North side retail nuggets
A new Yats restaurant has opened in Fishers, at 8352 E. 96th St. The Cajun and Creole favorite is next door to a Blockbuster half a mile east of Interstate 69. The locally owned restaurant also has locations on College…
A new Yats restaurant has opened in Fishers, at 8352 E. 96th St. The Cajun and Creole favorite is next door to a Blockbuster half a mile east of Interstate 69. The locally owned restaurant also has locations on College…
Development near the Honda Motor Co. car assembly plant under construction near Greensburg might go forward, now that the city and Decatur County Rural Water system have reached an agreement to supply water to the area. Signatures are about all that remain to ice the agreement, according to the Greensburg Daily News. The parties didn’t […]
A shrunken Thomson, the former manufacturer of RCA
televisions, is vacating a landmark office building at its Carmel headquarters to make way for St. Vincent Health, the parent
company of a growing chain of Indiana hospitals.
Americans spend billions every year on professional primping and pampering, but independent salons still are among the riskiest of small-business ventures-with a failure rate second only to restaurants. Hoping to buck that trend, some salon owners are trying different business models, breaking away from traditional booth-space rentals and engaging stylists as employees with a stake in the shop’s success. Large chains like Great Clips broke the mold decades ago, paying employees an hourly wage to cut patrons’ hair. Now local…
Home lending might sound like a staid business. But anyone weathering the changes now sweeping through the Indiana mortgage market knows otherwise. Last year, we saw the sale of two huge Indiana-based home lenders-Fort Wayne-based Waterfield Mortgage and Fishers-based Irwin Mortgage. Also sold was Carmel-based Oak Street Mortgage, which not long ago had been a high-flier poised to go public. These weren’t cases of owners cashing out at the top of the market. Quite the contrary. Irwin Mortgage had become…
By Larry O’Cull’s own admission, his company’s northwest-side office is staffed with “a bunch of geeks,” including himself. But as clients of product-development firm Priio will attest, it’s hip to be geek. A tour of the office offers a glimpse at a playground for engineering-inclined grown-ups. One of the firm’s 12 employees fiddles with the trigger on a paintball gun, while another tinkers with a concept for a propane-tank vending…
Americans are spending more than ever on their four-legged friends, and savvy central Indiana entrepreneurs are among those
cashing in.
Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services announced today that it will add 25 jobs to the 113 employed at its Carmel headquarters and spend $4 million to update equipment. Fifteen electric power cooperatives own the wholesale energy risk management and transaction executive firm, which was founded in 1999. The state is giving ACES up to $188,000 […]
Stock in ITT Educational Services Inc. shot up 8.4 percent this morning, to $91.80 a share, after reporting today that first-quarter profit rose 35 percent. The $27.6 million in net income came on a nearly 16-percent increase in revenue, to $204.2 million. The Carmel technology-oriented post-secondary school attributed the gains partly to improved student retention.
ITT Educational Services Inc. posted first-quarter profit of $27.6 million, up nearly 35 percent over the year-ago period. Revenue increased almost 16 percent in the quarter ended March 31 to $204.2 million. Both figures were driven partly by improved student retention. The Carmel technology-oriented post-secondary school also saw a 13-percent increase in new student enrollment.
A group led by Royal Bank of Scotland has made a $98.5 billion offer for ABN Amro, the Dutch parent of LaSalle Bank. The bid is higher than the $90 billion deal offered Monday by London-based Barclays Plc. A condition for the Edinburgh, Scotland, institution—along with bidding partners Santander Central Hispano SA and Fortis—is that […]
Edward J. Bonach has been tapped to replace Conseco Inc. Chief Financial Officer Eugene M. Bullis, who is retiring after seeing the Carmel insurer through its bankruptcy reorganization. Bonach was executive vice president and CFO of National Life Group, headquartered in Montpelier, Vt. Prior to National Life, Bonach spent 23 years at Allianz Life of […]
Bank of America likely will boost small-business lending in the Indianapolis area if it follows through on its $16 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank, banking observers say. However, they believe it would delay building a retail branch network until it could buy another bank with an established branch presence, local experts say. Jim Young, CEO […]
The planned acquisition of LaSalle Bank by Bank of America announced this morning would likely mean an expansion of small-business lending in Indianapolis, said a banker who competes in the market. Jim Young, president and CEO of Indiana Business Bank, said Bank of America would build on the foothold established in Indianapolis by Chicago-based LaSalle. […]
LaSalle Bank, which has offices downtown and in Carmel, will be spun off by its Dutch Parent, ABN Amro, to Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America for $21 billion as part of a larger deal considered to be the world’s biggest financial-services takeover. ABN Amro this morning said it would back a $91 billion acquisition offer […]
Justin Williams and Meredith Barrett grew up on the south side, but that’s not where they’ll live after getting married in September. They’re looking for an apartment downtown. It’s the only neighborhood they’re considering. “I love being right in the middle of everything,” said Williams, 25, a server at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro in Circle Centre. Barrett, a 22-year-old nurse at Wishard Hospital, said she “just likes to be able to walk everywhere.” The couple is part of a growing…
DOING GOOD LINDSAY CORNELIUS MBA student emerging as philanthropic leader To hear Lindsay Cornelius tell it, Indianapolis is the best place to live: It’s a growing city, with terrific new restaurants, fabulous art galleries, great parks, excellent museums, hip clubs and a booming downtown. But like any major metropoli tan area, it has its problems. And that has Cornelius, 26, determined to be among the legions of young men and women who care deeply about things like quality schools and…
Decatur County Commissioners have approved a 425-acre industrial park near the Honda Motor Co. assembly plant under construction at Greensburg. The decision Monday rebuffed an Area Plan Board recommendation in March against rezoning the area to industrial from agricultural, according to the Greensburg Daily News. The plan board opposed making the change after dozens of […]
Sometimes we need to be reminded of the simplest, most basic things. Like the value of profit in a capitalist society. In a week where I was hard pressed to find the time to write a column, my friend Roland Dorson submitted an unsolicited piece for our consideration. I’ve known the president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to be a witty man with a clever way with words. Here, he deftly summarizes a notion to which I and IBJ…
The java stands Hubbard & Cravens Coffee Co. opened a year ago within Clarian Health Partners’ three downtown hospitals are brewing a rich aroma of results. Yet executives of the locally based coffee retailer and wholesaler know sales could be sweeter. “The hospitals are so huge that we don’t capture even a third of what we could,” said Marcie Hubbard, director of store operations. “So the question is, how do you reach everybody in that entire hospital?” The 23 Taiwanese…