Indiana Business Magazine articles from March 2005

Indiana Business Magazine archives from March 2005

Shift in auto manufacturing: the falling fortunes of Michigan.
March 1, 2005... AT THE END OF LAST year, the unemployment rate in the state of Michigan was 7.3 percent. That was more than 2 percentage points higher than Indiana. In fact, no state in the country had a higher jobless rate. That's not a big story in the...

"Home of the --": what's your city's tagline?
March 1, 2005... QUICK... DESCRIBE YOUR hometown in five words or less. Not easy, is it? That's the challenge facing marketers who take on the branding of Indiana communities. The hope is to re-frame the public's image of a city or town, with the goal of...

Low pain, high gain: Suros Surgical Systems builds a better biopsy system, and is a model for building life sciences.
March 1, 2005... IT'S A CASE STUDY FOR building life-sciences businesses in Indiana. Suros Surgical Systems, the fledgling Indianapolis-based medical-device company, has followed a script that life-sciences advocates might have written--building upon local...

BKD Build Indiana Awards: rewarding excellence in construction.
March 1, 2005... EACH YEAR THE BKD Build Indiana Awards are awarded to builders for excellence in teamwork, project management and innovation to overcome challenges and produce quality projects. The awards are sponsored by BKD LLP, an accounting and advisory...

Big plans: commercial real estate happenings around the state.
March 1, 2005... SOME OF THE BIGGEST commercial real-estate headlines of recent months come from South Bend-based Holladay Properties. The developer, whose 50-plus projects around Indiana include the AmeriPlex office/industrial parks in Indianapolis, Portage...

Valuable lessons: teaching kids about money and credit.
March 1, 2005... Indiana has the fifth-highest personal bankruptcy rate in the nation. Overuse, abuse and plain old misunderstanding of credit all factor into this abysmal rating. A failing grade of 50 was the average score of school seniors on a national test...

SBDC Indiana Small Business Development Center your business resource.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... For free small-business help, visit www.isbdc.org or contact the center closest to you. 1 Northwest Indiana Highland 219/838-0176 2 South Bend South Bend 574/282-4350 3 Northeast Indiana Fort Wayne ...

Indiana small * business * reference * guide.(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... Government Contacts STATE OF INDIANA OFFICIALS Governor-Mitch Daniels 317/232-4567 Lieutenant Governor-Becky Skillman 317/232-4545 Secretary of State-Todd Rokita ...

Choosing an accountant: tips to find the right firm for your business.
March 1, 2005... A LONG CAREER ALLOWS reflection on trends. In his 32 years as a CPA, the biggest change for Terry McMahon, president of Terry McMahon & Co. in Munster, has been the ever-expanding range of services offered by accounting firms. "We've gone from...

Containing health-care costs: examine your options to keep expenses in line.
March 1, 2005... THE NEWS CIRCUIT HAS been abuzz recently with talk of a near crisis of rising costs in the health-care industry. Over the last few decades, the cost of health care has risen at a staggering rate, nearly four times the rate of general inflation,...

To your health: major health plans serving Indiana.
March 1, 2005... Following are major Indiana health insurance plans, including indemnity plans for traditional fee-for-service health insurance: preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) or health-maintenance organizations (HMOs) offering managed care through a...

Getting help with IT: first, communicate your business goals.
March 1, 2005... If you haven't consulted with an IT professional lately, you may not be getting all you could be from your investment. And if you think those professionals will come at you with a language you don't understand, you'll welcome the new wave in IT...

Concrete reasons: most common building material a better choice.
March 1, 2005... DUE TO ITS ECONOMICAL cost, concrete is the most commonly used construction material in the world. In fact, commercial builders have long used concrete wall systems for fast, cost-effective erection of buildings. Precast concrete components...

Eastern Indiana Update: the region's top business stories.
March 1, 2005... Industrial parks fill. The Indiana Gateway Industrial Park at Interstate 70 and State Road 1, near Cambridge City in Wayne County, welcomes its first tenant this year. Taconic Farms Inc. is investing $18.8 million in a facility that will...

Richmond: new companies, telecommunications infrastructure.
March 1, 2005... CURRENTLY, THE dominating economic event in Richmond is Reid Hospital & Health Care Services' construction of a $233 million health treatment complex. As many as 450 workers will be constructing the new Reid complex on a 100-acre site...

Bigger than you think: viewing the health industry as a cluster of interdependent companies.
March 1, 2005... THE HEALTH INDUSTRY (a.k.a. life sciences or biotech) has received much attention as an important part of Indiana's economic future. It's an industry' that directly employs more than 274,000 people (and indirectly" leads to another 300,000...