Talk of synergies and consolidation may warm the hearts of investors, who are eager for Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical to boost returns, but they cast uncertainty over some of central Indiana’s best scientific jobs.
Dow Chemical is exploring all options for its subsidiary, Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences. The company employs 1,500 workers in the Indianapolis area and, as a stand-alone firm, would be the fifth-largest by revenue in Indiana.
A Canadian software firm has signed an agreement to acquire CTI Group Holdings Inc., one of the smallest publicly traded companies based in Indianapolis.
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday that the planned $48B deal could stifle competition between health insurers, including in the early battleground state of New Hampshire.
The $106 billion merger would create a company that would control nearly a third of the global market and threaten to dominate the U.S. by bringing together Budweiser and Miller Genuine Draft.
An activist investor from Illinois began scarfing up shares of Ameriana Bancorp in 2010. He soon pushed for a sale—a wish that was granted in June when the New Castle institution agreed to be acquired for $69 million.
Anthem Inc. CEO Joseph Swedish and Aetna Inc. CEO Mark Bertolini will tell federal lawmakers Tuesday that the deals are necessary to succeed in a changing health-care landscape.
The Indianapolis-based producer of high-end soaps, shampoos and conditioners for hotels and resorts will become part of Guest Supply but keep its local operations.
The software producer, one of the state’s oldest, was acquired by Washington, D.C.-based Arlington Capital Partners for an undisclosed price.
Trilogy Health Services LLC, which operates more than 70 senior-living facilities in Indiana, is being acquired. The company has at least 14 properties in central Indiana, including two in Indianapolis.
Schurz, based in Mishawaka, owns nine radio stations in Indiana—four in South Bend and five in Lafayette. It also owns WSBT-TV Channel 22, the CBS affiliate in South Bend.
The controversial co-founder and former CEO of life insurance giant Conseco Inc. (now CNO Financial Group Inc.) spearheaded the purchase of a small life insurance company operated out of Texas and plans to gradually build up its operations here.
Heartland Food Products Group announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire low-calorie sweetener brand Splenda, creating the need for a major expansion at its Indianapolis-area operations.
Anthem Inc. has used the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand names as a powerful tool on its way to becoming the nation’s second-largest health insurer. But those Blue brands now are a hurdle for Anthem’s $54.2 billion acquisition of Cigna Corp.
NCA Group Inc., an insurance-claims services firm that has been based in Fishers since its founding in 1984, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Hammond, Louisiana-based Worley Claims Services.
Mega-mergers among Anthem Inc. and its fellow health insurance giants could put pressure on provider-owned health plans such as Advantage Health Solutions and Indiana University Health Plans.
Anthem Inc.’s bid to become the largest health insurer in history is setting up one of the biggest debt offerings backing a takeover.
The company says its corporate headquarters will remain in Indianapolis, where its operations are responsible for contributing millions of dollars in corporate taxes and charitable giving.
The next challenge for Anthem Inc. in its quest to marry Cigna Corp. is to get its legal guardians to allow the ceremony to happen.
Cincinnati-based First Financial Bancorp has agreed to pay $110 million to acquire Indianapolis-based Oak Street Holdings Corp., a lender to insurance agents and brokers, the bank announced Thursday afternoon.
