Corporate report

Service King buys Oldsmar's Creative Body Works
Richardson, Texas-based Service King Collision Repair Centers is expanding its collision repair services company further into Tampa Bay with its acquisition of Creative Body Works. The sale gives Service King a third location in the Tampa Bay area.

Creative Body Works, which has been in business for more than 25 years, runs a 15,000-square-foot facility in Oldsmar that can service approximately 125 vehicles a month.
Service King now operates a total of 13 locations in Florida and 240 in 21 states nationwide.

C1 Bank chief operating officer elected bank association chairwoman
Rita Lowman, executive vice president and chief operating officer of C1 Bank (symbol: BNK; recent price: $18.99), was elected as the 2017 chairwoman of the Florida Bankers Association. Lowman will be only the third woman to chair the association in its 126-year history.

Lowman began her banking career more than 30 years ago. Before joining C1 Bank in 2010, she held statewide senior level positions at Bank of America, Regions Bank and American Momentum Bank.

Dunn&Co.'s Lightning billboard ads win CLIO
Local advertising and marketing agency Dunn&Co. has won a CLIO award. The company says it marks the first time in 17 years that a Tampa company has won the award, which recognizes the best work in advertising.

Dunn&Co. won the award in the sports category for its “Highway Slapshot,” pictured above, a collection of billboard ads that ran on both sides of northbound Interstate 275, just north of the Interstate 4 junction. The left side billboard depicted Lightning player Valtteri Filppula shooting a slap shot, with the tagline, “Be the thunder.” On the right side of the interstate is an advertisement for a fictitious company, Flex Fitness, with the billboard being destroyed by a Lightning-branded hockey puck. The portion of the billboard that remains reveals the fake company's website, FlexFitness20.com, which redirected visitors to a website to order Tampa Bay Lightning season tickets.

“The goal was to build awareness and drive ticket sales for the Lightning, so we wanted to produce something that was both unexpected and memorable,” Dunn&Co. President Troy Dunn says in a press release.

Dais Analytic deploys Chinese water-purifying demo unit
Odessa's Dais Analytic Corp. (symbol: DLYT; recent price: $0.23), announced that a new NanoClear water cleaning system demonstration unit has been put in place and is functional in Beijing, China. The unit is designed to showcase the company's nanomaterial and engineered process to filter/clean water to potential partners and consumers in the market. It is presenting the technology as an alternative to China's current most popular water-treatment method, reverse osmosis, particularly for purifying industrial wastewater.

The demonstration unit was created through a strategic partnership with Dais Beijing, which has committed to generating $60 million in contracts over a three-year period.

Allegiant expanding flights between Punta Gorda, New Hampshire
Allegiant has moved up its plans to expand flights between Portsmouth, N.H., and Southwest Florida. The additional flights through Punta Gorda were originally scheduled to begin in February 2016. They will now begin Nov. 20 and run throughout the spring. The flights will operate twice each week and fly nonstop between Portsmouth International Airport at Pease and Punta Gorda Airport.

Tampa Bay executive elected to state post
Alizza Punzalan-Randle, community engagement manager for All Children's Hospital, has been elected to an officer position with the Florida Federation of Business and Professional Women. Punzalan-Randle will serve as Council of Presidents' representative.

With 500 members statewide, the federation is focused on promoting equity for women in the workplace.

SynDaver Labs visits Europe, looking to expand
SynDaver Labs' Synthetic Human made its European debut at a conference in Belfast, Ireland, as the Tampa-based company explores expanding into the European marketplace.

SynDaver Labs attended the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine Belfast 2015, a global medical and scientific conference.

The company is hoping to attract a distribution partner and is considering locations for a European office.

“While we're already in Asia, South America and North America, we're very eager to bring this technology to Europe with the continued hope that our technology will save lives,” Dr. Christopher Sakezles, founder of SynDaver Labs, says in a press release.

SynDaver Labs manufactures synthetic cadavers primarily for simulating surgical procedures, medical training and medical device testing. It employs more than 100 people. Additional facilities are also planned in the United States, China, Europe and Latin America.