by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Area companies band together to tap growing international markets Corporate heavyweights Tyson Foods Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. made Northwest Arkansas a player in the…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
After a lull in the wholesale club business for more than a decade, the industry is again showing double-digit sales increases, and Sam’s Club is leading the way. Sam’s Club,…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
It won’t include Space Mountain or fighting Pirates of the Caribbean, but Disney will be in Northwest Arkansas this summer. The Springdale Chamber of Commerce has landed a date with…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
A top administrator at Northwest Health System is due for a new position, we hear. Tom O’Neal has been chief operating officer of Northwest Health System since the 1996 merger…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Fort Smith’s Baldor Electric Co. got a glowing recommendation in a recent issue of Better Investing, the monthly magazine published by the National Association of Investors Corp. The electric motor…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Kinco Construction Co. and Nabholz Construction are the main contract bidders for a $20 million to $30 million expansion of Tyson Foods Inc.’s Chick’N Quick plant in Rogers. The bids…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Mike Andrews, owner of the Fay- etteville Insty-Prints franchise, plans to construct a 6,300-SF building just west of the Aldi’s store on Appleby Road in Fayetteville and move his business…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
The asking price on Puppy Creek Golf Course is $560,000. The 12.67-acre parcel includes the nine-hole, lighted golf course on U.S. Highway 71 just south of U.S. Highway 412. The…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from the Northwest Arkansas Physicians’ Health Plan, the insurance plan promulgated by members of the NWA Independent Physicians Association. But that’s about to change….
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Longtime Tyson Foods executive Jerry Dowd recently left the company to join competing poultry giant ConAgra. Dowd was Tyson’s senior vice-president of food service and general manager of food service…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
For the Wal-Mart annual shareholders’ meeting on June 4, the world’s largest retailer has scheduled some top-notch entertainment for shareholders and associates (that’s “employees” to the rest of us). Two…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Ken R. Mourton, of Ball & Mourton Ltd. in Fayetteville, and Hansaben Bhakta received a $4.8 million construction loan March 22 from the Bank of Bentonville to build a Hilton…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Robert Wood, through his holding company WEC 99A-2 LLC, refinanced the Circuit City store at 744 E. Joyce Blvd. in Fayetteville on March 18 with a $3.3 million loan through…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Sam Mathias refinanced his 60,000-SF Treadco Inc. building at the Ozark Factory Outlet Stores mall at the corner of U.S. Highways 71 and 412 in Springdale. Treadco sells new and…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Jack Donahoe used a $1.46 million loan from Arkansas National Bank on April 14 to refinance six buildings containing four townhouses each in Fay-etteville’s Sequoyah South Subdivision. It includes Lots…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Scottish Inns at 1219 S. Thompson Ave. in Springdale was refinanced April 6 by its owners, Narneda M. Krushiker and Ila N. Krushiker, with a $900,000 loan from Arkansas National…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Carl and Kimberly Ledbetter, through their company C&L Properties of Springdale, got a $670,000 loan from McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fay-etteville. The capital was used to purchase eight duplexes…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
John and Virginia Luther recently built three apartment buildings containing 18 units on Paris and Rochier streets in Fayetteville. The $637,491 project includes 10 units at 1112 Rochier St. that…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Brian and Donna Buell refinanced a portion of their property at 2232 Arkansas Highway 45 in Goshen on March 8. He has an optometry practice in Fayetteville. The loan from…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Dr. Kelly R. and Cheryl B. Danks purchased a 6,573-SF home March 25 with a $500,000 loan from Broyles Mortgage Co. of Fayetteville. The property at 273 E. Canvas Road…
