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CSO drops Schenkel Shultz name

CSO Architects Inc. is reverting to its original name two years after adding Schenkel Shultz to its name to reflect its acquisition of the Indianapolis office of Fort Wayne-based SchenkelSchultz Architecture. Removing the name was based on previous agreement, said Indianapolis-based CSO.

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Sears relaxes lawsuit, allows Dora hotel to proceed

Construction on a hotel Fishers-based Dora Bros. Hospitality Corp. is building in downtown Columbus can resume, now that Sears, Roebuck & Co. has withdrawn part of a lawsuit it filed in November. But the retail giant still wants monetary damages, according to The Republic of Columbus. Sears, based in Hoffman Estates, Ill., claims construction on […]

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Indy Men’s Magazine to fold

Shrinking advertising revenue has persuaded the owners of Indy Men’s Magazine to stop publishing the free, glossy monthly after five years. Publisher Todd Tobias said the final, May issue will be distributed in late April: “As a monthly print publication, we’re done,” he said. Magazine parent Table Moose Media LLC is owned by Tobias, his […]

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Ice Miller adds lobbying to Washington office

Indianapolis law firm Ice Miller has added two lawyers to its Washington, D.C., office who will offer legal services as well as lobbying—a first for the firm at the federal level. Graham Hill and Clayton Heil replace attorneys who left. Ice Miller is the largest law firm in the Indianapolis area, with 234 attorneys, according […]

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Survey: Customers prefer not-for-profit health insurers

Publicly traded health insurers, such as Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., received lower marks from their customers than did not-for-profit health plans in a recent survey by J.D. Power & Associates. Not-for-profit plans rated higher in coverage allowed, level of benefits, and choice of doctors and hospitals, Bloomberg reports. The survey questioned more than 10,000 customers across […]

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Carmel medical device startup poised to expand

Oxford BioSignals Medical is expected to announce an expansion of its Carmel headquarters this afternoon, according to Indiana Economic Development Corp. Oxford has seven employees. Formed in 2000, Oxford BioSignals began its life when research scientists in the United Kingdom developed a new system to electronically monitor the performance of aircraft engines. By continuously monitoring […]

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Ex-Muncie development official pleads guilty to child porn

Morris D. Windhorst, who led an economic development organization in Muncie in 2004 and 2005, yesterday pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography, according to The Star Press of Muncie. Police found child pornography on Windhorst’s home computer in February last year after he was arrested for proposing sex in an Internet chat […]

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Donation to Purdue doubles tech transfer funding

The $100 million gift to Purdue University that’s scheduled to be announced this morning will generate enough income to double the university’s spending on technology transfer, the process of shifting laboratory discoveries into products that can be sold by companies. Income expected to be created by the endowment from Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering is […]

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Noble Roman’s profit stagnated in 2006

Noble Roman’s Inc. reported $1.9 million in profit for 2006, down from $2.9 million in the prior year. However, the Indianapolis company benefited in 2005 from a $1 million one-time settlement from SummitBridge National Investments LLC. The company, which franchises Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs restaurants, has announced area development agreements in recent […]

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Calpers criticizes Lilly corporate governance

Eli Lilly and Co. is among 11 companies singled out by the mammoth California Public Employee Retirement System for “dismal stock performance” and poor corporate governance, according to Bloomberg. Lilly landed on Calpers’ annual “Focus List” for not allowing shareholders to amend company bylaws and by having tiers of board members that prevent the board […]

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Shoe Carnival sees record profit

Evansville-based Shoe Carnival Inc. today reported profit of $5.1 million in the fourth quarter ended Feb. 3, up from $3 million a year earlier. Sales rose 8.3 percent, to $177.2 million. For the fiscal year, profit increased 26.5 percent, to $23.8 million, and sales grew 4 percent to $681.7 million. Same-store sales fell 0.9 percent […]

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Ivy Tech finalist says governor favors internal candidate

One of two finalists vying to become the next president of Ivy Tech Community College said two members of the administration of Gov. Mitch Daniels told him he is not the governor’s preferred candidate. Thomas P. Snyder, a former executive at Remy International Inc. in Anderson and currently chairman of Flagship Enterprise Systems Center, an […]

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UPDATE: Huge gift to deepen Purdue role in development

When Purdue University announces tomorrow it has received its largest single research gift, the school will further cement its role in boosting the state’s economy, one expert says. “One of the biggest discoveries of economic impact studies between schools and the economy is the school’s role in commercialization,” said Patrick Barkey, an economist and director […]

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UPDATE: Purdue has accepted controversial gift

Purdue University is expected to announce tomorrow that it has received a major gift from a foundation that at least two public and private schools have rejected, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. Purdue would be the first public university in the country to sign a deal with the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical […]

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Manufacturing leader Kiely interviewed for Ivy Tech post

Indiana Manufacturers Association President Pat Kiely was one of six finalists interviewed to replace Ivy Tech Community College President Gerald Lamkin, who is retiring June 1. Kiely was eliminated from the search because he doesn’t have advanced academic degrees, said two sources who are familiar with the interviews but wished to remain anonymous. Kiely refused […]

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Taurel predicts flat Zyprexa sales

Safety jitters will cause sales of Eli Lilly and Co.’s Zyprexa schizophrenia drug to stop growing this year and stabilize at 2006 levels, CEO Sidney Taurel told reporters yesterday following a meeting at the Chief Executive’s Club at Boston College. The blockbuster drug has been blamed for weight gain and triggering diabetes in some patients. […]

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Noble Roman’s to launch 25 more restaurants

Indianapolis-based Noble Roman’s Inc. announced today it plans to franchise 25 dual pizza and sub sandwich restaurants in the Springfield, Mo., area within the next four years. The announcement follows a flurry of agreements to franchise its Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs concept. Including the Missouri sites, the locations in California, Georgia, […]

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Purdue to announce largest gift

A new economic development program to be funded by the largest single research gift Purdue University has ever received will be announced Friday by President Martin Jischke and Gov. Mitch Daniels, the university said today. The gift, which has not been made public, will be announced at the Biomedical Engineering Building on the West Lafayette campus.

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Republic salvages Delta flights in bankruptcy deal

Delta Air Lines will continue using 55 planes flown by Chautauqua Airlines and Shuttle America if a court approves an agreement reached between bankrupt Delta and the parent of Chautauqua and Shuttle America, Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings said today. Maintaining the contract with Atlanta-based Delta was critical for Republic because the 55 planes amounted to […]

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Caterpillar hiring more workers for Lafayette plant

Production of a new engine at Caterpillar Inc.’s engine plant in Lafayette will require adding an undisclosed number of workers to the 1,600 who are staffing the facility, the Peoria, Ill., company told The Journal & Courier of Lafayette. The new C175 engine, which will sell for about $500,000, is used for powering electricity generators. […]

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