Kim Thomas is vice president of DEI and community affairs at OneAmerica, where she is accelerating the company’s DEI vision and strategy and blending the company’s DEI and community affairs efforts.
Early plans for the $150 million project, known for now as the “Alabama Redevelopment,” call for a 387-foot glass tower containing 190 apartments, 24 condominiums, 150 hotel rooms and 8,000 square feet of retail and hospitality space.
The notion that hundreds or even thousands of electric-powered air taxis could be whisking people over jammed roads is inching away from science fiction and closer to reality.
Meta said the conversational assistant, Meta AI—which will populate WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram—relies on one of its large language models and a partnership with Microsoft’s search engine Bing.
History: Marion-Kay Spices was started in 1922 by 16-year-old Missouri high school dropout Bill Summers, who founded the company using money he made selling silver cleaners to a church group. Summers moved his business from Springfield to St. Louis in 1928, where he survived the Great Depression years by selling vanilla extract. Sales soared in […]
History: El Popular’s origins date to 1925, when company founder Vicente F. Garza migrated to the United States from Monterrey, Mexico. He brought with him family recipes that would one day give his future company a nationwide presence: chorizo, mole sauce, chocolate and queso. In his new home city of East Chicago, Garza established the […]
Indianapolis-based Devon Ashley, who has played with artists in just about every musical genre, has survived three brushes with death and is about to head off on a European concert tour with New Age musician Simrit Kaur.
True Essence Foods, whose original product was an artisanal chocolate called SoChatti, has secured 15 patents for its technologies, with another 70 patent applications in process.
History: Renee Gabet was a single mother looking for a new career in the early 1970s when she found success selling homemade jewelry at art fairs and Western-themed events. Remembering her love for frequenting the perfume section of Fort Wayne’s Wolf and Dessauer department store as a girl, Gabet developed a cowgirl-themed fragrance—with the help […]
Among Indiana counties, Marion County has recorded the most electric and hybrid vehicles registered over the last five years, totaling close to 91,000.
Emmis was the lead investor in Anzu, an Israel-based company that has developed technology that allows companies to insert targeted ads into video games in a nonintrusive way.
The plan represents a decline from a proposal announced last year and drew immediate criticism from the biofuels industry. Environmental groups also were disappointed, saying EPA’s continued push for ethanol and other biofuels will hamper U.S. climate efforts.
Simon Search, which is accessible via Simon’s website and app, and at in-mall digital directories, allows users to browse multiple stores’ inventories at once.
A pair of goggles—perhaps called “Reality Pro,” according to media leaks—could become another milestone in Apple’s history of releasing game-changing technology.
Company history: St. Elmo Steak House was founded in 1902, becoming famous for its spicy shrimp cocktail sauce. Guests began requesting that the restaurant bottle the sauce so they could take it home. Several years ago, St. Elmo did just that and has since launched St. Elmo Foods, where fans of the steakhouse can buy […]
