by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
St. Mary?s Celebrates A Year Of Heart Care
St. Mary?s Hospital in Rogers will celebrate one year of heart care Feb. 19 by tripling the number of heart surgeries the hospital expected to perform its first year.
Author: Talk Business & Politics
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
XNA Up 17.9 Percent As Continental Adds Flights
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will be back up to 45 flights per day in May when Continental Airlines adds two flights to New Jersey.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Court Privileges Taken From Bird
A Little Rock lawyer won?t be practicing law in the federal courts in the eastern and western districts of Arkansas, if a recent order from Chief U.S. District Judges Susan Webber Wright of Little Rock and Jimm Larry Hendren of Fort Smith stands.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Donates Plane to UA
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale on Feb. 5 gave a nine-passenger turboprop airplane to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Slinker worm Succeeds Where The Bubble Gum Slugo Blew It
Shawn Clark knew something had to change when he saw a five-pound bass swim around his bubble gum Slugo to ?slam? a tiny snake.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Deli Delectables Debut For Tyson Shareholders
Tyson Foods Inc. announced this month?s national debut of a new line of deli products, at its Feb. 7 shareholders meeting.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Project Managers Are Hired Guns For Big Jobs
Communication & organizational skills are essential for well-run construction project. (Also included, the list of northwest Arkansas commercial contractors and projects.)
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Reindl Warehouse Gets $2.5M Facelift
After quietly renovating the interior for the past four years, Brian Reindl recently began putting a new roof and brick facade on his 75,000-SF warehouse complex at 509 W. Spring St. in Fayetteville.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Razorback Riviera: Many Northwest Arkansas Residents Make Emerald Coast Their Second Home
A 100-mile stretch of Gulf Coast shoreline on the northeast Florida Panhandle is known as the Emerald Coast. Destin, one of its gems, is beginning to take on quite a flavor of the Ozarks.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Wireless Tech Aids Industry Bottom Line (Joy Wier Commentary)
It’s a $3.9 trillion-per-year industry, but construction ranks 87th globally among industries in the adoption of technology.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Schweik Buys Cool Water and Chili’s Increasas Sales
Richard Schweik took over as owner of Fayetteville?s Cool Water Village Cafe on Feb. 1 and Chili’s took the No. 2 position in gross sales for 2002.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Jimmy John?s Gets Nearly Four Stars (Business Lunch Review)
Jimmy John?s has been open for about a month in the Dickson Street building that previously housed a crafts gallery called Whimsicals.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Profiles of Two Startups in Northwest Arkansas
Frames By Design and Asterix Inc. open for business in northwest Arkansas.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
SoftFlow 3.0 Will Premiere in March
Rogers-based Delta Systems Inc., the publicly traded maker and marketer of software for automation control systems, will roll out its SoftFlow Version 3.0 in March.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Sales Hit $244.5 Billion
January same-store sales rose 2.3 percent for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., missing the Thomson First Call analysts’ consensus estimate of 3 percent growth.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Brass Eagle Drops Suit Against Odyssey Paintball
Brass Eagle Inc. of Bentonville, the world?s leading maker of paintball guns and other extreme sports products, said on Jan. 31 that it had dropped its lawsuit alleging patent infringement against Odyssey Paintball Products LLC of Garland, Texas.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Car-Mart to Open Two New Dealerships
America?s Car-Mart Inc. of Bentonville said on Feb. 4 that it opened a new dealership in Pine Bluff on Jan. 31 and plans to open one in Wichita Falls, Texas, by the end of February.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Cost Reductions Enabled by Tightening of Driver Pay
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren said operating revenue, before a fuel surcharge, rose 9.7 percent to $67.3 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with $61.4 million for the same quarter of 2001.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Three Area PR Pros Pass National Exam
The Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America announced in early February that three of its members passed the national accreditation exam in the fall of 2002, bringing the chapter’s total to nine accredited members.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Daily Record has Best Package on Marriott Fire
We were wowed on Feb. 4 when we picked up the Benton County Daily Record and saw the newspaper?s coverage of a fire the night before that destroyed the Residence Inn by Marriott in Rogers.