Advanced manufacturing employment in Indiana now features more than 540,000 workers employed in the sector, the highest employment level since 2001, according to a new report from Detroit-based LIFT—Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA institute. Employer demand spiked in Indiana, growing by 30 percent between the second quarter of 2018 and third quarter of […]
Jennifer Montague has been named vice president of communications and external affairs for Northern Illinois Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) in Merrillville. She will report to Violet Sistovaris, NIPSCO president, and be based at the company’s headquarters in Merrillville. Montague will oversee the company’s customer focused branding, marketing, economic development, municipal relations, media relations, advertising, charitable
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Businesses based in Eastport Centre Business Park in Valparaiso raised more than $22,000 to support United Way of Porter County social service programs. Participating businesses included Chester Inc., McAfee Animal Hospital, Sensit, 1st American Management, Great Lakes Labs, Vertical Financial Group, Shoremet, Fairway Laser and Ivy Tech Community College. “Eastport Centre businesses are amazing to
Duke Energy, which serves about 820,000 customers across central and southern Indiana, announced two new executive appointments, including a new president for its Indiana operations. Stan Pinegar, currently vice president of Indiana government affairs, will become Duke Energy’s state president in Indiana, succeeding Melody Birmingham-Byrd who will become Duke Energy’s senior vice president and chief
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Indiana may have missed out on landing the coveted second headquarters of internet giant Amazon but Gov. Eric Holcomb believes pursuit of the company positioned the state as a global business destination. “I am proud of Indiana’s efforts to pursue Amazon’s second headquarters,” Holcomb said in a Nov. 13 statement, issued the same day Seattle-based
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Kari Pfau Estes of Jeffersonville has been appointed to the Ports of Indiana Commission. Estes’s family business, George Pfau Son’s Co., was founded in 1869 and is in its fifth generation of family leadership, according to a statement from the office of Gov. Eric Holcomb. Estes earned her bachelor’s degree from Miami University and masters
Area lenders were honored for their efforts in securing business investments into the greater Northwest Indiana area. The Regional Development Co. (RDC) in Valparaiso, a non-profit organization and certified development company which administers the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 504 Loan Program, released its 2018 year-end accomplishments and lender awards during its annual membership meeting
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AAA projects 54.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 4.8 percent increase from last year. The 2018 holiday weekend will see the highest Thanksgiving travel volume since 2005 with 2.5 million more people taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways compared with last year, AAA
The Ports of Indiana has signed an agreement to extend the option to purchase land near Lawrenceburg in southeastern Indiana on the Ohio River, which could serve as the state’s fourth port. The Ports of Indiana in September 2017 entered an agreement to buy up to 725 acres of land once occupied by the American
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Olympic Steel Inc., a national metals service center, has promoted Terry Rohde to vice president – operations, and Matthew Grussing to general manager of the company’s Minneapolis plate division. Rohde began his career at Olympic Steel in 2001 as operations manager at the company’s Minnesota coil facility. In 2004, he transitioned to sales manager at
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