Browning/Duke building huge Plainfield distribution facility
The speculative building totaling more than 930,000 square feet will be constructed at the developers’ AllPoints Midwest industrial park.
The speculative building totaling more than 930,000 square feet will be constructed at the developers’ AllPoints Midwest industrial park.
Penguin Random House LLC, the world’s largest consumer book publisher, plans to consolidate much of its U.S. distribution operations in Crawfordsville, the company announced Wednesday morning.
Plainfield-based Hanzo Logistics plans to move about a half-mile north to a new $17 million headquarters and distribution facility, expected to be complete in September.
The feds said last week that they were examining two worker deaths at warehouses operated by the world’s largest online retailer. Amazon has nearly 100 warehouses worldwide, including several in Indiana.
Peapod Inc., an online grocery-delivery service, is seeking city tax incentives to help it with an expansion that would create 238 jobs by 2018. The jobs would pay about $15 per hour.
MKM Distribution Services plans to cut 84 employees from its operations on the northwest side of Indianapolis, the company said in a notice to the state.
Irwin Tools plans to shut down its 456,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Greenfield and consolidate operations elsewhere.
Beauty products maker Ulta Inc. plans to open a fulfillment and distribution center in Greenwood that will employ as many as 537 people by 2018, the Bolingbrook, Ill.-based company announced Thursday afternoon.
Casey’s General Stores Inc. said it plans to build a $30 million logistics center in Indiana that will have as many as 185 employees by 2019.
The firm intends to make its facility north of 56th Street on Guion Road the main hub for more than a dozen other regional distribution centers, and to hire 60 more workers.
ConAgra Foods Inc. is expanding logistics operations in central Indiana by moving a distribution center in Lebanon to a new and bigger facility it plans to build in nearby Frankfort. The move is expected to create 76 jobs.
Sysco, with annual revenue of about $44 billion, is the top operator in the U.S. food distribution business. Adding No. 2 US Foods would create a corporation in charge of at least a quarter of the North American market.
Indiana was one of three states where Amazon began collecting sales taxes Wednesday on purchases made in 2014.
Pearson Education Ltd. plans to shut down a 1.2-million-square-foot book-distribution center in Lebanon next year, costing about 160 workers their jobs.
Indiana’s largest beer distributor is mounting the latest legal challenge to the state’s arcane, Prohibition-era liquor laws. Indianapolis-based Monarch Beverage Co. Inc. is suing state officials, arguing the company should be able to also supply liquor to bars, restaurants and retail outlets.
A New York logistics and distribution company plans to add about 60 jobs in Plainfield.
The fate of a proposed $1.3 billion expressway being pushed by the governors of Illinois and Indiana could be determined Thursday.
Newegg.com is considering a $15 million distribution center in Indianapolis that would employ 150 people by the end of 2015.
The acquisition of the 450,000-square-foot distribution center is another sign of the improved health of the Indianapolis area’s industrial market.
A real estate firm with growing holdings in the Indianapolis area has purchased a 1.1 million-square-foot distribution building in the AmeriPlex at Indianapolis business park.