Sound Ideas, which provides marketing and digital-media services for medical-device manufacturers, will spend $500,000 to build and equip a new 4,000-square-foot facility in Whitley County.
According to an announcement from the Whitley County Economic Development Corp., the firm, which was founded in 1996 and presently has 12 employees, is expected to add three workers by 2016.
The new facility is expected to enhance Sound Ideas' services, which include: strategy; branding; three-dimensional illustration and animation; video and sound production; mobile applications; and large-scale meeting planning.
“We are very optimistic about the future needs of our clients and our position within the color sampling industry,” Sound Ideas President Dave Hazen said in the announcement. “We are adding production equipment to meet increased customer demand.”
The Whitley County Council approved a tax abatement for the project, and an incentive funded through the county's economic-development income tax was granted for on-site infrastructure improvements.
“On behalf of the Whitley County Commissioners, I am pleased to see a locally owned, locally grown company like Sound Ideas expand in our community,” commissioners President George Schrumpf said in the announcement. “Companies like 80/20, ChromaSource, and Sound Ideas announcing expansions this year are demonstrating how they can succeed globally from northeast Indiana.”
Sound Ideas' new facility will be built at the intersection of State Road 14 and County Road 600 East in Whitley County, near medical-device design and manufacturing firm Micropulse Inc.