April 28, 2012
Cory SchoutenThe struggling electronics chain Best Buy has launched a turnaround strategy that borrows more than a few pages from the playbook
of competitor HHGregg.
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June 11, 2011
Anthony SchoettleNew markets to be added later this year are expected to double the company's sales within five years.
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July 27, 2009
IBJ StaffEven after a string of acquisitions, Dow AgroSciences is a bit player in the seed business. But the new genetically
modified corn it developed with St. Louis-based giant Monsanto Co. finally provides the breakthrough product that could grow
its seed sales substantially.
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June 1, 2009
Kim PuckettSince January, Heartland Distillers has turned out several small batches of its first signature spiritIndiana Vodkaavailable
at about 300 area retailers.
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May 25, 2009
Chris O'MalleyIn a state steeped in advanced research that spawns biomedical companies by the dozen, Apricity LLC is preposterously low-tech,
given that its latest product is nothing more than a warm blanket.
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March 16, 2009
Chris O'MalleyStellarwind is believed to be the first algae-oil company in Indiana and among dozens of others around the country at the
forefront of what's being called the third wave of biofuels production.
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January 12, 2009
Whitney LeeFishers chiropractor Steven Roberts had been teaching fitness classes using inflatable exercise balls for about seven years
when he had a brainstormhis adult clients might get even more out of them if the balls had handles.
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December 22, 2008
Peter SchnitzlerIn January, St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M will release "Clinpro 5000," a specialty toothpaste Indiana Nanotech developed.
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December 15, 2008
Sam StallIndianapolis-based Midwest Model Makers has found big success by making very small objects specifically, detailed architectural
models of everything from buildings to golf courses to weapons systems.
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December 15, 2008
Indiana University will offer a new course on entrepreneurship in the information technology sector at the IU School of Informatics
at IUPUI next semester.
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November 24, 2008
Whitney LeeIf you've ever cooked a hamburger over a grill at Shakamak State Park, sat in a hospital waiting room chair, or sipped
from a water fountain, you may have used products made by Indiana convicts. Although offender work programs
have been around since the 1920s, most Hoosiers know little about the Indiana Department of Correction's
prison-based industries, which generate $40 million a year in revenue.
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November 24, 2008
Whitney LeeTwelve years after opening Natural Stone Specialists, Laura Christy is still just as passionate about the Carmel-based business,
which
sells high-end stone, metal and glass tiles.
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November 10, 2008
Tim AltomInk cartridges signal that they're empty when they're not, but consumers can take steps to judiciously use all the ink in
any computer printer cartridge.
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November 3, 2008
Jim CotaVivity Labs has developed a Web
site called
Fit Brains (www.fitbrains.com), which features engaging games and activities that exercise the five key cognitive
areas of the brain: memory, language, concentration, executive functions, and visual and spatial skills.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.