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Indianapolis-based Celadon Group Inc. has bought the truckload business as well as some tractors and trailers from cross-town trucking firm Air Road Express Inc. for an undisclosed price. Excluding fuel surcharges, the Air Road Express truckload operation logged about $26 million in revenue last year. Celadon said it made the purchase to broaden its customer […]
Southsiders may have wondered what’s going on at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and County Line Road, across from Lowe’s and McDonald’s. Well, wonder no more. Locally based Peacock Companies is planning a new retail strip with outlots including…
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC intends to vote in opposition to the $10.9 billion buyout offer for Warsaw prosthetics company Biomet Inc., according to The New York Times. The New York firm owns 0.5 percent of Biomet shares. Last week, Institutional Shareholder Services, a Maryland shareholder advisory service, recommended voting against the offer because it […]
Patrick Industries Inc. has warned 44 workers that they might be laid off because of plans to close an Elkhart plant that makes interior doors for RVs and motor homes, according to the South Bend Tribune. Elkhart-based Patrick has employs 1,000 workers who supply the RV industry.
The Fishers Town Council last night approved rezoning a portion of land at the site of the proposed RiverPlace project to allow residential units in addition to an already planned retail and business district, according to WXIN-TV Fox 59. The development will be located at 96th Street and Allisonville Road. Plans for the site include […]
The Fishers Town Council could decide the fate tonight of a controversial mixed-use project that includes residential high-rises along the White River.
What do you think they’ll do? The $500-million project by Centre…
The Indiana Centers for Applied Protein Sciences, or INCAPS, has changed its name to Monarch LifeSciences LLC to emphasize its focus on proteomics. Monarch was chosen because proteins are of central significance in a caterpillar’s transformation into a monarch butterfly. The company offers protein and biomarker contract research and services to drug and biotech companies […]
Carmel bank software developer Baker Hill plans to announce at its 1 p.m. news conference that it will create between 100 and 200 jobs, according to a source familiar with the announcement. The company has 200 employees in Carmel and a handful in other states. Indiana Economic Development Corp. President Nate Feltman will be on […]
Days could be numbered for an 85-year-old independent pharmacy at the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and 49th streets. The building that houses Hamaker Pharmacy, along with Cafe Patachou, D&Z Gifts, Meridian Heights Cleaners and Corks Grocery, is up for sale….
Subaru of America Inc. is updating the “It’s What Makes a Subaru, a Subaru” marketing campaign by keying on environmentally friendly operation of its car assembly plant in Lafayette. Among other points, the campaign says the Japanese-owned factory sent its last load of waste to a landfill three years ago, according to the Journal & […]
David Colby’s dealings with a California woman who recently sued him may have played a role in his ouster as WellPoint Inc.’s chief financial officer last Thursday. Bloomberg reported late Friday that the woman, Rita DiCarlo of Ventura County, Calif., charged in the lawsuit that Colby failed to follow through on a promise to give […]
Carmel bank software developer Baker Hill has scheduled a 1 p.m. economic development announcement with Indiana Economic Development Corp. President Nate Feltman. Local entrepreneur Mark Hill and other investors sold Baker Hill Corp. to Experian of Costa Mesa, Calif., in August 2005 for more than $75 million.
Stag Capital Partners has bought two warehouses and a property leased by a manufacturer-all in Lafayette, and totaling 466,400 square feet, the Boston company said. One warehouse is leased to Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc., a unit of Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar Inc., and the other is leased to New York-based Toyota Tsusho America Inc., also a […]
Emmis Communications Corp. is turning to Google in its search for relief from a radio-industry slump. The local media company
is tapping the power of the popular Internet search engine to sell advertising for its Indianapolis and New York radio properties.
Hhgregg Inc. has blasted past the $1 billion-in-sales barrier. Next stop, $5 billion? Such a colossal number might sound far-fetched for the Indianapolis-based electronics and appliance retailer, which remains minuscule compared with rivals like Best Buy and Sears. But not to the retail veterans plotting the company’s growth strategy. They’re not talking publicly these days, because the company is in a so-called quiet period as it readies for its $172 million initial public offering. But a 102-page prospectus for the…
Baby boomers are fast approaching the official retirement age, with the first of them turning 60 last year-President Bush and Bill Clinton being the most prominent among them. And as the boomers turn gray, a new generation has begun to make its presence known in the corporate world. In the 1990s, it was Generation X. Today, it is the so-called Millennial Generation-people born between 1977 and 1995. Tech-savvy, happy and creative, Millennials are nearly 80 million strong, by some estimates….
Went to the gas station last week. Filled ‘er up. It’d been a few weeks since I’d done that. Seemed like the price had jumped pretty dramatically. The pump clicked off. The total read $48.75. Egad. Next day, Indianapolis declared a “Knozone Air Quality Action Day.” Some fellow at the Department of Public Works told the local paper there was “literally dirt in the air.” The paper described this gunk as “floating particles the diameter of a human hair,” particles…
With the 2011 Super Bowl galloping off to Dallas, pressure is building to bring in more of the marquee sports events the city’s
economy has come to rely on to keep hotels full, retail businesses humming and the national and international spotlight focused
on Indianapolis.
A former head of the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance says some Marion County homeowners soon could see property-tax
increases of as much as 50 percent–far higher than government officials estimated. In part, that’s because of Indiana’s decision
five years ago to abolish the inventory tax.
