by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Amendment 60 to the Arkansas Constitution was adopted by voters in November 1982, a matter of days after the Federal Reserve?s discount rate dropped below 10 percent for the first time in three years.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
St. Vincent Health System is more than a quarter of the way through a two-year contract with a North Little Rock company that sends credit card-like bills ? complete with interest charges ? for balances owed by individual patients.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Fort Smith?s Arkansas Best Corp. on July 18 posted second-quarter net income of $6.5 million.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Beverly Enterprises Inc. of Fort Smith released its second-quarter earnings July 30, reporting revenue of $634.7 million for the quarter that ended June 30.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
On July 1, First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. completed its previously announced stock repurchase.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown on July 30 said diluted and basic earnings per share increased to 45 cents during the second quarter, an increase from the 34 cents it reported during the same time last year.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
John Tyson said Tyson Foods Inc.?s acquisition of IBP Inc. last year gave the company ?a larger basket of goods.? It also gave the Springdale company higher earnings in its fiscal third-quarter.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Walmart.com, the Internet site for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has signed a marketing and sales agreement to provide flat rate prices for Thrifty Car Rental automobiles.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas apparently saved $15 per year by swapping head basketball coaches last spring. That?s the difference in annual state salary between Nolan Richardson ($133,015) and Stan Heath ($133,000).
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Customer relations will always be a huge issue for any executive management team.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
An extra $10,000 a year is probably not enough to make most readers of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal move to Texas. But for freshly minted school teachers, an extra 10 grand is 40-50 percent more than they can make teaching in Arkansas.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
The Huson family of Fayetteville is expanding its restaurant empire ? all the way across Dickson Street. Jim, Teresa and Nelson Huson opened Doe?s Eat Place and now plan to open Big Daddy?s Sports Bar & Grill.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pulled Chinese shrimp and crawfish from its shelves in three states after tests found chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that was banned in the United States a decade ago.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Jennifer Brock ?doesn?t do? carnations at Just Add Water. Instead, Brock, co-owner of the upscale floral shop, imports flowers from around the world to design her nontraditional floral arrangements.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
With a collection that she hopes will eventually span the globe, Julie Birchfield imports unique, handmade pottery from Europe and Mexico for her business, Unique Imports.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Steve Graves and Tom Addington, who founded The Life@Work Journal in 1997, are negotiating with a Christian college and seminary to financially support the international Christian business magazine.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Robert ?Bob? Carey, a retired journalism professor from the University of Arkansas, died July 8 after a sudden heart attack while visiting his son in Florida.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Mike Jones left the Rogers Hometown News, where he had served as editor since January 1998, to work in the publication department for the Sam?s Club division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Television station KHBS/KHOG, Channels 40/29, has just about worn us out with this ?hometown? thing. They use the term as a way to try to corral Northwest Arkansas, Fort Smith, eastern Oklahoma and even southwestern Missouri into one ?region.?
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world?s largest company and the largest gun seller in the United States, is strengthening its policy on firearms sales after the company?s research showed weapons were ending up in the hands of criminals
