NiSource (NYSE: NI) helps energize the lives of its nearly 4 million natural gas and electric customers across six states. Our local utilities – Columbia Gas and NIPSCO – ensure that customers receive safe, reliable and affordable natural gas and electric service each and every day. Our business plan is focused on proactively investing in our energy infrastructure – approximately $1.4 billion a year – to ensure we meet and improve upon our customer commitments for the next 100 years. We employ more than 7,000 of our neighbors who are actively engaged in the communities we’re privileged to serve, making them great places to live and call home. NiSource is headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana – about 35 miles from Chicago – and we maintain a significant corporate presence in Columbus, Ohio. Our utility operations also span Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. (SIA), part of the Subaru family of companies, is home of North American production for the Ascent, Crosstrek, Legacy and Outback models. SIA employs more than 6,500 associates who are committed to quality, safety and environmental stewardship.

LOCAL 697 IBEW & ELECTRICAL INDUST APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND is a company based out of 7200 MISSISSIPPI ST STE 100, MERRILLVILLE, Indiana, United States.

Wabash: Changing How the World Reaches You® Wabash (NYSE: WNC) combines physical and digital technologies to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions that optimize supply chains across transportation, logistics and infrastructure markets. Headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, Wabash designs, manufactures, and services an extensive range of products supporting first-to-final mile operations, including dry and refrigerated trailers and truck bodies, platform trailers, tank trailers, structural composites and more. In addition, through the Wabash Marketplace and Wabash Parts, customers gain access to a nationwide parts and service network, Trailers as a Service (TaaS)℠, and advanced tools designed to streamline operations and drive growth. By enabling businesses to thrive today and prepare for tomorrow, Wabash is Changing How the World Reaches You®. Wabash recently entered into a joint venture, Wabash Marketplace, with Fernweh Group LLC, an investment firm specializing in the industrial technology sector. This joint venture will accelerate Wabash’s development and growth of an end-to-end digital platform, all while enhancing the overall experience for dealers, customers, and suppliers through the ease, speed, and convenience of a connected partner ecosystem. Initial focus of the Wabash Marketplace will be scaling the Trailers as a Service offering as well as part sales and new services. To learn more about Wabash and its innovative solutions, visit www.onewabash.com.

Centier is Indiana’s largest private family-owned bank. Since 1895, the Schrage family has built a legacy of success that extends throughout the communities it serves. As a family-owned bank, Centier stands firmly behind its “Not For Sale” promise, pledging to the families, businesses, and communities of Indiana that it will continue to preserve independent, hometown banking in Indiana for generations to come. Centier Bank is home to a unique tradition of service. At Centier, we have a passion for service to each other and to our communities. Ready to join the Centier family? We are currently accepting applications from individuals interested in a career with Centier. We’re looking for business professionals who are seeking career enhancement, longevity, and have an affinity for world-class service. Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender

LOCAL 697 IBEW & ELECTRICAL INDUST APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING FUND is a company based out of 7200 MISSISSIPPI ST STE 100, MERRILLVILLE, Indiana, United States.

Valparaiso University is a selective, independent Lutheran institution in Valparaiso, Indiana, an hour’s drive from Chicago. Founded in 1859, Valpo offers a thorough grounding in the liberal arts as well as professional training and graduate study, helping students find their own paths to lifelong personal, spiritual, and professional growth.

Methodist Hospital has been Healing Northwest Indiana for 100 years. For an entire century, our doctors, nurses, and staff have worked tirelessly to keep their neighbors well. And while we remember our past contributions to our community, Methodist Hospitals is looking to the future. We have invested more than $14 million in the last 10 years, and nearly $3 million in the last two years to ensure that we are on the leading edge of diagnostic imaging technologies. And while we continue to invest to better treat the injured and sick, we’re also taking the lead in meeting the overall health needs of the communities we serve. For example, Methodist is confronting food insecurity with our Nutrition Station and addressing sexual violence and exploitation at our new STAR Center. Methodist Hospitals doctors, nurses and staff are enthusiastically embracing these initiatives and are actively participating in efforts to improve hospital care that enable us to better serve Northwest Indiana as a truly independent health system. Recent initiatives include: • A new interventional radiology suite at our Southlake campus • New cardiac catheter labs at our Northlake and Southlake campuses • The addition of advanced PET-CT technology to the CareFirst Imaging Center • Strategic partnerships with UChicago Medicine in key services lines, such as neonatal intensive care • A new outpatient pharmacy at our Southlake campus • A partnership with IU Northwest to establish a family practice residency program Methodist Hospitals is improving quality, safety, employee engagement and patient experience while expanding into more Northwest Indiana communities and strengthening key service lines by attracting high quality providers and acquiring advanced technologies. Methodist Hospitals is fully committed to achieving our stated goal: To embark on our second century of service as a successful, independent healthcare system.

Kirby Risk Corporation is a multi-faceted company, dedicated to understanding and meeting our business partners'​ needs with innovative, effective solutions. Our experience and network of resources provide customers with reliable technical assistance, logistics management, communications systems and quality products that not only meet their requirements, but also enhance their competitive position. With our main focus being solutions that help customers meet productivity objectives, Kirby Risk provides a wide range of services, including quality electrical supplies, electrical apparatus sales and repair services, wiring harness/cable manufacturing and quality industrial component manufacturing. Customer service is an integral part of Kirby Risk Corporation, with thirty-eight electrical supply locations throughout Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Kirby Risk Corporation is financially and strategically focused on helping customers address the growing competitive pressures to reduce costs, conserve resources, improve productivity and reduce the time to manufacture goods and services. We can provide total cost of ownership solutions, such as asset and integration management and consulting services that will allow manufacturers to quickly respond to industry trends. Kirby Risk Corporation places a high value on its customers, employees, vendors and community relations. Going above and beyond what it takes to provide the right parts at the right time, to the right place, and at the right cost is not a sacrifice...it's a minimum requirement. Staying committed to this concept of "sacrificial service"​ has fueled Kirby Risk since 1926. Today, Kirby Risk Corporation has evolved into a multi-faceted business with 7 operating business units: Kirby Risk Electrical Supply Kirby Risk Service Center Kirby Risk Mechanical Solutions and Service Kirby Risk Precision Machining ARCO Electric Products Wire Supplies Intelligent Industry Solutions

Urschel Laboratories, Inc., headquartered in Chesterton, Indiana, U.S.A. is the global leader in food cutting technology. The market leader in industrial food processing plants including the U.S.A., Europe, and all countries where food is commercially processed. Urschel designs, manufactures, and sells commercial grade precision cutting equipment including potato chip slicers, cheese shredders, fruit dicers, fresh-cut applications such as veg noodles and lettuce, french fry cutters, meat dicers, peanut butter mills, poultry dicers, lettuce shredders, vegetable cutters and other types of food processing machines.

WHERE INSIGHTS LEAD TO ANSWERS Expect More In choosing a partner for discovery, development and research models, expect more: more attention, more insight, and a superlative experience. You’ve worked hard to get this far, and you deserve a provider seamlessly aligned to your needs and goals. Through scientific leadership and ongoing investments, Inotiv delivers a comprehensive range of services and products that will exceed your expectations. Benefit from our long and impeccable regulatory history, world class team of scientists, and track record of providing attentive, decisive service. Answering the right questions on time and with high-quality data is the key to achieving your objectives. At Inotiv, that is our focus: to provide you with both the broad scope and right-size solutions essential to your success. Gain the insights you deserve to get the answers you need. Expect more — with Inotiv. Inotiv is a Top Workplaces 2023 Winner.

Dwyer is the trusted leader in manufacturing innovative instrumentation solutions for the worldwide HVAC and Process Automation markets. ** Meet and exceed customer and market expectations ** Sustained R&D and product development ** Highly automated and flexible manufacturing capabilities ** Provide high quality, reliable, and readily available products and solutions ** Global sales and marketing presence We work tirelessly to get it right. That's why Dwyer holds over 650 technical patents and that number grows every year. We are an enthusiastic group of people headquartered in Michigan City, Indiana with satellite locations around the globe. We take great pride in the intellect and integrity of our employees who are passionate about the work we do, the products we develop and the industries we serve. Most importantly, we value the expertise and skill of the people that use our products in the field every day. We respect that our customers have a choice and we are honored that they choose the best products, manufactured by Dwyer, as a reflection of their own high standards in delivering the highest level of quality, and reliability.