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Leggett & Platt Inc.

Leggett & Platt Inc. announced a 2-for-1 stock split and increased the second-quarter cash dividend. The split will be distributed to shareholders on June 15 for shareholders of record as…

Helping Hands to Begin Building New Thrift Store

Helping Hands Inc. of Bentonville received a $1.7 million mortgage from the Bank of Bentonville on May 5 to finance the construction of a new building along Airport Road in…

Commerce Inc. Mortgages Eight Acres in Springdale

More than eight acres of land and several buildings along South 40th Street in Springdale are being used to secure a $1.35 million mortgage from Community Bank of Fayetteville. Commerce…

New KFC Restaurant Under Construction

A new Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is being built in Fayetteville with a $998,750 mortgage from the Bank of Arkansas. The 3,380-SF restaurant is under construction at 2992 N. College…

Medical Clinic Changes Hands, Secures $496,983 Mortgage

The ownership of the Northwest Arkansas Clinic for Women was transferred April 8 and the building was used to secure a $496,983 mortgage from McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fayetteville….

Campbell Building Secures Mortgage

The Campbell Building at 1001 W. Walnut St. in Rogers was mortgaged April 30 for $375,000. James R. and Carolyn Campbell received the mortgage from Arkansas National Bank of Rogers….

Farmington Grocery Store Mortgaged for $300,000

The new Marvin’s IGA grocery store in Farmington was mortgaged May 15 for $300,000. Consumers Thriftway Inc. of Fayetteville received the mortgage from McIlroy Bank and Trust of Fayetteville. The…

Journal reporter Purchases Home

James H. Lovel purchased a house in Fayetteville on May 27 for $58,000 from Kim and Lydia McClusky. Lovel received a $57,900 mortgage from Arvest Mortgage Co. of Lowell on…

Early Berlin

300 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville three stars For lunch, the food at Early Berlin is good, authentic, unique and expensive. This was the first German restaurant – other than a…

Driver Shortage Forces Companies to Look Overseas

Facing a chronic driver shortage that has plagued the trucking industry for the past several years, some trucking companies are finding creative solutions to the problem. J.B. Hunt Transport Services…

Wal-Mart Stock Climbs, No Split

The crowd of 18,000 moaned in unison as David Glass, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., announced that directors wouldn’t split the mammoth retailer’s stock that day. But just as quickly,…

Printer Goes Public

Phillips Litho Co. — a Springdale printing company owned for years by Phil Phillips Jr. — is part of one of the nation’s newest public companies, and a public securities…

Cupits Next Target

The Mortgage Connection is the latest creation of Michael and Bert Cupit, brothers, business partners and owners of Cupit Street Century 21. We understand it’s part of the Cupits’ plan…

Old Navy Invasion

Old Navy, a division of Gap Inc. of San Francisco, is looking to open a clothing store in Fayetteville. A property owner who requested anonymity says Old Navy has looked…

Hunt the Hunter

J.B. Hunt, the patriarch of the nation’s largest publicly-traded trucking company, is forming a hunting club on 2,000 acres in Missouri. Hunt acquired the land from Tim Graham, a former…

Bank Bulges at Seams

Bank of Fayetteville has purchased the building next door that housed Matilda’s clothing store for the past 56 years. Late last year, Virginia McAllister closed the store after 36 years…

Missing Alice

There was a conspicuous absence at the annual Wal-Mart stockholders’ meeting June 5. Alice Walton, daughter of the company’s founder, Sam Walton, and founder of the Llama Co. didn’t join…

Arkansas Best Returns to Profits

Trucking company emerges from acquisition losses Despite the trend that has dominated American business in the last few years, the process of acquiring a competing company and assimilating its assets…

SynergyTech Gets Contribution From Pratt & Whitney

SynergyTech, a non-profit organization that is trying to build a cooperative education and training program for local industry, got a $10,000 boost recently as the result of a contribution from…

Barbecue Cook-off Planned for Fayetteville

The Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a barbecue cook-off July 10 and 11 as a prelude to Hot Time in the Ozarks, a summer festival that will begin in…

Doula Alliance of Arkansas appoints executive director

St. Bernards Healthcare to take over management of Mississippi County Hospital System

Honored Anthony building houses University of Arkansas wood, housing research

UA survey shows more Arkansans suffer from depression