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Indianapolis-based Indiana Children’s Wish Fund has been caught in the national subprime mortgage lending crisis. The small not-for-profit, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, filed an arbitration claim after an investment it had in an intermediate-bond fund lost about $50,000 between late June and late September on an initial investment of $222,812. The bond […]

Arcadia Resources Inc., the Detroit-area company that last month announced it would move its headquarters to Indianapolis, reported a $9.2-million loss in its second quarter ended Sept. 30. The parent of Arcadia HealthCare had a $735,619 loss in the same period last year. Continuing operations accounted for $4.5 million of the most recent loss, while […]

Plainfield-based Brightpoint Inc. posted profit of $13 million for the third quarter, a 47-percent increase from a year earlier. Revenue of $1.2 billion in the period ended Sept. 30 was up 86 percent. The wireless device distributor said results were boosted by its first-quarter acquisitions of Denmark-based Dangaard Telecom and Texas-based CellStar, as well as […]

Noble Roman’s Inc. yesterday reported third-quarter profit shot up 58.2 percent, to $2.1 million, on a rise in royalties and fees for the Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs restaurants it franchises. The Indianapolis company has been on a furious expansion spree-having signed a total of 24 territories to area developers, a move […]

A sweeping internal assessment at Angie’s List has resulted in 38 of the company’s 382 employees being shown the door in the past few days. Most of the workers given pink slips were in sales, although others were in operations, marketing and other areas, said spokeswoman Cheryl Reed. Based at 1030 E. Washington St. on […]

A study by the Indiana Business Research Center indicates the flow of jobs from Indiana to overseas locations has shifted and is now moving to other states, particularly Michigan. From early 2004 to the middle of this year, the state lost 44,808 jobs to mass layoffs, said the center, which operates through the Kelley School […]

Carmel‘s first L.A. Fitness club plans to open in a 45,000-square-foot freestanding building to be built at 2700 E. 146th St. in Carmel, according to the landlord, Terre Haute-based Thompson Thrift. The building, which is leased to L.A. Fitness for 15 years, will be located in Cool Creek Village, a 79,800-square-foot mixed-use development. The Carrollton, […]

The Indianapolis Airport Authority is looking for a few good sculptors-two, in fact. The authority is asking artists to submit proposals for two sculptures to go in the north garden at the new midfield terminal. Proposals are due Dec. 21, with one sculpture scheduled for installation in late 2008 and another in 2009. The sculptures […]

Funds from operations at the Indianapolis-based real estate investment trust Kite Realty Group Trust increased 6.7 percent in the third quarter. The $12 million in funds from operations, a common measure of REITs, amounted to 32 cents per share-matching the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. Kite also reported today that its development […]

The mayor who was in office when Honda Motor Co. announced in summer 2006 that it would build an assembly plant in Greensburg was shoved out of office yesterday by a wide margin. Frank Manus lost to city council member Gary Herbert 1,679-1,000, according to the Greensburg Daily News. Herbert told the newspaper that Manus […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said today that Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. and several other providers of drug benefits kept overpayments too long. The companies, which also include Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group and Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., should have more quickly refunded the $4.4 billion in overpayments, the department said. The figure […]