by - November 29, 1999 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Changes the Neighborhood
Since launching its first Neighborhood Market grocery store a year ago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has tweaked the concept until it has come up with a “blueprint” for rolling out the…
Author: Talk Business & Politics
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
ANB Introduces ?Bucks Buggy?
Mobile ATM earns parking rights to Razorbacks games It’s an automated teller machine of a different color that Arkansas National Bank is introducing next. Actually, the machine is adorned with…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Flores Cooks Up National Plan
Cafe Santa Fe plans to cha-cha on Chi-Chi’s empire Tom Flores believes Cafe Santa Fe is poised to unseat Chi-Chi’s as the largest Mexican restaurant chain in America. Flores’ secret…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
CommunityCare Utilizes Means to Build Assets
Foundation offers new managment services to potential philanthropists in local region The creation of the $140 million CommunityCare Foundation as the state’s second-largest private foundation is having the unlikely effect…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Arkansas Gives More With Less
Some Southern states fare much better than Arkansas when it comes to philanthropy, says Pat Lile, executive director of Arkansas Community Foundation. Georgia and North Carolina, for example, have “huge”…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Investors Look to Europe
The European Union has been working toward economic cooperation and integration since shortly after World War II. A significant step in establishing the European Monetary Union occurred in February 1971…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
E-doc Program Proves Successful at Acxiom
2000 Employees an e-mail away from expert health care advice for non-emergency care A program that allows e-mail correspondence with a doctor is proving “overwhelmingly” successful for one Arkansas company…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
DiCarlo Fast-Tracking Razorback Stadium Expansion
DiCarlo Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., won the special contract for preliminary site work on the expansion of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. Its low bid of $850,000 includes drill…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
High-end sport
Skyranch Aviation Inc. has made skydiving such a popular sport in Northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma that a recent jump with tandem expert Hoyt Perry, owner of Perry’s Jewelry in…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
List This
We hear the threat of a lawsuit is what made Rita Allured paint over her white-lettered sign about 1.2 miles past the Arkansas Highway 12 bridge near the B&E Grocery…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Mc-Quick Stops
Talks are underway with McDonald’s to include chain restaurants in two of three convenience stores Stephen Griffin and Tommy Mardis plan to build in Northwest Arkansas. The projects will total…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Sharing the Wealth
An anonymous donor has given the Bentonville-Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce 4,682 shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., worth about $206,000, to keep as seed money for a new building. The…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Back to School
The revitalization of Fayetteville’s Dickson Street is spreading south along School Avenue. Tim Klinger, a Fayetteville lawyer, is having a two-story, 8,000-SF building constructed on a lot he owns on…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Lost on Cupit Street
The reason Frank Smith and his namesake Rogers real estate company is suing Bert Bennett and his Cupit Street LLC of Fayetteville is because the Century 21-affiliate is three months…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Panda Patrol
Tom Tam, the owner of three Panda Restaurants, plans to begin construction soon on a new one in Springdale. The Chinese restaurant, planned for a 2.5-acre lot north of the…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Aladdin?s Wishes
The word is Aladdin Realtors’ success has it busting at the seams with 25 agents, and the Rogers company is now interested in expanding to Fayetteville. Gary Clay owns the…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Wine Prices Cheaper Than National Average
Northwest Arkansas restaurants stock up on wine, offer bargain prices, by-glass servings Budding enophiles in Northwest Arkansas have plenty of places to go to sample wines, and, compared to the…
by - August 23, 1999 12:00 am
Tyson Seeks to Protect Trade Secrets With Suit
Tyson Foods Inc.’s lawsuit against ConAgra Inc., filed Aug. 5, is not the first time the food industry giants have butted heads. ConAgra drove up the bidding for Holly Farms…
by - August 23, 1999 12:00 am
Baldor Targets Drive Market
It has already set industry standards with its motors, and now Baldor Electric Co. is aiming for an equal share of the drive market. The company has converted an old…
by - August 23, 1999 12:00 am
Patrons Tap Into Maxine’s for 50 years of ‘Miller Time’
In 1950, University of Arkansas students started visiting Maxine’s Tap Room to drink cold beer, play dominoes and plug change into the arcade bowling machine known as “Ding Ding.” Nearly…