Indians hit home run with sponsors
At a time when many professional sports teams and properties are seeing their revenue drop in the wake of a rocky economy, the Indianapolis Indians this year have seen a nearly 18 percent…
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Children’s Museum plans $15.7M expansion
The world’s largest children’s museum is about to get bigger. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has filed plans to build a $15.7 million expansion that will add 37,500 square feet of space including a new welcome center, bus driveway and bike port. The project is slated to begin in the next few months and finish […]
UPDATE: Lilly execs questioned about future
Second-quarter sales and profits rose by double digits for Eli Lilly and Co., but overhead increased just as fast as the company worked feverishly to find new revenue sources before key patents expire. Investors yawned today after the Indianapolis-based drugmaker met Wall Street expectations of 99 cents per share. Lilly shares inched up 68 cents, […]
Jackets required for grand opening
Fear not. If you didn’t get your free ticket to tour the Indianapolis Colts’ new home venue, there’s still a way to get a sneak peak—at a steep price. And this event is…
Ads infiltrate fringe fest
One of the core ideas behind most fringe theater festivals is that anyone can sign up to perform. If you get your application in early enough–and pay the nominal sign-up fee–your show is part of the event.
As demonstrated by the…
Dow AgroSciences profit, sales hit records
Rising prices and strong demand around the world fueled record profit and sales for Dow AgroSciences in the second quarter. Dow AgroSciences, the Indianapolis-based agricultural arm of Dow Chemical Co. Inc. of Midland, Mich., reported $1.4 billion in sales, a 25-percent increase from a year earlier. Profit soared to $335 million from $208 million. The […]
Schellinger looks back
The Democratic primary race between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and winner Barack Obama attracted
so much attention that the Indiana governorâ??s race got short shrift â?? and the governorâ??s race still isnâ??t
getting the respect it deserves.
Thatâ??s how Jim Schellinger…
UPDATE: Davis Homes chief to start again
The collapse of Davis Homes doesn’t mean the Davis family will stop building houses altogether in the Indianapolis area. Davis Homes CEO Brad Davis said today he plans to begin building custom and semi-custom houses before the end of the year. Davis said he plans to start on his native north side by tapping relationships […]
Fed says economy was sluggish in June
The Chicago region experienced a sluggish economy last month, according to the latest Beige Book report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Mixed consumer spending was influenced by federal tax rebates and increased retail discounting as well as by slowing auto sales. Tourism and agriculture was hurt by wet weather, and discretionary spending on […]
UPDATE: Investors cheer WellPoint earnings
Wall Street rejoiced today after WellPoint Inc. posted second-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates. Investors bid up shares of the Indianapolis-based health insurer as much as 9 percent. As of late this morning, the stock traded at $52.06, up 6.8 percent. WellPoint stock rose along with broader markets, which surged as the price of crude […]
Bear market is over, stock broker says
Several indicators suggest the bear market in stocks is over and greener pastures lie ahead, an Indianapolis broker says. Kevin Schmidt, executive vice president of the private client group at City Securities Corp., said most of the bad news has emerged from the housing, airline and finance debacles, which suggests investor sentiment will begin to […]
Danica Patrick vs. Milka Duno
If you haven’t seen the video of Saturday’s altercation between Indy Racing League drivers Danica Patrick and Milka Duno, you can go to YouTube. More than 600,000 people have watched it since…
YourEncore opens office in Europe
Indianapolis-based YourEncore Inc. has launched an office in the United Kingdom primarily to serve one of its main customers, Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. Founded in 2003, YourEncore enlists retired scientists and engineers to help companies in the life, consumer and food sciences as well as in specialty materials, aerospace and defense. It has a roster […]
Confess: books you haven’t read
At England’s Ways with Words literary festival, authors were asked to name books that they are ashamed to admit they haven’t read. See story here.
For me, that would be a long list, including “Catch-22,” “Moby Dick,” “Remembrance of Things…
First Internet Bank profit slumps
By Norm Heikens Charge-offs on consumer loans crimped second-quarter profit for First Internet Bank, its parent, First Internet Bancorp, said yesterday. The bank reported $437,000 in profit, down 48 percent from the same period a year earlier. First Internet Bank charged off $343,000 in the most recent quarter and set aside an additional $767,782 for […]
Fist-bumping the handshake
The handshake â?? a meet-and-greet fixture since medieval folks developed the gesture to show they werenâ??t armed
â?? is beginning to be replaced in some circumstances by the fist bump.
Lightly tapping fists has been a staple of athletes…
Incubator chief lands at life science firm
Art Patterson, who launched Flagship Enterprise Center in Anderson and built the small-business incubator and accelerator into a three-building operation, has been named CEO at Elona Biotechnologies Inc. in Greenwood. Patterson left Flagship early this year after completing a four-year startup phase. Expertise to help small businesses had been established through host Anderson University as […]
Vote casting: ‘Legally Blonde,’ etc.
Broadway has a new lead actress for “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” thanks to an MTV talent competition (see story here). London and Broadway have also cast talent for revivals of “Grease,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “The…
IUPUI’s Hunter delivers on promise
IUPUI men’s basketball Coach Ron Hunter is making good on a promise he made in January to personally deliver shoes to the poorest of the poor.
Thursday, Hunter and members of the Jaguars team…