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The Indy Racing League today announced an extension of its long-time association with ESPN International for worldwide (excluding the United States and Brazil) distribution of IRL broadcast rights until 2010, with a further…
Lilly Endowment has committed $300,000 to the International Center of Indianapolis for the 10th year in a row. The funds will be used for programs including cross-cultural training for employees and helping families relocate from other countries. The not-for-profit focuses on connecting people from various cultures in the city.
A study released today by the Democratic-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimates 40,700 to 147,300 Hoosiers would be thrown out of jobs if one or more of the three Detroit automakers were to shut down. The figures equate to 3 percent to 5 percent of the state’s 2.9 million workers. Only Michigan would be hit harder, […]
Ivy Tech Community College has grown to become the largest post-secondary institution in the state, and it probably will get a lot bigger. Ivy Tech said today its enrollment of 120,447 in the 2007-08 academic year topped the 118,952 students in the Indiana University system. Purdue had 39,102 students. Ivy Tech attributed the growth to […]
A plant in Fremont that makes enclosures for electronics, computers and telecommunications equipment will close by Aug. 1, throwing 114 out of work, according to The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne. The work is being consolidated at a plant in Urbana, Ohio. Both sites are owned by Rittal Corp., which is headquartered in Springfield, Ohio, […]
There’s a new reality in professional sports. Slowly, but surely the people who run sports operations in central Indiana are waking up as the sun rises on a new day. Here’s some news that should help all of us understand…
Yet another Illinois governor is going down in legal flames, as Rod Blagojevich struggles to extricate himself
from federal accusations that he brazenly tried to peddle Barack Obamaâ??s Senate seat to the highest bidder.
So, weâ??re reminded again that power corrupts….
DHL Express’ exit from the package delivery business in the United States will result in 323 workers losing their jobs in Indiana. Most of the jobs, 189, are in Indianapolis, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. The rest are in Lafayette, Bloomington and South Bend. The layoffs will be finished by Jan. 23, […]
Fifty of ImClone Systems Inc.’s 1,280 employees have been laid off just two weeks after Eli Lilly and Co. closed its acquisition of the New York cancer drug developer, according to New Jersey Business. Nearly half of ImClone’s 70 sales people were eliminated. Most were focused on ImClone’s main drug, Erbitux. Indianapolis-based Lilly paid $70 […]
Ball State University, thanks to its football team, is flying high. The school has received more television exposure in the last 60 days than it has gotten in the last decade as its football team rattled…
Apartment developer Christopher Piazza has closed on financing for a $1.2-million renovation of a 1914 apartment building in Irvington. The 31-unit…
A $100 million office park in Fishers that has been a dream of an Indianapolis developer for a decade will be anchored by USA Funds. Edgeworth Laskey Properties LLC plans to announce today that USA Funds will lease 30,000 square feet in one of five buildings designed for the 26-acre site, which is west of […]
Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick last week finished filming a pair of Go Daddy TV commercials in Los Angeles that will air during Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1. The Arizona-based domain…
[Note: all winners have been contacted. See you at the movie.]
Join IBJ for a sneak preview of the new Will Smith film “Seven Pounds.”
It will be held Tuesday, Dec. 16 at AMC Castleton Square 14.
To score the passes, discuss your favorite Will…
Edgeworth Laskey Properties LLC is set to make an announcement tomorrow about a Fishers location it has attempted to develop for a decade. The site, west of Interstate 69 and south of 106th Street, has been targeted for an office complex since 1998. Tomorrow’s announcement is scheduled at Fishers Town Hall and is expected to […]
The 1,230-foot-long mural painted by Eli Lilly and Co. workers in May has been named the largest paint-by-number mural by Guinness World Records. The mural, which stetches along a concrete retaining wall on Madison Avenue south of Lilly’s campus, was painted during a day when 8,400 employees beautified the city by planting trees, cleaning weeds […]
A sweeping round of plant closings and layoffs announced this morning by Dow Chemical Co. is likely to miss its agricultural arm, which is based in Indianapolis. Rather, the company said, Dow AgroSciences plans to continue hiring in Indianapolis and at its locations elsewhere in the world. “We are in the business of developing innovation […]
Wow, you leave on vacation for a week, and miss this: Two Indianapolis businessmen are hoping to build a balloon-ride attraction within a 20-story, tubular steel tower….
Five of the 800 people who worked at Pfizer Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Terre Haute before it closed nearly a year ago have started a company that will offering testing for drug and food companies. Midwest Compliance LLC will be assisted by Terre Haute Innovation Alliance, a consulting service based at Indiana State University. Ex-Pfizer […]
Politicians are about to step in for directors and force sweeping changes on the Detroit car companies, judging
from the direction of talks in Congress.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd yesterday called for the firing of General Motors…
