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A year after being named CEO of the Jacksonvillebased company, Brian Wynn reflects on the challenges of building a team amid the pandemic.
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Mayor Lenny Curry says he will not resume a mask mandate or require city workers to get the shot amid the virus surge. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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“Acosta is in a very different place than it was just a couple of years ago. We’re growing again. We’re growing our revenue, we’re growing our profits. We’re acquiring the opportunity to serve new clients.”
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, mayors of Duval County’s three Beaches communities and area health representatives held a joint virtual news conference Aug. 4 urging people to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. The messaging comes as Northeast Florida has become a COVID-19 hotspot Curry in recent weeks caused by what health officials call the more contagious Delta variant of the virus. The conference included Neptune Beach Mayor Elaine Brown; Atlantic Beach Mayor Ellen Glasser; Jacksonville Beach Mayor Chris Hoffman; 4th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Charlie Cofer; and Avecina Medical President and CEO Dr. Saman Soleymani. Curry said area health care CEOs and medical professionals are reporting nearly 99% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 since the Delta surge are unvaccinated. “The recent increase in hospitalizations that’s causing strain on our healthcare systems is almost exclusively among unvaccinated individuals,” Curry said. “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated
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ven without the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was going to be challenging for Jacksonville-based Acosta. The year began with new ownership plotting a new direction for the sales and marketing giant after a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. By the time Brian Wynne was brought in as Acosta’s new chief executive in July 2020, the pandemic had fully taken hold and changed how just about every company did business. However, Wynne came in with the same mission as any new CEO would have in a normal year. “The first year is all about making sure you really understand your clients, making sure you understand your team,” Wynne said in an interview a year after joining Acosta. “We’re using different tools to do the same kinds of things,” he said. In a typical year, Wynne would be traveling to meet and get to know Acosta’s customers and employees. Acosta has more than 100
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