by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Little Rock public accounting firm Moore Stephens Frost PLC has joined a 14-firm alliance created as an outsource resource for public companies to use while complying with the Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).
by - August 30, 2004 12:00 am
Arvest Asset Management, the financial services arm of Arvest Bank Group Inc., launched its first AAM University seminar series this year in Rogers and averaged about 60 participants per event.
by - August 16, 2004 11:52 am
Road Systems Inc. of Searcy, which makes freight trailers and other transportation equipment, says three new contracts will enable it to hire 120 new workers.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
John Harrison Newman writes about the benefits of facing one’s fears head on in business and in life.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Fayetteville branch of Arkansas Capital Corp. Group readies for new digs, gets entrepreneurial advocate in Tim McFarland.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
As plans are made for two new hotels in Fayetteville and developers lobby for a tax-increment financing district to rebuild the century-old Mountain Inn, one hotel owner says the city may already be overbuilt. Also: the largest hotels list.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Robert Kisabeth’s biggest problem on an average Tuesday doesn’t have anything to do with filling the 248-room Embassy Suites hotel he manages in Rogers. It’s whether he’ll have enough servers to work a banquet that evening.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Occasionally, a curious article turns up in a unlikely place. In the July issue of The Regional Economist an looked at how religious factors can help explain economic growth.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
More than 1,296 rooms will be added to the Benton and Washington county hotel market if all nine hotel developments announced in the last year go as planned.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
As if The Lindsey Cos. didn’t already dominate enough local industries, its property management arm has checked into a specialty hotel sector and decided to make an extended stay.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
With 54 hotels in Benton and Washington counties competing for more than $63 million in annual market revenue, a good director of sales and a strong marketing plan can shift a hotel’s fortune.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
David, Jean, Loyd and Elizabeth Phillips recently sold 72 acres off Arkansas Highway 112 in Benton County to Spring Ridge LLC for $1 million.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
We hear Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville has a plan to invade big-box bashing California with Supercenters.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Up-and-coming mortgage lender Ozark Lending Inc. is already expanding the Rogers loan origination office it opened in April.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
England Lending, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of England, has moved into the Northwest Arkansas market.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
We were a little perplexed when we saw the story about the opening of The Signature Bank in the August 2 Springfield Business Journal because Gary Head, King Gladden and investors have settled on the same name for their venture.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Drivers by the headquarters of Lazenby Real Estate on College Avenue may have been wondering about the collapsed concrete awning that had been on the building since 1955.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
Ed Knight, owner of two Penguin Ed?s Bar-B-Que restaurants in Fayetteville, has bought all six houses adjoining the old B&B Bar-B-Que property at 230 S. East St.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
The word is two food operations are in the works for Brandon Barber. But negotiations are ongoing for what will wind up in the 16,000-SF building he bought from Gary Combs.
by - August 16, 2004 12:00 am
KHOG/KHBS, Channels 40/29, took the lead in the 6 p.m. newscast during the May Nielsen ratings from KFSM, Channel 5, which has traditionally led all three evening newscasts.
