JACKSONVILLE — Herb Peyton announced his retirement as president of Jacksonville-based Gate Petroleum Corp. on Jan. 3rd, and will remain with the company as chairman. His son, former Mayor John Peyton, has taken over as president. During his eight-year tenure as mayor (2003 – 2011), Peyton was strong on economic development - 81 companies relocated to Jacksonville or [...] [...more]
JACKSONVILLE — The Sun Times (Owen, Ontario) reported from Toronto on Wednesday that the sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars to Shahid Khan on Tuesday “resurrected rumblings” of a potential move by the franchise to Toronto. “But both Wayne Weaver and Kahn released statements Tuesday saying the club would stay in Jacksonville”. I had not heard [...] [...more]
JACKSONVILLE — Saft America’s grand opening of its high-tech battery plant at AllianceFlorida Cecil Commerce Center was held on Sept. 16th. I erroneously reported on Cecil advances (Aug. 17th) that the Saft plant had begun production in July (my apologies for not picking up the phone for confirmation.) At any rate, both Jacksonville Business Journal and Florida Times-Union did their due [...] [...more]
JACKSONVILLE — On the heels of the Cecil Advances (but not necessarily because of it), JaxPort conducted an all-day Foreign Trade Zone workshop at the University of North Florida on Aug. 23rd. I was unable to attend but Debby Lofberg [JaxPort's director of marketing service and FTZ #64], kindly forwarded the link to PowerPoint presentations of ”some of [...] [...more]
JACKSONVILLE – A delegation of Northeast Florida business-development leaders recently met with 20 or so companies considering the area for business operations at the International Paris Air Show. All regions of Florida participate in the annual aeronautics ritual – the Paris and Farnborough airshows are alternating biennial global marketing events. A selling point for Jacksonville and Northeast Florida [...] [...more]
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