Spring 2011 - Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly Magazine
Spring 2011 - Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly Magazine
Spring 2011 - Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly Magazine
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<strong>Spring</strong>–Summer <strong>2011</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>polis Office<br />
Publisher / Advertising & Marketing<br />
GLEE RENICK-may<br />
Michigan City Office<br />
Editor<br />
RICK RIChaRds<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
stEvE KaELbLE<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
REbECCa L. IsaaCs<br />
Editorial Assistant/Research<br />
dENIsE busChmaNN<br />
Art Director<br />
aNdREW RObERts<br />
Creative Director<br />
vICKy ROCKWELL<br />
Photographer<br />
shaWN spENCE<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
John Cain • Karen imgrund deaK • Paul<br />
Freeman • Willis h. glaros • shari held<br />
• BoB Kronemyer • Kathy mCKimmie •<br />
Brian mCshane • miChael Puente • desila<br />
rosetti • Kathy siPPle • theresa Valade<br />
Editorial Advisory Committee<br />
John daVies • BarBara grimsguard • eriK<br />
hromadKa • Keith KirKPatriCK • Karen<br />
lauerman • Joshua lyBolt • BruCe n.<br />
maClean • Janis moran • desila rosetti<br />
eriKa sCheeringa • eriC serVaas • linda<br />
WOLOshaNsKy<br />
Circulation<br />
REbECCa L. IsaaCs<br />
New Media Intern<br />
JaNICE L. dIxON<br />
Tech Support<br />
KIt maLONE<br />
e-mail<br />
businessnews@nwibq.com<br />
Web<br />
www.nwibq.com<br />
<strong>Northwest</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Quarterly</strong> is owned and<br />
published by may Communications group, LLC,<br />
glee Renick-may, president and CEO.<br />
© Copyright <strong>2011</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
Reproduction without permission is prohibited.<br />
Two-year quarterly subscription rate is $19.95.<br />
Single magazine price is $3.50. Requests for<br />
additional magazines will be billed shipping charges.<br />
Total circulation: 11,000. Send payment with<br />
your name, company address and contact information to:<br />
<strong>Northwest</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Quarterly</strong><br />
9801 Fall Creek Rd. #247, <strong>Indiana</strong>polis, IN 46256-4802<br />
memBer<br />
It is a fact indeed that women-<br />
and minority-owned businesses<br />
are on the increase and are<br />
helping the state recover from the<br />
recession. According to the Small<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Administration’s Office<br />
of Advocacy, there were 484,134<br />
small businesses in the state in 2008.<br />
Together, they made up 97.4 percent<br />
of the state’s employers, and<br />
accounted for 48.2 percent of private-sector<br />
jobs.<br />
In this issue, writer Michael Puente<br />
has profiled a few successful minority<br />
small-business entrepreneurs,<br />
who share their story in the article<br />
titled “<strong>Business</strong> en español.”<br />
Our “Small <strong>Business</strong> Focus”<br />
addresses just a few key issues facing<br />
today’s small-business owners. Contributors<br />
in this section offer their<br />
best advice in such matters as protecting<br />
your intellectual property,<br />
growing your business through<br />
social media, how to keep quality<br />
employees, accessing capital and<br />
offering or not, employee benefits.<br />
Our CEO/leader profile this<br />
quarter is Andrew Fox, president<br />
Publisher’s NOTe<br />
Small-<strong>Business</strong> Success<br />
and Lots of Great History<br />
of South Shore<br />
Freight, who<br />
shares his passion<br />
for the transportation<br />
freight<br />
business. We also<br />
include a special<br />
report update<br />
on BP Whiting’s<br />
$3.8 billion<br />
modernization<br />
Glee Renick-May<br />
project and its positive<br />
impact on <strong>Northwest</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>’s<br />
economy.<br />
If you are an auto-racing enthusiast,<br />
you’ll want to read about <strong>Northwest</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>’s racing connections<br />
to the <strong>Indiana</strong>polis Motor Speedway.<br />
The Indy 500 celebrates its<br />
100th anniversary this month, where<br />
racing memories are made.<br />
We also make memories with each<br />
issue of the <strong>Northwest</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Business</strong><br />
<strong>Quarterly</strong>. We are not celebrating<br />
a century just yet…. but we are<br />
marking our 20th anniversary this<br />
year. Thanks for being a part of our<br />
history! Enjoy our latest issue. n<br />
—Glee Renick-May<br />
CONNECT WITH US<br />
CheCk out our new site!<br />
SpRINg–SUmmER <strong>2011</strong> NORTHWEST INDIANA BUSINESS QUARTERLY 5
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