SCHERERVILLE – Prime Real Estate will hold its fifth anniversary celebration with an open house starting at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2 at 738 E. U.S. 30. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served. For more information, call (219) 322-9009.
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet’s mechatronics engineering technology program has received a $613,862 grant from the National Science Foundation. Purdue Calumet is working in partnership with College of DuPage in Illinois and Ivy Tech Community College, along with the packing industry to develop new methods of packaging. The mechatronics engineering technology program …
Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly is looking for the region’s leading CEOs and chief financial officers. Our readers are knowledgeable and experienced members of one of the nation’s most productive business regions, so we’re turning to you for input into answer that question. Nominees should hold their position at a company based or conducting business in the …
Disputes arise in every type of business—big or small, new or established. Disputes can develop between a business owner and employee or with an independent contractor. And litigation is always costly. For instance, a dispute could arise over Internet use at work, about what’s being posted and how that might affect a business’s reputation. How …
What’s your pleasure? Camping or canoeing? Hiking or bird watching? Chocolate or steam locomotives? Lighthouses or baseball? You don’t need to travel to far from home. All of that and more is available to see, do and experience in Northwest Indiana. And each of these must-see attractions is less than a tank of gas away. …
“I can do this” is on the lips and in the mind of every successful man and woman who launches a business. Some take the experience of working for others for years and start up in the same field. Some bravely adopt the phrase after suffering the trauma of job loss. Others simply decide that …
PORTAGE – The Northwest Indiana Forum will host a special Business Development Seminar at its office at 6100 Southport Road, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 4. The speaker will be Scott Taylor, an expert on foreign trade zones. The session will focus on the expansion of the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor’s Foreign …
HAMMOND – An exhibit of paintings, drawing, photographs and sculptures from Illiana Artists will be on display at the Indiana Welcome Center from Aug. 17 to Sept. 17. The work will be displayed in the W.F. Wellman Exhibit Hall under the theme, “Tourism in Northwest Indiana.” Members of the Illiana Artists Association …
INDIANAPOLIS – The Summer-Fall issue of Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly is off the press and the cover story looks at several examples of entrepreneurial success in the region. One of those, LeAnn VanSchoyck, owner of L.R. Men’s Clothier & Tuxedos in LaPorte, is featured on the cover. Must read stories include a profile …
MICHIGAN CITY – At the recent 2010 Communicator Awards sponsored by the International Academy of Visual Arts, held in New York, Morse & Company Advertising Communications Inc. received three silver awards. The awards were presented for the creative work in the Members Advantage Credit Union advertising campaign, the Marquette High School view book …
