An Indianapolis-based grocery wholesaler has purchased the assets of a convenience store supplier in Danville, enabling it
to expand its number of customers to 800 in five states.
Freda Lockhart was the first woman to open dealerships for Cadillac and Saturn automobiles.
Idea for old terminal calls for more deliberative planning of development in and around Indianapolis International to make
airport more of an economic development hub.
Lilly Endowment Inc. is continuing to support the state’s advanced-manufacturing initiative, giving Conexus Indiana a grant to help connect potential workers with the necessary training.
Bird strikes remain a threat—statistically more so than a Nigerian terrorist with a bomb in his BVDs—at Indianapolis International Airport. There were 37 bird strikes reported at the airport in 2009, five involving damage or temporary grounding of an aircraft.
Indiana’s future as a hub for making electric and hybrid vehicles hinges on a single government loan program.
Republic, which bought Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines last year, says it will move all of its executives to its headquarters
in Indianapolis.
Columbus engine
maker Cummins Inc. will receive nearly $54M in federal funding as part of a program designed to significantly
increase fuel efficiency in heavy trucks and passenger vehicles, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Monday.
Officials say closing a key Lake County bridge serving casinos, a steel mill and other businesses is costing the state tax
revenues amid other financial losses.
The top level of the parking garage at Indianapolis International Airport is being closed in a money-saving effort. Officials
also will block off some little-used areas of surface parking lots, saying that the decline in air traffic during the recession
has reduced the need for parking spaces at the new passenger terminal that opened in late 2008
Ray Skillman’s purchase of Reeves Buick Pontiac means more shuffling of area dealerships.
Preliminary figures through Monday show 680 traffic fatalities. That’s the lowest number since the 670 recorded in 1925.
For the head of an 11,000-employee company, Bryan Bedford has all the profile around these parts as a participant in the
federal witness protection program.
After 36 years of flying smaller planes painted in the colors of the major airlines for which it flies under contract,
Republic Airways Holdings in 2009 became a branded airline operator of its own.
The Indianapolis
Airport Authority hired John D. Clark III as CEO, luring him away from Jacksonville Florida.
The Indianapolis International Airport is expecting to be busy this week and next despite an average 8 to 10 percent decline
compared to the same period last year.
Many of the 5,000 employees at the FedEx Express hub at Indianapolis International Airport are benefiting from the holiday
shipping rush by working longer hours.
Indianapolis’ new $1.1 billion airport terminal faces at least two nagging functionality issues: inadequate protection during
inclement weather at the second-level passenger drop-off platform and sunlight that floods the ticket lobby, making computer
screens hard to read.
Indianapolis has fared better than some airports in terms of declining revenue, with passengers down
about 10 percent for much of the year and revenue off 16 percent at one point.
Founder Steve Tolen started out to make an electric car and wound up with a device to blend and regulate power among different
types of electric batteries.
