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.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The old adage ?good help is hard to find? seems to fit the local banking industry. And with the influx of several new and new-to-the-market banks, good help is becoming even harder to keep.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Tim Yeager, the new associate professor of economics in the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business, wants to help Arkansas banks manage their interest-rate risk.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Gov. Mike Huckabee signs The Arkansas Clean Indoor Air Act, leveling the playing field among businesses, one police official says.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Lemongrass, a Thai restaurant at the Bentonville Colonnade, closes, and Supha Vandiver plans to open Siam Palace, another Thai restaurant, in the same location at the end of May.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Moe?s Southwest Grill opens in Bentonville, the state’s second Moe’s, offering a menu of tacos, salads, fajita’s and burritos.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
San Francisco Bread Co. gets 3 stars in our business lunch review.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hires Dr. Robert R. Gullett Jr. as the new director for the Area Health Education Center in Northwest Arkansas.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
The Payroll Co. of Springfield, Mo., buys AutoTime, a Web-based time-keeping system, from PayTime Inc. of Fayetteville for an undisclosed sum.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
About 12 entrepreneurs, investors and economic development leaders gather in Fayetteville to discuss an action plan for the upcoming Arkansas Venture Forum.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Rheem Manufacturing Co.?s Air Conditioning Division in Fort Smith partners with ServiceMagic Inc. to provide contractors with real-time Internet leads.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Bobby Purvis, owner and chief flight instructor of Fort Smith Aviation Academy LLC, receives a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide flight training to pilots who have finished officer training school.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
About 8,621 homes sold in 2005 in Benton and Washington counties, according to the Northwest Arkansas Multiple Listing Service, an increase of about 13 percent from 2004 and about 26 percent increase from 2003.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. of Irving, Texas, files with the Federal Communications Commission to sell KFTA-TV, Channel 24, in Fort Smith to Mission Broadcasting Inc. of Becksville, Ohio, for $5.6 million.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Coconut Palm Acquisition Corp., of Boca Raton, Fla., says it will acquire Equity Broadcasting Corp. of Little Rock. The deal is valued at $267.4 million.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Fayetteville?s NBC affiliate, KNWA, hires Scott Pickey to be the station?s news director.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Sometimes we think it?s O.K. to turn on a little junior high humor and snicker ? as long as you?re in the car and no one knows about it.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Baldor Electric Co. in Fort Smith announced on April 13 that it had $11.3 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2006, up 26 percent from the same time period last year, according to a press release.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is phasing out sales of firearms in about 25 percent of its U.S. stores because of soft demand.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Mid-Tec Inc. of Anderson, Mo., starts construction on a $17 million expansion to the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Springdale and EWI Constructors Inc. of Fayetteville starts a project valued at $1.2 million.
