BP Plc, the British oil giant, said today it will be more proactive in improving process safety at its five refineries, including its refinery in Whiting. An independent panel formed after a September 2005 explosion at BP’s Texas City, Texas, refinery concluded that management mistook improvements in rates of personal injuries as evidence of a […]
Kar Holdings II said today it plans to place its own senior managers at Adesa Inc., the Carmel-based car auction the private fund is buying for $3.7 billion. Chairman and CEO David Gartzke will be replaced by Brian Clingen. Clingen is an investor and board member of another auto auction Kar bought, Insurance Auto Auctions […]
Kar Holdings II said today it plans to place its own senior managers at Adesa Inc., the Carmel-based car auction the private fund bought in December for $3.7 billion. Chairman and CEO David Gartzke will be replaced by Brian Clingen. Clingen is an investor and board member of another auto auction Kar bought, Insurance Auto […]
The Hyatt Regency Indianapolis and National City Center will undergo a $14 million renovation that is set to begin next week. The bulk of the redesign—$11 million—will go toward adding 10,000 square feet of meeting space, an Italian/American restaurant, a Starbucks coffee shop and upgrading a lounge in the lobby of the downtown hotel. National […]
Guide Corp.’s abrupt decision Friday to close its tail light plant in Anderson immediately instead of in June sped a long-term trend in the city northeast of Indianapolis. For November, the latest month for which statistics are available from the U.S. Department of Labor, Madison County employment was 44,400 down from 50,100 in 1995. The […]
Eli Lilly and Co.’s decision last week to end construction on its $325 million insulin production plant near Washington, D.C., is a “clear blow” to the area’s attempts to launch a biotechnology industry, according to The Washington Examiner. Still, the newspaper reported, Prince William County, Va., will overcome the setback and attract international companies to […]
Imaging Office Systems has bought Frontline Imaging of Schaumburg, Ill., for an undisclosed price to digitize paper documents in the Chicago suburb. Imaging Office Systems, owned by Gary Gushard of Columbia City and headquartered in the northern Indiana community, maintains 125 of its 200 workers in the Indianapolis area. The company also sells scanners and […]
Stock in Biomet Inc. might be delisted from NASDAQ Global Select Market on Jan. 22 because it missed a deadline for filing its financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its second fiscal quarter, the Warsaw prosthetics company announced today. Biomet said it plans to appeal the decision within NASDAQ, and that the […]
A Terre Haute plant that makes gas turbine components is part of a $4.8 billion acquisition of its British parent announced this morning by General Electric Co. Connecticut-based GE said it wants the parent, Smiths Aerospace, for its electronic and mechanical products in order to improve its commercial and military jet engines and services. The […]
Eli Lilly and Co. has sued DHL Express USA and Lufthansa Cargo on claims the shipper and airline allowed its Humulin, Humalog and Humatrope drugs to spoil, according to Miami Daily Business Review. The December suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, alleges DHL and Lufthansa let the insulin and growth hormone products freeze […]
The town of Burns Harbor is springing back after Bethlehem Steel filed bankruptcy in 2002 and gutted 85 percent of the town’s net assessed tax valuation. The good reputation of its Duneland schools, quick access to several major highways and low tax rate of 17 cents per $100 assessed valuation has prompted a miniature boom […]
Fitch has upgraded several debt ratings for Simon Property Group by one notch. One example is its senior unsecured notes, which were pushed to A- from BBB+. Fitch attributed its decision to the Indianapolis company’s stable cash flows and large, well-diversified asset portfolio of shopping malls.
Guide Corp. has told its employees that its Anderson car taillight plant will close today, ahead of a June 2007 target announced in October. The action was caused by General Motors’ shifting production to alternative, lower-cost producers, the Pendleton company said in a statement published on The Herald Bulletin‘s Web site. About 265 hourly workers are affected […]
Diesel engines made at a Navistar International Corp. plant on Indianapolis’ east side are at the center of a lawsuit Ford Motor Co. has filed against Navistar in Michigan. Ford claims Illinois-based Navistar isn’t adequately sharing warranty costs for the engines, which are used in its lucrative Super Duty F-Series pickup trucks, according to Chicago […]
Toyota Motor Corp. probably will look closely at Indiana as it adds assembly plants to meet its rising sales, according to Kim Hill, associate director of the not-for-profit Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. Now ramping up its Tundra pickup truck plant in San Antonio, the Japanese automaker is thought to be considering sites […]
A drug Eli Lilly and Co. is developing to prevent blood clots is the most important in Lilly’s pipeline, according to a report on TheStreet.com this morning. Prasugrel, which aims to prevent heart attacks and strokes, faces important clinical trials this year, and could yield several billion dollars in sales. However, its impact on the […]
Warsaw orthopedic equipment maker Symmetry Medical Inc. paid $10 million for U.K.-based Whedon Ltd. and its subsidiary, Clamonta Ltd. The deal was announced Jan. 9 but the price was not disclosed at the time. Symmetry disclosed the price in a Securities and Exchange filing late yesterday. The company, which forges parts for airplane engines, is […]
Hat World, the Indianapolis subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Genesco Inc., has closed its acquisition of Hat Shack Inc. for $16.6 million. Marietta, Ga.-based Hat Shack operates 49 retail hat stores, mostly in the Southeast. Genesco bought Hat World Corp. in 2004 for $177.4 million. Hat World was one of Indianapolis’ top entrepreneurship success stories, having […]
Several auto-parts suppliers have avoided locating plants in Shelby County because they don’t want to compete against Honda Motor Co. for workers, Shelby County economic development chief Dan Theobald told The Shelbyville News. The Japanese auto maker is building a $550 million assembly plant in adjoining Decatur County. However, Shelby County, which is southeast of […]
Outspoken General Motors Corp. Vice Chairman Robert Lutz told reporters yesterday that it is being out-muscled in Washington, D.C., by Toyota lobbyists. Toyota, the nation’s third-largest automaker behind GM and Ford Motor Co., is treated well because its sales are rising and it has a growing number of factories in many states, Lutz said in a The New […]
