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A West Lafayette research building used until a couple of years ago by Elkhart-based CTS Corp. has been acquired by a startup real estate company. The company, Indiana Technology Group LLC, is headquartered in West Lafayette. It is owned by five individuals, including principal and spokesman Ahmed Alsoffi, a long-time West Lafayette businessman. Other owners […]
Manufacture a unique product and your company will enjoy stronger profits and stay ahead of the competition, right? Not necessarily, a new study has discovered. Rather, manufacturers that focus on customized products don’t always turn in profits as great as those that rely on mass production. That’s what Purdue University’s Dauch Center for Management of […]
Yes, it’s the music that matters.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s acknowledge that classical music organizations aren’t shy about using images of attractive musicians in their marketing.
A hottie violinist, the theory goes, will sell more tickets than a…
Major Hospital in Shelbyville plans to open an immediate care center this fall, according to The Shelbyville News. The center, which will provide non-emergency care, will share space at Rampart Professional Center with the HealthWorks Occupational Health Clinic, which focuses on job-related injuries and illnesses. The center has not been named, and a more specific […]
Donnie Walsh is tapping into his old Indiana Pacers contacts to fill key vacancies for the New York Knicks. Since becoming president of the Knicks last month, Pacers scout Jimmy Powell and Brian…
An Idaho firm is applying to the federal government for a permit to study building a hydroelectric power plant at Newburgh Lock and Dam, which is up the Ohio River from Evansville. Symbiotics LLC is interested in a plant that would generate 80 to 100 megawatts, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. The company […]
Fast-growing local marketing software-maker Aprimo Inc. is shelving its plan to stage a $50 million initial public offering. Aprimo withdrew its registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a letter dated April 3. “As a result of the extended weakness in the equity and new issues markets, the Company has determined that […]
Locally based Browning Investments plans to develop a 20-acre mix of hotels, office buildings, a medical center and retail space on a vacant former church property along North Meridian Street in Carmel. Browning hopes to break ground this summer on the $10-million project, which will include a hotel built by Dora Brothers Hospitality Corp. The […]
Locally based Browning Investments plans to develop a 20-acre mix of hotels, office buildings, a medical center and retail space on a vacant former church property along…
So what did you do this weekend? Hear the Earth Harp at the IMA or the slew of country stars at the Fairgrounds? Discover “Black Gold” at the Phoenix?
My weekend included the national tour of “Forbidden Broadway” at Clowes Hall,…
St. Louis-based Belden Inc. plans to lay off about 14 percent of the 1,000 workers at its Richmond manufacturing plant by the end of the month, according to the Palladium-Item. The newspaper in eastern Indiana said 85 are permanent positions and 50 are temporary positions. The company anticipates slow growth this year, and plans to […]
Now that Indiana University freshman Eric Gordon has announced his decision to enter the National Basketball Association draft, speculation about the 19-year-old’s future is running rampant.
Draft analysts predict Gordon will be chosen anywhere…
Fortune Industries Inc. today reported a second fiscal quarter loss of $2.8 million, an improvement from a $4.9 million loss a year earlier. The Indianapolis holding company didn’t break out profits by operating segment for the quarter ended Feb. 29, but CEO John Fisbeck said the slowing economy hurt its human-resources arm. Revenue in its […]
The Boone County Area Plan Commission has approved three more parts to the massive AllPoints at Anson project at Whitestown. The latest approvals were granted for an Indiana Members Credit Union, a Primrose School Franchising Co. childcare and preschool facility, and additional parking for a 600,000-square-foot Amazon.com distribution center, according to The Lebanon Reporter. AllPoints […]
Far too often, our worry about the shortterm state of the economy prevents us from focusing on the long term. That’s too bad because it is the long term, not the short run, that we have the most ability to influence. The most important issue looming for Indiana and the nation is education. Here is the fate of a representative group of 10 18-year-olds. Four years ago, our 10 Hoosier students entered high school. One could not read. As of…
For decades, local governments begged the Legislature to pick up their enormous tab for pre-1977 police and firefighter pensions. Thanks to property tax reform, this year they got their wish. Indiana will use a portion of its 1-percentage-point sales tax hike, which is expected to raise close to $1 billion annually, to underwrite the pensions. The state’s additional yearly expense will be $115 million to $125 million. “We believe the portion of the sales tax pledged will be sufficient to…
When then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani hired David Gunn to direct the New York City subway system, he knew Gunn would be unorthodox in his approach to fighting crime. While many encouraged Gunn to use traditional lawenforcement tactics, he saw fit to clean up the subway’s crime problem by literally cleaning up the trains. Day after day for six years, the graffiti artists painted their “art” on the sides of the trains, and day after day Gunn had the graffiti cleaned off…
Service Employees International Union Local 3 is backing local janitors as they restart contract negotiations April 16 with
five of the largest janitorial contractors in Indianapolis. SEIU now is taking direct aim at Lilly, health insurer WellPoint
Inc. and even some local hospitals, hoping they will pressure the janitorial contractors to come to terms.
The computer and information technology department where I teach part time has been experiencing dropping enrollment for a long time now, ever since the dotbomb. It’s hardly alone, though, as just about every computer science and technology school in the country has seen enrollment leak away. Our students have supposedly been frightened off by myths about offshoring and employment gluts. Apparently, they hadn’t heard the anguished moans from IT managers nationwide as they hunt in vain for employees. Gartner (www….
It was probably 15 years ago when Jim Browning called and invited me to lunch for the first time. I don’t recall why he extended the invitation, but I remember from the lunch that he was interested in what I had to say. And that surprised me. I didn’t know Jim then, but I knew of him through his architecture firm, Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf. I also associated him with the group of bold civic leaders who came up with…
