335 Eli Lilly and Company Employees Accept Buyout Offer From Drug Maker, Jobs Will End June 30

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A total of 335 Eli Lilly and Co. employees have accepted voluntary buyouts from the drug maker, and their jobs will end June 30, a spokesman said Friday. The employees had until Wednesday to accept the offer. Lilly also will reassign about 150 additional employees to different jobs as it streamlines manufacturing of the insulin products Humalog and Humulin and the osteoporosis drug Forteo.