Stock held by Springleaf Holdings CEO Jay Levine soared Tuesday after the Indiana-based firm said it would buy OneMain Financial from Citigroup. Still uncertain was how the deal would affect 1,155 Indiana employees after the company moves it headquarters.
Carmel-based WCA Group LLC has acquired Williams Comfort Air and Mr. Plumber from Defender Direct, which wants to concentrate on its core business of security and home automation.
Springleaf Holdings Inc.,a consumer lender that went public in 2013, plans to move its headquarters from Indiana to Connecticut after buying subprime lender OneMain Financial for $4.25 billion in cash.
Carmel-based technology firm Emerging Threats Pro LLC has reached an agreement to be acquired by Sunnyvale, California-based Proofpoint Inc., the companies announced Monday morning.
Pendleton-based Remy International Inc. announced Thursday that it plans to acquire Maval Manufacturing Inc., a steering-system maker that employs about 210 people in northeast Ohio.
Anthem Inc. has closed its purchase of Florida Medicaid managed care provider Simply Healthcare Holdings Inc. for an estimated $1 billion.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is looking to expand with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. But customers in central Indiana won’t come along for the ride. To ease antitrust concerns, Comcast plans to hand 2.5 million customers to a new spinoff called GreatLand Connections.
Staples Inc. plans to acquire Office Depot Inc. in a deal that will reduce the U.S. office-supply industry to a single major chain and test the limits of antitrust regulators.
A franchisee that started with three Domino's stores in South Mississippi 34 years ago is buying 45 stores in Indiana from Bob Taylor, who owns more than 70 stores in the Hoosier state.
Look here to see a compilation of deals affecting Indianapolis-area companies last year. Also see whether the area is gaining or losing more than its share of headquarters.
Just call 2014 the year of the corporate spinoff frenzy. And 2015 might be just as crazy.
Eli Lilly and Co. wants to combine Novartis with its own animal health business, Elanco, to create the second-largest animal health company in the U.S.
Indianapolis-based TPG Marine Enterprises LLC announced Thursday that it has acquired Chicago Dry Dock, a shipyard near Lake Michigan founded in 1979.
A Covance Inc. investor contends in a lawsuit that the drug-testing company’s board erred in relying on what the shareholder called Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s conflict-tainted advice. Covance has major laboratory operations in Indianapolis.
Distribution business HP Products Corp., a 450-employee company founded in Indianapolis in 1964, is now owned by Virginia-based Ferguson Enterprises Inc., the companies announced Tuesday.
Indianapolis-based chemical producer Vertellus Specialties Inc. has announced its second big acquisition in as many months, in a deal believed to be worth as much as $200 million.
Steven Humke is set to take the helm of the city’s third-largest law firm Jan. 1, assuming duties from outgoing chief managing partner Phil Bayt.
A publicly traded e-commerce firm has acquired Indianapolis-based Fifth Gear, a company with more than 500 employees that specializes in fulfilling consumer orders through catalogs and digital retail.
The health care industry has announced about $438 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions worldwide so far in 2014, about 14 percent of the $3.2 trillion total for all industries.
The deal gives First Merchants a stronger foothold in affluent Hamilton County, and a total of 107 locations in three states.
