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Toyota Motor Corp. is considering consolidating assembly of its Tundra full-size pickup truck from its Princeton plant in southwestern Indiana to its new Tundra assembly plant near San Antonio, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. So little of the capacity at Princeton is being used that the company’s honorary chairman, Shoichiro Toyoda, visited the […]
Barring a small miracle, ATA Airlines is dead, now that itâ??s lost a major military contract.
The carrier was headquartered in Indianapolis until it moved to the Atlanta area late last year.
How big a blow would ATAâ??s demise be…
The new Dunkin Donuts at Washington and Pennsylvania streets (reported here in November) likely will have a retro look that incorporates the old Roselyn Bakery sign. Plans call for neon signs and a stainless steel facade. What do you think?
ATA Airlines Inc. said today it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, just two years after emerging from a bankruptcy filed in 2004. All operations were discontinued as of 4 a.m. today, the carrier said, meaning ticket holders will need to find alternatives. ATA had previously discontinued scheduled flights from Indianapolis. The filing means […]
A decline in automotive orders has prompted Harvey Industries LLC to lay off 90 of its 215 workers until it can recover more work through a diversification effort under way since last fall. The company, which operates in the northern Indiana city of Warsaw but is headquartered in Westland, Mich., primarily supplies Detroit automakers with […]
The terms we use to describe local geography are changing.
â??Central Indianaâ?? is cropping up more often for television stations, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership and
other organizations that extend well outside of Indianapolis. The term can sweep in as much as…
If Indiana University officials sought a clean break from former men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, their hire of Marquette’s Tom Crean failed to do so. Two of Crean’s four assistant coaches have a…
A local firm has begun renovations on an historic 12-story former bank building at 129 E. Market St. Crown Property Group bought the J.F. Wild & Co. building from…
WellPoint Inc. will no longer reimburse hospitals for serious preventable errors, the Indianapolis-based health insurer announced today. WellPoint’s first phase of the initiative includes 11 preventable adverse events and will be modified and expanded in the future. WellPoint said no one should be charged for the three most serious errors: performing the wrong kind of […]
I was jazzed to take my kids to revisit Actors Theatre of Indiana’s “A Year with Frog and Toad” last weekend at The Children’s Museum, where a truncated version is being presented free with museum admission.
Unfortunately some rights issues kept…
With former Indiana Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh, 67, set to be introduced as the New York Knicks president today at 1 p.m., several questions loom large for the Pacers front office.
While the Pacers…
Lake Cities Broadcasting Corp. in the northeastern Indiana city of Angola is selling its five radio stations, according to The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne. Buying the stations for $3.8 million is Swick Broadcasting Corp. Lake Cities President Tom Andrews is retiring, but plans to offer engineering help on a part-time basis. The stations include […]
When it comes to a high-tech economy, Indiana ranks 23rd among U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to an influential annual report released today. Indiana added 1,700 net high-tech jobs in 2006, the most recent year for which comparative data was available, according to “Cyberstates 2008: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology […]
National City Corp., one of the largest banks in Indianapolis, has hired the Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs to seek strategic alternatives, the Cleveland-based institution said yesterday. The announcement stopped short of confirming rumors circulating for weeks that the bank would seek a buyer. The bank said the review process would not hamper day-to-day […]
Shortly after 4 p.m. today, ESPN reported that Indiana University is preparing to sign Marquette’s Tom Crean, 41, as the school’s next men’s basketball coach.
Sources close to the IU coaching search this morning did not mentioned Crean as one of…
Toyota Motor Corp. intends to boost its stake in Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. from 8.7 percent to about 17 percent, according to Bloomberg. Fuji makes Subaru cars. The Fuji assembly plant in Lafayette, Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc., in April 2007 also began assembling Toyota Camry sedans. The additional line in Lafayette resulted in approximately […]
Doctors have taken a second look at the nation’s health care ills and changed their diagnosis. Their new prescription? National, government-funded health insurance. That’s the upshot of a survey conducted by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. They found that 59 percent of America’s doctors now favor a national system of […]
Centerplate Inc. has alerted the state that it plans to lay off 219 workers in Indianapolis as a result of having lost a food and beverage contact at the Indiana Convention Center. Based in Stamford, Conn., Centerplate said the employees might be absorbed by Crystal Catering Inc., the Indianapolis company that won the bidding. However, […]
Shares of Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. and Hillenbrand Industries Inc., the companies resulting from the split of Batesville-based Hillenbrand Industries Inc., showed little movement this morning in their first day of trading independently. Hill-Rom shares slipped 24 cents, to $25.46. Hillenbrand Industries fell 32 cents, to $21.78. City Securities stock trader Tim Sutton said officials of […]
Stock in Conseco Inc. rose 2.7 percent this morning, to $10.47 a share, after the Carmel-based insurance company reported final results for its fourth quarter. In the quarter ended Dec. 31, Conseco lost $71.5 million, compared to $5.7 million in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, Conseco swung to a 38-cent […]
