Throughout our visit to five countries in the Mideast, we found the people friendly and helpful.It is not our purpose on these trips to argue with the locals or try to convert them to our way of thinking, but simply to learn about them, their culture and ideas.
He’s called The Peanut King, but these days Richard Green, president of the Indianapolis-based Richard Green Co., offers a lot more than just goobers. His company, founded in 1957, is a mini-conglomerate of sorts, selling pretty much anything necessary for work in the food-concessions business. From a nondescript cluster of buildings on South Meridian Street, […]
U.S. jobless claims fell more than expected for the second straight week, but the number of Americans continuing to receive unemployment insurance benefits rose above 6 million for the first time. Analysts expect the labor market to remain weak for the most of this year, as many employers are reluctant to hire until an economic […]
IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin chimes in with an update on efforts to launch a new Indianapolis ballet company:
The potential launch of a…
Mike Alley made lots of money running Fifth Third Bank’s central Indiana operations until he quit in 2002 to run his own investment firm, and he’s still making it pumping resources into entrepreneurial companies.
That perspective — of shifting from a…
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
Marion County Treasurer Michael Rodman is scheduled to deliver an update today on distribution of long-delayed local property-tax bills worth a combined $1 billion. He now expects to put the bills in the mail by June 1. Rodman, a Democrat, will make his presentation to the City-County Council’s Administration and Finance Committee at 5:30 p.m. […]
Express Scripts Inc. stands to gain considerable negotiating clout from its $4.68 billion deal to buy the pharmacy benefits management businesses of health insurer WellPoint Inc., and experts say that could mean savings for customers buying prescription drugs. St. Louis-based Express Scripts said yesterday it planned to buy Indianapolis-based WellPoint’s NextRx subsidiaries in a cash-and-stock […]
Mayor’s CIB plan leaves food-beverage tax alone Scott [email protected] Mayor Greg Ballard’s plan to rescue the city’s Capital Improvement Board from an approaching $47 million budget deficit wouldn’t raise the local food-and-beverage tax, but it would increase several others already targeted in a bill moving through the state Legislature. The mayor appeared at the monthly […]
This past week I reported on Steak n Shake’s troubles with their advertising agency. That’s not the restaurant chain’s only concern. The company’s chairman, Sardar Biglari, isn’t so talkative these days….
Indiana and Purdue universities are well-positioned to take advantage of the $11.5 billion available for life sciences and
biotech research from the federal stimulus package.
Indiana is becoming not only a hotbed of “pharmacogenomics” research, but also a trailblazer in finding practical ways to
use it on the practitioner level.
Don Marsh lashed back last month after the owner of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing him of billing the company
for millions of dollars in personal expenses.
Indiana golf course operators are nervous about how the recession might lead to fewer golfers and lost revenue.
With economists predicting the statewide unemployment average will reach 10 percent this year, the experience of a hard-hit
city like Connersville offers a glimpse of what lies ahead for other manufacturing-reliant Hoosier communities.
Less than three months after hiring a new advertising agency, Steak n Shake has jettisoned and is now suing Georgia-based The Varnson Group.
A healthy economy can only be sustained under a true free-market capitalist society of producers and savers.
Dr. Barry Eppley, an Indianapolis surgeon, says an online crusade by a disgruntled former patient is taking a toll on his
practice, and he’s suing her.
Bill York, who has worked in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway press room since 1958, is no longer with the Brickyard.
Despite a year when it made doctors around the state boil with frustration, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield still outscored most of its peers in a customer satisfaction rating.
