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Toll road funding prompts engineering firm to expand

Bernardin, Lochmueller & Associates Inc., a civil engineering firm in Evansville, is adding 20 employees to the 22 already at its 6125 S. East St. branch office, Indy Partnership announced this morning. The jobs will pay about $30 an hour. Bernardin has 100 workers at its headquarters and 20 at a St. Louis branch. Chief […]

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Evansville engineering firm expands Indianapolis office

Bernardin, Lochmueller & Associates Inc., a civil engineering firm in Evansville, is adding 20 employees to the 22 already at its 6125 S. East St. branch office, Indy Partnership announced this morning. The jobs will pay about $30 an hour. Bernardin has 100 workers at its headquarters and 20 at a St. Louis branch.   […]

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State’s job losses to China among top 10

Indiana was among the top 10-hardest hit states due to China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, a move that caused a displacement of production that otherwise would have remained in the United States, according to a report issued by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Indiana lost 45,200 jobs, or 1.5 percent of […]

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New Albany credit union taken over by feds.

Obelisk Federal Credit Union in New Albany was taken over by the National Credit Union Administration last month, but the federal agency isn’t saying why. However, the agency assured members that operations would continue as usual, according to The Courier-Journal of Louisville. Members of the southern Indiana institution work at hospitals, local governments and companies.

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Locals question progress at Shelbyville business park

Intelliplex Park, Shelbyville’s state certified technology park, needs time to attract more companies and fulfill its potential for creating jobs, Major Hospital officials told a crowd of about 100 on Monday. In early April the hospital, which founded the park in 2003 along with the city and Shelby County, answered 180 questions from the community. […]

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Wall Street Journal owner targeted by unsolicited offer

Dow Jones & Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal, has been offered $60 per share by News Corp., the company controlled by media baron Rupert Murdoch, according to CNBC. News Corp. is planning a business news channel to compete with other broadcasters. Dow Jones shares almost tripled this morning on the news, rising from […]

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Dow AgroSciences buys Austrian genetics firm.

Dow AgroSciences, the Indianapolis-based agricultural arm of Dow Chemical Co., has bought some assets of Maize Technologies International of Neusiedl am See, Austria, for an undisclosed price. Dow AgroSciences anticipates using Maize Technologies’ genetics to improve corn grown in short seasons in Europe and the United States. Local employment will not be affected by the […]

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Standard Management tries failed deal again

A deal that fell through a year ago is back on the table for Standard Management Corp. The Indianapolis company, which sells pharmaceuticals to nursing homes, said today it has agreed to buy In-House Pharmacies Inc. of San Diego—this time through its newly formed unit Universal Healthcare Co. LLC. Terms were not disclosed today or […]

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Lilly gift records show focus on areas of drug research.

Eli Lilly and Co. became the first drug company to make public its grants to U.S. organizations by posting the records on its Web site today. Most of the grants focus on endocrinology, neurosciences, oncology and other areas where Lilly develops drugs. The largest in the first quarter was to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of […]

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Zimmer chooses new president from within

Zimmer Holdings Inc. has named David Dvorak as CEO to replace Ray Elliott, who is retiring in the first half of this year but will remain as chairman. Dvorak, 43, was group president of the Warsaw orthopedics company’s global businesses and chief legal officer. He has been with Zimmer for six years.

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Wabash profit slows as customers grow cautious.

Wabash National Corp., the Lafayette-based manufacturer of semi-truck trailers, said profit in the first quarter slid to $1 million from $4.3 million a year earlier. Customers still seek quotes, but they follow through by placing orders less frequently because they’re “monitoring economic conditions,” Wabash said.

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Cummins shares explode after earnings report

Stock in Cummins Inc. shot up as much as 24.7 percent this morning following a positive first-quarter earnings report. At noon, the shares had settled retreated from a peak of $107 to near $100—still a huge run-up compared to yesterday’s closing price of $85.99.. The Columbus, Ind., diesel engine maker said profit rose 5.9 percent, […]

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Indiana Toll Road pass peeves Illinois residents

Chicago south-siders are riled that the discounts they enjoy driving the Indiana Toll Road are scheduled to vanish in June, while discounts Indiana residents receive for driving on the Illinois leg of the highway will continue. The General Assembly last year gave holders of Indiana’s I-Zoom passes a 40-percent discount until 2016 when it approved […]

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Pernod to lay off 405 in Lawrenceburg distillery.

Pernod Ricard USA, the French owner of a 150-year-old distillery and bottling plant in the southeast Indiana city of Lawrenceburg, has notified the state that it will lay off 405 workers by June 26. Details were not immediately available. Dearborn County Commissioner Jeff Hughes said he had not heard about the layoff. The plant distills […]

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Carmel electric power marketer to expand.

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services announced today that it will add 25 jobs to the 113 employed at its Carmel headquarters and spend $4 million to update equipment. Fifteen electric power cooperatives own the wholesale energy risk management and transaction executive firm, which was founded in 1999. The state is giving ACES up to $188,000 […]

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Simon profit declines; funds from operations rise

First-quarter profit fell nearly 8 percent, to $113 million, for Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group because it no longer derives income from Mall of America, the Minnesota location it sold last year. However, funds from operations, a common measure of real estate investment trusts like Simon, increased 9.3 percent to $392.4 million.

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Cummins profit rises on power generation

Columbus diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. today reported a 5.9-percent increase in first-quarter profit from the same period a year ago. The $143 million in net income was driven mostly by its electrical power generation and distribution business. Sales of engines for heavy trucks declined due to trucking firms’ stocking up on trucks before new […]

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Indiana State to eliminate about 64 programs

Too many academic programs with too few students are diluting Indiana State University resources, its trustees believe. So, the board is following through on a plan to cut the number of programs to about 150 from the current 214, according to The Tribune-Star of Terre Haute. A review found that half of the programs attract […]

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