A major sponsorship upgrade by local drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. and a quartet of new corporate partners has helped the Indianapolis
Tennis Championships stem its losses after the departure of its title sponsor.
A surge in the number of corporations seeking minority participation on contracts has prompted an alliance between two local law firms looking to capitalize on the trend. The June affiliation between Bingham McHale LLP, the city’s fifth-largest practice, and Coleman Graham & Stevenson LLC, a minority-owned upstart, resulted from mutual friendships within the two firms, said Toby McClamroch, Bingham McHale’s managing partner. “The marketplace is becoming more complex, and the business community is demanding and expecting a multicultural and diverse…
When it comes to throwing money at doctors in Vermont, Eli Lilly and Co. is tops. According to Vermont’s attorney general, Indianapolis-based Lilly exceeded all other drugmakers in 2006 for doling out cash, food and gifts to doctors, as well as hospitals, clinics and universities. The report did not specify how much Lilly gave. But […]
Keller Crescent Co., an Evansville package printer and advertising firm, has been bought by Clondalkin Group of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for an undisclosed price. Keller employs 100 at a printing facility it operates at 6448 Saguaro Court on the northwest side. It mostly supplies Eli Lilly and Co. The company has 400 at a […]
Eli Lilly and Co. won European approval today for its once-daily version of the impotence pill Cialis, Reuters reported. The OK from the European Commission could help Lilly differentiate its erectile dysfunction therapy from competitor Viagra. Before, Cialis and Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra have been taken as needed. But now, the new low-dose formulation of Cialis […]
A methodical process is the right way to change CEOs, according to succession-planning experts. And Indiana needs more of
its major corporations to do so. A wave of aging executives is at or near normal retirement age–in Indiana and nationwide.
How well those companies’ CEOs pass the baton will have a big impact on their companies’ futures.
Eli Lilly and Co. has settled another 900 liability lawsuits over its top-selling drug, Zyprexa, the Associated Press reports. Lilly did not disclose the amount it paid to settle those suits, saying it was not material to the company. Indianapolis-based Lilly has battled a flood of lawsuits claiming Zyprexa causes weight gain, diabetes or high […]
It doesn’t have a headquarters or any full-time employees yet. But local life sciences startup INphoton LLC has attracted something equally important: an experienced manager. This month, INphoton hired Steven Plump, Eli Lilly and Co.’s former chief marketing officer, as its CEO. Plump, who retired from Lilly in 2006 after a 30-year career there, hopes to commercialize the high-tech research imaging techniques that INphoton’s founders discovered in Indiana University laboratories. In the process, INphoton could cut pharmaceutical companies’ cost of…
Chuck Schalliol, the state’s first budget director, will join Baker & Daniels next month, the Indianapolis law firm said today. The former Eli Lilly and Co. executive and BioCrossroads president, who is trained as a lawyer, will focus on life sciences, venture capital and corporate finance.
If you avoided getting hit by the falling brick that has been the residential homebuilding sector, you may want to get ready to do another sidestep. It looks as if weakness in homebuilders is spreading to real estate investment trusts, and it is early enough to take defensive action. Before getting into it, let me say that I believe the overall stock market has plenty of upside, despite the recent heady gains. My reason for avoiding REITs now is that…
Want to join a gym but don’t feel like splurging for the membership? No problem, if your company is one of a handful to offer a new wellness product that lets employees exercise at no charge. Called InTune, the program from Indianapolis-based insurance giant WellPoint Inc. is loaded with an array of services not unlike existing wellness offerings. Online and in-person coaching, diet advisers and holistic practitioners are among the benefits, for instance. But it’s the free gym membership that…
Seven Indiana public companies not only own corporate jets, but also let their executives use them for personal trips. Cummins
Inc., Hillenbrand Industries Inc., Zimmer Holdings Inc., Eli Lilly and Co., NiSource Inc., WellPoint Inc. and 1st Source Corp.
all allow some personal use of company jets.
A biotech company that’s attempting to commercialize an antibiotic developed by Eli Lilly and Co. has filed for an $86.3 million initial public offering. Targanta Therapeutics Corp. two years ago bought the rights to Lilly’s skin infection treatment, oritavancin. The company briefly had its headquarters in Indianapolis before moving it to Cambridge, Mass., last year. Lilly will see a big payoff if Targanta succeeds. The company’s IPO filing says it must pay the Indianapolis pharma giant $10 million when oritavancin…
Eli Lilly and Co. stock has returned just 1 percent per year in the nine years since CEO Sidney Taurel took office. Meanwhile,
Taurel has taken home $44 million in pay and been given stock options valued at $114 million more. But most Lilly shareholders
aren’t raising a call for Taurel to hit the trail.
Eli Lilly and Co. said today it has bought Ivy Animal Health Inc. for an undisclosed price. The Overland Park, Kan., company, which primarily sells cattle growth promotants, will compliment Lilly’s Elanco animal health arm, Lilly said. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter and result in a charge to earnings of […]
The Indiana Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Tax Court have signed a letter of intent to move their offices to space formerly occupied by Eli Lilly & Co. at 30 S. Meridian. They’re leaving National City Center. The courts…
Three counterfeit batches of Zyprexa, Eli Lilly and Co.’s blockbuster schizophrenia drug, have been discovered in the supply chain in the United Kingdom, according to Reuters. The product has been recalled by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to err on the side of caution even though the agency thinks only two batches […]
Eli Lilly and Co. could benefit from a recent New England Journal of Medicine report that Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug, might heighten the risk of heart attacks by 43 percent, according to Forbes. Lilly and a Japanese partner have developed Actos, which is similar to Avandia. However, unlike GlaxoSmithKline’s drug, Actos doesn’t make a big […]
Virtually unnoticed in the spate of bills that emerged from the 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly was creation of a new officer in state government who can be extremely helpful in the state’s economic development efforts. The law creating a Geographic Information Officer, or GIO, gives official status to an important discipline that has been blossoming over the last 25 years and is increasingly relied upon in business and political decision-making. A Geographic Information System is a collection…
More needs to be done to improve minority involvement in the construction industry than simply employing a certain percentage of the companies on projects. That’s the consensus of the Indiana Construction Roundtable, an organization made up of some of the biggest users and providers of construction services. Its diversity outreach initiative aims to increase minority participation within the trades by rewarding contractors who support education and training, employ minorities and women, and mentor small minority- and women-owned businesses. The initiative…
