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Delphi Electronics & Safety plans to invest $160 million in its Kokomo operations in the next few years, the city announced today. The investment will be channeled toward machinery and equipment, much of which will focus on hybrid and other next-generation automotive technology, said Kokomo development director Debra Cook. “It looks as if they’re planning […]
Today’s Start with Art luncheon at the Convention Center unofficially marks the start of the arts season in Indy.
So were you there? If so, what did you think of Col Dean M. Esserman’s talk?
For those who weren’t, Esserman–Chief of Police…
ArcelorMittal, the Luxembourg steelmaker that operates a mill on Lake Michigan, has sued a coal supplier, claiming the supplier is delivering less coal than their contract stipulates, the Post-Tribune of Merrillville reported. Not only is West Virginia-based Bluestone Coal Corp. shorting the Burns Harbor mill of coal, the suit alleges, but Bluestone is using ArcelorMittal […]
Deaconess Health System in Evansville has bought most of the assets of Welborn Clinic, also based in the southern Indiana city, to form one of the largest doctor groups in Indiana, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. The merged group will be called Deaconess Clinic, and will have more than 80 doctors, 500 employees […]
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 […]
First Merchants Corp. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Plainfield-based Lincoln Bancorp. The move thrusts the growing Muncie bank further into the state’s largest market and sheds light on the travails of the banking industry. First Merchants valued the acquisition at $74 million to $77 million, depending on its stock […]
Wheaton World Wide Moving has named two executives to fill the president and CEO positions long held by Stephen F. Burns, who will remain chairman, the Indianapolis moving company announced today. Effective Jan. 1, Chief Operating Officer Mark Kirschner will become CEO and Executive Vice President Dave Witzerman will become president. Burns has led the […]
Eli Lilly and Co. continued to press its case for regulatory approval of its blood thinner prasugrel today by releasing two more studies offering new analysis of prasugrel’s clinical trial data. The release comes weeks before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to rule on whether the drug should be allowed onto the […]
The Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts have long been thought to be competitors. They compete with each other for fans, sponsors, public and private support for their respective playing venues among other things in…
Many an inbox has found an e-mailed link to the website Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com over the last few years.
I’m mentioning it here, though, because it’s most recent entry–#108 if you are keeping score–takes an open shot at classical music, claiming among other things…
Doors to the Columbus Inn bed-and-breakfast have been chained and padlocked, according to The Republic of Columbus. The 113-year-old, Romanesque building once housed city hall and now is on the National Register of Historic Places. The newspaper was not able to reach the owners for comment.
Cripe Architects + Engineers, the Indianapolis-based architectural firm, is adding an office in Evansville in addition to its satellite locations in Carmel and Fort Wayne, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. Cripe has 75 employees. Chairman and CEO Alex D. Oak, a Native American, brings the firm minority-owned status.
We didn’t have to wait long to find out where Dan Wheldon would land. Just more than an hour after news broke that Dario Franchitti would be replacing him at Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Wheldon announced he will be driving…
Former Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League series champion Dario Franchitti is returning to the open-wheel circuit next year to drive for his former NASCAR boss Chip Ganassi.
Ganassi folded the NASCAR team that…
The three Louisiana oil refineries operated by Calumet Specialty Products LLP weren’t damaged by Hurricane Gustav, the Indianapolis company said today. All three are near Shreveport, which is in the northwestern corner of Louisiana and 350 miles from the coast. “We’re not impacted at all,” said spokeswoman Liz Swaine. As is the case with most […]
Mitch Daniels ran for governor four years ago promising to shake things up, and it would be hard to argue
that he hasnâ??t followed through.
Daylight saving time passed. Cigarette taxes were raised to fund health insurance. Property taxes were reformed.
What…
With the books just closed on the Indianapolis Indians’ 2008 season, the team’s front office is already looking forward to next season. And why not? This team is hot. Red hot. And I’m…
Land-O-Sun Dairies LLC of Johnston City, Tenn., has acquired Driggs Farms of Indiana LLC, a bankrupt ice cream manufacturer in the northeastern Indiana town of Decatur. Land-O-Sun will continue operating the plant, which employs 200 in a Decatur industrial park, according to The Decatur Daily Democrat. The transition is expected to take place in September.
Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Co., will move into a new 135,000-square-foot headquarters in Greenfield by the spring of 2010, the company announced today. Elanco’s new offices will go up on the northwest corner of State Road 9 and I-70, where Indianapolis developer Browning Investments Inc. is building a 52-acre life […]
