Conseco Inc. provides Medicare supplement, cancer, heart/stroke and accident insurance policies as
well as annuities and life insurance products through a nationwide network of distributors.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre presents "The Elephant Man," Oct. 30-Nov. 15. For details, click
here.
Cardinal Stage presents the comedy "Boom,"
Oct. 30-Nov. 15, at the Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington. For details, click here.
IU Auditorium presents Bob Dylan, Nov. 2. For details, click here.
Actors Theatre of Indiana presents "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra," Nov.
4-15, at Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Terrace. For details, click here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents "The Casket Girls," Oct. 29-30, at Pike Performing
Arts Center. For details, click here.
Clowes Memorial
Hall presents The Swell Season (best known for the title song from the movie "Once"), Nov. 2. For
details, click here.
IPL will receive $20 million to help pay for a $48.8 million project to install more than 28,000 smart meters; Midwest ISO
will get $17.3 million toward a $34.5 million project to install 150 phasor measurement units.
Like zombies coming to life in a low-budget horror flick, the Halloween specialty shops that invade empty store fronts are
groaning with activity.
The awards of $500 each total $62,500. “In lieu of doing a party, it was more
appropriate and more the corporate culture of Gregory & Appel to do something charitable,”
Vice President Steve Appel said.
It’s good to be among the favored few, those blessed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to scoop up the remnants
of failed banks. Because it was on the FDIC list of approved buyers, Cincinnati-based First Financial Bancorp
was able to acquire Columbus, Ind.-based Irwin Financial Corp.’s banking operations under terms
that would make any deal-maker proud.
Investors dumped shares of ITT Educational Services Inc. on Thursday morning as the company remained mute on its year-end
profit forecast while announcing that its bad-debt expenses were rising faster than revenue.
Small Business Administration loan guarantees for the month of September 2009 for Indianapolis area
Firm combines traditional marketing, Web technology to help companies build successful brands. Measurable results help companies
document effectiveness.
Employment in Indiana’s insurance industry has remained stable despite a poor economy.
A California water bottler has purchased a Plainfield distribution building for its first Midwestern outpost.
The developer of the proposed $80 million project is facing foreclosure on the property at the same time adjoining land critical
to the project’s development has been scheduled for liquidation by a lender.
CEO Kevin Modany and his management team have become accustomed to regulatory uncertainty—and to growing the business
at a pace most executives can only dream about.
Home-building powerhouse Ryan Homes is marketing lots in 10 subdivisions it has taken over from the defunct local builder
CP Morgan Communities.
The locally based company plans to raise millions of dollars by selling nine undeveloped
tracts in Indianapolis, Fishers, Plainfield and Lebanon.
A children’s amusement center is taking over the former Circuit City space at Clay Terrace in Carmel.
I see Mayor Greg Ballard’s plan to demolish abandoned homes as a sign of failure, an acknowledgment
that our leaders—those whom we elected, business leaders, policy people, and leaders of not-for-profits—have failed
us, much in the same way leaders dramatically failed the auto companies, investment banks and mortgage companies.
Specialists are clustering to focus on a single ailment, such as pain, to cut costs and improve quality of treatment.
Shares of Carmel-based life insurer soared as much as 26 percent, to $6.30 apiece, in morning trading after New York-based
Paulson & Co. agreed to buy $78 million in Conseco stock and $200 million in company bonds.
