IBJ Podcast: Inside the plan to pack a million meals for food pantries in 24 hours of All-Star Weekend
Founded by Nancy and Hintz in 2007, Indianapolis-based Million Meal Movement has packed nearly 35 million meals.
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Telling Indiana’s basketball story through 24 public art projects
See how to find the larger-than-life basketball murals and learn why the projects were meaningful to the artists.
California-based jeweler opening first Indiana store at Fashion Mall
Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Jason and Gorjana Reidel, the chain began its expansion in 2017 and now counts more than 60 stores nationwide.
Made in Indiana: Roasted duck by Maple Leaf Farms
History: The company was founded in 1958 by Donald Wentzel, who bought a poultry plant in northern Indiana after deciding to leave the feed trade in Chicago, where he had sold duck feed to farmers on Long Island. He saw how inefficient and costly it was to transport feed cross-country from the Midwest. Wentzel thought […]
IBJ Podcast: RecycleForce founder on new HQ, hiring ex-offenders and his own story of second chances
Here’s how a kid from Winchester got involved in the drug trade, moved to Jamaica and became a straight-laced business leader, and then returned to Indiana to help ex-offenders restart their lives and make an honest living.
IBJ Podcast: Huddling with the Indiana artists painting 24 massive basketballs for All-Star Weekend
For the NBA All-Star Weekend set for Feb. 15-18, local organizers hit on a way to put a distinctly Hoosier spin on the areas downtown that will host the most visitors, playing off of the concept of Hoosier Hysteria.
Sales of existing homes in Indy area slumped 18% in 2023
Mortgage rates escalated for the first 10 months of last year. No surprise: Existing-home sales in the 16-county area dropped from 35,876 in 2022 to 29,483 in 2023.
IBJ Podcast: New play about Oscar Robertson, historic Crispus Attucks team to debut in Indy
Playwright Laura Town and director Deborah Asante discuss the production and the achievements of Robertson and his teammates, who excelled despite having no home court—and some being displaced from their actual homes.
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner bullish on 2024 stocks, housing market (with a Constitutional caveat)
IBJ’s personal finance columnist believes the U.S. economy will start hitting on all cylinders this year—as long as the political climate in America remains at its usual low boil.
IBJ Podcast: ‘We’re survivors’—how the founders of Clancy’s Hamburgers and Grindstone Charley’s evolved to The Fountain Room
The story of Clancy’s Hospitality in many ways is the story of the central Indiana restaurant industry.
IBJ Podcast: Former drag racer Morgan Lucas now in driver’s seat at Lucas Oil Products
In this week’s edition of the IBJ Podcast, Lucas recounts what it was like growing up with hard-charging entrepreneurs as parents, the value of sponsoring Lucas Oil Stadium, and the decision to relocate the firm’s HQ from California to Indianapolis.
IBJ Podcast: How Westfield resident Joey Chestnut makes a good living in competitive eating
Chestnut is the first to admit that competitive eating is a little weird, but he has a natural affinity for it, and it allows him to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
IBJ Podcast: Pete the Planner on the 5 things everyone should know about their financial life
Pete Dunn and podcast host Mason King also discuss how to deal with the unwelcome revelation that you and your family are spending more money than you’re making.
IBJ Podcast: From humble beginnings, apartment developer built $500 million firm in 10 years
Eric Garrett grew up in Evansville below the poverty line. In the latest edition of the IBJ Podcast, he discusses launching The Garrett Cos. from a barn in his backyard in Greenwood and the strategy that created the 37th largest private company in Indiana in less than 10 years.
IBJ Podcast: Indy anesthesiologist quit career to become whiskey-making entrepreneur
Juliet Schmalz, CEO of Fortune’s Fool Whiskey, explains what possessed her to leave a lucrative and respected profession to make spirits for a living.
Ascent, Crosstrek, Legacy and Outback models by Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc.
Subaru of Indiana Automotive is the only Subaru manufacturing facility outside Japan, and it accounts for about half of all Subaru vehicles sold in North America.
IBJ Podcast: Debby Knox hopes to lose news ‘addiction’ in second shot at retirement
The legendary local broadcaster shares a wide-angle view of her career, including the most difficult and most rewarding days on the job.
IBJ Podcast: Carmel filmmaker, 23, prepares to air 8-hour JFK documentary on History Channel
Ashton Gleckman lays out the reasons he thought the world—and in particular its post-Kennedy generations—needed a deep dive into the life and legacy of the 35th president.
WFMS morning host Jim Denny riding into sunset after 35 years at station
Denny was inducted into the Nashville, Tennessee-based Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2014. He announced Friday morning that he had decided to retire.
IBJ Podcast: Phish fan, philanthropist builds huge wireless retail business, branches into cannabis
After building Fishers-based Round Room into one of the biggest private companies in Indiana, Scott Moorehead sniffed out cannabis as a simpatico business opportunity in Michigan.