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First Indiana Corp.’s Milwaukee-based acquirer says it will pay $529 million, or $32 a share. That’s a whopping 45 percent premium to where First Indiana stock has been trading. Rumors have swirled for weeks that First Indiana, the city’s largest remaining locally based bank, was in negotiations to be acquired. Industry buzz had focused on […]
Indianapolis-based First Indiana Corp. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for $529 million by Marshall & Ilsley, a Milwaukee-based financial services firm. First Indiana, which has $2.1 billion in assets, has 32 branches in central Indiana. The branches will become Marshall & Ilsley branches after the deal closes. The deal […]
German transmission maker Getrag Corporate Group and Chrysler Group picked Tipton for their $530 million joint-venture transmission plant over Kokomo and a shovel-ready site at the former Grissom Air Force Base at Peru because it was the best compromise, according to a Chrysler official who helped arrange the deal. Brian Harlow, Chrysler’s general manager of […]
A backer of a 3,000-acre intermodal shipping hub planned for LaPorte County in northwest Indiana says he has the land under contract and as much as $2 billion in financing lined up to proceed. All that’s needed, Chris Davey told the Post-Tribune of Merrillville, are commitments from railroad companies that they would use the facility. […]
A Woodinville, Wash., provider of advertising promotional products has committed to locating a distribution center in an existing Plainfield building, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. said today. Bensussen Deutsch & Associates will employ 50 at the 150,000-square-foot site. The company, which has an office in Indianapolis, received $206,000 in incentives.
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I thought it was a joke. You know, like, “How is a sneeze like a drum solo?” And the answer would be something like, “You know it’s going to happen, but you’re powerless to stop it.” So here it is, straight: How is business technology like the invention of electricity? But it’s not a joke. It’s an article in Slate magazine online (www.slate.com/id/2167909/). That article opens with a bit of surprising history. Electricity was widely available starting in the late…
Bringing MotoGP–the world’s highest level of motorcycle racing–to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway could easily draw more
than 150,000 spectators and net an eight-figure windfall for track owner Tony George.
Moe’s path to opening Indianapolisbased ACT Services Inc., her accounting, tax and consulting firm, was fraught with roadblocks. In 1998 she graduated from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis with a degree in accounting. That same year she divorced. Moe has had her share of breakups. While still an undergraduate, the Greenwood native worked for a year as a business partner with a certified public accountant at Accounting Store LLC in Speedway. The partnership continued for five…
Twenty years ago, Indianapolis was preparing to take on the world. Or at least half of it. It was a month before the 10th Pan American Games. In my lifetime, I do not recall many times-if any-when there was such a feeling of collective effort. This wasn’t a city rooting for a team, like the Pacers or the Colts. This was a city rooting for itself to pull off this mammoth undertaking, to show not just the country, but the…
David Young, co-founder of one of the city’s largest advertising agencies, is packing his bags and heading for Vancouver, British Columbia. This month, Young will oversee the opening of agency Young & Laramore’s first Canadian office, which is being set up to grow the firm’s 2nd Globe division in the Pacific Northwest. 2nd Globe, a 12-year-old division dedicated to bringing art, architecture and commerce together, is the brainchild of Young and is known for its work on several high-profile central…
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art reopens July 13 with a new look and a new plan for growth. The changes come as its primary funder is scaling back support-and backing a competing contemporary art museum planned for Carmel. That does not deter Executive Director Kathy Nagler from her efforts to develop IMOCA. Nagler, 51, was hired last summer to replace local arts enthusiast Jeremy Efroymson, whose family foundation also was its main funder. The Indianapolis-based Efroymson Fund helped get the…
The recent bust at the home of former Colts quarterback Jack Trudeau, and his subsequent arrest for allegedly hosting a party where high school students consumed alcohol, reflects current law in Indiana. But it does not reflect the attitudes of some toward the appropriate age at which one is capable of making fully informed decisions about alcohol use. More important, it reflects the fractured nature of how the law views an adult and the rights and responsibilities associated with adulthood….
Companies receiving a Phase 1 SBIR match from the state need to apply for second-stage funding by July 20. Applications can be downloaded on the IEDC Web site. The proposal for funds should be no longer than 12 pages and include a commercialization plan describing how the product would be moved to market and any challenges that would need to be overcome. The proposal also should include a budget describing the funds required for The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has…
Aggressive expansion plans by Indianapolis’ three biggest hospital systems have pushed Greenfield-based Hancock Regional Hospital
to change up its plans to build an outpost of physician offices in northwest Hancock County, near the borders of Marion and
Hamilton counties. But Hancock Regional isn’t backing down.
Only 29 percent of executives have discussed a transition plan with their boards, according to a study by San Francisco-based
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Converging with this lack of preparedness is an approaching deficit of leaders.
My wife, Cheri, and I live in one of those newfangled, don’tstray-from-the-mainstream neighborhoods. It’s governed by wellmeaning “covenants and restrictions.” It has “architectural control guidelines.” These documents were formulated by a “development control committee” to “enhance the value and appearance of the community.” (We’re especially concerned with the “value” part, until our property-tax bills arrive, at which point we protest the assessed value.) Included among the controls in our neighborhood is a color palette. I imagine some designer back in…
A federal judge in a high-profile fraud case has slapped a former Brightpoint Inc. manager with a $50,000 fine-a relatively modest sum, but one the manager says he lacks the resources to pay. Judge Harold Baer of U.S. District Court in Manhattan late last month assessed the fine against Tim Harcharik, the former director of risk management for the wireless phone wholesaler. Harcharik, 53, was the sole remaining defendant in a securities fraud lawsuit the SEC brought in 2003 against…
In the three months since being named president of Ivy Tech Community College, Tom Snyder
has read up on the school’s history and held meetings with 4,000 faculty, students and others to gain insight into the school.
He’s also made decisions about hiring, cost-cutting and student services.
The last writings of the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut portrayed the Americans of today as “drunk” on fossil fuels. Of course, that’s only partly true. What we’re really addicted to are the machines we pour the fuel into, especially the automobile. We have more registered vehicles in this country than we have drivers. In 2005, we collectively drove more than 3 trillion miles in our vehicles-15,000 miles for each of the nation’s 199 million drivers. And the numbers go up…
