University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE — The grocery store business is changing, leaving consumers with fewer choices and higher prices and manufacturers with less leverage than ever before, according to a study by a University of Florida researcher.

GAINESVILLE — Consumer confidence in Florida soared last month to the highest point in the 15-year history of the index, partly because of strong optimism among women about U.S. business conditions, University of Florida economists report.

GAINESVILLE — Florida’s population broke 15 million in 1998 as the state went country with people moving away from traditionally high-growth metropolitan areas, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE — A group of University of Florida engineers is the first to develop an important building block for a new breed of electronic switches likely to provide smooth, uninterrupted electricity in the coming era of utility deregulation.

GAINESVILLE —Offbeat questions are nothing new when the folks at the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research pick up the phone.