by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Noting the lack of major highway arteries, along with the population and economic booms in Northwest Arkansas, Jeff Collins says the area?s ability to sustain its rampant prosperity will come down to meeting infrastructure needs.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
The United Way Foundation of Washington County has come up with an innovative way to raise funds: It will toss about 3,000 golf balls from a Benton County Sheriff?s Office helicopter on to a special ?green? at the Sports Park of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
David Bain, chairman of the Benton County Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, says the group?s annual state barbecue championships fundraiser increased its gross by 50 percent.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
As of May 3, gas prices increases 16 times in the last 18 weeks totaling about a 31-cent hike for the Midwest, according to the U.S. Department of Energy?s Energy Information Administration.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Seiyu Ltd., the Japanese affiliate of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., posts a sharply lower loss for the first quarter of 2004, helped by cost-cutting and a gradual sales recovery.
by - May 10, 2004 12:00 am
Citing competition from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla.,plans to close or sell 156 stores this year and shed as many as 10,000 employees.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
John Chambers? financial holding company, Chambers Bancshares Inc. of Danville, gained controlling interest of a Fayetteville bank in December, and he plans to rebrand the eight-branch Community Bank of North Arkansas by year?s end.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Don Pitts, chairman of United Holding Co. in Springdale and president and chairman of United-Bilt Homes Inc. of Springdale and Shreveport, La., is a revered figures, but down to earth as green onions.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Larry Wilson?s saga as one of the owners of Bella Vista?s 1 million-SF Wonderland Cave, the ?largest underground nightclub in the world,? and the historic Sunset Hotel ended on April 8.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Team Group Ltd. of Dallas buys a building permit on April 7 valued at $4.5 million to build a 93,000-SF addition to the Frez-N-Stor Inc. facility off Porter Street in Springdale.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Of the 27 privately held banks in the six-county Northwest Arkansas market, 14 show decreases in their charge-offs from 2002 to 2003.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Low interest rates and a booming economy have 2004 new home construction on track to easily break 2003?s record of 7,000 units in Northwest Arkansas.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Although return on assets is the most-often-used measurement of a bank?s financial health, return on equity is usually more important to shareholders.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
It has taken a couple of years to get all the parts in motion, but legislation approved by the General Assembly in 2001 may finally be about to help attract venture capital investment to the state.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
A new player, Gary Brandon, is involved in what was to be the Brownstone Development in Bentonville.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
A Springdale investment company, AFS-NWA LLC, that?s owned by trucking and development mogul J.B. Hunt is trying to intervene in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed by Agracat Inc. on March 15.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
The 20 largest claims in Agracat?s bankruptcy totaled about $4.69 million.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
One of Agracat?s major stockholders, Melvin Robinson, was an associate of Jim Bolt and Golf Entertainment Inc.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
Siloam Springs will soon have its first gated community ? Club View Estates.
by - April 26, 2004 12:00 am
We hear Walgreen Co. has expressed an interest in selling liquor at its stores in Arkansas, but the folks at the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said they have received no formal application.
