Lippert

The new company, pending shareholder approval next year, following a Patrick Industries and Lippert Components merger would combine revenues of over $8 billion. An industry watcher says it's too soon to know if efficiencies gained will impact local jobs.

Lippert is expanding its employee education efforts by partnering with Goshen College to offer language classes for workers in an effort to enhance the workplace and home.

Lippert is seeking tax abatements for a proposed $50 million warehouse off Cleveland Road in St. Joseph County.

A federal labor board sided with an Indiana union Wednesday in a dispute over a display outside of a trade show in Elkhart. It signals government support…