by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
On April 27, we noticed the second and third pages of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sports section were identical, except that an extra space in the headline of Otis Kirk’s column had been corrected in the second version.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Crossland starts $19 million cold storage facility and Harris McHaney will build a $6.5 million office building in Rogers.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
In May, Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc. will graduate from the University of Arkansas’ Genesis Technology Incubator in Fayetteville.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
Vegrandis LLC, a Fayetteville company and a client of Virtual Incubation Corp., receives a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
If you’ve driven past the New Hope Road exit on Interstate 540 in Rogers lately, you probably saw the new cross jutting into the skyline at the construction site of the Church at Pinnacle Hills.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
More on Jeff Collins, executive director of the University of Arkansas’ Center for Business and Economic Research, who apparently agreed to be a board member for The Bank of Fayetteville but then was told he wouldn’t be allowed to serve.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
We hear the debit card division of the blue Bentonville banking behemoth is going gangbusters, with Arvest its 29th most active bank customer by debit card sales dollars processed for 2005.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
We noticed an interesting billboard put up by ex-Arvester Gary Head’s new bank, Signature Bank of Arkansas.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
We hear Dixie Development of Fayetteville has gotten a sizeable commitment for space at its Appleby Landing project.
by - May 8, 2006 12:00 am
That Bella Vista has a bunch of home sites available is not news. Nor is the fact that Northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest-growing parts of the country
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The new leader of the Delta Regional Authority, Rex Nelson, finds reasons for optimism in the Arkansas Delta.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The top 10 banks by return on equity in the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal?s annual list of private banks changed somewhat from year-end 2004 to 2005.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Many Northwest Arkansas banks use efficiency ratios as a performance barometer, but it?s only one of many. Includes the lists of the region’s largest banks, public and private.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Without correspondent banking partners, local banks couldn?t make as many large loans as they do. A peak at correspondent banks and how they work.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Liberty Bank of Arkansas is making its move into Northwest Arkansas? booming market. A look at the bank that Wallace Fowler built.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Wal-Mart has been trying for several years to enter the nation?s large cities. Now large urban areas should give the retailer?s planned economic-opportunity zones a chance.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
In the fourth quarter of 2005, Arkansas banks collectively had a net interest margin of 4.20 percent, down from 4.23 percent for the same quarter in 2004.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Corporate credit cards help banks make money one swipe at a time. But smaller credit card providers must stay competitive with larger credit card providers like Bank of America and MBNA.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The First National Bank in Green Forest has amassed $381.9 million in assets, continuing a steady growth over the past decade that its CEO says was fueled by a 1994 Arkansas law that allowed banks to branch outside of their home county.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
A year ago, First Security Bank converted the first floor of its 99-year-old building in downtown Springdale into its Multicultural Banking Center, helping immigrants get checking accounts and home loans.
