Columbus-based Cummins has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering for its filtration business. Cummins announced last summer that it was looking at “strategic alternatives” for the business.
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Corteva, one of Indiana’s largest publicly traded companies, plans to split its seed and pesticide businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies by the end of 2026.
New York City-based media conglomerate IAC, which acquired Indianapolis-based Angie’s List in 2017, announced Monday that it plans to spin off its ownership stake in the company, which now operates as Angi Inc.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the split will help IBM focus on its cloud platform and artificial intelligence, while the new public company will provide services to manage the infrastructure of businesses and other organizations.
The spinoff company, Red Technologies, is built around proprietary software that Spot launched in 2015 to help connect shippers, trucking companies and drivers for the purpose of freight brokering.
The goal is to inspire creativity and entrepreneurship among employees who have ideas for products and services that can complement the larger company.
The spinoff, called Sexton Biotechnologies, has raised $5 million in outside investment and will spin off in October. The biotech develops cell and gene therapy tools used to grow cells for medical purposes.
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.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is looking to expand with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. But customers in central Indiana won’t come along for the ride. To ease antitrust concerns, Comcast plans to hand 2.5 million customers to a new spinoff called GreatLand Connections.
Just call 2014 the year of the corporate spinoff frenzy. And 2015 might be just as crazy.
Dow AgroSciences LLC is likely to become a stand-alone public company in the next three years, according to some Wall Street analysts—if the wunderkind division of Dow Chemical Co. lives up to sky-high expectations.
There’s not a lot of sizzle among the 54 strip shopping centers and 44 enclosed malls that Simon Property Group Inc. plans to spin off into a new public company early next year.
One of the largest independent survivors of the subprime debacle is staking its future on a real estate appraisal business based in Indianapolis.
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.
Aasif Bade started Ambrose Property Group with three employees this month.
Charlie & Barney’s is quietly expanding into unorthodox niches, placing its product in unusual places — like convenience
stores.
