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California firm terminates $875M acquisition of Cook Medical unit, FTC says
The Federal Trade Commission said CooperCompanies’ decision to abandon the deal “ensures that critical reproductive health markets remain competitive.”
The Federal Trade Commission said CooperCompanies’ decision to abandon the deal “ensures that critical reproductive health markets remain competitive.”
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers, took steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launched a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry.
With the acquisition of Versanis Bio, Lilly is adding another promising treatment to its weight-loss drug pipeline.
Regulators have been seeking to ax the deal because they say it will hurt competition, but U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled the evidence pointed to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content.
Quantigen employs 46 people at its office at 10300 Kincaid Drive, and it will retain its name following the deal.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker said it will acquire Sigilon Therapeutics Inc., a six-year-old startup that is developing a technology to help type 1 diabetes patients restore insulin production over sustained periods.
Established in 1983 by entrepreneurs Mark Hill and Karen Hill, Baker Hill is a software-as-a-service firm that provides loan origination, risk management and analytics software to more than 400 banks and credit unions.
Bunge Ltd.—which is spending $550 million to build a soybean processing plant in Shelby County—could find itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators in the United States due to the scale of the deal.
Luna was founded in 2001 Luna Language Services and provides interpreting and translation services to a client base that includes some of Indiana’s largest employers.
MW Cold, a fourth-generation company that operates two large cold-storage facilities in central Indiana, is under new ownership.
When the deal is completed, Hillenbrand said the Food and Performance Materials business of Schenck Process will join its Advanced Process Solutions segment.
Cummins plans to acquire two manufacturing sites, one in its hometown of Columbus, Indiana, from France-based Faurecia.
Helmer Scientific, which makes temperature-controlled storage equipment for hospitals, labs, blood banks, and pharmacies, was founded in Noblesville in 1977 and has more than 400 employees.
Adding 13 employees from 66-year-old Architectural Werks Inc., MDA now has a workforce of 50 and offices on both coasts, in addition to the Midwest.
Catalent Inc., a contract drug manufacturer, said Monday it would delay quarterly earnings, blaming “productivity issues and higher-than-expected costs” at three plants—including an operation in Bloomington that it bought from medical device maker Cook Group.
Indianapolis is home to two Ruth’s Chris locations—downtown at 45 S. Illinois St. and on the north side at 2727 E. 86th St.
Worldwide sales of Baqsimi totaled $139.3 million last year, representing less than 1% of Indianapolis-based Lilly’s worldwide revenue of $28.5 billion.
The combination of the two Indianapolis-based firms is expected to to result in increased job opportunities for environmental, health and safety professionals.
Indianapolis-based precision agriculture startup Intelinair Inc. announced Tuesday it has acquired Aker Technologies Inc., headquartered in Illinois.
The deal between the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship and WWE catapults WWE into a new era, after functioning as a family-run business for decades.