2025 Corporate 100: Vera Bradley seeks to reinvigorate brand with new materials, silhouettes
Chief Marketing Officer Alison Hiatt explains the rebranding strategy and explains what has been working as the company tries to recover from lagging sales.
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2025 Corporate 100: Sweetwater’s focus on the details builds high-value relationships
IBJ talked with CEO Mike Clem about Sweetwater’s huge Fort Wayne campus, which includes the nation’s largest music store, a performance pavilion, recording studios, professional service center, theater, café, salon and more.
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2024 Corporate 100: Hillenbrand shifts focus to industrial manufacturing
Kimberly Ryan’s time as CEO of Hillenbrand has been marked by transition transition, with several acquisitions and the divestiture of Batesville Casket, where she got her start.
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Do it Best CEO says Electric Works ‘will change the face of Fort Wayne’
Late this year, the company—founded in 1945—will move into a new, 200,000-square-foot headquarters as the anchor tenant of Electric Works, a massive redevelopment of a 39-acre historic campus in the core of Fort Wayne that housed General Electric Co. until it closed in 2014.
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2020 Indiana 100: Cook Group still blazing own trail 9 years after founder’s death
The company, whose largest business is medical devices, generated $2.4 billion in revenue last year and employs 13,531 people worldwide, including 7,699 in Indiana.
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2024 Corporate 100: Culture, acquisitions key to Lippert’s growth, longevity
Today, Lippert has 140 factories around the world and about 14,000 team members worldwide. Jason Lippert has focused on overhauling the company’s culture with an emphasis on personal and leadership development.
2024 Corporate 100: Telamon thrives by connecting people, products
Today, Telamon operates in 13 states, India, Mexico and Macedonia and designs, builds and installs networks that support telecommunication networks, appliances and industrial processes.
2021 Indiana 100: Vera Bradley exec marries creativity, business needs
She started at the company as vice president of design and is now chief creative officer, meaning she oversees the brand’s signature product designs and works closely with the product development and technical design teams.
2021 Indiana 100: Attorney-turned-HR officer works to diversify bank
During a 2015 lunch with the bank’s president and CEO, Cindy Konich, and its then-human resources director, Lottie told them how much she enjoyed working on human resources and employment-law issues. She thought it was a casual conversation, but her colleagues had something else in mind.
2021 Indiana 100: Tech, younger customers key to RV maker’s growth
Bob Martin is the head of Thor Industries, one of the biggest publicly traded companies in Indiana and, instead of resting on his laurels, he’s creating technology-oriented executive roles within his company and looking to make big technological advancements in Thor’s products.
2021 Indiana 100: Taltz leader sees more potential for blockbuster Lilly drug
Mathilde Merlet oversees one of Eli Lilly and Co.’s fastest-growing products, a medicine called Taltz that treats a variety of dermatology and rheumatology disorders.
2021 Indiana 100: Pandemic knocks Elwood Staffing but Columbus firm is roaring back
In this sprawling ecosystem of staffing firms, Elwood Staffing is, while not the big dog, certainly nothing to be trifled with. In 2020, Staffing Industry Analysts named it the 10th-largest U.S. industrial staffing firm, the 19th-largest U.S. staffing firm overall, and the 49th-largest staffing firm in the world.
2020 Indiana 100: ADESA exec integrating online, in-person auctions
Srisu Subrahmanyam brings a diverse set of experiences to his job as chief operating officer of ADESA.
Indiana 100: Kite’s CFO helped set up company to weather downturn
Heath Fear has guided the company to surer financial footing, largely by orchestrating the sell-off of two-dozen less properties to free up cash for future investments.
Indiana 100: CNO investment chief says keep-it-simple approach works best
Eric Johnson leads a team with $25.3 billion in assets under management.
2019 Indiana 100: From casket-making roots, Hillenbrand branches into industrial equipment
The Batesville-based company recognized that it needed a new growth engine after Americans began embracing cremation as an alternative to casket burials.
2019 Indiana 100: Shoe Carnival CEO wants to ‘make it easy on the customer’
CEO Cliff Sifford says he encourages store managers to run their stores like entrepreneurs.
2019 Indiana 100: Duke veteran sees company, real estate industry evolve
Ann Colussi Dee, who's been with the company 23 years, oversees 12 attorneys and paralegals based in Indianapolis, Chicago and Atlanta.
2019 Indiana 100: New exec at OneAmerica pilots its largest division
Sandy McCarthy is president of retirement services, which has more than 1 million participants.
2019 Indiana 100: Glick takes deliberative tack as apartment sector booms
CEO David Barrett said the last decade has been great for apartment developers, but he knows more challenging times are ahead.
2019 Indiana 100: Harrowing recession made trailer-maker Wabash National stronger
Thanks in part to that diversification, Wabash National in 2018 racked up revenue of $2.3 billion, the highest in the company’s history.
2018 Indiana 100: KAR accelerating plan to digitize auto auction biz
“People are still going to go to physical auctions, people are still going to use wholesalers, but we see this as the wave of the future,” says TradeRev President Becca Polak.
2018 Indiana 100: Allegion doesn’t just make locks; it’s a tech firm
“We’ve just really grown up and kind of grown into what we are today, and it’s been a really neat story,” says Allegion Senior Vice President Tracy Kemp.
2018 Indiana 100: Meeting the needs of open offices
“Culture starts at the top. It’s understanding and realizing your people really are the company, so you need to treat them with dignity and respect,” says Kimball CFO Michelle Schroeder.