Northwest Florida has many great components to start and grow small businesses that includes things like courses, training and development, annual events, shared work space, incubators and drop-in entrepreneurial centers. Now, the Studer Family of Companies will look at how the community can take Pensacola’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to the next level. The Pensacola Entrepreneur Initiative … Read more
Congratulations Navy Federal Credit Union! Not only are they Escambia County’s leading employer with over 7,700 employees but they have also been recently recognized by ComputerWorld as the #8 Best Place to Work in IT! This comes just after being recognized as one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For the 9th time … Read more
7 Among the handful of streets in the U.S. to shape and be shaped by 250 years of British, Spanish, and American influence is Palafox Street, the gateway to Pensacola, Florida, and the city’s main stage for holiday and seasonal celebrations that draw up to 50,000 people at a time. Palafox was designated by the American … Read more
FloridaWest welcomed the entrepreneurial community to Co:Lab for the official ribbon cutting of their new ground floor May 8. CO:LAB, a program of FloridaWest EDA, supported by Pensacola State College, is Pensacola’s business incubator and growth accelerator. At Co:Lab we have one goal: to help entrepreneurs reach their next level.We do it with a community … Read more
ST Engineering Aerospace and Co:Lab are featured in the Escambia County Business Journal Read Now
The 2019 SkillsUSA Florida State Leadership and Skills Conference and the 9th Annual Worlds of Possibilities Career Expo was a huge success! The Worlds of Possibilities Career Expo featured more than 60 vendors from business and industry, and it was toured by over 2500 middle and high school students from our Escambia and Santa Rosa … Read more
Florida West Economic Development Alliance received a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award for its “The Bluffs”, a project in the category of Video/Multimedia Promotion from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The honor was presented at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, October 2, during the IEDC Annual Conference, which was held September 29 – … Read more
“When I decided to start my business, Data Revolution, the first people I met with were Kelly Reeser and Pat Rooney at CO:LAB. I was fully motivated and had a lot of good ideas. I knew where I was going, but I didn’t really know HOW I would get there, or even the best way … Read more
FloridaWest is pleased to announce that promotional materials for The Bluffs were awarded three Golden Addys at Saturday’s American Advertising Federation Pensacola ADDY® Awards Gala. The Awards: 2018 Gold Addy Award – Integrated Campaign: The Bluffs / Integrated Advertising Campaign Regional/National B-to-B 2018 Gold Addy Award – Direct Mail: 3-D/Mixed 2018 Gold Addy Award – … Read more
Veteran-Owned Business Serves those that Serve Today the FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance announced that VetFed Resources, Inc. will open a new location in Pensacola, creating twenty new jobs. The 20 new jobs and 2 retained jobs, with above average wages, and the $95,000 initial capital investment put into this existing office property will have positive … Read more
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