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Car-Mart Beats Earnings Estimate

America’s Car-Mart Inc. on March 6 posted quarterly earnings above its own estimate, saying it took lower-than-expected losses from loans it extended to customers.

Lipper Locks In on BOK Mutual Fund

BOK Financial Corp. recently saw its short-term income fund get named the best in a class of 91 similar products by Lipper Analytical Services.

BM Wins Most ADDY Awards

Blackwood Martin/CJRW was the big winner at the Northwest Arkansas Advertising Federation?s 2003 awards banquet.

Murray Featured in Inc. Magazine

Andy Murray, CEO of ThompsonMurray, was featured in the March 1 issue of Inc. magazine.

Art Directors Form Local Organization

A new nonprofit organization for visual communications professionals in advertising and the media will hold its first meeting March 18.

Are We There Yet? (Media Review)

We?ve shaken our heads at many of Wally Hall?s columns in the past but usually understand that facts are often overlooked in opinion writing.

Wal-Mart Tops List of the Region’s Employers

With more than 23,000 employees in 2003, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville tops the list of the region’s employers.

Diesel Prices Hit Eight-year High

Truckers were paying more for diesel in late February than any other time during the last nine years.

Jones Makes Texas-sized Estate Claims

Jerry Jones will presumably be made whole for $11 million he invested with M. David Howell Jr. in August, thanks to an irrevocable standby letter of credit issued by Bank of America in Los Angeles.

Simmons Goes Back to Future

Thirty-one-year-old Todd Simmons is taking over many of the duties formerly held by CEO Buddy Pilgrim at Simmons Foods Inc.

Bumpers ?Laments? Not Running for President

The toughest decision Dale Bumpers ever made was not running for president of the United States. He talks about that and growing up in a new autobiography.

Childhood in Arkansas

The publisher wanted a book about what it was like to grow up in a small town in Arkansas during the Great Depression.

Lowe?s Plans New Store

On Feb. 18, Bennie Westphal and Matthew Cobb asked the Fayetteville Planning Commission for a lot split to make room for construction of a new Lowe?s store in west Fayetteville.

No-stick P.A.M. Talk

Rampant speculation that Tontitown?s P.A.M. Transportation Systems Inc. is trying to buyout Cannon Express Inc. doesn?t add up.

Alice in Plunder-land

If Cannon did give way to a buyout, its primary stockholders would stand to make substantially less than even a year ago.

Starr of a Deal

Stephen and Rexanne Mansfield have purchased two longtime Fayetteville apartment complexes from Joe Fred Starr for just under $10 million.

Talley for Dixie

Jenny Talley has been named principal broker for the new Dixie Real Estate, a division of Dixie Management & Investment in Fayetteville.

New Millennium

Millennium Mortgage has begun production out of its Fayetteville offices with hopes of carving its own niche in the residential market in Northwest Arkansas.

MSF on the Move, Again

Moore Stephens Frost, the CPA firm affiliated with MSF Financial Group of Little Rock, opened an office in Rogers? Pinnacle Point on Sept. 1 and now they?re moving to a new location in the same area.

Ticketsage Inc. of Fayetteville is Northwest Arkansas? lone representative among the eight firms that get to play a developing company?s version of ?Star Search? March 3-4 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report