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The slowing economy has prompted two manufacturers of semi-truck trailers to lay off workers. Wabash National Corp. in Lafayette has temporarily laid off 150 of its 3,265 workers due to receiving fewer orders over the holidays, according to the Journal & Courier of Lafayette. Great Dane Trailers is laying off 54 workers at its Terre […]
Grocery stores are rejecting milk from cows that have been injected with a growth hormone that stimulates
milk production.
Kroger, Dean Foods and others are responding to consumers who are jittery about recombinant bovine somatotropin,
or rbST, which has been used since…
Arizona residents’ willingness to pay higher taxes may have a strong impact on Indianapolis’ effort to land the 2012 Super Bowl. Funding from Arizona’s corporate community paid for 80 percent of the host city’s Super Bowl bill this year. But…
The number of Hoosiers in their top earning years will shrink as the baby-boom generation retires, a new study shows. By 2025, the state will have 2.6 million people between the ages of 25 and 54, according to the study by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University. That’s a 1.7-percent decline from 2005. […]
Not all news is bad for retail. A few stores are planning their first Indianapolis locations, while others are expanding. By popular demand, here’s the Around Town Retail Roundup:
Zumiez, an action-sports retailer, has…
Greenwood‘s attempt to land a Cabela’s outdoor store cost $130,000 in attorney and consulting fees, according to the Daily Journal of Franklin. Those fees include $68,000 to the Indianapolis law firm of Ice Miller, which drafted bonds offered to the Nebraska-based retailer, and $28,000 to O.W. Krohn & Associates, an accounting and consulting firm in […]
A Purdue University agricultural economist is worried that the push to raise more corn to feed the expanding number of ethanol plants will harm soil and water quality. Otto Doering said during a recent conference that farmers lured by higher corn prices will feel compelled to bring highly erodible and environmentally sensitive land out of […]
AT&T plans to hire 150 workers at its Evansville call center this year, reports the Evansville Business Journal. The new jobs will pay an average of $11.60 an hour. About 600 people now are employed at the call center, which opened last year.
Indianapolis-based CountryMark Cooperative is suing its investment adviser, Morgan Keegan & Co., for directing the farmer-owned co-op toward a $10 million investment in mortgage-backed securities, including subprime. CountryMark purchased the note on Aug. 10, 2007. Seven days later, ratings agencies downgraded the A+-rated investment to junk status and it remains in default. CountryMark is suing Memphis-based […]
Jim Schellinger, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to unseat Gov. Mitch Daniels in his attempt at a second term, told a group of retired United Auto Workers members yesterday that in his first hour as governor he would reinstate the ability of unions to bargain collectively. Speaking in Marion, Schellinger also said he would […]
Value City will have two remaining Indianapolis locations, at 6002 E. 38th St. and 5110 Pike Plaza Rd.
An expansion of an Indianapolis collection agency is expected to result in 220 workers being added to the roughly 100 already employed by the company. Premiere Credit said this afternoon that 120 of the jobs will be located at its location at 2002 Wellesley Boulevard near interstates 70 and 465 on the east side and […]
A lawsuit filed in Steel Dynamics Inc.’s headquarters city of Fort Wayne accuses the steelmaker of causing a steel company in Thailand to lose $1 billion. Prime Eagle Group Ltd., owner of the Thai steel company, claims investors abandoned Nakornthai Strip Mill after Steel Dynamics publicly criticized the project while acting as a consultant to […]
For a long time, General Motors has told us its newest model would drive back the Germans, Japanese and
more lately the Koreans.
Those who believed, of course, must feel like Charlie Brown after Lucy yanks away the football.
Now GM is getting…
The new owner of Value City Department Stores is closing the location at 1230 U.S. 31 North in Greenwood. VCHI Acquisition Co., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, will shutter the store within eight weeks along with other stores deemed non-core in its turnaround plan. A total of 30 of the 113 Value City stores will be […]
Two recent revelations left open-wheel racing fans and sponsors wondering if the unification of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car is finally at hand. What is less clear is if unification of North America’s two largest open-wheel racing circuits…
Seen one of these signs? There are plenty around town. Here are a few notable projects slated for Metropolitan Development Commission hearings: Locally based Herman & Kittle Properties Inc. is proposing…
Cook Pharmica said today it will spend $80 million to expand its contract drug manufacturing operation to include formulation, filling and finishing. The project will create 200 jobs, said the company, a division of Bloomington medical device giant Cook Medical. Cook Pharmica currently develops and manufactures cell culture-based products. The expansion will have two lines […]
Utah-based SkyWest Airlines will cut 15 jobs at Fort Wayne International Airport after it lost a ground-handling contract, reports The Journal Gazette, citing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice filed with the state. The job cuts, which include customer service and ramp agents, are slated to begin in April.
At least the lawyer got the same last name right. New York Times reporter Alex Berenson was able to break the story last week that Eli Lilly and Co. was secretly negotiating a $1 billion settlement with the government because an outside Lilly lawyer accidentally emailed him the details. The lawyer at Pepper Hamilton in […]
