Portugal’s efforts to climb out of its economic crisis suffered a double setback Thursday as its credit rating was downgraded to junk status and a major strike gave voice to broad public outrage over austerity measures that have squeezed living standards.
Business Ownership Initiative of Central Indiana focuses on one-on-one counseling, capital access.
The report from the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute says the state loses $40 million to $114 million every year in sales tax revenue from sales to online retailers such as Amazon.
Indiana’s jobless rate rose to 9 percent in October, up from 8.9 percent the previous month, marking the fifth straight month the state’s unemployment rate has risen.
You have to wonder how many Big Ten and Indianapolis tourism officials will be rooting hard for Wisconsin this weekend when the Badgers play Penn State at Madison.
Toronto-based IntraPac said it will move operations from New Jersey to the southeastern Indiana town and build an 80,000-square-foot plant that should open in February.
Exegistics, a Wheeling, Ill.-based logistics service provider, said Monday it plans to spend about $9 million to build a rail-sided distribution facility in North Vernon, creating up to 315 jobs by the end of 2014.
The Carmel City Center Community Development Corp. has emerged as a key player in the city’s burgeoning downtown. The not-for-profit 4CDC last month gave the performing arts center $1 million to cover its operating expenses, and it’s expected to provide another $4.5 million through June 30.
A new study says biomedical research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and its partner hospitals pumped about $370 million into Indiana's economy in 2009.
Figures who played key roles in attracting the big game and for making the event a success share their insights.
Federal-Mogul Corp. said it will add the jobs next year as part of a $2.7 million expansion to purchase new machinery and equipment for its 170,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and 15,000-square-foot technical center.
The new head of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. says the agency is turning its focus to smaller companies and getting them to relocate to the state so they can build their roots.
Kermit USA, a manufacturer and distributor of resin-composite roofing systems, plans to add 70 jobs by 2016 as part of a $12.5 million expansion in the Delaware County city.
The national economy added 80,000 jobs last month, the fewest in four months, but the unemployment rate dipped from 9.1 percent to 9 percent.
TechPoint’s 13th annual technology summit might be more notable not for who is on the formal agenda but for who is in the audience.
The Litebox story makes a bigger point … about the entire policy of cities “buying” jobs by offering financial incentives to companies that promise to move and/or expand.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has been derided in recent days for standing next to California businessman Bob Yanagihara and declaring, “We like visionaries, we love inventors, we love entrepreneurs. You are all those things.”
Heartland Sweeteners LLC plans to spend nearly $10 million to upgrade its Indianapolis plant and potentially boost its work force there by 39 employees in the next five years.
The company plans to hire 246 employees to staff a call center on the northwest side of Indianapolis after announcing in August that it would close its call center in South Bend and move operations here.
RND Group fills development gaps for companies.
