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OneAmerica Financial Partners, the Indianapolis-based insurance and financial services company, said today it has acquired a block of fixed annuity business from Transamerica Life Insurance Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The price was not disclosed, but the addition will boost OneAmerica’s asset base by about $700 million, pushing the total above $19 billion. The new […]
A development team including locally based Prince/Alexander Architects has filed plans to build a 24-story tower between Eli Lilly & Co.’s Faris Campus and Lucas Oil Stadium. The $47-million project calls…
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended approving Eli Lilly and Co.’s Evista osteoporosis drug for cutting the risk of cancer in post-menopausal women with osteoporosis and post-menopausal women at high risk for breast cancer. The non-binding recommendation follows an announcement from Lilly earlier this month that Evista reduced the risk of certain […]
Marsh Supermarkets is hoping for final approval next month of a five-year tax abatement worth about $50,000 for a renovation of its downtown O’Malia’s store. The company plans to invest $1.5 million…
Underwriters have postponed the sale of $3.1 billion in loans that would pay for the leveraged buyout of General Motors Corp.’s Allison Transmission unit, according to The Wall Street Journal. Officials for Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, which were planning to sell the loans, were met with a cool reception from potential investors, the […]
Investors embraced Eli Lilly and Co. stock this morning after the company’s second-quarter profit beat analysts’ expectations. Shares of the Indianapolis-based drugmaker jumped as much as $1.50, or 2.6 percent. Lilly’s stock price has risen about 13 percent this year. Lilly enjoyed strong growth by its antidepressant Cymbalta and its Cialis impotence treatment. Also, two […]
Damar Services, which treats people with developmental disabilities, said today it has received $4.3 million in gifts from Lilly Endowment, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust and The Indianapolis Foundation. The gifts are expected to result in 250 additional jobs at the not-for-profit, which already employs about 600 at 6324 Kentucky Ave. Damar also plans to […]
Hillenbrand Industries Inc. said today that its Batesville Casket Co. unit has aborted its planned acquisition of Yorktowne Caskets Inc. because it learned yesterday that Yorktowne sold some of its assets to another company. Yorktowne, of York, Pa., sold the assets to Matthews International Corp., a Pittsburgh maker of memorials, Hillenbrand alleged. Hillenbrand, headquartered in […]
Biopsy needle maker Promex Technologies said today it will create 40 jobs as part of an expansion of its production and office facilities in Franklin. The company has about 50 full-time-equivalent workers. It will add new injection molding, grinding and welding equipment, and double the size of its building at 3049 Hudson Street to more […]
Charges from two acquisitions caused second-quarter profits at Eli Lilly and Co. to slip. Excluding those expenses and other adjustments, Lilly’s profit zoomed past Wall Street’s estimates. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker earned 90 cents per share, excluding unusual items. Analysts expected 82 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson Financial. Lilly earned 76 cents […]
Disston Tool Co. President Robert J. Keller has been named president of Escalade Inc., the Evansville-based sporting goods manufacturer. Keller replaces Terry Frandsen, Escalade’s CFO, who operated as interim CEO since the sudden death April 9 of CEO Daniel Messmer. Disston, headquartered in Philadelphia, makes saw blades, valve components and other parts. Keller also has […]
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and other multinational companies are socking away profits in overseas tax shelters and ultimately stripping the U.S. Treasury of about $50 billion annually, according to The New York Times. Last year, Lilly paid only 6 percent of its $3.4 billion in global profits in taxes, the newspaper said. That’s a […]
Two Indianapolis developers plan to break ground this week on a new Greensburg hotel catering to
The project, by locally based Street Corner Group and The Worthington Group, is adjacent to the $550 million Honda plant.
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Batesville-based Hill-Rom will sell its hospital bed systems in Japan through a Japanese bed distributor, Paramount Bed Co. Ltd. , the companies announced today. Hill-Rom, a subsidiary of Hillenbrand Industries Inc., will hit Japanese markets in early September. The two companies also will explore opportunities in the hospital and post-acute care segments in the rest of the […]
Finish Line Inc. this afternoon said it plans to name Bob Dennis president after completing its $1.5 billion purchase of Tennessee-based Genesco Inc. Dennis currently serves as Genesco’s president, and Glenn Lyon is president of Finish Line. Lyon would remain president of the company’s Finish Line division, company spokeswoman Elise Hasbrook said. Finish Line Inc. […]
Oil prices could soar nearly 40 percent, to $105 a barrel, within a few months, according to analysts quoted by Bloomberg. While some skeptics doubt such a dire scenario, other experts fret that rising demand, military conflict in Iran and continued chaos in Iraq suddenly could cause supplies to tighten and prices to spike. “The […]
The Indiana Worlds Skating Academy has agreed to a 9-month lease extension for its space at Pan Am Plaza. The organization will remain downtown at least until April 2008, said Academy Executive Director…
Ball State University announced today that veteran economist Michael Hicks has been hired to direct its Bureau of Business Research. Hicks most recently was associate professor of economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He replaces Patrick Barkey, now director […]
Noblesville-based SafetyComm Solutions has agreed to be bought Paradigm Liaison Services LLC of Wichita, Kan., for an undisclosed price, according to Wichita Business Journal. SafetyComm offers safety awareness training programs for the oil and gas industries. Paradigm is a direct mail, public awareness campaign that targets households affected by pipelines or transmissions lines.
