The company that leases the Indiana Toll Road from the state said late last week that a vote involving 86 maintenance workers resulted in rejecting an organization attempt by the International Union of Operating Engineers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. ITR Concession Co. LLC did not release vote totals. Meanwhile, the company is tussling […]
Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, passing over Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, who was informed yesterday that he was not the pick. The selection of Biden balances Obama’s ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues. Obama announced the pick […]
Maple Leaf Farms, one of the nation’s largest duck producers, has sold a production location in Wisconsin due to high feed costs. The company, headquartered near the northern Indiana town of Milford, partly compensated for the downsizing by stepping up production at its home plant. Maple Leaf is in its third generation of family ownership […]
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. said today it has hired a new chief accounting officer and appointed its acting chief information officer to the position on a long-term basis. Martin Miller, 46, will join WellPoint as chief accounting officer on Sept. 15 after working as global controller for Molson Coors Brewing Co. He also will be senior […]
The European Commission has approved Cymbalta, the anxiety drug developed by Eli Lilly and Co. The thumbs-up came from the commission’s European Medicine Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the Indianapolis company said today. The approval opens markets in 27 European Union nations as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Lilly estimates nine […]
Kokomo Sanitary Pottery, a toilet maker that has operated in the city north of Indianapolis since 1932, will close in November due to high costs, according to the Kokomo Tribune. The company, owned by Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC, which is based in the Chicago suburb of Woodridge, laid off 125 hourly employees last October, leaving […]
EnerDel, the Indianapolis company that’s developing lithium ion batteries for cars, plans to create 850 jobs across the state by 2012, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today. Some of the jobs will be at the company’s headquarters on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Other positions will be located in Noblesville and the rest will be at […]
The Bob & Tom Show, the long-running morning radio show, will be shown on the WGN America network beginning Nov. 3, the show said today. WGN will broadcast highlights of the radio show from midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern Time. Locally, the program is being carried on WTTV-TV Channel 4. The show, which features comedy […]
Tipton County officials have unanimously approved leasing Tipton County Hospital to Indianapolis-based Clarian Health for 35 years. Clarian has managed the hospital for 10 years in a relationship that feeds patients to the sprawling Clarian system and, for Tipton, offers medical expertise and muscle to negotiate with insurers. Under the agreement, the county will continue […]
Stuart Lowry was named by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard yesterday as director of Indy Parks and Recreation. Lowry replaces Joe Wynns, who resigned unexpectedly nearly a week ago after eight years on the job. Early this month, Wynns said he had been asked to cut $2.3 million from the department’s $17 million budget, although he […]
On-the-job injuries leading to death were lower last year than at any time since 1991, the first year the statistic was tracked, the Indiana Department of Labor said yesterday. The 127 fatalities were most heavily concentrated among truck drivers, farmers and construction workers, and 94 percent were male. The deaths occurred most frequently while the […]
Millennium Industries, an auto-parts maker in the northern Indiana town of Ligonier, plans to build an additional 30,000 square feet of production and warehouse space, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said yesterday. The expansion would create 170 jobs in addition to 250 existing positions. Millennium, which makes fuel rails and power-steering components, received $625,000 in […]
Parsons Corp., a Pasadena, Calif., company that is destroying the V-X nerve gas stored at the Newport Chemical Depot in western Indiana, has started closing down the operation as the three-year project nears completion. Parsons has informed the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will begin laying off 412 workers at the site in […]
Plainfield distributor MD Logistics plans to expand its pharmaceutical warehouse and add 75 workers by 2012, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1 million project would add 15,000 square feet of cold storage. MD operates three sites in Plainfield totaling more than 750,000 square feet.
Escalade Inc., an Evansville-based sporting goods manufacturer, plans to close its final Evansville plant in an effort to restore profits and boost a sagging stock price. Table tennis production will be moved to Mexico beginning Sept. 5, causing 30 workers to lose their jobs, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. In February the company […]
The decision by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana to stop assembling Tundra pickup trucks at its plant in Princeton will result in as many as 40 of its workers being transferred temporarily to the Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. assembly plant in Lafayette. Subaru, which assembles Camry sedans for Toyota, will absorb the Toyota workers as […]
A farm auction scheduled near Frankfort is thought to be one of the largest in the state in the past couple of years. Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co. Inc. of Columbia City plans to auction 1,222 acres from the estate of Ron Unger, a farmer who started from scratch and built the operation to […]
Huntingburg office furniture manufacturer OFS Brands Inc. has acquired Loewenstein Inc., a maker of hotel furniture headquartered in Pompano Beach, Fla., for undisclosed terms. Family-owned OFS said the deal opens a seamless expansion into the hospitality market, and that OFS would protect the character of the Loewenstein brand and allow it to operate independently in […]
Indianapolis-based Pharmakon LTC Pharmacy Inc. will pay an average of $50,000 a year to each of the 52 employees it plans to add in the next five years. The institutional pharmacy will move to a larger headquarters and warehouse in Carmel as part of its expansion, Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. The $1.2 million […]
One-time events caused Finish Master Inc. profit to rise to $5.3 million in the second quarter from $4.6 million a year earlier, the Indianapolis company reported yesterday. However, the improvement was driven by proceeds from a lawsuit settlement and a non-recurring charge from the second quarter of 2007. Not taking those one-time changes into consideration, […]
