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National Home Centers Inc.

National Home Centers Inc. announced that, for the second quarter ended July 31, net income was $312,000, or four cents per share, compared with net income of $449,000, or six…

Oklahoma City-based AARO Broadband Wireless Communications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aarow Environmental Group Inc., showed growth in its first quarterly report since the parent company left Northwest Arkansas….

Butterfield Trail Village to Add 72 New Cottages

Butterfield Trail Village, a life-care retirement facility in Fayetteville, has begun construction on 72 new three-bedroom cottages. The total cost of the project will be about $18 million. The additional…

Golf Course Condos to Line SCC Layout

Upscale condominiums are planned for the new nine holes at Springdale Country Club. Gary Brandon Enterprises on Aug. 8 secured a loan of $1.28 million from Springdale Bank & Trust…

Red Rock Rolls With More Units

Red Rock Development Inc. on Aug. 1 got 21 separate loans totaling $1.26 million from J.B. Hunt LLC to build more houses in the Southfork subdivision in Lowell. Tim Graham,…

Springdale to Get New Retail Building

Phillip Taldo and Gary Griffin of One Springdale Inc. on Aug. 8 got a loan of $874,000 from Springdale Bank & Trust to begin construction on a retail office building…

Genesis Lands Virtual Satellite

Arkansas’ slow-to-crank technology sector is on the verge of a multi-billion dollar jump start. Internationally renowned satellite communications engineer Bob Friedman, who operates two companies at the University of Arkansas’…

Advanced Cabling Cleans Up in Hotels

Advanced Cabling Systems, the Little Rock firm that opened a Springdale office June 1, got the local contract to install high-speed voice and data cable infrastructure in five of John…

Faucette Turns On Students With Web

Fayetteville’s Faucette School of Real Estate, a click-and-mortar school housed in the offices of Coldwell Banker Faucette Real Estate, launched its information-based Web site in July. Since that time, Faucette…

Embrace the Risk, or Remain At Risk (Commentary)

Do you want to run out of money during your retirement? Do you think the stock market is too risky? You can’t have it both ways. If you are saving…

Walton Fortune Too Big To Buckle

Thanks to the Waltons, the aggregate wealth of the state’s richest families increased during the past year. Outside of the Wal-Mart fortune, however, times were tough for Arkansas’ wealthiest of…

Waltons Still Wealthiest In Arkansas, World

Walton Family Bentonville 2000 Estimated Wealth: $108 billion The world’s wealthiest family owns 38 percent of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Founded by a down-to-earth patriarch, the late…

Daisy Manufacturing Co. (Web Page Review)

Daisy Manufacturing Co. Rogers www.daisy.com If Daisy Manufacturing Co.’s technicians had returned our e-mail, their Web site would have gotten five stars. Response time to Web-based inquiries, however, is one…

Litho Not Letting Go

In July, we told you about the Chapter 11 “reorganization” bankruptcy of Phillips Litho’s parent company, Master Graphics Inc. of Memphis. Well, now it seems that Phil Phillips Jr., son…

Humphreys Hauled In

A sheriff’s deputy finally caught up with Jeffrey Humphreys in Akron, Ohio. He’s the guy we told you about last issue who had written several hot checks around Northwest Arkansas….

Bell?s A Ringing

After only 28 business days of offering long-distance service in Texas, SBC Communications Inc. had captured more than 500,000 customers that represent about 700,000 phone lines. This is noteworthy because…

GIFT Redemption

Kiplinger’s personal finance magazine recently praised a number of prepaid college savings plans. Arkansas didn’t make the top 10 winners, but it did fall in with five other states where…

DocuTreks to NWA

The Xerox DocuTrek Road Show, a traveling multimedia demonstration, will make its first ever appearance in Northwest Arkansas Sept. 14 when it visits Rogers. Tim Stanley, president and general manager…

The Wild, Wild West

The shooting of John R. Locke was featured as a major story in newspapers and television news segments nationwide. The University of Arkansas English professor was gunned down in his…

Here Today, Gone Tuesday

Tuesday Eastlack, one of Northwest Arkansas’ best known chefs, is once again unemployed. In mid-May, Eastlack replaced John Sutton as executive chef at Ozark Brewing Co. in Fayetteville. By mid-August,…

Arkansas to lead National Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship expansion

The Supply Side: Boomer generation concedes spending power to young consumers

2nd cohort of new lithium accelerator shows innovations in Bentonville

Weekly wages up 4.2% in Arkansas, Benton County leads with 13.4% wage gain