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Citizens Energy agrees to document utility savings

A not-for-profit public trust that wants to buy Indianapolis' water and sewer utilities has agreed to document all of the savings it says the $1.9 billion deal would create. State regulators still must approve the transaction.

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Drugmakers call off animal-health deal, possible asset sale

Drugmakers Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA have abandoned plans to combine their animal-health businesses after wrestling with regulators for a year over potential divestitures.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. was among a list of possible suitors for about $1 billion in assets the two companies considered selling.

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Lilly agrees to buy European animal health company

Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Co., has agreed to acquire Jannsen Animal Health, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson, pending regulatory approval. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Southern Indiana newspapers to merge by March 1

Publishers of the Evening News of Jeffersonville and the New Albany Tribune announced Wednesday that both organizations will be consolidated into one paper called the Evening News and Tribune starting March 1.

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Marcadia may fetch up to $537 million in sale

The December sale of Carmel-based Marcadia Biotech to Roche garnered at least $287 million—and as much as $537 million—for the company’s owners and could lead the Marcadia management team to launch a firm using one of Marcadia’s experimental diabetes medicines.

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Roche aims to prevent bidding war for software firm

The Swiss company, which operates its North American business out of Indianapolis, filed a lawsuit late last month against Virginia-based Medical Automation Systems Inc. for breaching the purchase agreement the companies signed back in October.

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OfficeWorks acquires competitor’s local operations

Fishers-based furniture dealer and office space designer is purchasing the assets of Columbus, Ohio-based Continental Office Environment’s Indianapolis location on East 33rd Street. Both companies are Herman Miller dealers.

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