2017 Indiana 100: In a mature industry, Wheaton keeps on truckin’
Q&A with Mark Kirschner, Wheaton Van Lines: “We’re not losing drivers; there’s just no new drivers coming into the industry.”
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2017 Indiana 100: Agency powers Indiana, one small town at a time
Q&A with Rajeshwar “Raj” Rao, Indiana Municipal Power Agency: “Municipal power companies are your next-door neighbors. When you lose the lights, they lose the lights, too.”
2017 Indiana 100: Smith talks customers, the coliseum and Garfield
Q&A with Kimberly Smith, Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.: “I don’t want to say by any means that it’s been easy to effectuate the change but I think it all has to do with why you’re effectuating change.”
2017 Indiana 100: Cummins aims to transform trucking through tech
Q&A with Sherry Aaholm, Cummins Inc.: “My mother, early on, taught me the value of hard work, the value of recognizing diversity, the value of recognizing engagement and the fact that you’re just as powerful to do what you want to do.”
2017 Indiana 100: After pulling CNO back, Bonach stepping aside
Q&A with Edward Bonach, CEO of CNO Financial Group: “Thankfully, I don’t know if it’s genes or what, but I can usually get by on less sleep than most. Starting early is good for me.”
2017 Indiana 100: You’ll find few motorcycles parked at therapy offices
Q&A with Andre Lacy, LDI Ltd.: “Somebody asked me within the last six months, how many miles have I ridden? I started adding it up. I’ve ridden more than 200,000 miles.”
2017 Indiana 100: E-commerce firm marches to own beat
Sweetwater Sound—which has a 44-acre campus in Fort Wayne—is the nation’s largest online retailer of musical instruments and audio equipment.
Car dealer says ‘you have to fall in love with the customer’ to sell
After eight years selling vehicles at a downtown Lafayette Ford dealership in the 1950s and ’60s, Bob Rohrman motored out on his own with a single used-car dealership on a gravel lot on Sagamore Parkway. Rohrman hasn’t looked in his rearview mirror since.
Hillenbrand CEO says company focuses on attracting top talent
Joe Raver says a company is “only as good as its talent.”
Lake City Bank focuses on high- and low-tech services
Unlike some other banks, Lake City did not enter this market though acquisition. David Findlay, CEO of the $3.8-billion-in-assets bank, said it doesn’t plan to buy banks to continue its growth.
For CEO, auction firm is ‘mission of passion’
Fired in 2005 as CEO of Adesa Inc., a vehicle-auction company based in Carmel, James Hallett later engineered a buyout that put him back in the driver’s seat of the company, now known as KAR Auction Services.
Finish Line COO always looking to ‘add value’
Melissa Greenwell says she has never focused on the climb up the corporate ladder.
Telamon tries to take ‘fewer, bigger bets’
After 13 years working his way through positions spanning several divisions, Stanley Chen became CEO in October when his father retired.
Evansville-based Berry Plastics makes containers for 30,000 household products
“We’re not a household name, but we’re in every household,” said CEO Jonathan Rich. “We are ubiquitous in consumer disposables.”
Indianapolis fastest-growing companies run the gamut
This year’s list of fastest-growing private companies in the Indianapolis area is a diverse lot, operating in industries ranging from human resources to office furnishings to construction to home health care and games.
Commodities fueled some of Indiana’s largest private companies in ’11
Oil, grain were particularly helpful for cooperatives. An improved economy also propelled manufacturers ahead.
Largest Indiana public companies mostly fared well in 2011
Performance varied widely as industries ebbed, flowed.
Economy might worsen before it improves much
If it seems like the economy should be better by now, under normal circumstances it would. After all, the recession ended three years ago this month.