Indianapolis slipped to 27th from 10th in Forbes’ latest annual ranking of the best places for business and careers. The magazine rated 200 cities on growth in jobs and incomes, living costs, crime, work force education and other criteria. Raleigh, N.C., placed first. Indy Partnership, which markets the Indianapolis area to prospective businesses, issued a […]
Seventeen of the 37 malls that Simon Property Group and a partner reaped by acquiring shopping mall owner The Mills Corp. will be operated as a "separate retail real estate platform," Simon said today. The 17 properties merge traditional mall, outlet center, big box and entertainment uses, and will be managed and leased from an office […]
L&D Mail Masters Inc., a New Albany direct mail and logistics firm, plans to add 46 jobs to its roster of 98 and build a 71,000-square-foot warehouse. The project in the city near Louisville will cost $4.2 million. L&D received $415,000 in state and local incentives, Indiana Economic Development Corp. said.
Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire whose Tracinda Corp. last year withdrew an attempt to gain control of General Motors Corp., has offered $4.5 billion to buy Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler AG. Chrysler would be operated as a stand-alone company, Tracinda said in a letter to the German automaker, according to Bloomberg. However, a new contract would need […]
The Great Lakes Chemical Corp. office and research-and-development facility in West Lafayette might be hit by layoffs planned by its Middlebury, Mass., parent, Chemtura Corp. Chemtura said yesterday that it plans to lay off 620, or 10 percent, of its global work force as part of a restructuring aimed at gaining closer access to customers. […]
Cities that set buying trends for the rest of the country increasingly are turning to foreign cars despite General Motors Corp.’s attempts to win back buyers. Sales of Chevrolets, Buicks and other GM brands are slipping in places like New York, Los Angeles and Miami as the Detroit automaker pours resources into reinforcing an image […]
WISH-TV Channel 8, IBJ ’s newsgathering partner, has won a Peabody award for an investigative series showing how a $30 helmet pad could save soldiers’ lives in a blast. WTHR-TV Channel 13 received a Peabody for exposing problems with the state’s tornado warning system, and a second for showing how area pharmacies discarded patient subscription […]
Roche Group has spent $600 million to buy full ownership of BioVeris Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., gaining control of BioVeris’ diagnostic technology. The Swiss company’s U.S. subsidiary, Indianapolis-based Roche Diagnostics, had licensed the electrochemiluminescence technology in machines it sold to hospitals and commercial laboratories—but was limited to diagnosing human diseases. The acquisition, which is expected […]
Jim Cramer and his popular CNBC show “Mad Money” will be filmed live at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business tonight at 6 p.m. Appearing with Cramer will be IU graduate Mark Cuban, who co-founded HDNet and owns the Dallas Mavericks.
Ameristar Casinos Inc. said today it has agreed to buy Resorts East Chicago, the casino and hotel complex in the northwest Indiana city, from Resorts International Holdings LLC for $675 million to take advantage of growth potential in the area. The property’s slot machines, table games and poker tables generated $325.6 million in revenue last […]
A $750,000 penalty has been levied against Conseco Inc. by the Iowa Insurance Division, but the reason for the fine is being kept confidential, according to The Des Moines Register. The Carmel insurer’s Conseco Life Insurance Co. unit and regulators settled issues related to how the unit priced some of its life insurance policies. Conseco […]
A Whitman, Mass., company that makes precision instruments for arthroscopic, laparoscopic, sinus and other minimally invasive surgeries has been bought by Warsaw-based Symmetry Medical Inc. for $7 million in cash. Symmetry said today it acquired TNCO Inc. to broaden its product line of implants and related instruments, and cases for the orthopedic device industry.
Jim Cramer and his popular CNBC show Mad Money will be filmed live at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business tonight at 6:00 p.m. Appearing with Cramer will be IU graduate Mark Cuban, who co-founded HDNet and owns the Dallas Mavericks.
Cable companies Comcast Corp. and Insight Communications Co. Inc. have agreed that Comcast will take over virtually all of the territory in Indiana now managed by Insight, the companies said this week. The transition, which will take place at an unspecified date late this year, includes Insight customers from Anderson to Bloomington to Lafayette. Insight […]
Dismal February job numbers widely reported across the state several days ago distort what actually happened, according to Morton Marcus, director emeritus of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University. Rather than having 7,400 fewer jobs than in January—the worst performance behind only Ohio—employment actually increased. The rub comes in how government statisticians adjusted […]
Minority-owned companies have snagged 22 percent of the $749.1 million in contracts committed through 2006 for the midfield terminal project at Indianapolis International Airport, the airport authority said today. Minority companies received $167.5 million of the $749.1 million. Slightly more than half of the 189 minority companies that received the contracts are owned by women. […]
Eli Lilly and Co. was among 40 companies cited in a study by Clarity! Communications of Canada Inc. for describing executive pay in prose that’s all but indecipherable to the common person. As a result, the companies in the study violated new securities rules that prevent companies from using jargon to report how top executives […]
Bonuses for WellPoint Inc.’s 42,000 employees now hinge at least in part on whether the company’s customers actually get healthier. The Indianapolis-based health benefits company announced this morning that it has linked every worker’s compensation to how well its patients do in 20 clinical areas. WellPoint claims it is the first company to launch such […]
CTI Group Inc. lost $1.1 million last year as customers cut back on the data processing services it offers, and because the company received less revenue from enforcing its patents. The loss compared to a $523,134 profit in 2005. The downtown company, which also sells telecommunications software, said revenue declined to $12.8 million from $15.3 […]
Dura Automotive Systems Inc. of Rochester Hills, Mich., said today that its Brownstown plant is among four it plans to close to improve efficiency. The Brownstown site, which employs 114 workers manufacturing spare tire carriers, winches and toolkits, is in southern Indiana, an hour’s drive from Bloomington. Other Dura plants slated for closing are in […]
