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Gold in the winds: from shutters and screens to mapping data and software, Florida businesses are capitalizing on hurricane-created demand.(SPECIAL REPORT: STORM SEASON)

Publication: Florida Trend
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Busy? Of course the hurricane industry is busy. You can tell by the way receptionists start giggling when you ask how business is. An unprecedented season begets unprecedented demand.

"It's whacked out," says Jeffry Robinson, whose Miramar-based company, Hurricane Protection Industries, a...

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...makes accordion shutters for commercial and government buildings and wholesales shutters to residential installers. "The demand side is so far outstripping supply, it isn't even funny. It's just on fire."

Quantifying the size of the blaze is hard. All Florida saw jump in sales thanks to the hurricanes, putting an additional $752 million in sales tax revenue into the state's account. Although individual companies are loathe to release sales numbers, many, including Robinson, say they've seen a fourfold increase.

Certainly, the...

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