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Lilly's Effient launch just one of its many challengesRestricted Content

August 3, 2009
Greg Andrews
Eli Lilly and Co. has blasted past analysts’ earnings projections for two straight quarters. But if Lilly officials take that as a sign they can breathe easier, they need only flip through a stack of Wall Street research reports on the company.
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Why ailing Emmis could bounce backRestricted Content

July 20, 2009
Greg Andrews
Let's play the contrarian. For Emmis, that means arguing that the battered company is poised for resurgence, rather than sliding deeper into the abyss.

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Brightpoint's Danish deal not so sweet two years laterRestricted Content

July 13, 2009
Greg Andrews
The cross-continent mega deal that made Brightpoint Inc. the world’s biggest wireless phone distributor has lost much of its sheen two years after being struck. Brightpoint Inc. in August 2007 purchased Denmark-based Dangaard Telecom for $385 million in stock and the assumption of $350 million in Dangaard debt.
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If Dow AgroSciences sells, let's hope it's not to a rivalRestricted Content

June 29, 2009
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EnerDel poised to get jolt of stimulus juiceRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Greg Andrews
Within weeks, EnerDel expects to receive notification that it's getting as much as $480 million in financing under a U.S. Department of Energy program aimed at fostering advanced vehicle manufacturing.
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Judge slams law firm Bose over 'misrepresentations' in Red Spot caseRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Greg Andrews
Bose McKinney & Evans' defense of an Evansville company in a high-stakes environmental-contamination lawsuit has degenerated into a fiasco, with a federal judge sanctioning both the client Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. and law firm and ordering each to pay half the plaintiff's legal bills.
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Prosecutors see seedy side to seemingly tame industryRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
Greg Andrews
Current and former employees of Bloomington-based International Outsourcing Services LLC are under assault by federal prosecutors who charged they participated in a scheme to bilk some of the nation's largest issuers of coupons out of more than $250 million.
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Banker's seat on board turns into bigger challengeRestricted Content

May 25, 2009
Greg Andrews
Within a month of joining the board of Evansville's Integra Bank Corp. Mike Alley, former CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp's central Indiana operations, had become Integra's interim CEO.
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Bankrupt firm's creditors unlikely to rubber-stamp saleRestricted Content

May 18, 2009
Greg Andrews
Norwood Promotional Products Inc. suggests it's positioned to sail through bankruptcy, thanks to a pending-sales agreement. But creditors, owed nearly $300 million, are expected to balk.
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REITs get boost, not scorn, for selling cheap sharesRestricted Content

May 11, 2009
Greg Andrews
Here's more evidence we're in strange times: Indianapolis' real estate investment trusts have been issuing hundreds of millions of dollars of stock at woefully low prices—and getting a pat on the back from their shareholders for doing so.
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Dan Laikin on sidelines as others admit guilt in stock-manipulation schemeRestricted Content

April 27, 2009
Greg Andrews
Carmel businessman Dan Laikin finds himself in the awkward spot of denying wrongdoing at the same time the three men accused of conspiring with him in a stock-manipulation scheme are admitting guilt.
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Emmis creates option to sell, lease back HQRestricted Content

April 20, 2009
Greg Andrews

Would embattled Emmis Communications Corp. sell its Monument Circle headquarters, a prized development that opened a decade ago at what then-Mayor Steve Goldsmith called "the most important site in the city and the very center of Indiana?"

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Questions about expenses have dogged Marsh beforeRestricted Content

April 13, 2009
Greg Andrews
Don Marsh lashed back last month after the owner of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing him of billing the company for millions of dollars in personal expenses.
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Jackpot awaits lawyers in price-fixing litigationRestricted Content

March 30, 2009
Greg Andrews
Attorneys for concrete purchasers who say they were victims of a price-fixing scheme have waged a tenacious legal battle over the last four years, and .now they're ready to cash in.
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Dow tightens grip on prized Indianapolis unitRestricted Content

March 23, 2009
Greg Andrews
Locally based Dow AgroSciences, one of Indianapolis' top employers, may not be going on the sale block after all.
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Duke upends growth plan, focuses on paying debtRestricted Content

March 16, 2009
Greg Andrews
In this horrendous environment, nothing is more important for a debt-laden public company than proving it can pay its bills
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Durham insider deal sparks outcry

March 9, 2009
Greg Andrews
Tim Durham is facing allegations of self-dealing after a publicly traded company he helps run in Dallas acquired assets from a finance company he owns in Ohio.
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Geist restaurateur buffeted by financial squalls

March 2, 2009
Greg Andrews
Henri and Shelley Najem, who own The Bella Vita restaurant in Geist, represent the scores of Indiana restaurant operators feeling financial pressure, given the severe economic slump.
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Crackdown on bank pay pinches Hoosier execsRestricted Content

February 23, 2009
Greg Andrews
When Sen. Chris Dodd decided to wage war on corporate excess, he had Wall Street fat cats in his sights, not people like Bob Jones, the folksy CEO of Old National Corp. in Evansville.
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A showy millionaire faces spate of lawsuits

February 16, 2009
Greg Andrews
A recent spate of lawsuits, filed by a who's who of Indianapolis businessmen, exposes cracks in Tim Durham's veneer of opulence.
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Stakes huge for Indiana as feds weigh stimulusRestricted Content

February 2, 2009
Greg Andrews
A new report by one of the nation's leading economists finds that getting the stimulus package through Congress— and fast— has huge implications for Hoosiers.
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Ailing anchor store casts uncertainty over Circle CentreRestricted Content

January 26, 2009
Greg Andrews
The shopping mall business is fragile these days, with the recession sapping consumer spending as well as retailers' demand for space. So how is Circle Centre, the centerpiece of downtown Indianapolis' 1990s revival, holding up? OK for now, it seems.
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Slump emboldens retailers to play tough with SimonRestricted Content

January 19, 2009
Greg Andrews
Suddenly, the balance of power is shifting between retail tenants and mighty Simon Property Group Inc., the nation's biggest mall owner. Simon's biggest challenge: A litany of retailers either have failed or are on the brink of financial collapse, creating more empty spaces in malls at a time demand is slack to fill it.
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KSM's run-in with Madoff spawns bevy of questionsRestricted Content

January 12, 2009
Greg Andrews
KSM Capital Advisors didn't invest its clients' money directly with Bernard L. Madoff, but they're out millions of dollars just the same.
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Sensient Flavors: Fed's actions in inquiry leave bad tasteRestricted Content

January 5, 2009
Greg Andrews
An Indianapolis flavor-maker's lawsuit to keep out federal health inspectors has escalated into a legal melee, with attorneys for the company seeking sanctions against the feds for failing to cooperate during the discovery phase of the case.
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