Daily Archives: March 16, 2010

Statewide Alcohol Training Program Launched

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The Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers has launched a nationally accredited program to train retailers on the best practices to sell alcohol with additional updates on new state laws including a mandatory carding requirement.

Up to 140,000 owners, managers and servers need to be trained in Indiana, according to the association. Public courses are now being made available around the state as well as private on-site courses for owners of businesses that offer off-premise sales, including restaurants and hotels.

Unlike “voluntary” programs practiced by other retailers, the ServSafe Alcohol program provides a three-hour course and test with certification that is valid for three years. The national program being offered in Indiana is approved for use by many state and local regulatory agencies where retailers are required to meet training requirements.
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Indianapolis Lands Regional Business Conference

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The Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-Indianapolis) says that NAWBO has chosen Indianapolis to host its first-ever NAWBO Midwest Regional Leadership Summit. While in town, NAWBO’s national Board of Directors, including Indianapolis’ own, Billie Dragoo, will look at Indianapolis as a possible host of their National Convention in 2012 or 2013.

Although the actual Summit (March 25-27) is for NAWBO leadership from bordering states, NAWBO-Indy is incorporating its regularly scheduled Monthly Luncheon Meeting into the Summit’s agenda. The Monthly Luncheon Meeting is Thursday, March 25, at the Conrad Indianapolis from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and is open to the public.

The luncheon includes keynote speaker, Deborah Collins Stephens, author of This is Not the Life I Ordered and four other bestselling books, including Maslow on Management named among the top 10 books of the decade by The Financial Times. Stephens is also co-founder of The Center for Innovative Leadership. Stephens and her family reside in Bloomington, Indiana. Prior to relocating to Indiana, she called San Francisco home for 28 years.
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Notes: Businesses Up in Arms over Gun Bill

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Indiana business owners and executives are appalled by pending legislation allowing employees to bring guns to work and are urging Gov. Mitch Daniels to veto the bill.

The top U.S. executive of steelmaker ArcelorMittal is urging Gov. Mitch Daniels to veto legislation that would outlaw workplace rules preventing employees from keeping firearms and ammunition in their vehicles at work.

“I do not ever want to be put into a situation where I have to call the spouse or family member of one of our employees and tell them their loved one won’t be coming home tonight because a fellow employee went to their car, got a gun, and shot a co-worker,” ArcelorMittal USA CEO Michael Rippey wrote to Daniels one day after the bill was passed by the Indiana General Assembly.

The ArcelorMittal executive also derided provisions in the proposed law that provide exemptions for some industries as “arbitrary and capricious” and lacking any “rational basis.”

ArcelorMittal is just one of “dozens and dozens” of Indiana companies reacting to the passage of House Bill 1065 by the General Assembly, according to Kevin Brinegar, president of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

The chamber has received more comments and protests from Indiana companies over the so-called “bring your gun to work law” than any other single item on its legislative agenda, Brinegar said.

Housing starts declined in February.

Lafayette and West Lafayette unveiled the first of a planned 16 kiosks to help people find stores, restaurants and lodging around town.

Unemployment in Muncie and Delaware County rose to 11.7% in January

Indiana Tech has received a $2 million gift, the second-largest in the college’s history, to help fund the renovation of its Administration Center.