American Commercial Lines Inc. has agreed to buy 20 towboats and related equipment from McKinney Towing Inc. and related McKinney companies, all based in Baton Rouge, La. The $15 million transaction doubles the size of ACL’s Gulf-region operations. Based in Jeffersonville, the company says it wants to convert rail and truck shipments to barge transportation.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and other companies that participated in the oil-for-food program in Iraq will be investigated by a British agency to determine if they gave kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to the London newspaper The Guardian. Fellow pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Astra Zeneca, both of which are headquartered in London, along […]
Two Australian mining companies are preparing to make an offer to buy Alcoa Inc., the Pittsburgh-based aluminum giant, according to The Times of London. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto PLC have written feasibility studies for a bid. However, Reuters, also citing an unnamed source, reported that BHT Billiton is […]
Concentra Health Services Inc. has acquired Industrial Solutions Group Inc. of Fort Wayne for an undisclosed price. Concentra, based in Addison, Texas, operates in 40 states primarily through medical centers that treat people injured on the job. Industrial Solutions has 14 employees who consult on mold, asbestos and other problems related to work […]
Simon Property Group probably will improve Mills Corp. malls if the Chevy Chase, Md., company follows through with its announcement earlier today and accepts Simon’s $1.56 billion buyout offer, an RBC Capital Markets analyst said. Speaking to Bloomberg, Rich Moore said Indianapolis-based Simon—the nation’s largest mall owner—brings substantial economies of scale. “Simon will get tenants, […]
Standard Management Corp. has started a new unit to attract investors. The troubled Indianapolis company said today that the unit, Universal Healthcare Co. LLC, will provide pharmaceuticals to the long-term care industry—a strategy the former insurer has struggled to implement since 2002. Universal Healthcare in turn has agreed to buy Precision Healthcare Inc. from Standard […]
Shopping mall developer Mills Corp. today said it plans to accept a $1.56 billion buyout offer from Simon Property Group Inc. and a San Francisco hedge fund that tops an offer by Toronto-based Brookfield Capital Management Inc. Mills said its board has terminated its agreement with Brookfield, which had offered $1.35 billion. Indianapolis-based Simon and […]
Speedy approval of permits makes Indiana more desirable than Ohio for huge dairy farms, according to a company that specializes in settling Dutch dairy farmers in the United States. Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development LLC, based in Wauseon, Ohio, told the Dayton Daily News that Ohio agencies are understaffed. Therefore, Vreba-Hoff applications in Indiana jumped […]
Profit shot up four-fold in 2006 for Interactive Intelligence Inc., the Indianapolis-based business communications software developer. The $10.2 million included $2.1 million in expenses for employee stock options and a $5 million tax benefit. Fourth-quarter profit slipped slightly to $1.6 million due to stock option expenses. Interactive CEO Don Brown attributed the climb for the […]
Muncie is the only Indiana city to lose a Circuit City Stores Inc. electronics store in the latest round of downsizing undertaken by the Richmond, Va., retailing giant, according to The Star-Press of Muncie. Six other U.S. stores and 62 in Canada also will be shuttered as Circuit City struggles to compete against Best Buy […]
Construction on an ethanol plant near Montpelier has stopped, and the company developing the $150 million project, Central States Enterprises of Heathrow, Fla., doesn’t plan to resume work any time soon. Central States told The Star-Press of Muncie that it is taking a “more deliberate approach.” Early this month, Broins & Associates of Sioux Falls, […]
The management team of Kenra LLC will stay with the Indianapolis company’s new owner, Imperial Capital Acquisition Fund III, and anticipates growing the business through acquisition, according to Kenra Chief Operating Officer Steve Nerney. Also staying are Patrick Ludwig, president of the Kenra brand, and Dave Gordon, president of its Elasta QP brand, Nerney said. […]
The Indianapolis law firm Locke Reynolds has absorbed five lawyers from the Fort Wayne firm of Dahm & Elvin. New to Locke Reynolds are Albert Dahm, Michael Elvin, James Butz and Sandy Morris. Locke Reynolds ranked 8th in IBJ ’s 2007 Book of Lists, with 77 attorneys in the Indianapolis area.
Biomet Inc. chief executive Dane Miller won’t lead the Warsaw prosthetics company after the close of its $10.9 billion sale to a group of private equity investors, according to Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly. Miller, who has an equity stake in the acquisition, will be a director. But his involvement won’t extend to a formal […]
Advance Auto Parts Inc. announced today it will build a warehouse near Remington to serve its Midwestern stores. The 500,000-square-foot facility will hire 600 and be completed in summer 2008, according to the Roanoke, Va., retailer of aftermarket auto parts. Remington is north of Lafayette and near Interstate 65.
Carmel-based N/Frame, an Internet and hosting provider, said today that it has been acquired by Continental Broadband of Norfolk, Va., for undisclosed terms. N/Frame Chief Operating Officer Bob Alcorn said its owners, the Dunigan family of Evansville, felt it was better to find a buyer than undertake an expansion that would have required extensive investment. […]
Emmis Communications Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan won’t have to face his nemesis—Elkhart-based investment manager Frank Martin—when the company holds its annual meeting tomorrow. Martin has submitted a proposal on the meeting agenda that would do away with a special class of stock that gives Smulyan 60 percent of the company’s voting power, even though […]
The Home Depot announced this morning that it will evaluate a sale, spin-off or initial public offering for its HD Supply unit. Atlanta-based Home Depot said it is launching the strategic review because the business might offer shareholders more value under different ownership. HD Supply, which does $12 billion a year in sales, has several […]
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana and Indiana Business College are bracing for an expected wave of enrollments, now that three big auto parts companies have announced plant closings in Indiana this year, according to The Star Press of Muncie. The 2004 closing of Thomson Consumer Electronics’ television picture tube plant in Marion caused a […]
Jist Publishing, which publishes books about careers from its headquarters near Fort Benjamin Harrison, has been sold to EMC/Paradigm Publishing of St. Paul, Minn., for an undisclosed price. Jist founder and owner Michael Farr said he hired a brokerage in April to find a buyer because it was the right time to do other things […]
