Ex-DEI chief runs on new track
The message to locally based USA Track & Field was clear. Downsize or risk losing financial support from the U.S. Olympic Committee. So USATF boss Doug Logan last week announced the board would…
The message to locally based USA Track & Field was clear. Downsize or risk losing financial support from the U.S. Olympic Committee. So USATF boss Doug Logan last week announced the board would…
Shoring up the state’s jobless-fund shortfall likely will cost employers and employees more.
First the good news about Indiana’s insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund: As part of its $787 billion stimulus, the federal government has just agreed to stop charging interest on its loans to pay benefits to the jobless. President Obama’s package allows Indiana to continue zero-percent borrowing for unemployment insurance through 2010, a provision that will […]
Indianapolis-based electronics and appliances retailer HHGregg Inc. plans to appoint a new CEO in August, when Jerry W. Throgmartin becomes executive chairman. The company’s current president, Dennis L. May, will take over for Throgmartin, a 33-year veteran of the chain who has served as CEO since 2003, HHGregg said yesterday. May, 41, joined HHGregg in […]
Indianapolis-based electronics and appliances retailer HHGregg Inc. said today it plans to appoint a new CEO in August. It also said its current CFO is stepping down. The company’s current president, Dennis L. May, will take over for Jerry W. Throgmartin, a 33-year veteran of the chain who has served as CEO since 2003. Throgmartin […]
Recently elected as a Hendricks County commissioner, Eric Wathen says his top priority is to complete the long-promised Ronald
Reagan Parkway, which would open a congestion-free path through the suburbs of Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield.
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Two partners at the Bingham McHale LLP law firm are taking five lawyers with them to form a firm that will concentrate on insurance defense work.
U.S. District Court Judge Larry J. McKinney upheld sanctions against Dennis E. Murray Sr. in his legal battle with Carmel-based insurer Conseco Inc.
Seven attorneys are leaving Indianapolis firm Bingham McHale to form a new insurance litigation firm, a move that one of the departing partners said came as a result of the large firm’s practice group effectively pricing itself out of the market. Those involved describing it as an amicable split that boils down to those attorneys […]
Company officials think HHGregg is well-positioned to fill the void that Circuit City Stores Inc. will leave when its stores are closed.
Steep discounts resulting from the liquidation of Circuit City Stores Inc. are expected to have a short-term negative impact on Indianapolis retailer HHGregg Inc., company officials said this morning in conference call with investors. But, ultimately, they think HHGregg is well-positioned to fill the void that the nation’s No. 2 electronic retailer will leave when […]
Steep discounts resulting from the liquidation of Circuit City Stores Inc. are expected to have a short-term negative impact on Indianapolis retailer HHGregg Inc., company officials said this morning in conference call with investors. But, ultimately, they think HHGregg is well-positioned to fill the void that the nation’s No. 2 electronic retailer will leave when […]
Indianapolis retailer HHGregg Inc. overcame a decline in comparable-store sales and the difficult economic environment during its third fiscal quarter, reporting profit of $17.1 million – a 13-percent improvement from the prior year period. Sales during the quarter were up almost 7 percent, to $416 million. Profit margins increased primarily because the company was able […]
Former Indiana University coach Bob Knight is contemplating coming out of retirement. Multiple sources said if the University of Georgia offers Knight its vacant men’s basketball coaching job, Knight would accept.
“I have never…
Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. exceeded analysts’ expectations in the fourth quarter, generating funds from operations of 69 cents per share – more than a nickel better than the consensus estimate. Funds from operations is a common measure of financial performance for real estate investment trusts like Duke. Excluding one-time items, funds from operations were 71 […]
Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. exceeded analysts’ expectations in the fourth quarter, generating funds from operations of 69 cents per share – more than a nickel better than the consensus estimate. Funds from operations is a common measure of financial performance for real estate investment trusts like Duke. Excluding one-time items, funds from operations were 71 […]
Greetings from New York.
My weekend included catching three Broadway shows (I’ll be reviewing them in the print IBJ this week) and reading a chunk of Dennis Lahane’s novel “The Given Day” while on the trains back and forth to New…
Don’t be surprised if a two-year state budget Gov. Mitch Daniels plans to propose tomorrow includes no overall spending increase for public schools. “Protecting education at today’s levels would be a huge achievement when revenues are plummeting or are down significantly,” Daniels said last week. “In many states right now, education is being cut, and […]
Beth Metzger has talked about opening a salon and day spa with her daughter, Jill Dennis, for years.