Indiana’s deepening recession failed to halt government hiring and growth in the education and health service sectors in January even as the state’s factories continued jettisoning jobs, new federal statistics show. A state-by-state unemployment report released yesterday by the U.S. Labor Department shows that Indiana lost about 12,400 jobs in January, when its unemployment rate […]
Help wanted: pharmacists, engineers and nurses. Believe it or not, even some banks are hiring, at least for their technology teams. While the recession has claimed 4.4 million jobs, the economy has created others, many of them for highly trained and specialized professionals. More than 2 million jobs openings now exist across a range of […]
So much sad, bad, disturbing sports news. Time to look on the brighter side.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has a new second-in-command—attorney and land developer Chad Pittman.
Locally, the Capital Improvement Board is swimming in red ink and trying to figure how to fund our glistening sports venues-Lucas Oil Stadium, Conseco Fieldhouse and Victory Field. The Indiana Pacers report losing money nine of the last 10 years. And this year’s team seems to be sliding toward a spot in the NBA draft […]
While many central Indiana manufacturers are feeling the pinch of the downturned economy, locally based Sign Craft Industries
Inc. is posting record growth this year and projecting another robust year in 2009.
Fred Glass, IU’s soon-to-be athletic director, and Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick have something in common. And I’m not talking about their roots as law partners at Baker & Daniels. Neither one of them has…
New Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass must return integrity to IU athletics, while being a cheerleader who believes
in accessibility, focus and consistency.
Indianapolis-area hospitals have suffered a double whammy of spiking interest rates on their bonds and heavy losses in their
investment portfolios and are trying to save cash any way they can.
Critics are chirping like cicadas and basically singing the same song. One, get rid of Lynch, the sooner the better. And two, spend money, lots of it, on a “big-name” coach. If only it were as simple as the knee-jerks would have you believe. Perhaps they have forgotten, but Indiana has a lame-duck athletic director, Rick Greenspan, who won’t clean out his Assembly Hall office until Dec. 31. A search committee is vetting applicants. I’m told there are exceptional candidates…
When WFYI-TV Channel 20 officials were looking for a company to help with their rebranding, they didn’t turn to an ad agency. Instead, they hired locally based Sport Graphics, a company known more as a print shop and sign maker with a sports focus. These days, though, Sport Graphics is becoming better known for its creative work and relying less on putting ink on paper to bring in business. “Printing is a commodity, and there are people-regardless of relationships-who will…
The woman chosen as president and CEO of the city’s Super Bowl host committee isn’t exactly a household name, but those who hired her think she’ll make Indianapolis the best host city ever. Allison Melangton, 46, is the first paid member of the 2012 Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee, and is expected to throw planning and organization into overdrive over the next 30 days.
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co., the unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that is being spun off as a separate company, is considering moving its headquarters out of Evansville. Mead Johnson, which makes Enfamil and other baby food products, wants better access for international travel, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. About 40 to 60 employees […]
Mike’s Express Carwash makes money the old-fashioned way. The second-generation family affair, now celebrating its 60th
year, has invested its reserves in steady expansion, becoming a model for the $23.4 billion industry in
the process. And its owners still sweat the small stuff.
Moving coordinating company Relocation Strategies Inc. is used to dealing with companies in transition. Now the firm is undergoing one of its own-albeit of a different sort. Relocation Strategies founder David Bayse is relinquishing ownership to partner Melissa Lamb Brown in a purchase agreement set to be completed within the next four years. She already owns a majority of the business and will acquire the rest in stages. In the meantime, Bayse, 57, will continue to guide Brown, 39, who…
Off the streets and on the payroll Make a hire that helps the city Crime fighters unite! If you’re a business owner and don’t think that call to action applies to you, think again. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police aren’t the only ones who have a role to play in public safety. Employers can do their part to fight crime by supporting a new city initiative to find jobs for ex-offenders. As reporter Scott Olson detailed in last week’s IBJ, local…
Michigan-based Kellogg Co. has acquired IndyBake Products LLC, a cracker and cookie bakery headquartered in the western Indiana town of Seelyville, and plans to add 300 full-time and contract jobs over several years to the 80 existing positions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Most existing IndyBake employees will be hired by Kellogg, the Indiana Economic […]
Re-entry key in city’s plot to fight crime Mayor makes push, hires director to help more ex-convicts find work Makeba Averitte spent more than seven years incarcerated in Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma prisons paying for the robbery he committed as a young man with few prospects. Since his release in 2004, the 32-year-old has obtained a driver’s license and insurance on his automobile, not to mention a bit more wisdom. But what eludes him most-even more so now as a…
Makeba Averitte spent more than seven years incarcerated in Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma prisons paying for the robbery he committed as a young man with few prospects. Since his release in 2004, the 32-year-old has obtained a driver’s license and insurance on his automobile, not to mention a bit more wisdom. But what eludes him most-even more so now as a convicted felon-is a steady, goodpaying job. Tired of temporary work, he enrolled in Second Chance at the United Northeast…
When big publicly held companies snapped up local heating, cooling and plumbing companies in the late 1990s, Tom Godby thought he needed to get on board. “I didn’t want to miss that tidal wave of change,” he said. Godby was the sole owner of Godby Brothers Heating and Air Conditioning LLC, which had been in the Indianapolis market for three decades when Godby sold it to American Residential Services in 1997. But instead of being the industry’s new face, the…
