PUBLISHER’S NOTE
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Treasure
Coast Business, a quarterly magazine whose
mission is to give business leaders, owners
and operators a snapshot of the Treasure
Coast economic environment to enable them
to make decisions that maintain and grow
their businesses.
This first issue was produced through a
unique private/public partnership between
Indian River Magazine Inc. and the Florida
Small Business Development Center at Indian
River State College, headed by Tom Kindred Jr.
With newspapers throughout the country
scaling back their local business news over
the last decade, Tom and I had been discussing
for years a way to help fill in the gap and
serve the local business community.
Utilizing my background as an entrepreneur
and former business editor and Indian
River State College’s innovative assistance
programs that help entrepreneurs grow their
businesses, we came up with the idea to
launch a local publication and website. The
aim is to focus exclusively on business news and developments in the region while providing
business operators with news about the resources available to help them make the best decisions
on sustaining and expanding their businesses.
The enterprise we created combines the talents of the award-winning professional journalists
from the Indian River Magazine staff with the business experts from the Florida Small Business
Development Center who have extensive experience assisting small businesses with virtually any
issue that arises.
So, in this magazine you will find a mix of news stories and features about local businesses,
such as our cover story on manufacturing. Who would have thought it could make such a comeback
on the Treasure Coast? Besides stories about significant business developments, you’ll also
find useful stories and columns with guidance and suggestions for negotiating both common
and difficult business issues. And because the Small Business Development Center is based at Indian
River State College, you’ll also find useful news about available resources and developments
at the college.
Through direct mail and distribution at businesses throughout the region, each issue will reach
more than 5,000 business leaders, owners and operators on the Treasure Coast. Beyond this publication,
we will also reach thousands on our website, TCBusiness.com, and Treasure Coast Business
email newsletter that goes out weekly. You can subscribe to the print magazine and sign up for the
newsletter by visiting TCBusiness.com. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Our distribution model ensures that the magazine and its content is broadcast beyond the local
business community in hopes that businesses outside the region will find the Treasure Coast a
dynamic and supportive environment in which to relocate their businesses.
Tremendous thanks go out to the county economic development councils, chambers of commerce
and businesses on the Treasure Coast that have become Treasure Coast Business advertisers
and helped us support our mission of bringing you this publication. We hope they and future
advertisers will find Treasure Coast Business an effective means to market their goods and services
to the Treasure Coast business community.
Since this is our first issue, we hope you will give us your feedback on what you find useful
about the magazine and suggest topics, columns or features that we should add to our next issue,
which will arrive in September. You can do this by clicking on the “Tell Us About This Issue’’
button on the website, or by reaching me at 772.940.9005 or enns@indianrivermag.com. You
may also contact Tom at 772.708.3673 or tkindred@irsc.edu.
Please enjoy this issue. We look forward to hearing from you and
delivering to you our next issue in September.
TCBusiness.com
Gregory Enns, Publisher
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Publisher & Editor
Gregory Enns
772.940.9005
enns@indianrivermag.com
Florida SBDC at IRSC
Tom Kindred Jr.
772.708.3673
tkindred@irsc.edu
Associate Publisher
Allen Osteen
Assistant to the Publisher
Lisa Crawford
772.466.3346
lisa@indianrivermag.com
Associate Editor
Jerry Shaw
Design Editor
Michelle Moore-Burney
Copy Editors
Pattie Durham, Gaettane A. Paul
Contributing Writers
Bernie Woodall, Susan Burgess,
Katherine Culhane, Rody Johnson,
Anthony Westbury, Suzanne Seldes,
Nancy Dahlberg
Photographers
Anthony Inswasty, Bernie Woodall,
Susan Klein, Adam King,
Mark Dolan
Cover Design
Walt Hines
Advertising Representatives
Sunny Gates
772.204.5043
sunny@indianrivermag.com
Marsha Lange
772.237.1717
marsha@indianrivermag.com
Distribution
Wes Holloway, Kirk Jones
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VALUABLE NEWS FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES
SUSAN KLEIN
Indian River Magazine Inc. President and Publisher
Gregory Enns, left, and Florida Small Business Development
Center Regional Director Tom Kindred Jr. teamed
up to launch Treasure Coast Business.
M A G A Z I N E
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of Indian River Magazine Inc., 308 Ave.
A, Fort Pierce, FL 34950. Treasure Coast
Business magazine publishes four times
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