HOBART – SRS Distribution of Texas has acquired Hobart Roofing and Supply which has offices in Hobart and Valparaiso. Hobart Roofing and Supply, which has 28 employees, distributes roofing, siding and windows. The company was founded in 1949 and is owned by Jack Ronneau and Rod Ruess, who will remain with SRS.
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MISHAWAKA – AM General, which manufactures the military HUMVEE, has laid off 400 employees. The workers, who had just returned to week following a two-month layoff, will be out of work until at least March. The layoffs were attributed to a changing business climate due to delays in the awarding of a new Defense Department
BURNS HARBOR – Indiana Flame, which provides steel slab cutting equipment to steel mills, has announced a $14 million expansion for its operations in Burns Harbor and Gary. The project is expected to create 24 new jobs, bringing total employment to 66 by 2015. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. is providing $240,000 in training grants.
GARY – Ozinga Indiana Ready Mix Concrete has received a $140,384 grant to convert six of its diesel trucks to run on compressed natural gas. Ozinga is one of five companies in Indiana sharing in a federal energy efficiency grant of more than half a million dollars. As part of the grant, Ozinga will work
MERRILLVILLE – Lakeshore Public Television has announced the resignation of CEO Thomas Carroll. The resignation was announced following a meeting of the station’s board of directors. A nationwide search for a new CEO will begin immediately. Until a new CEO is named, board members Bonita Neff and Calvin Bellamy will assume CEO responsibilities. Carroll had
LAPORTE – Indiana University Health LaPorte and Starke hospitals have announced they have earned the STAR Program Certification. The certification qualifies IU Health La Porte and Starke hospitals to offer a state-of-the-art cancer rehabilitation program that will help survivors recover from the side effects and aftereffects of treatments. STAR Program Certification is an offering of
HAMMOND – Research reported in an article written by two Purdue University Calumet professors and a colleague that was published recently in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies has been cited as research of note by a prominent consulting firm. In their article, “Founder-CEOs, External Board Appointments, and the Likelihood of Corporate Turnaround in
