by - March 23, 2009 12:00 am
Former Orion Partner Files Chapter 7
H. Brandon Rogers, the former managing partner with the former Orion Real Estate Services, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Author: Talk Business & Politics
by - March 23, 2009 12:00 am
Pumping Measure Garners Support
Efforts to make the workplace breastfeeding friendly are gaining momentum in the Arkansas Legislature.
by - March 23, 2009 12:00 am
Arvest Nabs Facebook Fans
Arvest Bank launched a Facebook page in late February.
by - March 23, 2009 12:00 am
Waltons High on Forbes List
The Walton clan claimed four of the top 15 spots on Forbes’ most recent listing of the world’s billionaires.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Agri-Loan Demand Softens Following Instability of 2008
Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas has the resources to meet any loan request, but demand for new credit remains soft so far in 2009.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Tyson Explores Profitable Uses For Animal By-products
Tyson Foods Inc. is working to find renewable uses for animal by-products that add to the company’s bottom line.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Farmers Markets Want Sales Tax Rule Dropped
A revision of sales tax regulations in 2006 has managers of farmers markets across the state worried about losing smaller vendors in the upcoming season.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Rabbit Run Supplied By Latin Connection
The Arkansas World Trade Center helped a Northwest Arkansas company connect with a rabbit supply in Mexico.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Hospitals Feeling Economic Pain
Some Arkansas hospitals are slashing employees’ pay, freezing benefits or laying off workers, shattering the notion that the health care industry is recession-proof.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Great Southern Bank Buys Alltel Building
Bill Schwyhart, through his Financial Holdings LLC, sold the Alltel Building in the Pinnacle Point Corporate Park in Rogers to Great Southern Bank of Missouri for $4.75 million.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Cash on the Sidelines While Investors Wait for Recovery (Commentary by James Bell)
Following the turmoil in financial markets around the world, the level of cash being held by investors has risen to record levels. In fact, by some estimates the total value of money market funds held now exceeds the value of equity mutual funds.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
K.I.S.S. (& H.)
We disagreed with Bill Halter on the advisability of creating a lottery in Arkansas that gives government a vested interest in promoting long-odds gambling, even for such a laudable goal as college scholarships. But now that the people have ruled, we find
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Good to Great to Bust? There’s No Magic Formula for Success (Commentary by Jeff Hankins)
Even “Good to Great” companies can stumble or find themselves at the mercy of bigger economic issues.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Athletic Club Owners to Fight Foreclosure
The owners of Fayetteville Athletic Club, served with foreclosure papers on Feb. 25, have become collateral damage in the failure of ANB Financial.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
New Home Inventory Dips Below 1,000
The Northwest Arkansas absorption rate slowed during the fourth quarter of 2008 according to The Skyline Report prepared for Arvest Bank by the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Networking Event Honored NWABJ ‘s Fast 15
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal on Feb. 24 honored 15 young professionals featured in the inaugural Fast 15 issue.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Met Bank Shakes Up Senior Management
Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock announced March 3 it had hired James Stobaugh as president of its Northwest Arkansas region and as the president of Washington County.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Mercy Launches New Cardiac CT Program
Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas is launching a Cardiac CT program that will utilize diagnostic imaging technology at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Tyson to Complete Sale of Beef Plant
Tyson Foods’ sale of the Canadian beef plant Lakeside Farm Industries to XL Foods Inc. is moving forward, following a review by the Canadian Competition Bureau.
by - March 9, 2009 12:00 am
Car-Mart Net Up 8 Percent for 3Q
America?s Car-Mart of Bentonville posted an 8 percent increase in net income during its third quarter ended Jan. 31, 2009, on overall revenue growth of 3.3 percent.