Strong demand in Latin America for pesticides and other Dow AgroSciences products caused profit for the Indianapolis-based agricultural arm of Dow Chemical Co. Inc. to spurt 29 percent in the second quarter. Much of the $208 million in earnings was driven by Brazilian soybean and corn growers as well as by sugar cane farmers who […]
Indianapolis Monthly publisher Emmis Communications Inc. has bought Orange Coast Kommunications Inc., which publishes Orange Coast magazine in Orange County, Calif., for undisclosed terms. Orange Coast has 26 full- and part-time employees and has a circulation of about 60,000, Emmis announced yesterday. Orange County is a wealthy enclave south of Los Angeles. Former owner Ruth […]
The correction underway in the Indianapolis housing market will linger until mid- to late 2008, according to an assessment released today by Metrostudy, a Houston research company with an office in Indianapolis. The study, Metrostudy’s first in Indianapolis, found an oversupply of houses and construction starts in the second quarter. The region in the second […]
Celadon Group Inc. profit fell 20 percent, to $5.1 million, in the fourth quarter, the Indianapolis long-haul trucking firm reported today. Revenue for the quarter ended June 30 rose 4 percent to $131.7 million. For the fiscal year, profit increased 9 percent, to $22.3 million. Even though the trucking business often reflects changes in the […]
Shelbyville’s planning commission has set on a back burner plans by a nearby developer to build a Rally’s hamburger restaurant close to Interstate 74. The problem, according to The Shelbyville News, is that the black Rally’s sign violates a city code banning the color on building exteriors. An attorney for developer 3 Bees Management Inc., […]
The estate of Indianapolis physician Frances T. Brown has given matching gifts of $1.4 million each to the Indianapolis Zoo and Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The Children’s Museum donation will support its upcoming Global Perspectives exhibit. The gift to the zoo will go to the Roy Shea Fund, which finances pressing capital needs. The female […]
H. Douglas Williams, the Perry Township School superintendent who accepted a buyout early this month in a high-profile clash with the board, has joined The Mind Trust, a downtown not-for-profit that supports entrepreneurs in the field of education. Williams, who started July 23, will develop alternatives to traditional high schools in an effort to curb […]
An auto parts plant in Morocco in northwest Indiana is being closed by its Palatine, Ill., parent, Intec Group Inc. The work will be spread among Intec plants in Palatine, Mexico and China in order to cut costs, according to the Journal & Courier of Lafayette. The Morocco plant mainly supplied Delphi Corp., which is […]
David Boncosky has been named director of Indiana Economic Development Corp.’s life sciences initiative. Boncosky has been in the real estate industry for several years and is developing Georgetown at the Crossing-16 upscale townhouses near 86th Street and Keystone Avenue, where a Whole Foods Market is slated to go up. He begins his new duties Aug. […]
WellPoint Inc. reported today that second-quarter profit rose 11 percent, to $835.2 million, meeting analysts’ expectations of $1.35 per share. The Indianapolis-based health insurance giant also boosted its full-year profit forecast to $5.55 per share. WellPoint pushed revenue past $15 billion for the three months ended June 30, slightly below analysts’ expectations, according to a survey by Thomson […]
OneAmerica Financial Partners, the Indianapolis-based insurance and financial services company, said today it has acquired a block of fixed annuity business from Transamerica Life Insurance Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The price was not disclosed, but the addition will boost OneAmerica’s asset base by about $700 million, pushing the total above $19 billion. The new […]
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended approving Eli Lilly and Co.’s Evista osteoporosis drug for cutting the risk of cancer in post-menopausal women with osteoporosis and post-menopausal women at high risk for breast cancer. The non-binding recommendation follows an announcement from Lilly earlier this month that Evista reduced the risk of certain […]
Underwriters have postponed the sale of $3.1 billion in loans that would pay for the leveraged buyout of General Motors Corp.’s Allison Transmission unit, according to The Wall Street Journal. Officials for Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, which were planning to sell the loans, were met with a cool reception from potential investors, the […]
Damar Services, which treats people with developmental disabilities, said today it has received $4.3 million in gifts from Lilly Endowment, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust and The Indianapolis Foundation. The gifts are expected to result in 250 additional jobs at the not-for-profit, which already employs about 600 at 6324 Kentucky Ave. Damar also plans to […]
Hillenbrand Industries Inc. said today that its Batesville Casket Co. unit has aborted its planned acquisition of Yorktowne Caskets Inc. because it learned yesterday that Yorktowne sold some of its assets to another company. Yorktowne, of York, Pa., sold the assets to Matthews International Corp., a Pittsburgh maker of memorials, Hillenbrand alleged. Hillenbrand, headquartered in […]
Biopsy needle maker Promex Technologies said today it will create 40 jobs as part of an expansion of its production and office facilities in Franklin. The company has about 50 full-time-equivalent workers. It will add new injection molding, grinding and welding equipment, and double the size of its building at 3049 Hudson Street to more […]
Charges from two acquisitions caused second-quarter profits at Eli Lilly and Co. to slip. Excluding those expenses and other adjustments, Lilly’s profit zoomed past Wall Street’s estimates. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker earned 90 cents per share, excluding unusual items. Analysts expected 82 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson Financial. Lilly earned 76 cents […]
Disston Tool Co. President Robert J. Keller has been named president of Escalade Inc., the Evansville-based sporting goods manufacturer. Keller replaces Terry Frandsen, Escalade’s CFO, who operated as interim CEO since the sudden death April 9 of CEO Daniel Messmer. Disston, headquartered in Philadelphia, makes saw blades, valve components and other parts. Keller also has […]
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and other multinational companies are socking away profits in overseas tax shelters and ultimately stripping the U.S. Treasury of about $50 billion annually, according to The New York Times. Last year, Lilly paid only 6 percent of its $3.4 billion in global profits in taxes, the newspaper said. That’s a […]
Batesville-based Hill-Rom will sell its hospital bed systems in Japan through a Japanese bed distributor, Paramount Bed Co. Ltd. , the companies announced today. Hill-Rom, a subsidiary of Hillenbrand Industries Inc., will hit Japanese markets in early September. The two companies also will explore opportunities in the hospital and post-acute care segments in the rest of the […]
