As co-founder and head of sales and marketing, Brooke Billingsley has helped build Indianapolis-based Perception Strategies
Inc. — a health
care mystery shopping business co-founded by her husband, Kevin.
Locke Reynolds LLP’s merger with Frost Brown Todd LLC will become final Jan. 5. But it’s not the first time the firm has sought a marriage. Locke Reynolds Partner Jim Dimos acknowledged in an interview with IBJ that in the past few years the Indianapolis law firm has had conversations with several local rivals, without […]
Partners of the Indianapolis law firm of Locke Reynolds LLP late yesterday approved a merger with Frost Brown Todd LLC, a larger firm based in Louisville. The deal will be effective Jan. 5, said Locke Reynolds partner Jim Dimos, emphasizing the merger will allow the firm to better serve its clients. “We identified 10 regional […]
Ice Miller may be the biggest law firm in Indianapolis, but it’s only a medium-sized player in the national landscape. That likely prompted Ice Miller and the smaller, Louisville-based firm of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC to merge in order to stay relevant. “You need to provide legal services in more than one jurisdiction to […]
The city’s largest law firm, Ice Miller LLP, plans to merge with Louisville-based Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC on Jan. 1, several sources in the legal community said. Spokeswomen for both firms said they could not immediately comment. Sources familiar with the discussions asked that their identities not be revealed. It is unclear which firm […]
The Indy Racing League suddenly finds itself at odds with Midwestern farmers over a decision to make a Brazilian consortium
its ethanol supplier starting next year.
Employers, now doubly pinched by steadily rising health insurance premiums and a steadily deteriorating economy, are searching
for new and larger cost-shifting tools, according to survey and anecdotal evidence from Mercer, a global benefits brokerage
and consulting firm.
A growing number of companies strapped for cash and struggling to pay their bills on time is presenting an unusual opportunity
for Vontoo Inc., a local IT firm.
Duke Gold’s Speedway International Inc., a longtime Volkswagen and Subaru car dealership on the northwest outskirts of downtown, went out of business Friday after its owner, Larry “Duke” Gold, died of a self-inflicted gunshot. The cause of the Nov. 19 death was ruled a suicide by the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Gold, 49, was found […]
Jim Rosenstihl, an Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame coch, and Jim Limp, a retired Eli Lilly employee, together exemplified
an undying, unyielding, unrelenting friendship.
Charlie & Barney’s is quietly expanding into unorthodox niches, placing its product in unusual places — like convenience
stores.
Tony Bennett, Indiana’s new superintendent of public instruction, says his priorities include restoring discipline to the
classroom, recruiting topnotch teachers and adequately compensating
them, increasing the percentage of education dollars spent directly on instruction, and reducing regulations so schools can
focus more on student instruction.
Most colleges and universities in central
Indiana are being especially frugal because the value of their university endowments has plunged along with the market,donations
may decrease, and enrollment may decline, due to lack of student loan availability.
Rather than further test Indianapolis’ tolerance for edginess, public art guru Mindy Taylor Ross is taking a different tack in 2009 by bringing in the widely known kinetic sculpture of the late George Rickey. Installation of an untold number of Rickey sculptures will begin on April 4, said Ross, public art director for the Arts […]
Target, the primary sponsor of 2008 Indy Racing League champion Scott Dixon and his teammate Dan Wheldon, secured $16 million of exposure value during race broadcasts this past season, more than twice the…
For its next major public exhibition, the Arts Council of Indianapolis plans to bring the moving, geometric sculpture of the late George Rickey. Rickey’s time in Indiana played a key role in developing the tall, sweeping sculptures that won him acclaim in the 1960s. He was born in 1907 in South Bend, but his father, […]
Hendricks Regional Health and YMCA of Greater Indianapolis announced a partnership today to build an integrated fitness center and medical office building – something they say will be unique in Indiana. The 100,000-square-foot center, named Hendricks Regional Health YMCA, will sit on nearly 29 acres along U.S. 36 in Avon. It will provide medical, wellness, […]
Car and motorcycle dealerships owned by Russell J. Dellen before his death will continue under family ownership, according to one of his sons, Nick Dellen. Russ Dellen, who died of a heart attack on Nov. 8 at age 56, owned two car dealerships in Greenfield – one handling Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac brands, and […]
Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz is making good on his promise to walk to Kokomo if Indiana Pacers guard Jamal Tinsley was still on the roster come the opening of the NBA…
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the Indianapolis-Marion
County Public Library and the Indianapolis Opera have come together to produce "Hansel & Gretel: Lost in the
Arts."
