Indiana companies finding export boom in Afghanistan
While Indiana exports overall rose 12 percent in 2011, to a record $32.2 billion, shipments to Afghanistan rocketed 323 percent, to $828 million.
While Indiana exports overall rose 12 percent in 2011, to a record $32.2 billion, shipments to Afghanistan rocketed 323 percent, to $828 million.
Utility denies claim it is trying to sidestep $2.6 billion cap on costs that can be passed along to ratepayers.
The first janitors’ union contract in the city will expire soon, and union organizers are looking to the Indianapolis City-County Council to give them a boost in the negotiations.
With information booming online, agents are offering more services.
Oil, grain were particularly helpful for cooperatives. An improved economy also propelled manufacturers ahead.
The developer and contractors who built the FBI’s new $39 million Indianapolis field office, just north of Castleton Square Mall, are squabbling in court a year after wrapping up work on the project.
Deron Kintner has stepped up to fund a string of high-profile real estate projects at a time when private-sector financing is scarce.
A new report says that federal military and security spending resulted in $4.4 billion in contracts for Indiana companies last year.
Ball State University leaders hope the school’s $87 million geothermal plant paves the way for others like it—as an economic-development opportunity as much as an environmental effort.
This month, we recognize the power players who built this city, from the new airport to Lucas Oil Stadium to the Palladium.
“Gross mismanagement” and improper communications with ex-regulatory chairman are among evidence in testimony to make Duke, rather than ratepayers, swallow major cost overruns at Edwardsport power plant.
Every business sector has influential players, whether they are in the public eye or wield their influence behind the scenes. IBJ is identifying those people in eight different industry categories. Up this month: commercial real estate.
FedEx, which has a distribution hub in Indianapolis, has long asserted that its drivers should be classified as independent contractors.
The Memphis, Tenn.-based company, which has a distribution hub in Indianapolis, says its contract-driver model is legal and was approved for tax purposes by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in 1994.
The recent dearth of construction activity has been an opportunity of sorts for the Indiana-Kentucky Regional Council of
Carpenters: During the slowdown, the trade group built a $13 million
training facility and administrative building in Greenwood.
If Mayor Greg Ballard successfully closes the $1.9 billion sale of the city’s water and sewer utilities to Citizens Energy,
some of the proceeds will be used to bulldoze or rehabilitate 2,000 to 4,500 abandoned, unsafe homes during the next two years.
More than a dozen local companies have begun work on a three-year modernization of the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S.
Courthouse in the state's largest individual project funded by the federal stimulus.
Government officials and construction contractors today unveiled several planned upgrades for the Birch Bayh Federal Building
and U.S. Courthouse downtown. The $69.3-million project is slated for
completion by August 2012.
Estridge Cos.’ subcontractors have invested $10 million into the firm led by COO Matt Cohoat and CEO Paul Estridge Jr.—an
infusion that paves the way for them to proceed with
a massive development in Westfield.
What recession? Some firms are enjoying explosive growth.