Angie’s List executive taking top job at Conexus Indiana
Mark Howell, who has been Angie’s List’s chief operating officer since 2013, will start his new job at the manufacturing and logistics advocacy group in January.
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BrightPoint capitalizes on tech trend: ‘wearables’
Officials at BrightPoint Inc.—a company once so tied to the cell phone industry it used the ticker symbol “CELL”—today speak as fondly of athletic bands as they do Androids.
Florida rival scoops up another ex-BrightPoint executive
A competitor that once feuded in court with BrightPoint Inc. over the recruitment of executives has hired another top officer from the mobile-phone distribution and logistics company now known as Ingram Micro Mobility.
2014 Forty Under 40: Andrew Harrison
Andrew Harrison, 34, serves as senior manager of corporate security at Ingram Micro, the acquirer of Brightpoint Inc. He said his employer handles millions of cool devices that people want to steal.
BlackBerry woes hamper sales for BrightPoint, analysts say
Revenue at the Indianapolis-based provider of mobile-device logistics and distribution fell some $250 million short of expectations in the third quarter, as major customer BlackBerry saw even bigger sales declines.
BrightPoint executive Howell stepping down
A longtime high-ranking executive for BrightPoint Inc. in Indianapolis will resign effective Jan. 18, three months after California-based Ingram Micro Inc. acquired the company.
BrightPoint buyer Ingram Micro mulls cost-cutting
A top BrightPoint Inc. executive expects little employment change for the distribution and logistics company’s 1,100-person central Indiana work force, despite the potential for job cuts and facility closings across the country.
Laikin blazed trail
I cut my teeth after college in the early years at BrightPoint working for Bob Laikin's enterprise.
PROXY CORNER: BrightPoint Inc.
Indianapolis-based BrightPoint Inc.provides worldwide distribution and integrated logistics services to the wireless communications industry. The company announced July 2 that it had agreed to be acquired by California-based Ingram Micro for $650 million in cash and the assumption of $190 million in debt.
BrightPoint’s $840M sale ends wild ride for CEO Laikin
Bob Laikin started BrightPoint in 1989, when cellular phones were clunky and brick-like and were mostly for the wealthy.
EDITORIAL: BrightPoint sale opens new chapter for Laikin
It remains to be seen what will happen to BrightPoint’s 1,300 employees in the Indianapolis area.
UPDATE: Brightpoint’s planned sale spawns uncertainty
The $840M deal, which would eliminate one of Indiana’s six Fortune 500 companies, is casting uncertainty over Hendricks County, where the company is one of the largest employers.
Largest Indiana public companies mostly fared well in 2011
Performance varied widely as industries ebbed, flowed.
Six Hoosier firms among country’s 500 largest
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. topped the list of Indiana companies, ranking 45th. Locally, Eli Lilly and Co. and BrightPoint Inc. also made Fortune magazine's latest annual ranking of the 500 largest corporations based on revenue.
Brightpoint shares slide after it lowers forecast on loss of customer
Shares of the wireless-device logistics provider fell more than 8 percent Wednesday morning after the company lowered its annual earnings guidance in response to the loss of a major customer.
Battle between phone rivals spills into the courtroom
Brightpoint sues Miami rival Brightstar twice in one week over its hiring of two former executives of the local wireless-phone distributor.
Brightpoint suing former exec in trade secret dispute
The Indianapolis-based wireless distributor accuses Mitch Black, who left Brightpoint last year, of taking company trade secrets to a new job with a direct competitor. Brightstar Corp. also is named in the lawsuit.
Brightpoint ramping up repair services
Cell phone distributor views used market as lucrative.
Smarter product mix boosting Brightpoint
Mobile-phone distributor Brightpoint Inc. is a wireless industry middleman, constantly trying to strike deals with competing manufacturers and carriers, to gain market share in distributing the world’s high-priced smartphones and tablets.
Fair trustee issues subpoena for Brightpoint CEO
The Fair Finance bankruptcy trustee has subpoenaed Brightpoint Inc. CEO Robert J. Laikin as it tries to recover more than $19 million Laikin's brother borrowed from the Ohio company.