should anything happen to any of ...

Consumers seem to be getting back in the borrowing game. Coinciding with the advent of the recession and lasting through most of 2010, consumers shed household debt by the billions, paying down and closing credit card accounts, delaying big ticket ...

Special Report: From individual shop owners in downtown Naples to those at Coconut Point mall in Estero, merchants said this past year was their best in three years. Retailers throughout the region who were contacted by the Daily News for ...

Special report: Naples high-end car dealerships, boat retailers and jewelers say that for the first time since businesses first felt the economy falter in 2008, demand spiked for their luxury products this season. First quarter sales in 2012 were up ...

Special report: Small-business owners and big-name companies alike have come to Southwest Florida in recent months, betting that consumers are ready once again to pull out their wallets and put money back into the local economy. After the U.S. economy ...

Recessions are officially defined as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth; in other words, reported Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expressed as a dollar number, actually declines. Recovery, therefore, begins when the GDP number increases.

Special report: Years of skyrocketing unemployment rates in Southwest Florida are finally giving way to more normal levels. But "normal" may have a new meaning: unemployment rates that are at least double what they were before the housing market collapsed ...

Fifty years ago I received my acceptance letter for admission to the City University of NY (CUNY), along with notice of the tuition due for the first semester — $24. Yes, that’s right, $24 per semester ($48 annually) was the ...

After almost two years of research, a team at Hodges University is ready to share its findings on how other counties – outside of Collier – deliver economic development. There are hopes the findings will help Collier's government and business ...

Words have explicit meanings, sometimes many. Look up the word “run” in the Oxford dictionary. There are 12 definitions of “run” as a verb and 13 as a noun. But even with 25 possibilities, the specific meaning is usually understood ...

There are many reasons to be upset with a federal government that has made a mess of just about everything — energy, healthcare, homeownership, taxation, immigration, deficits and debt, the economy, etc.

Unfortunately, it’s that time again. There’s less than two weeks left before you have to file 2011 tax returns. Of course, you can ask for an extension and it will be normally granted without any problem. But if you owe ...

The slippery slope metaphor is often used as an argument against a specific action because the action can lead to subsequent related actions, each with less similar facts until actions ultimately have little to do with the intent of the ...