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Alien hirers rarely busted: Law doesn’t force employers to verify that workers are legal

April 24, 2006

Despite a high-profile raid against IFCO Systems on April 19, Indianapolis employers have little to fear in hiring undocumented aliens or those who present questionable identification. Rarely do immigration cops bust an Indianapolis-area workplace. Until federal agents led away about 40 allegedly undocumented Mexicans and Guatemalans at the south-side pallet plant this month, the last high-profile raid was more than a decade ago. In 1995, customs officials raided the former Simpson Race Products shoe factory in Speedway, nabbing 66 illegal…

Ending overdue: Library shows progress amid legal tussle

April 24, 2006

There’s finally visible progress on the city’s Central Library expansion project. But the litigation over who’s responsible for its construction problems still has no end in sight. City-County Councilor Isaac Randolph is frustrated. So he wrote a proposal to order all the players in the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library’s legal dispute to enter binding arbitration. “I’m trying to find a resolution to what’s clearly become an embarrassment to the citizens funding this,” Randolph said. “I’ve lost confidence in the leadership…

Cleveland tech firm going west: Parker Hannifin falls short of employment promises, plans to leave Intech Park

May 1, 2006

A Cleveland-based technology giant plans to move its Intech Park operation next month, leaving behind some attractive office space and a broken promise to create jobs. Parker Hannifin Corp. will consolidate its Indianapolis location into a California site, spokesman Jim Cartwright said. It should empty its 30,700-square-foot offices in the park’s Intech 10 building by the end of June. The move will have no impact on Parker Hannifin’s Tell City production facility, which employs about 100 people who make industrial…

Daniels’ economic development plan calls for pricey tools: Three incentive funds would cost more than $100M

May 8, 2006

Indiana’s days of economic development on the cheap may soon be finished. Three major new business-incentive funds are on the Indiana Economic Development Corp.’s wish list, each bearing a significant price tag. The General Assembly will decide next year whether to provide the more than $100 million IEDC requests to form them. Plans for the three funds are tucked into Gov. Mitch Daniels’ comprehensive new state economic development plan, “Accelerating Growth,” released April 25. It aims to bring Hoosiers’ lagging…

Florida company bolsters presence here with Dial One: Heating, cooling and plumbing contractor expects to see staff grow thanks to new ownership

June 5, 2006

Dial One added a new owner, a fresh look and a third word to its name when a Florida company bought the venerable Indianapolis heating, cooling and plumbing contractor late last month. Sarasota-based Clockwork Home Services Inc. also plans to add 30 field technicians and about 10 office employees over the next three years to the newly renamed Dial One Hour, which has roots in Indianapolis dating back to 1908. Now, Dial One Hour employs 189. “We have no plans…

Danica deal just one of many for MainGate: Firm looks to relocate as profits soar 828 percent

June 5, 2006

With a deep history in motorsports, it would be understandable if officials for Indianapolis-based MainGate were focused solely on their recently signed exclusive licensing deal with racing diva Danica Patrick. After all, Patrick’s merchandise outsold all other Indy Racing League drivers combined last year, and since MainGate has taken over making, distributing and selling her merchandise this year, sales have tripled, company officials said. But with the company busting at the seams and a wave of new business from various…

BEHIND THE NEWS: Amid stock market’s slide, a high-flier gets grounded

June 19, 2006

In late April, Brightpoint Inc. investors had every reason to feel giddy. Shares of the wireless phone wholesaler were up 85 percent for the year, after advancing 113 percent in 2005. Today, those heady days seem like a distant memory. Since reaching a high of $28.50 April 27, Brightpoint’s shares have lost 50 percent of their value, lopping more than $700 million off the company’s market value. “Clearly, wireless is out of favor on Wall Street and has been for…

Williams Creek Consulting Inc.: Consultants engineer ‘green’ solutions After years of taking any work it could find, company specializes in stormwater issues

July 3, 2006

In development circles, the color green is often associated with money. But it has a different connotation for Indianapolis-based Williams Creek Consulting-an environmental one. Launched in 2002, the firm aims to help developers minimize disruptions to the natural features of a construction site, co-founder Neil Myers said. It specializes in strategies to manage stormwater runoff. “We improve a project by integrating the building into the natural environment,” Myers said. That means doing more than digging a series of retention ponds…

Carmel firm grows up in emerging market: BlueBean acquisition makes it one-stop RFID shop

July 3, 2006

A small Indiana firm is looking to become a big player in the emerging radio-frequency-identification market. Carmel-based BlueBean LLC is one of a small but growing number of firms nationally that provide consulting services to companies trying to set up systems using radio frequency identification-commonly called RFID-tags and readers. BlueBean in April acquired Mishawakabased www.rfidsupplychain.com, which sells RFID hardware and software online. The acquisition also provided BlueBean rights to a bevy of other domain names, including www.rfidhealthcare.com, www.rfidpharma.comand www.rfidfood.com. The…

New owner turns failed-firm’s assets into racing-parts business

July 10, 2006

Eagle Creek Golf Course owner Jerry Hayslett has acquired assets of Kenny Brown Performance and teamed with Brown’s former sales manager to launch a racing-parts business.

E-tailers playing their cards right: CPAs-turned-entrepreneurs launch Web sites to cash in on poker craze

July 31, 2006

Talk about irony. Buoyed by success playing online poker, local accountant Jeff Smith quit his day job three years ago to sell poker chips and playing cards for live games. Now he and business partner Knute Lentz are too busy filling orders to deal themselves in. Once colleagues at national accounting firm BKD LLC, the men, both 33, said they saw the game’s potential long before amateur Chris Moneymaker’s victory in the 2003 World Series of Poker made it a…

VIEWPOINT: Indiana ripe for new breed of auto industry

July 31, 2006

Landing the Honda plant is a great coup for Indiana. Gov. Mitch Daniels deserves congratulations. Not only will Honda employ an estimated 2,000 Hoosiers, it appears the governor secured the facility at a bargain price for Indiana’s taxpayers. While the plant brings much-needed employment, future wealth created from Honda’s production accrues to its primarily Japanese shareholders. This is only fair, as Japanese automakers have innovated, invested and expanded over the past 30 years. They have earned their success and deserve…

Noble Roman’s seeking a return to glory

August 7, 2006

Noble Roman’s Inc. executives think they’ve found the recipe to lift their company out of its stock malaise. The Indianapolis company started franchising last year restaurants that feature dual branding with its Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs, and it plans 157 locations within three years.

Indiana’s Red Gold has become a tomato-industry big boy

August 28, 2006

Twenty years ago, the only thing coming out of Red Gold Inc.’s small Orestes plant was diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato puree. The processor now makes products that sell in all 50 states and 16 countries under its brand or private labels.

Foreign auto plants-yes, foreign automobiles-no: Ford and Chevy tops in all 92 Indiana counties

November 6, 2006

Hoosier workers and community leaders want Honda and Toyota jobs, but the vast majority of them don’t want their cars, at least not yet. At a time when employment by the Big Three automakers is plummeting throughout the state, 80.6 percent of Indiana vehicles registered by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles are domestic. Hoosiers’ taste for domestic models is in stark contrast with the rest of the country. Nationwide, domestics account for just 51 percent of the market. “I…

Lucas Oil launches high-end motorcycle biz in Indy

November 6, 2006

Little known in this market less than a year ago, Lucas Oil Products is roaring into town with its first brick-and-mortar operation. Founder Forrest Lucas has set up a sister company, Lucas Cycles, to make fancy, fuel-injected motorcycles.

Emmis’ landmark deal with Apple paying big dividends: Locally based radio group now No. 2 iTunes affiliate

November 13, 2006

Emmis Communications Corp. has a new mantra when it comes to emerging technology some say will kill the radio industry: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Emmis entered a relationship with California-based Apple Computer Inc. nine months ago that is paying big dividends. Since launching one of the radio industry’s first iTunes storefronts on its stations’ Internet sites, Emmis officials said they have become the No. 2 iTunes affiliate based on sales. Only Internet behemoth Yahoo Music sells more….

Lights, camera, Internet-More Web sites using video: Vodcast clips catching on as a way for organizations to deliver their message in a new, more exciting way

November 13, 2006

The terms for emerging Internet technology are enough to make the less savvy long for the days when e-mail seemed cutting-edge. The communication tool, especially among teens, has given way to instant messaging, of course. So it’s no wonder colleges and companies alike are starting to shun standard e- mail and Web-page marketing efforts in favor of video-on-demand clips, known as vodcasts. “The computer was meant to be watched; it wasn’t meant to be read,” said Jon DiGregory, who founded…

Showing WAL MART some love: New statewide group supports oft-criticized retailer

November 27, 2006

Several Hoosiers are at the forefront of a fledgling effort to deflect a growing barrage of criticism lobbed at retail giant Wal-Mart Stores by organized labor and worker’s rights advocates. The Indiana chapter of the Working Families for Wal-Mart formed earlier this month and includes in its membership local elected officials such as City-County Councilor Ron Gibson and State Rep. Vanessa Summers, D-Indianapolis. The national not-for-profit, which launched a year ago, is backed by the Arkansas-based retailer and also boasts…

Getting to know you: Companies are using sites like MySpace to learn much more about job candidates

January 15, 2007

In today’s Internet age, companies are going well beyond reading rÃ©sumÃ©s and contacting references to check out job candidates. More and more would-be employers are turning to the Web to conduct background checks on prospects. MySpace and Facebook are two hugely popular social networking sites where college and high school students often post risquÃ© photographs and provocative content about drinking, recreational drug use, sexual exploits and other personal conduct. But what some job seekers might mistakenly consider relatively private information…

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Alien hirers rarely busted: Law doesn’t force employers to verify that workers are legal

Ending overdue: Library shows progress amid legal tussle

Cleveland tech firm going west: Parker Hannifin falls short of employment promises, plans to leave Intech Park

Daniels’ economic development plan calls for pricey tools: Three incentive funds would cost more than $100M

Florida company bolsters presence here with Dial One: Heating, cooling and plumbing contractor expects to see staff grow thanks to new ownership

Danica deal just one of many for MainGate: Firm looks to relocate as profits soar 828 percent

BEHIND THE NEWS: Amid stock market’s slide, a high-flier gets grounded

Williams Creek Consulting Inc.: Consultants engineer ‘green’ solutions After years of taking any work it could find, company specializes in stormwater issues

Carmel firm grows up in emerging market: BlueBean acquisition makes it one-stop RFID shop

New owner turns failed-firm’s assets into racing-parts business

E-tailers playing their cards right: CPAs-turned-entrepreneurs launch Web sites to cash in on poker craze

VIEWPOINT: Indiana ripe for new breed of auto industry

Noble Roman’s seeking a return to glory

Indiana’s Red Gold has become a tomato-industry big boy

Foreign auto plants-yes, foreign automobiles-no: Ford and Chevy tops in all 92 Indiana counties

Lucas Oil launches high-end motorcycle biz in Indy

Emmis’ landmark deal with Apple paying big dividends: Locally based radio group now No. 2 iTunes affiliate

Lights, camera, Internet-More Web sites using video: Vodcast clips catching on as a way for organizations to deliver their message in a new, more exciting way

Showing WAL MART some love: New statewide group supports oft-criticized retailer

Getting to know you: Companies are using sites like MySpace to learn much more about job candidates