There’s a smorgasbord available for small businesses in the federal stimulus package. The trick is figuring out how to get a plate. Plenty of local experts are serving up access to the buffet. And some entrepreneurs are digging in. But others consider the
stimulus warmed-over leftovers.
Struggling developer Lauth Group Inc. has cut about 90 percent of its staff and lost control of part of its portfolio to a
major equity partner-developments that raise doubts about whether the locally based company can survive the recession.
Indiana golf course operators are nervous about how the recession might lead to fewer golfers and lost revenue.
The state’s overreliance on gambling, what once seemed like easy money, is becoming a major concern to taxpayers.
Local manufacturing stalwart Allison Transmission will have to restructure its more than $4 billion in debt or further cut
expenses if it’s going to weather the recession.
Hoosiers’ long ride on the gambling gravy train finally may be coming to an end.
Financing is the lifeblood of companies turning intellectual property into a product or service, but turbulent economic conditions
have made it increasingly difficult to raise cash from investors who are content to wait
out the storm by concentrating on their existing portfolios.
Without fresh capital â?? or loosened debt obligations â?? Carmel-based Conseco could find itself in bankruptcy or looking
for a buyer or both.
Pathway Productions, purveyors of some of the highest-profile documentaries to come out of the Indianapolis area in the last
decade, is on the brink of extinction.
It was not World War II that moved America out of the Great Depression.
Stock markets fell, jobs disappeared, and the outlook for the economy seemed to grow grimmer by the week in 2008. Banks, real estate developers, retailers and manufacturers took some of the worst hits, but all types of businesses in central
Indiana felt the pain.
Momentive Consumer Credit Counseling Services work to change lives by helping people gain financial stability.
Most colleges and universities in central
Indiana are being especially frugal because the value of their university endowments has plunged along with the market,donations
may decrease, and enrollment may decline, due to lack of student loan availability.
An Ohio developer and the town of Fishers have agreed to cancel a 2007 development agreement that called for a $100-million
mixed-use project featuring 250,000 square feet of retail space and 150,000 square feet of office.
Slowing auto sales have forced Carmel-based Automotive Finance Corp., which lends money to car dealers to buy used vehicles
at auction, to take a big write-off on the declining value of its loan portfolio.
Emmis Communications Corp. struggles to contain expenses and minimize debts due to radio advertising shortfalls.
Thanks to hefty 35-percent gross returns on its $60 million first fund, locally based Centerfield Capital Partners LP has
raised nearly twice as much for its second. This month, the venture capital firm closed on $116 million from a variety of
investors. As before, Centerfield’s 50 limited partners include major Hoosier institutions. But this time, numerous big banks,
insurance companies and pension funds from outside state lines were also investors.
