Attracting New Hoosiers
Ranking: Indy among best for Mid-Career Workers
Inside IN Business
Indianapolis is ranked near the top of a national list of the Best Cities for Mid-Career Professionals. Forbes considered data including unemployment rates, job growth projections and cost of living.
EDITORIAL: With millennials in mind
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – Eric Doden
Indiana’s economy has been making waves recently. Just this month, Chief Executive magazine announced that the state ranks first in the Midwest and fifth in the nation for doing business, and April marked the 10th consecutive month with employment above the state’s previous peak employment record from March 2000.
Study: Indiana Tops for Advanced Manufacturing
Inside Indiana Business
INDIANAPOLIS -The director of the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research says Indiana has the largest share of advanced manufacturing employment in the country. A report from the CBER and Conexus Indiana, the state’s advanced manufacturing and logistics initiative, says 53 percent of manufacturing jobs are in advanced manufacturing and Michael Hicks says there is a correlation between the number of jobs and the number of college graduates.
Medical firms, universities drive increase in Indiana patents
IBJ
The latest Hoosier inventions are emerging from the bustling orthopedic industry in Warsaw, from faculty laboratories at Indiana’s flagship universities, and from health care firms across central Indiana, including Cook Medical Technologies.
Indiana Attracts Connecticut-Based Pet Food Manufacturer, 150+ Hoosier Jobs
Pet food manufacturer Blue Buffalo to build plant in Richmond, create 165 new jobs
Fox 59
Blue Buffalo Pet Products will invest more than $100 million to build and equip the production and distribution facility at 4748 Industries Road. The complex will include a state-of-the-art pet food manufacturing plant and a research and development center. It’s the company’s second plant in the U.S.
Richmond bags Blue Buffalo boon
Inside IN Business
Connecticut-based Blue Buffalo Pet Products (Nasdaq: BUFF) has big plans in Wayne County. The company says it will invest more than $100 million to build a production and distribution facility in Richmond and create up to 165 jobs. The facility, which will be Blue Buffalo’s second in the United States, will also include a research and development center. Mayor Dave Snow says, with the announcement, “Richmond has secured its place on the national map for economic development.”
Blue Buffalo comes to Indiana bringing 165 jobs
WISH
Blue Buffalo is coming to Indiana and bringing along 165 new jobs. Blue Buffalo is a pet food maker. They announced a new manufacturing facility in Richmond. The Connecticut based company says it’s investing more than $100 million to create a production and distribution center.
Pet food maker Blue buffalo to spend $100M on plant in Richmond
Indianapolis Business Journal
A company that makes natural pet food announced Tuesday it will invest $100 million in a new production and distribution center in eastern Indiana—and could receive more than $1.6 million in state tax credits to do so. Blue Buffalo Pet Products said it will create 165 jobs when it opens the facility—which will include a research and development center—under its Heartland Pet Food subsidiary in Richmond.
New pet food manufacturing facility to create 150 jobs
The Statehouse File
“I’m excited to welcome Blue Buffalo to Indiana, which is home to the highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the nation,†Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement. “As the best state in the Midwest for business, Indiana offers low costs and taxes, reduced corporate regulations and a skilled Hoosier workforce.â€
Indiana attracts Connecticut-based pet food manufacturer, 150+ Hoosier jobs
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Blue Buffalo Pet Products, the nation’s leading producer of natural pet foods, announced plans today to establish a new manufacturing facility for its wholly-owned subsidiary Heartland Pet Food in Richmond, creating up to 165 new jobs in Indiana.
Greenfield Daily Reporter
Blue Buffalo Pet Products says it will build a new manufacturing plant and research and development center in Richmond, creating up to 165 jobs.
Pet food maker expands to Richmond, creating up to 165 jobs
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Blue Buffalo Pet Products says it will build a new manufacturing plant and research and development center in Richmond, creating up to 165 jobs.
Michigan-Based Provider of Specialty Vehicles and Services Adding 100+ Jobs in Elkhart County
Equipment manufacturer adding 100 jobs
Inside IN Business
The upcoming Federal Communications Commission frequency auction is already boosting a southwest Indiana company. Chandler-based Electronics Research Inc. says it will add around 100 workers and three buildings by the end of the year to keep up with expected demand.
Specialty vehicle producer to add almost 150 jobs in Elkhart County
The Statehouse File
“Indiana’s rich history in the automotive industry continues to attract new business and support job creation in today’s economy, helping the Hoosier state earn recognition as a top state for business,†Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement. “Indiana ranks third in the country for automotive manufacturing production because of companies like Spartan Motors that serve commercial vehicle needs nationwide.â€
Spartan adding jobs in Elkhart County
Inside IN Business
Michigan-based Spartan Fleet Vehicles and Service has announced plans to expand operations in Elkhart County. The expansion, which involves a nearly $11 million investment from Spartan, could create nearly 150 jobs by 2019. Spartan Fleet Vehicles and Service is a unit of Spartan Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAR). The company says the expansion will increase production of its Utilimaster brand walk-in vans, parcel delivery vans, along with other products.
Utilimaster expanding in Bristol and hiring more than 100
South Bend Tribune
Thanks largely to a boost in the production of walk-in vans, Utilimaster announced it has hired 40 employees this year and plans to bring up to 107 more on board by 2019…In a prepared statement, Gov. Mike Pence lauded the growth led by Spartan Motors in Indiana. “Indiana ranks third in the country for automotive manufacturing production because of companies like Spartan Motors that serve commercial vehicle needs nationwide,” he said.
Utilimaster expansion to create 147 new jobs in Elkhart County
The Elkhart Truth
Spartan Motors Inc. announced plans to expand its Utilimaster business in Bristol, creating an estimated 147 new jobs by 2019. The Elkhart location of the company will house Spartan Fleet Vehicles and Services, the part of the company that includes the Utilimaster brand for trucks.
Michigan company to expand in Indiana, hire up to 147
WLFI
A Michigan-based fleet vehicle company says it will expand its business in Elkhart and create up to 147 new jobs by 2019.
