by - August 21, 2000 12:00 am
Emplifi Inc., a provider of enterprise Web integration solutions, and eJiva Inc., a business-to-business e-services consultant, were recently hired by J.B. Hunt to design and develop its new Call Center…
by - August 21, 2000 12:00 am
Arkansas Aviation Tech Center in Fayetteville will graduate its first class of aviation maintenance technicians on Aug. 31. The AMTs have been trained in 43 different technologies ranging from avionics…
by - August 21, 2000 12:00 am
Had enough of “helmet hair and perfect teeth?” So has Richard Speer. The former news anchor for KFSM, Channel 5, in Fort Smith, has penned a scathing column about the…
by - August 21, 2000 12:00 am
Bur Edson, the Fort Smith news director for KFSM, had no comment concerning the column by Richard Speer. But one of Speer’s former peers in Arkansas said Speer wasn’t the…
by - August 7, 2000 12:00 am
Molly Maguires, billed originally as a cross between an early American restaurant/tavern and an Irish pub, closed July 29. The restaurant had been open at 3607 Magellan Blvd. in Bentonville…
by - July 3, 2000 12:00 am
Lowell Medical Center’s drug-free workplace program recently got an increase and an extension on its U.S. Small Business Administration funding. Last year, the center received $184,000 to help businesses set…
by - March 6, 2000 12:00 am
Patrick Flynn’s new job won’t be a cakewalk. Flynn, who recently left Fayetteville’s Washington Regional Medical Center, where he had been CEO for the past six years, was to assume…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Competition among providers of local telephone service is among the latest telecommunications developments in Northwest Arkansas. Southwestern Bell, one of the so-called “Baby Bells” that resulted when a federal judge…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Hansaben T. Bhakta and Terry Dill, through their company, Major Investments Inc. of Springdale, used a $1.6 million loan Dec. 22 to refinance their Best Western Windsor Suites at 1122…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Demaree, Hash & Associates LLC of Cave Springs, the holding company owned by Pat Demaree and Brett Hash, is spending $1 million to develop a golf community in Cave Springs….
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Tallchamps LLC, the development company for Pinnacle Golf & Country Club in Rogers, is spending $682,395 to develop Phase I of its Pinnacle Subdivision. Thomas E. and Gloria W. Hopper,…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Ace Pallet Co. of Bentonville, owned and operated by Gary D. and Cynthia Youree, bought the 38,000-SF warehouse at 11675 Mt. Heabron Road in Lowell. The building and three-acre lot…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
The city of Fayetteville expects to make an extra $500,000 this year simply by investing its money more prudently. Fayetteville is apparently one of the first Arkansas cities to take…
by - February 21, 2000 12:00 am
Speaking of Garner Asset Management Co., it’s not every investment manager who also gives out recipes. Recent visitors to the Fayetteville company’s web site (www.garnerasset.com) may have noticed the top…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Paul J. Shulte, president and CEO of Supertel Hospitality Inc. of Norfolk, Neb., refinanced his company’s Super 8 Hotel at 1075 S. Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville. The transaction was part…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
South Carolina businessman Major Whisnant hopes to bring his company’s Gameday Park concept to Fayetteville, especially if additional ball games are scheduled on campus. But one version of the company’s…
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Developer Gary Combs, owner of Basic Construction Co. in Springdale, may have recorded the steal of the new year. He has lured Jim Hawkins away from Tune Concrete Products Co….
by - February 7, 2000 12:00 am
Jeffrey Wood of Bentonville has been named editor of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, publisher Darin Gray announced Jan. 21. Wood, who has been an associate editor more than a…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
Mercy Health System’s selective contracting with Benton County physicians is apparently not anti-competitive or illegal under federal law, the U.S. Justice Department has said. Congressman Asa Hutchinson asked the Justice…
by - January 24, 2000 12:00 am
In January, Northwest Arkansas lost two prominent businessmen, each a pioneer in his own industry. Thomas Alan Jacoway, 53, CEO of Artran Inc., died Jan. 9, following a long illness….
