by - June 28, 1999 12:00 am
Two weeks after Arkansas National Bank foreclosed on its loan and a week after six investors filed suit against Southern Signature Inc. of Rogers, the sauce company filed for Chapter…
by - June 28, 1999 12:00 am
On June 14, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it had made its largest acquisition ever, paying $10.8 billion for Asda Group PLC, Great Britain’s third largest supermarket chain. Analysts say…
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
There’s a new hotel in the offing for Springdale – and, not surprisingly, it’s planned for 48th Street, currently one of the hottest spots in the city near the intersection…
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
We hear some of the Wal-Mart shareholders who flew into the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to attend the annual shareholders’ meeting on June 4 had a little trouble finding Fayetteville….
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
Brian and Melissa Reindl, through their management company, Reindl Properties, bought Fayetteville’s Olde Warehouse building May 3 from the John Sugg Family Trust. The Reindls paid $900,000 for the 73,000-SF…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Washington Regional Medical Foundation’s recent benefit gala has paid off for three local groups. The Benton County Women’s Shelter, the Project for Victims of Family Violence in Washington County and…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
A group of Northwest Arkansas physicians is proceeding with plans to build a new 80,000-SF women’s center, complete with an obstetrics unit, in Johnson. The physicians involved in the project…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. recently announced a new stock repurchase program of up to 220,935 shares, or about 5 percent, of the company’s outstanding common stock. The corporation…
by - May 17, 1999 12:00 am
Dean will retire after a decade of service; spearheaded effort to establish King Fahd Middle East Studies Program When Bernard “Bernie” Madison stepped forward to present graduates from the Fulbright…
by - May 17, 1999 12:00 am
Dan Cooper says he wasn’t initially thrilled to hear plans from his cousin, John Cooper Jr., for restructuring Cooper Communities Inc. At the time, Dan Cooper was president of Tellico,…
by - May 17, 1999 12:00 am
Blackwood Martin/CJRW tops ad agency list; Gulfstar stations dominate area radio market The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas leads the two-county area in newspaper circulation with 36,443 on Sundays. But…
by - May 17, 1999 12:00 am
George Babb of Springdale, who has the Arkansas franchise rights to Village Inn Restaurants, says he’s looking for a location to build a restaurant in either Springdale or Bella Vista….
by - May 17, 1999 12:00 am
On May 17, the NCAA Baseball Tournament selection committee will announce where the 16 sites will be for its opening round of regionals May 28-30. The University of Arkansas’ Baum…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
Rogers lawyer David R. Matthews and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Matthews, received a $560,000 mortgage March 4 from First National Bank & Trust. The note is for their 6,075-SF home…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
First Security Bank, the Searcy-based bank that expects to open its new 14,000-SF building in Fayetteville in early June, is planning to build a similar facility in Rogers. Jim Taylor,…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
Jan. 3, 2000, should be business as usual, officials from most area banks and savings institutions say. As the first weekday of the new year, that could be the day…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
Dan Dykema was first in line to get Arkansas National Bank of Bentonville online. The bank president says in 1996 he began to view the Internet as another potential delivery…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
A $13.5 million gift from the Schmieding Foundation will provide for the building and operating of a new senior health and education center in Springdale. The donation, announced April 5…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
Renovation of the Sears store in Fay-etteville’s Northwest Arkansas Mall should be completed around July 1, says Greg Day, who took over as the store’s manager in January. Day previously…
by - May 3, 1999 12:00 am
Ted Morelock, a professor of horticulture at the University of Arkansas, developed a variety of southern peas in December 1995 that has become one of the most widely used by…
