Angel investors – wealthy people who toss money at fledgling companies – received about the average rate of return as other types of private equity investments, according to a survey of 539 U.S. angels. The average rate of return of angel investments was 2.6 times the investment over a period of 3.5 years. “This average […]
Republic Airways Holdings today announced plans to repurchase as much as $100 million of its common stock, a move that helps lift earnings per share for the company at a time merger rumors are swirling around its big airline customers. Republic shares late this morning were trading at $19.90, up 2.5 percent on the day. […]
New gas stations and auto service shops will be barred from Greenwood’s two Interstate 65 interchanges if the city council approves a unanimous decision reached this week by the city’s planning commission. Truck-oriented businesses such as body shops and storage yards also will be banned. The city wants to lure high-end retail and other attractive […]
Regulators in India have rejected a patent claim by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. for its Cialis erectile dysfunction drug. The drug’s basic components were synthesized in 1970 by Indian scientists at a government body that researches pharmaceuticals, the Central Drug Research Institute, an Indian drugmaker contended. Moreover, drugmaker Ajanta Pharma argued, the Indian scientists […]
Investors are selling off stock in Kokomo-based Haynes International Inc. despite a glowing earnings report yesterday. Shares in the maker of precision alloy parts for aerospace and chemical processing are down to $78.88 each this afternoon from $84.50 at yesterday’s close. The sell off came after Haynes reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit shooting up 73.8 percent […]
Cummins Inc.’s midrange engine plant in Walesboro will add a week to its Christmas break due to slowing demand for diesel engines in Dodge Ram pickup trucks. The holiday layoff will begin Dec. 17, a week early, and end Jan. 2, according to a spokesman for the Columbus company. About 540 workers are affected. Pickup […]
Columbia Sussex Corp., the Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based owner of Casino Aztar in Evansville, has been denied a renewal of its license to operate the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. Yesterday’s action by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission is only the second such denial in the 29 years gambling has been legalized […]
Ag Growth Industries LP, a Winnipeg, Canada, maker of grain-handling equipment, will add a location in an existing building in Union City in east-central Indiana, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The company, which fabricates augers, conveyors, grain storage bins, will occupy the former Union City Body Co. building, which has 163,000 square feet. […]
A ruling in federal court has removed several potential hurdles to the long-planned Interstate 69 extension, including one that sought to block a section through Perry Township in Indianapolis, reports the Evansville Courier & Press. The decision handed down late Monday by U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton denied plaintiff claims that Major Moves disallowed […]
Eli Lilly and Co. has completed shifting exclusive production of a tuberculosis antibiotic to Purdue Research Foundation. The foundation’s Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy & Contract Manufacturing will manufacture and distribute the drug, called Seromycin. Lilly sold the rights for an undisclosed price and donated the manufacturing equipment. Approximately 10,000 Americans are thought to have […]
More than half of steel workers at plants around Lake Michigan could retire in five years, opening up hundreds of jobs, reports The Times of Munster. U.S. Steel Corp.’s plant in Gary, for example, plans to hire 250 hourly workers in each of the next several years, plus nearly 30 salaried employees. Hiring has been […]
Atlanta officials are in “extensive negotiations” to attract the College Football Hall of Fame from its South Bend home to the city’s Centennial Olympic Park, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported late last week. Citing sources close to the negotiations, the newspaper said the talks have not advanced to the point of involving Atlanta Mayor Shirley […]
Cereplast Inc., a Hawthorne, Calif., manufacturer of bio-based plastic resins, will locate a plant in the southern Indiana city of Seymour, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The project will create as many as 200 jobs manufacturing and distributing resins made from plant starches rather than petroleum. Cereplast will invest more than $7 million […]
The Indianapolis-based promotional products arm of Marc USA has been acquired for an undisclosed price by Evigna, a similar company headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Madison Heights. Evigna is owned by CITG Promotions LLC. Marc USA is based in Pittsburgh. Marc Promotions, which has an office near Eagle Creek Park and another in Columbus, […]
Troubles in the residential mortgage market have ensnared local mall giant Simon Property Group Inc. Simon said today it plans a fourth-quarter write-off of $26 million, the entire value of its equity investment in a master-planned community proposed for a suburb of Phoenix. The loss is expected to reduce the company’s diluted net income by […]
Bob Bedell, president of the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association, announced today that he will step down at the end of June. “There is no good time, but this is the right time [to leave],” Bedell said, adding that he’s accomplished his goals of growing the association to handle a promised increase in business. “ICVA […]
A bank in Wabash has changed its name rather than go on battling confusion over seven other banks in the state operating with First Federal as part of their names – three of them within 50 miles. First Federal Savings Bank will be called Crossroads Bank when the new year begins, according to The Journal […]
Subaru of America Inc. has opted for the remainder of a Boone County warehouse it began leasing in January, the developers said yesterday. The Japanese automaker has taken 281,880 additional square feet to bring its total occupancy to 501,120 square feet, according to Indianapolis-based Browning Investments and ProLogis, a Denver-based logistics company. The warehouse is the […]
Carmel-based eGix Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Cincinnati Bell Inc. in a deal valued at $18 million, Cincinnati Bell announced today. eGix provides single-source voice and data services, plus high-speed Internet access and messaging products to about 17,000 customers, mainly in Indiana and Illinois, plus another 20 states. It has 57 employees and […]
Indianapolis-based YourEncore has launched new services designed to help life sciences companies plan for and obtain regulatory approval for new products. To run its regulatory services, YourEncore hired Carol Crowley, a 25-year veteran of the drug and device industry. Prior to joining YourEncore, Crowley was vice president of global regulatory operations for France-based Aventis SA, […]
