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A dissident investor in The Steak n Shake Co. today blasted the company for changing its bylaws to make it more difficult for shareholders to call a special meeting. San Antonio-based Lion Fund, whose affiliates own 8 percent of Steak n Shake, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would […]
You IBJ readers are a wealthy lot. Our latest survey, taken in September of last year, shows that you had
a $170,700 median household income and the median value of your investments came to $679,700.
Three of four had corporate stocks…
The Steak n Shake Co.’s board of directors has thrown up a roadblock to a plan by a dissident investor to oust most of its members. San Antonio-based Lion Fund, whose affiliates own more than 8 percent of the Indianapolis company, wants to get two of its representatives elected to the board at the company’s […]
The day after the New York Giants’ improbable Super Bowl XLII triumph, sports marketers are already lining up to talk with the game’s MVP, Eli Manning. And there’s speculation that Manning’s sudden success will have a profound effect on older…
City-County Council representative Jackie Nytes has been hired as executive director of Mapleton Fall Creek Development Corp., the neighborhood group announced today. Nytes replaces Shary Johnston, who is retiring. Nytes was a finalist to replace former Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library CEO Linda Mielke, who left in January 2007. Nytes is a former chief financial officer […]
The $529 million takeover of First Indiana Corp. ripples to 32 branch locations today, as Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp. hoists its M&I Bank signs into place. Shareholders of First Indiana OK’d the acquisition in December. M&I’s Indiana region president is Reagan Rick, who had been with First Indiana for about three years. He previously […]
Kentucky might charge tolls on bridges that connect to Indiana, reports The Evening News of Jeffersonville. In a study released late last week, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet included eight options ranging from adding tolls to all bridges to just one bridge. The tolls would help pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, which […]
As many as 90 jobs will be created as a result of a recent agreement by Ryder System Inc. to distribute educational materials for K12 Inc. from Ryder’s warehouse in Plainfield, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Ryder, headquartered in Miami, received $139,000 in state incentives for the expansion at Plainfield Business Center at […]
Last year’s merger of five area Girl Scout councils into one central Indiana organization has gone so well that it’s being used as a model for others to follow. Local staffers are being flown around the country-at national Girl Scouts’ expense-to coach other councils on how to achieve the same results. The local merger was the first in a national drive to consolidate far-flung and often uneven Girl Scout councils, reducing their numbers by almost a third. With the local…
What would happen if Congress passed a law requiring every U.S. statehouse to use the exact same building design? And that every city hall, every fire station and library must be built from a canned design? Imagine being told that, from now on, every house in the state would have the exact same design, so homeowners could spend less on design costs. It sounds crazy to think one design fits all, but that’s exactly what lawmakers are considering for educational…
Market observers rank today’s credit crisis on par with some of the ugliest moments in U.S. banking history. News service
Bloomberg predicted fourth-quarter lending losses could make it “the worst earnings period for the financial industry since
the Great Depression.” Yet amid the carnage, financial institutions are sniffing around for opportunities.
Expensive suits and luxury cars are standard issue for most developers, but not for the owners of locally based Casa Verde
LLC. Three of four owners sport beards. They build only Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certified
projects. But don’t let the hippie image mask the company’s mission: Make green by building green.
Usually, the only souvenir you can take home from a gallery exhibition is an artists’ catalogue. Visitors to “Karl Wirsum: Winsome Works(some)” at the Herron Galleries can also buy Karl Wirsum ball-and-paddle toys. Get the message? This show is supposed to be fun, folks. And it is-without diminishing the fact that it celebrates the work of an important artist-in some ways the Midwest’s answer to Andy Warhol. Like Warhol, Chicago’s Karl Wirsum makes significant use of flat, bright colors with…
Most observers have viewed the 2008 legislative session as one almost singlemindedly devoted to property tax reform. While, of course, that is true, if you step back, a broader truism begins to emerge. This is not only a session destined to produce property tax reform, but one that begins the process of changing the role of government and how it intrudes into the lives of Hoosiers-or how it helps them, depending upon your perspective. Beyond property tax reform, this session…
Developers of the $425 million hotel complex downtown still are working out plans for a pedestrian bridge spanning Washington Street that will connect it to White River State Park. Merrillville-based White Lodging Co. and Indianapolis-based REI Real Estate Services proposed a connector-either a bridge or an underground tunnel-in early designs of the convention hotel complex at the southwest corner of West and Washington streets. Although later site plans did not include the link, REI President Mike Wells said the developers…
I have a bit of a problem with the court system, and maybe one of you out there can help me with this. I wrote a column in December about my experience with jury duty. The case involved a daughter, a mother and a question of whether the defendant-the daughter-would be charged with auto theft (a felony) or criminal conversion (a misdemeanor). Briefly, here are the facts. The mother purchased a car and titled it in her name, but gave…
Back in late 1999, Emmis Communications Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan was sitting on company stock worth more than $300 million. Today, he’s still sitting on the stock but it’s worth a mere $14 million. Ouch. But forget about throwing a pity party for Smulyan, 60, who founded the company 28 years ago, building it into one of the nation’s leading radio companies. “This company is what I love. I love Emmis,” he said. “I have no regrets.” Why did he…
Students donning caps and gowns this May will find jobs aplenty, college career officers and others say. Some industries–like
health care, accounting, engineering, computer science and sales–are more flush with jobs than others. But students receiving
liberal arts degrees also are in high demand because of their well-rounded education.
Truck drivers are accustomed to logging lots of miles on their 18-wheelers, but on their sneakers? They are at locally based Celadon Group, thanks to its “Highway 2 Health” wellness program the trucking firm launched in 2006. Prodding employees to lead healthier lifestyles is a way to help cut escalating health care costs. It’s a challenging task for any corporation, particularly for transporters whose workers are strewn throughout the country hauling freight on America’s highways. Sitting behind a wheel for…
Back in the Dark Ages, before I started my company and before I was creative director at an advertising agency, I was a salesman. And my personality being what it is, I read a lot of books on sales. One of those that stood out was Harvey Mackay’s “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive,” in which he emphasizes “building your Rolodex.” Of course, not a lot of us use a traditional Rolodex anymore, but the basic tenet remains:…
