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Parsons Corp., a Pasadena, Calif., company that is destroying the V-X nerve gas stored at the Newport Chemical Depot in western Indiana, has started closing down the operation as the three-year project nears completion. Parsons has informed the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will begin laying off 412 workers at the site in […]
Buffalo Wild Wings has responded to the city’s beef with its Washington Street façade by submitting a new plan showing the exact design it already constructed. The…
Ball State Universityâ??s entrepreneurship program has long been considered one of the stateâ??s crown jewels in
business academics.
Former funeral director Don Kuratko started the program before entrepreneurship was cool and pushed it to
national prominence. Real-world business types like the…
Plainfield distributor MD Logistics plans to expand its pharmaceutical warehouse and add 75 workers by 2012, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1 million project would add 15,000 square feet of cold storage. MD operates three sites in Plainfield totaling more than 750,000 square feet.
Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly and Co., will spend $300 million and an undisclosed “contingent consideration” to buy all rights to a popular dairy cow hormone and its sales and manufacturing operations from St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. Elanco has been selling the supplement, called Posilac, outside the United States for a decade. Now Elanco […]
Today marks the 175th birthday of our homegrown pres, Benjamin Harrison. The BH home at 1230 N. Delaware is celebrating with free tours today from 10-3:30.
I’m celebrating by trying to think of a list of Best Performance by an Actor…
Indiana University basketball coach Tom Crean hasn’t even coached his first game for the Hoosiers, and he’s already breaking records. Yesterday, Crean signed the richest coaching contract in IU history, a 10-year $23.6…
Escalade Inc., an Evansville-based sporting goods manufacturer, plans to close its final Evansville plant in an effort to restore profits and boost a sagging stock price. Table tennis production will be moved to Mexico beginning Sept. 5, causing 30 workers to lose their jobs, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. In February the company […]
The decision by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana to stop assembling Tundra pickup trucks at its plant in Princeton will result in as many as 40 of its workers being transferred temporarily to the Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. assembly plant in Lafayette. Subaru, which assembles Camry sedans for Toyota, will absorb the Toyota workers as […]
Clarian Health Ventures found its latest investment in Minnesota via a Wisconsin venture capital firm. But the company was right under Clarian’s nose in Indianapolis. Clarian Health Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Indianapolis-based hospital system, joined a gaggle of investors to pump $30 million into Minnesota-based Celleration Inc. The company has developed and […]
Indianapolis-based Pharmakon LTC Pharmacy Inc. will pay an average of $50,000 a year to each of the 52 employees it plans to add in the next five years. The institutional pharmacy will move to a larger headquarters and warehouse in Carmel as part of its expansion, Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1.2 million […]
McGowan Insurance Group plans to build a new 19,000-square-foot headquarters on a triangle-shaped property at 340 N. Capitol Ave. where an ealier proposal called for 30 condos and a bank….
A farm auction scheduled near Frankfort is thought to be one of the largest in the state in the past couple of years. Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co. Inc. of Columbia City plans to auction 1,222 acres from the estate of Ron Unger, a farmer who started from scratch and built the operation to […]
McGowan Insurance Group Inc. plans to spend $2.5 million to build its new headquarters at 340 N. Capitol Ave. As part of the expansion, McGowan will also add 13 jobs. The office building will occupy what is now vacant land east of Bourbon Street Distillery. McGowan announced the plan this morning. The 75-year-old insurance agency […]
A couple things became clear from reader feedback I’ve been getting about a story I wrote regarding dueling sports/talk radio stations for this week’s print edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal. First, fans of WNDE-AM 1260 are much more…
Barack Obama is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now, and Evan Bayhâ??s name
is still thought to be on the short list.
The Indiana senator is viewed as a moderate who would counter Obamaâ??s liberal voting…
Lucas Oil Products Inc., and its owner Forrest Lucas, are taking a beating from IBJ readers after his request that Indianapolis Colts fans and local media not call the team’s new stadium “The Luke.” Lucas…
Huntingburg office furniture manufacturer OFS Brands Inc. has acquired Loewenstein Inc., a maker of hotel furniture headquartered in Pompano Beach, Fla., for undisclosed terms. Family-owned OFS said the deal opens a seamless expansion into the hospitality market, and that OFS would protect the character of the Loewenstein brand and allow it to operate independently in […]
IndyFringe 2008 launches this week with a kick-off party Thursday and performances beginning on Friday.
This year’s lineup includes 270 performances of 53 shows–including one-act plays, improvisational comedy, dance pieces, magic acts, confessional one-person shows and difficult-to-describe oddities.
As in the past, the shows aren’t…
Indianapolis-based Pharmakon LTC Pharmacy Inc. will pay an average of $50,000 a year to each of the 52 employees it plans to add in the next five years. The institutional pharmacy will move to a larger headquarters and warehouse in Carmel as part of its expansion, Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1.2 million […]
