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Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Public companies Blog Posts
Did Lilly get preferential treatment on a disputable billboard ad?
November 4, 2010
Comments(6)Billboard companies spiked the cancer ad. But Citizens Gas or WellPoint might have gotten a different result.
MoreTip-offs for when CEOs lie
August 31, 2010
Comment(1)A new study offers insights into when CEOs are fibbing. But those who benefit most from the revelations might be their handlers.
MoreHow federal pork suppresses business
June 15, 2010
Comments(7)A Harvard study shows companies suffer when politicians deluge their states with federal dollars.
MorePerils of non-family managers
February 25, 2010
Comments(0)A former Toyota exec blasts non-family managers for the company’s problems. Are some Indianapolis-area companies better-
or worse-off after families relinquished control?
MoreWal-Mart gets into the casket business
November 6, 2009
Comments(3)Batesville Casket Co., the world's largest manufacturer, says it's watching, but isn't worried.
MoreSteak n Shake and the new NEA chief
November 5, 2009
Comments(2)Should Biglari take Landesman's remarks as praise where he can get it, or consider them an insult?
MoreLilly as an employment destination
September 14, 2009
Comments(2)Eli Lilly and Co. has experienced a string of setbacks in recent years. Is it still a good place to work?
MoreIs Lilly under-appreciated?
June 25, 2009
Comments(5)Indianapolis has always had Eli Lilly and Co., it seems, and Lilly always seems to care for Indianapolis
like a rich uncle.
People employed directly by Lilly and by companies doing business with Lilly account for about one of every
30...
MoreIndy's best leaders
March 2, 2009
Comments(10)Conseco has seen a string of leaders since the company began to stumble and co-founder Steve Hilbert stepped
down nearly nine years ago. The insurer still doesnâ??t have its footing, saying today its auditors arenâ??t
convinced it can More
Ideal places for public companies
February 13, 2009
Comments(8)Just as an Indiana company goes through the nationâ??s first initial public offering in months, its executives
ratchet up their plans to move the headquarters out of state.
Mead Johnson, the Evansville baby formula maker, staged a successful IPO...
MoreWellPoint brass and rank-and-file
January 16, 2009
Comments(8)WellPoint unwittingly made an interesting point this morning when it announced it expects to save $24 million
by laying off 600 workers.
Those 600 workers in affect are being valued at about half the $47.5 million in total compensation...
MoreCircuit City and HHGregg
November 20, 2008
Comments(14)How can it be that Circuit City is bankrupt and HHGregg is still going strong? Both companies sell electronics
to consumers, though Gregg also deals in appliances.
Part of the reason may be found in how they treat their sales staffs.
Circuit...
MoreBringing on the generic drugs
October 30, 2008
Comments(2)Times are tough enough that more people are beginning to switch to generic drugs to save money. Insurers
like Indianapolis-based WellPoint are playing a role, too, by pushing policy holders toward generics.
People also are splitting pills...
MoreAre WellPoint execs greedy?
September 19, 2008
Comments(11)Three activist groups dropped off a wallet and handbag crammed with play money at WellPointâ??s front door
this week to protest what the groups say are outrageous salaries pulled down by company executives.
The groups â?? Health Care for America Now,...
MoreSusan Bayh as a political liability
August 19, 2008
Comments(10)Barack Obama is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now, and Evan Bayhâ??s name
is still thought to be on the short list.
The Indiana senator is viewed as a moderate who would counter Obamaâ??s liberal voting...
MoreImpressions of settling lawsuits
July 1, 2008
Comments(2)Eli Lilly and Co. settled its racial discrimination lawsuit yesterday for $64,000, ending a claim by an employee
who alleged the company fired her because she was disfigured through exposure to a blood pathogen.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
MoreDo ads make you feel better?
June 23, 2008
Comments(2)Weâ??re increasingly bombarded with ads for health care products ranging from drugs for osteoporosis and restless
leg syndrome to knee replacements.
Zimmer went over the heads of doctors when it advertised its knee replacements designed specifically for women,
and...
MoreEmmis does better, sort of
May 12, 2008
Comments(0)Emmis Communications chief Jeff Smulyan today was more positive about the companyâ??s fiscal fourth-quarter
performance
than heâ??s been about an earnings report in a long time.
Revenue at its U.S. radio stations, which have been dogged by an industry...
MoreStarbucks, piercings and Band-Aids
May 1, 2008
Comments(11)Some local Starbucks workers are looking like they tangle with cats.
Theyâ??ve taken to putting bandages over piercings to meet the letter of Starbucksâ?? dress code, which minimizes
the number of earrings and other piercings visible to customers.
Band-Aids beat the hassle...
MoreThe next Fortune 500 companies
April 23, 2008
Comments(3)Conseco has dropped off the Fortune 500, leaving WellPoint, Lilly, Cummins and NiSource as the only Indiana companies remaining. Several Indiana firms are closing in on the elite list, though. One is Steel Dynamics, the Fort Wayne company that recycles scrap metal....
Is Lechleiter the fall guy?
April 17, 2008
Comment(1)CALPERS, the big pension fund, doesnâ??t want Eli Lilly and Co.â??s new CEO, John Lechleiter, to be voted
onto
the board at Lillyâ??s annual meeting on Monday.
Lechleiter was a high-level player within Lilly in recent years while the...
MoreWill Delta, NW merger help you?
April 15, 2008
Comments(2)Analysts say the Delta-Northwest merger is good for the companies and the profit-starved industry.
That means ticket prices probably will climb.
Both airlines serve Indianapolis. What do you think the merger will mean for local travelers?...
MoreWill Fresh & Easy make it here?
April 10, 2008
Comments(6)Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, the grocery chain owned by U.K.-based retailing giant Tesco, has put
the brakes on the U.S. invasion it launched on the West Coast last year, but still claims it has designs
on plastering the U.S....
MoreAbout that other airline
April 4, 2008
Comment(1)As postmortems fly on ATAâ??s second, and final, nosedive into bankruptcy, another Indianapolis airline is
doing
a lot better and getting hardly any attention.
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. isnâ??t a household name because it quietly flies regional routes on...
MoreWould you miss ATA?
April 3, 2008
Comments(10)Barring a small miracle, ATA Airlines is dead, now that itâ??s lost a major military contract.
The carrier was headquartered in Indianapolis until it moved to the Atlanta area late last year.
How big a blow would ATAâ??s demise be...
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