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The European Commission has approved Cymbalta, the anxiety drug developed by Eli Lilly and Co. The thumbs-up came from the commission’s European Medicine Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the Indianapolis company said today. The approval opens markets in 27 European Union nations as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Lilly estimates nine […]

Kokomo Sanitary Pottery, a toilet maker that has operated in the city north of Indianapolis since 1932, will close in November due to high costs, according to the Kokomo Tribune. The company, owned by Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC, which is based in the Chicago suburb of Woodridge, laid off 125 hourly employees last October, leaving […]

EnerDel, the Indianapolis company that’s developing lithium ion batteries for cars, plans to create 850 jobs across the state by 2012, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today. Some of the jobs will be at the company’s headquarters on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Other positions will be located in Noblesville and the rest will be at […]

The Bob & Tom Show, the long-running morning radio show, will be shown on the WGN America network beginning Nov. 3, the show said today. WGN will broadcast highlights of the radio show from midnight to 1 a.m. Eastern Time. Locally, the program is being carried on WTTV-TV Channel 4. The show, which features comedy […]

Tipton County officials have unanimously approved leasing Tipton County Hospital to Indianapolis-based Clarian Health for 35 years. Clarian has managed the hospital for 10 years in a relationship that feeds patients to the sprawling Clarian system and, for Tipton, offers medical expertise and muscle to negotiate with insurers. Under the agreement, the county will continue […]

Stuart Lowry was named by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard yesterday as director of Indy Parks and Recreation. Lowry replaces Joe Wynns, who resigned unexpectedly nearly a week ago after eight years on the job. Early this month, Wynns said he had been asked to cut $2.3 million from the department’s $17 million budget, although he […]

On-the-job injuries leading to death were lower last year than at any time since 1991, the first year the statistic was tracked, the Indiana Department of Labor said yesterday. The 127 fatalities were most heavily concentrated among truck drivers, farmers and construction workers, and 94 percent were male. The deaths occurred most frequently while the […]

Millennium Industries, an auto-parts maker in the northern Indiana town of Ligonier, plans to build an additional 30,000 square feet of production and warehouse space, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said yesterday. The expansion would create 170 jobs in addition to 250 existing positions. Millennium, which makes fuel rails and power-steering components, received $625,000 in […]

Parsons Corp., a Pasadena, Calif., company that is destroying the V-X nerve gas stored at the Newport Chemical Depot in western Indiana, has started closing down the operation as the three-year project nears completion. Parsons has informed the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will begin laying off 412 workers at the site in […]