Author: Talk Business

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Southwestern Energy Co. to Relocate

Southwestern Energy Co. recently announced that it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Houston but the company?s gas utility, Arkansas Western Gas Co., will keep its location in Fayetteville.

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Tyson Foods Program Fights Hunger

Operation Frontline, sponsored by Tyson Foods Inc., holds its inaugural class for Chicago residents for the nutrition education program of the anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength.

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Laser Technology to Diagnose Glaucoma

Fayetteville’s McDonald Eye Associates on North Hills Boulevard and The Eye Center on Millsap Road both recently acquired a new laser technology that helps diagnose glaucoma in its earliest stages….

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A Steal for Rob

On Jan. 26, Robson Walton exercised $4.9 million worth of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stock options. The company chairman, and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, got 72,000 shares at $51.13…

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Wrestling With Firing

Have you ever had to fire a long-time loyal employee or family member? If so, and if you are like most successful CEOs, you wrestled really hard with the decision.You…

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North by Northwest

The North Forty Bed & Breakfast inn and reception center is for sale. The property, on Crossover Road in Fayetteville, was advertised in the July/August issue of Catering Magazine. The…

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Litter-ally

In light of a recent Arkansans for Responsible Agriculture report that accuses Tyson Foods Inc. of violating Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality standards, we hear the Springdale poultry giant’s contribution…

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Old Navy Plans Fayetville Store

Old Navy, a division of Gap Inc. of San Francisco, plans to construct a 25,000-SF store in Fayetteville’s Spring Creek Centre. Construction is expected to begin by September, and the…

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Simmons cookin’

The new $15 million plant Simmons Foods Inc. opened in Van Buren late last year has proved so successful that the Siloam Springs-based poultry company is already expanding it. A…

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Crown Group Buys Rogers-Based Car-Mart Chain

Things won’t change much when Crown Group Inc. of Dallas takes over Rogers-based Car-Mart in January. Car-Mart, with $52 million in annual revenue, has a reputation in northwest Arkansas for…

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Southwest Entergy Stock Profile

Gas and oil production during the first quarter of 1998 was 9.9 billion cubic feet equivalent, even with the same period in 1997. Gas production was 8.7 Bcf for both…

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Hunt Stock Sales

Some top executives with J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell have sold more than $20 million of the company’s stock since the first of the year. Much of the…