Carmel firm ties schools’ systems together to boost safety
Layered Solutions Inc. is helping schools enhance their mass-notification and emergency-management systems with products that could make it easier and faster to communicate in a crisis.
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Growth of Indy-based Defenders home-security company outpaces industry
The local family-run company specializing in home security and smart-home technology has grown 20 percent each of the past two years, with $600 million in revenue projected for 2018.
Heritage Group aims to boost startup ecosystem with accelerator
The Heritage Group announced it is partnering with worldwide entrepreneurial mentoring network Techstars to start a business accelerator that officials said will boost local startups and raise the region’s profile with venture capitalists.
Hoosier businessman starts active-shooter preparedness business
A former police officer and county coroner has tapped Seymour Police Department Capt. Carl Lamb to serve as training manager for churches, schools and businesses.
Indianapolis consulting firm acquired by Cincinnati company
Indianapolis-based Allegiant International has seen tremendous growth in recent years thanks to its supply-chain work with General Motors.
2018 Innovation Issue: Visual outlines become more popular note-taking tool
Visual note-taking—which involves distilling in real time the points of a meeting, conference or speech with a combination of sketched images and words—has just started catching on.
2018 Innovation Issue: Building an innovation team from the ground up
Human resources and benefits company FirstPerson regularly sends workers to Chicago; Silicon Valley; Austin, Texas; and other far-flung tech hubs to pick up new skills and broaden their thinking.
Call center company plans to hire 621 at new Indiana facility
Toledo, Ohio-based United Collection Bureau Inc. announced Tuesday that it expects to spend $2.4 million to lease, renovate and equip a 55,000-square-foot building where it will eventually employ more than 600 workers.
After split driven by succession planning, family-owned Crew Carwash is in growth mode
This year, Indianapolis’ largest car wash chain—which is also one of the nation’s largest—marks its 70th anniversary. Sort of.
Castleton call center to close, eliminating 107 jobs
A client has decided to move its customer service operations in-house, according to the firm.
Claymon brothers sell off another mobile office business
Brent and Matthew Claymon, the entrepreneurs known for selling Pac Van Inc. for tens of millions of dollars in 2006, have sold another Indianapolis-based company that leases mobile offices and storage units.
Firms find gold helping vendors sell on Amazon
Amazon has become such a colossal retail force that scores of companies have formed specifically to support Amazon vendors. And some of those firms are based in Indiana.
Geotechnical engineering firm scooped up by Kansas consulting company
Indianapolis-based Earth Exploration Inc. has worked with transportation agencies in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. It will retain all of its employees as it joins a firm with more than 4,000.
Waste services firm bought by Florida company in $66M cash deal
CGS Services Inc. was on its fourth generation of family ownership when Florida-based Advanced Disposal Services bought the central Indiana company.
Some Indiana employers abiding by overtime rule, even though it’s in limbo
The rule—which raised the pay threshold for salaried workers to be exempt from overtime pay—would have affected about 87,000 Indiana workers if fully implemented as planned on Dec. 1. It’s now in limbo due to a court decision.
Indiana expands options on business registration website
Indiana’s business-registration website has been expanded to also allow users to access services through Indiana’s Department of Revenue and Department of Workforce Development.
FlashPoint adds to client base with California acquisition
Indianapolis-based leadership consulting firm FlashPoint Inc. closed on the acquisition of Sonoma Leadership Systems on Sunday.
Schools with higher-paid teachers may benefit from IPS proposal
IPS is moving toward a “weighted” budgeting system that will use a formula to set individual school budgets based on enrollment and need—a break from the current system.
State launches ‘one-stop’ business portal to blast through red tape
The state promises the website will make the bureaucracy that comes with opening and maintaining a business easier to navigate.
Modeling agency founder Helen Wells dies at 89
Hundreds of admirers took to Facebook to remember Helen Wells, who started her agency in 1980 and provided talent to many of Indiana's top companies.