Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s toothpaste plant in Clarksville closes at the end of the month, but the landmark still has no buyer. The price on the 52-acre site near Louisville has been slashed to $9 million from $13 million, according to The Courier-Journal of Louisville. Observers say tight-fisted lending practices resulting from the credit crisis are likely […]
A planned merger of Bloomington Hospital into Indianapolis-based Clarian Health was approved 403-149 last night by the Bloomington facility’s governing body, the Local Council of Women. The Local Council, which founded the hospital more than 100 years ago, had to revise hospital bylaws to clear the way for the merger. Clarian will receive 51 percent […]
Indiana‘s economy expanded only 0.3 percent, to $246.4 billion, last year, new figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show. The growth is on top of inflation. Only seven states performed worse. Indiana was hit hard by the slowdown of the Detroit auto industry, according to a blog written by Bill Testa, a vice […]
A consultant hired to help Bloomington decide how to replace lost manufacturing jobs recommends storing data for companies. Boyd Co. Inc. said in a recent report that Bloomington ranked third in a list of 45 cities in suitability for hosting data storage centers, according to The Herald-Times of Bloomington. The centers, which generate well-paying jobs, […]
German industrial giant Robert Bosch GmbH said late last week that it plans to buy CST/berger, a West Lafayette-based maker of laser tools, for $205 million. The deal must be approved by regulators. CST/berger is owned by The Stanley Works of New Britain, Conn. Its tools for measuring, detection and leveling help contractors and homeowners […]
MacAllister Machinery Co. plans to spend $17 million to expand operations at its headquarters on East 30th Street in Indianapolis, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced today. The expansion is expected to create 65 jobs. MacAllister, a heavy equipment supplier, employs 700 in Indiana and 250 in Marion County. It plans to begin hiring diesel […]
Chrysler LLC may lease part of a Kokomo transmission plant and some of its employees to Canada-based Linamar Corp., reports The Wall Street Journal. The unusual deal could save the Michigan-based automaker $60 million; Chrysler and other U.S. automakers are struggling to adjust to a consumer shift to cars from trucks and underused plants. The […]
Eli Lilly and Co. keeps looking for new ways its rising star, Cymbalta, could help patients with pain and depression. And it got a boost today from clinical trial data presented in France. A study of patients with osteoarthritis found that Cymbalta significantly reduced pain in their knees, compared with patients who took a placebo. […]
Auburn-based Ambassador Steel Corp. has agreed to be bought by Harris Steel Inc., a unit of Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor Corp., for $185 million. Nucor announced the deal today. Ambassador makes and distributes concrete-reinforcing steel and related products. The deal, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close by September. No details were provided about the impact […]
Conseco Inc. hired one upper-level executive and promoted another one this week. The Carmel-based insurer hired Michael Farley as senior vice president and annuity and life actuary. Farley, 45, joins Conseco from ING Re, where he served from 2001 to 2007 as chief financial officer and chief insurance risk officer. Conseco also made its interim […]
Sony Corp. plans to spend $113 million to expand its Blu-ray Disc manufacturing operations in Terre Haute, creating up to 85 jobs. Sony DADC employs about 1,180 at the plant, which makes 425,000 Blu-ray discs daily, plus compact discs and DVDs. Sony will receive $975,000 from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. in tax credits and […]
Assessed property value in Lebanon topped the $1 billion mark in 2006, thanks in part to the Lebanon Business Park, which opened in 1994, according to a report prepared for the Boone County Economic Corp. by accounting firm Katz, Sapper & Miller. The 60-page report outlines how the 1,000-acre park has created jobs and helped boost […]
Eli Lilly and Co. will pay $35 million for rights to an osteoporosis medicine delivered through the skin, the Indianapolis drugmaker announced today. Lilly has signed a licensing and development agreement with Israel-based TransPharma Medical Ltd. for exclusive rights to its ViaDerm-hPTH product and non-exclusive rights to its drug-delivery system, which delivers medicine through a […]
After a damp, chilly spring, grain farmer Norman Voyles Jr. still had 300 acres of soybeans yet to plant when a monsoon-like storm dumped 10 inches of rain on his central Indiana farm last weekend. The resulting deluge flooded a quarter of Voyles’ 1,800 acres of corn and soybeans – one in a parade of […]
Two Indiana railway companies have been forced to either suspend or cut back service as they deal with floodwaters that washed out gravel under tracks through Johnson County, reports the Daily Journal. Indianapolis-based The Indiana Rail Road Co. cut back service so workers could stabilize tracks with crushed rock between Bloomington and Indianapolis. It was […]
Ivy Tech Community College will receive the first of three $2 million signing bonus checks from Follett Higher Education Group today. In March, Ivy Tech announced an eight-year agreement with Illinois-based Follett for the management of Ivy Tech’s 27 bookstores across the state. The agreement included a $6 million signing bonus for the college, which […]
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences will donate $25,000 to Indiana flood relief efforts. The Dow Chemical Co. Foundation will give the money to the American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis to help victims of the flooding that has caused dozens of counties to be declared disaster areas. Dow AgroSciences is a subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co. […]
Flooding over the weekend caused an estimated $126 million in damage across central Indiana, according to a study by The Bureau of Business Research at Ball State University. The estimate included damage to structures and contents of homes and business, and $45 million in damage to public buildings, roads, bridges and water and sewer systems. […]
Locally based Flaherty & Collins Properties has laid off several employees after losing a management contract for properties in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The move comes after California-based AIG Sun America elected to consolidate its property management operations, said Mark Conover, a Flaherty spokesman. The layoffs affected fewer than 10 people, a small portion of […]
Agape Communications LLC, a startup call center in Anderson that said on May 2 it would hire 75 workers immediately, has only filled 20 positions, reports Anderson’s Herald Bulletin. Company officials said they are receiving fewer applications than expected and can’t explain the lack of interest. Starting pay is $8.50 an hour, plus bonuses. At […]
