While transitioning to a remote workforce, many business owners faced the challenge of keeping their employees engaged and feeling like a team, despite not operating in the same building. 2018 Florida Companies to Watch honoree, Custom Manufacturing & Engineering, Inc. (CME), found a fun, easy way to bring everyone together during their usual company-wide meetings. Prior to COVID-19, their What’s Going On (WGO) meetings would be held every eight weeks [...]

“All of our top customers like Sephora and Amazon pretty much stopped ordering. So, we said what can we do instead of just twirling our thumbs? What can we do to be a little more useful, proactive and productive?” said Lewis Farsedakis, CEO of Blinc and 2014 Florida Companies to Watch Honoree. After feeling the stress of trying to find affordable and effective hand sanitizer for his own team, Farsedakis [...]

Neal-Anderson, president and CEO, Juliet-Negrete-Anderson, COO of OnPay Solutions, and Dr. Tom O' Neal, GrowFL Founder A few months ago, if you were to scroll through the social media pages of Onpay Solutions, a 2019 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Honoree, it would have looked a bit different. Now, between their tips for managing accounts payable and automated invoices, you’ll find photos and videos guaranteed to lift your spirits and [...]

Bill Daubmann, President, MY Shower Door/D3 Glass Known for their award-winning shower doors, 2013 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch honoree, MY Shower Door, has expanded their expertise to keep businesses, and the customers they serve, safe. Their newly constructed glass plant in Fort Myers is certainly ramping up production, but now, more than shower doors are leaving the building.  To help reduce the spread of COVD-19, Bill Daubmann, president of [...]

Stephanie Hollis, Founder & COOBrian Bosley, Founder & CEOSolar StikRon Ben-Zeev, PresidentWorld Housing Solution, Inc. World Housing Solution (WHS), a 2018 Honoree and Solar Stik, a 2019 Honoree have joined forces to tackle hospital overflow caused by COVID-19. Along with WHS and Solar Stik, Paladin Healthcare and SportSani, Inc. have proposed a superior solution, the new and reusable “ICU in a Box.” World Housing Solution designs, engineers, and manufactures technology-integrated [...]

Lourdes McAgy, escorted by Kevin Carr, FloridaMakes and Dr. Tom O'Neal, GrowFL Founder For many business owners, COVID-19 has forced them to pivot away from what they’ve been doing to now look at what they can do. The same can be said for Lourdes McAgy, owner and CEO of Total Nutrition Technology, a 2019 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Honoree. Although business looks different than it did a few months [...]