by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
Steve Mansfield and three investors paid $8 million for an existing apartment complex in Fayetteville and Bill Schywhart and Robert Thornton recently paid Ball Properties LLC $2.55 million for a car dealership and surrounding property in Rogers.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
One of my favorite Web spots, James Taranto’s “Best of the Web,” available from OpinionJournal.com, features a compilation called “Bottom Stories of the Day,” which highlights charmingly ridiculous headlines.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
KATV-TV, Channel 7, on June 26 withdrew news anchor Scott Inman as a candidate for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks play-by-play announcer role, just as a statement from the UA announced Chuck Barrett for the post.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
One of the most respected sports scribes in the state, Scott Cain, is joining Banc of America’s Investment Services division in Rogers as a financial adviser.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
If you haven’t purchased a copy of “Year of the Dog,” you better hurry because supplies are running short.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
Marc Henning, staff photographer for The Morning News of Springdale, has been hired by Hawgs Illustrated as the magazine’s chief photographer.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
A Little Rock law firm is angling to be part of the leadership team in the potential class action lawsuit against Canadian pet food manufacturer Menu Foods Inc.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
Cameron Smith of Cameron Smith & Associates in Rogers is back from a whirlwind trip to China where he and his team hosted 200 to 300 companies at a conference on the benefits of doing business in Northwest Arkansas with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
Joe Bender believes the cost of health care in the United States is out of control. That’s why he started his own company to help patients wanting to save money on expensive medical procedures.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
O.K. Industries Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. top this year’s Northwest Arkansas Business Journal lists of the area’s largest private companies and employers, respectively.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
It seems as though every year about this time the media come out with a rash of stories of excessive pay for CEOs and no one knows better than we do the enduring curiosity about other people’s money.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
State organizations are shifting their approach to landing high-wage employment in Arkansas.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
After a second shipment of unapproved beef arrived on June 2 in South Korea, the country has banned imports from two more Tyson Foods Inc. plants in the U.S.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
A former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pharmacist was awarded $2 million from a Massachusetts jury who agreed with her claims of gender bias.
by - July 2, 2007 12:00 am
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. of Springdale announced June 20 that the 2006 annual report and proxy statement have been mailed to shareholders.
by - June 18, 2007 12:00 am
Northwest Arkansas’ top three public companies — J.B. Hunt, Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart — have reported steady earnings in the first half of 2006, but earnings could fall below expectations in the second half of the year.
by - June 18, 2007 12:00 am
Ozarks Electric and Southwestern Electric Power have teamed on projects to produce more electricity locally in Northwest Arkansas.
by - June 18, 2007 12:00 am
City sales tax collections are down in Fayetteville and Springdale and up in Rogers and Bentonville. Analysts and city finance directors said the rise of retail business in Benton County contributed to lagging collections in Washington County.
by - June 18, 2007 12:00 am
Would you like your stock portfolio to yield 6 percent, 10 percent or even 15 percent? With the S&P 500 currently yielding 1.8 percent, you might think those higher yields are impossible.
by - June 18, 2007 12:00 am
A Fayetteville developer is replacing an old mobile home park with mix of single-family and multi-family homes.
