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MY Health Guards: Keeping Businesses and their Customers Safe

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 [...]

Melissa Sileo2020-05-06T21:24:17-04:00May 6, 2020|News, Success Stories|

Florida Reopening

Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recover - https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/covid19/Safe%20Smart%20Step_Templat4.29%20FINAL.pdf Florida Department of Health Updates - https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/ Executive Order FAQ - https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Exec-Order-20-112-FAQs-1.pdf Thrive in the New Normal of Business - Withum Small Business Grants Available in Florida Counties - Withum

Tammie Sweet2020-04-30T17:25:26-04:00April 30, 2020|News|

Some Good News – GrowFL Style – April 30, 2020

Some Good News - GrowFL Style - April 30, 2020

Melissa Sileo2020-04-30T14:08:36-04:00April 30, 2020|News, Success Stories|

Two GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Honorees Join Forces to Build an “ICU in a Box”

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 [...]

Melissa Sileo2020-04-30T01:54:00-04:00April 30, 2020|News, Success Stories|

From Supplements to Masks: Serving their local Community and Beyond

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 [...]

Melissa Sileo2020-04-30T01:27:34-04:00April 30, 2020|News, Success Stories|

Connex Florida Announced to help Florida’s Manufacturers

GrowFL COVID-19 Business Resource Center Please see the exciting news from AIF, Space Florida and FloridaMakes below. In addition, we have included information on GrowFL's upcoming updates to the PPP and CARES Act programs. The GrowFL Team [email protected] For Immediate Release April 8, 2020 Contact AIF: Sarah Bascom / Kristen Bridges Space Florida: Sara Shell FloridaMakes: Zoraida Velasco DOWNLOAD: Connex Florida Why Join + FAQs AIF in Partnership with [...]

Tammie Sweet2020-04-08T17:16:56-04:00April 8, 2020|News|

BRIDG Offers Cleanrooms for Ventilator or PPE Production

Semiconductor-Grade, Class 10,000 and Class 100 Cleanrooms Available for Ventilator or PPE Production In response to the COVID-19 global health crisis, BRIDG – a not-for-profit, public-private-partnership operating an advanced microelectronics fabrication facility in Kissimmee, Florida – is offering access to cleanroom space for ventilator fabrication, personal protective equipment (PPE) fabrication, test kit preparation, and other essential products manufacturing needed during this pandemic. While BRIDG does not have the equipment to [...]

Tammie Sweet2020-04-01T12:34:25-04:00April 1, 2020|News|

Paycheck Protection Program

URGENT Update regarding PPP Loans: "Safe Harbor" expires May 14, 2020 By ADVOS Legal - a 2019 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Honoree Although the initial legislation regarding PPP Loans indicated that all businesses were presumed to be adversely impacted by COVID-19 and therefore eligible for the funds, the SBA has now indicated that more stringent criteria will apply for all borrowers, and that it will review all loans of [...]

Tammie Sweet2020-04-01T10:12:45-04:00April 1, 2020|News|

Who’s hiring?

View available job positions for credible companies in the state of Florida.

Melissa Sileo2020-03-31T14:33:46-04:00March 31, 2020|News|

GrowFL Virtual Roundtables

Register today! Fast answers to tough issues Through a partnership with the Edward Lowe Foundation, GrowFL is launching today a Virtual Roundtable program that will allow second-stage business owners to meet April through June to help navigate through the COVID-19 crisis through peer to peer collaboration. “Right now I really need to talk with more business owners!” That was the response of a second-stage CEO when reminded of an upcoming [...]

Melissa Sileo2020-03-26T21:59:22-04:00March 26, 2020|News|