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Purdue University might spend nearly $5 million this fiscal year on public relations, marketing and promotional activities, nearly double the $2.6 million the school budgeted in the 1997-’98 year, reports The Journal & Courier of Lafayette. The number of employees in Purdue’s promotion department grew 34 percent, to 67, at a time employment across the […]
For me, the weekend included a local premier at Theatre on the Square, a popular revival at Beef & Boards and a mix of old and new with Dance Kaleidoscope. Plus a stroll through the Broad Ripple…
HAMILTON COUNTY Helmer consolidates at Saxony Noblesville’s Saxony Corporate Campus has landed a life sciences firm. Helmer Inc., which manufactures and distributes laboratory equipment, has moved into a new 72,000-square-foot headquarters there. Founded in 1977, Helmer had been spread across four buildings in Noblesville. Its new headquarters, off Interstate 69’s Exit 10, features 52,000 square […]
BOONE COUNTY Distribution/warehousing still rule Duke looking to rail potential in Lebanon while Whitestown heats up LEBANON-The economy might be slowing like a down-shifting Mack truck, but Boone County’s economic development engine of warehousing and distribution keeps accelerating. The sector now accounts for more than 25 percent of the tax revenue in the county seat […]
MONROE COUNTY IU school climbs in rankings An Indiana University Kelley School of Business program climbed into the top 25 worldwide in a new ranking from the Financial Times of London. The school’s custom-designed executive education program was ranked 12th for its faculty and quality of teaching, 16th in preparation, and 21st in overseas programs, […]
TIPPECANOE COUNTY Lafayette, West Lafayette to get joint branding, marketing plan Indianapolis-based Hirons & Co. is developing a joint branding and marketing strategy for the downtown areas of Lafayette and West Lafayette. The new plan will be an update of a marketing plan Hirons developed for the cities five years ago. The Lafayette-West Lafayette Downtown […]
HENDRICKS COUNTY Tourism study set for western Hendricks County Field interviews start in June for a study on how to develop tourism in the western half of Hendricks County. Researchers will start in Danville and travel west, looking for ways to tie attractions together into a tourism corridor. Seattle-based Destination Development Inc. is being paid […]
Plastic welding factory bursting at seams HANCOCK COUNTY-A Fortville manufacturer that won acclaim for making helmet pads that better protect U.S. troops from roadside mine blasts has had to lease 10,000 square feet of additional space to meet demand for its products. Genesis Manufacturing leased space in two nearby buildings to supplement its 15,000-square-foot facility, […]
MORGAN COUNTY Church construction booms There’s no building trades recession in Martinsville or Mooresville where the Lord is concerned. Three churches and a Christian camp all are planning big projects. Church at Mount Gilead plans to build a worship center, vestibule and administrative offices at 6019 E. State Road 144 near Kitchen Road in Mooresville. […]
MADISON COUNTY Call center to employ 400 Startup Agape Communications LLC plans to open a call center in Anderson, hiring 75 workers immediately and bringing a total of 400 jobs to downtown within a year. The influx of jobs will make Agape the 12th-largest employer in Madison County. The jobs will pay about $10 an […]
BOONE COUNTY Wal-Mart store back on table Wal-Mart’s more-than-two-year struggle to build a store on North Michigan Road has been revived, after a judge ruled in favor of the retailer and sent its petition back to the Zionsville Plan Commission to decide. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart has refiled development plans for the 198,000-squarefoot store, which the commission […]
JOHNSON COUNTY Last indie bookseller closes The closing of Read Already Used Books in Franklin in late April marks the end of an era in Johnson County, which had a half dozen locally owned general-interest book stores a decade ago. Now there are none. National chains such as New York-based Barnes & Noble, which opened […]
SHELBY COUNTY Growing pains for Morristown The tiny town of Morristown is drawing a lot of interest from expansion-minded businesses. Crane Werks, which repairs overhead cranes, wants the Morristown Town Council to give it tax abatements to buy an abandoned Nabisco building where it would expand its operations. Also, Integrity Metals of Connersville has told […]
Spotlight on Boone County Named for American frontiersman Daniel Boone 5 LARGEST CITIES/TOWNS population Lebanon …………………………………….15,186 Zionsville ……………………………………12,352 Thorntown ……………………………………1,579 Jamestown ……………………………………..966 Advance ………………………………………….583 5 LARGEST EMPLOYERS employees CNH – Cat Logistics …………………………..737 Witham Health Services …………………….552 Lebanon Community School Corp………..470 Hendrickson Trailers Suspension Systems……………………………………….358 Pearson Education Inc……………………….294 COUNTY MSA Population 52,701 1,682,815 Median age […]
Of this, that and the other: Indiana University has filed its official response to the NCAA infractions committee regarding the violations allegedly committed by former men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson. And Sampson has filed his response to IU’s response. He believes he’s been cast as a liar and a cheat. If only it weren’t true. I’m also troubled by his complaint that the IU compliance staff didn’t monitor the basketball coaches closely enough. How about some self-compliance, Kelvin? Fact is,…
National pharmacy chains such as CVS and Walgreens are not the only ones to experience “dumpster-diving” by investigative reporters. These drugstores were merely the first to be featured in media reports about customers’ personal information being disposed of without being destroyed first, a violation of state and federal privacy laws. Diving in Local reporters have since rummaged through the trash of mortgage brokers, title insurance companies, fitness centers, banks, law firms, hospitals and government organizations. While searching through the trash,…
Indiana’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund is running out of money-fast. It opened this decade with $16.6 billion in assets. By the end of last year, it had dwindled to $302 million. And last month, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development said the balance was just $80 million. Though DWD in early May received $300 million in taxes collected from employers, the infusion is only a shortterm fix. By year’s end, the fund is expected to be short on cash again….
And so another Indianapolis Super Duper Bowl offering is in the hands of the immortals, also known as the NFL owners, delivered there by scrubbed, shining, briefcase-toting eighth graders. Now we know how far some adults will go to avoid rejection. The kids were chosen for this mission to, in the words of the organizers, show that the entire community wants to host the 2012 Championship of the World (Not Including All The Countries Outside The United States.) What a…
We’ve just come through an Indiana primary in which the competing campaigns kept emphasizing Hoosier jobs. It would have meant more if they had talked about Hoosier wages and salaries. But then, facts are harder to digest than rhetoric. Here are some facts you can chew on. At the start of this century (2000), the average wage (total wages and salaries divided by total number of full- and parttime jobs) in Indiana was $30,401, ranking 27th in the nation. By…
With a cadre of six flat-screen monitors blanketing one side of his desk, Equities First Holdings LLC’s Al Christy Jr. keeps a close eye on the performance of several stocks he’s holding as collateral. No, he’s not some sort of loan shark. He’s what’s known as a stock lender. The unusual premise is that market investors in need of prompt funding transfer shares to Christy who, in turn, lends his clients up to 80 percent of the stock’s value, although…
