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Evansville-based Mead Johnson Nutritionals could get a new owner if parent Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. succeeds in finding a buyer. The Financial Times reported Sunday that Bristol-Myers is “quietly sounding out potential bidders” for the baby formula maker. Mead Johnson’s value is estimated at $7 billion to $9 billion. Quoting unnamed sources familiar with the discussions, […]
Indiana Business Bancorp, the Indianapolis-based parent of Indiana Business Bank, reported $14,159 in profit for 2007. That compares with a $675,954 loss of a year earlier. Growth in loan and investment portfolios pushed net interest income up 29 percent, to $2.6 million. Service charges and other fee income increased nearly three-fold, to $180,289. The bank, […]
Forget outsourcing. A Michigan research group says the larger problem for manufacturing will be finding enough
domestic workers to navigate the complexities of modern factory floors.
The Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor contends in a recent report that while…
The chief executive officer of ATA Airlines’ parent company, Global Aero Logistics, has resigned, according to the Peachtree City, Ga., company. Subodh Karnik, who previously was CEO of Indianapolis-based ATA, was under pressure from New York investment firm MatlinPatterson to make ATA and its two sister carriers profitable. Global Aero’s most recently reported financials show […]
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The Indianapolis Airport Authority board has approved an obscure bid package known as “T-31” that provides for the installation of floor-level foot sinks for…
Conseco Inc. shares tumbled today, despite the company’s announcement before trading opened that it was working with investment firm Morgan Stanley to explore “strategic alternatives” aimed at boosting its sagging stock. Such pronouncements typically signal a company is putting itself up for sale, raising the prospect of a rich payoff for shareholders. But Conseco likely […]
Pending house sales in the Indianapolis area increased in February for the first time since April 2007, prompting one expert to say the soggy market might be finding a bottom. The sales, which have been accepted but not closed, increased to 2,132 from 2,113 a year earlier, according to F.C. Tucker Co., which uses data […]
The NCAA warned Indiana University in 2006 about hiring coach Kelvin Sampson. And IU didn’t listen. When IU was implicated in five major NCAA rules violations earlier this year, some NCAA officials, sources…
Duke Realty Corp. Chief Financial Officer Matthew Cohoat has resigned. Cohoat, 48, wanted to “reduce his travel schedule and spend more time with his family,” the Indianapolis-based real estate company announced today. He will remain to help with the transition. A replacement wasn’t named. Cohoat held the post since 2004. He also is on boards […]
A tech park in downtown Bloomington that has been slow to land tenants since receiving state certification in 2005 may have a harder time filling up now that another tech park is on the drawing board for a nearby site, according to The Herald-Times of Bloomington. Indiana University is considering opening a certified tech park […]
Conseco Inc. reported today that it has been working with investment bank Morgan Stanley for months to explore “strategic alternatives” for the company – a phrase often used when a company is searching for a buyer. Carmel-based Conseco made the announcement this morning as it declined a request from one of its largest investors, Steel […]
Lots of people laughed last week at the Fort Wayne law firm that called police about a suspicious gift
bag it received. The suspicious package had come from a man who was being sued by a client of the…
Pilkington North America Inc. has temporarily laid off 250 workers at its Shelbyville plant as General Motors Corp. slows production due to a strike at another one of its suppliers, Detroit-based American Axle and Manufacturing Inc. The Shelbyville glass-making plant, which employs 400, might shut down through April 1, according to the Shelbyville News. Pilkington […]
Spotlight on Tippecanoe County The name was adapted from Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk, the Indian name of an 18th-century trading post in the area. 5 LARGEST CITIES/TOWNS population Lafayette ……………………………………61,244 West Lafayette …………………………….28,997 Shadeland …………………………………..1,667 Battle Ground ……………………………….1,368 Otterbein ……………………………………..1,243 5 LARGEST EMPLOYERS employees Purdue University …………………………14,528 Wabash National …………………………..3,200 Lafayette Hospital Inc. …………………….2,400 Subaru of Indiana Automotive […]
MADISON COUNTY Flagship Enterprise Center names interim head DeWayne Landwehr has been named interim executive director of the Flagship Enterprise Center in Anderson. Most recently, Landwehr served as director of operations at the Anderson Business Incubator. Dur ing his 18 months there, Landwehr identified clients and assessed their prospects. Landwehr also established one of only […]
MONROE COUNTY More apartments for B-town Developers are working on plans for several new apartment projects in Bloomington. The college town adds new units virtually every summer, and the latest crop includes several infill projects-many of which will be built atop retail space. Bloomington businessman Rob Friedman has two projects in the works: a 9,400-square-foot […]
SHELBY COUNTY Puck’s set to open restaurant at expanded Indiana Downs Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas and … Shelbyville, Ind. That’s right. Shelbyville will actually have something in common with those glitzy cities when celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck opens a restaurant in the expanded Indiana Downs “racino.” Puck will open his 17th Puck’s restaurant as […]
JOHNSON COUNTY Plan may improve Old Town Greenwood city engineers recently concluded that a building dating back to 1860 in the Old Town district might need to come down to ease congestion and allow growth in the historic region of the city south of Indianapolis. The Van Valer Law Firm building and other structures on […]
Hoosier Heartland Highway pumps up hope on prairie Expressway construction starting two years early LAFAYETTE-For years, they’ve driven on little more than paved-over wagon trails pioneers carved into the hills nestling the Wabash River. Motorists on State Road 25 between Logansport and Lafayette have grown desperate for a replacement: the final, 33-mile western leg of […]
HAMILTON COUNTY Carmel lauded for wastewater purification leadership Carmel’s wastewater treatment process is so innovative that it’s been judged a “best practice.” The Washington, D.C.-based National League of Cities maintains a database of best practices for its 18,000 members. In October 2005, Carmel opened the nation’s first municipal BioPasteur system to process solid biological waste, […]
