by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
ERC Properties Inc. is the best company in Arkansas that no one has ever heard of. At least, that?s what one of its investment partners said. And ERC president Rod Coleman would like to keep it that way.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Tom Manskey, president of the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce, says victories such as the May re-roping of Graphic Packaging Corp. are happening because groups in the city are working together like a posse possessed.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., also the country?s biggest employer, faces the biggest class-action lawsuit ever in a civil case ? a suit that could affect 1.6 million current and former female employees.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
The homespun, no-frills approach of Benefit Bank of Fort Smith is an apparent hit with a certain demographic of the market.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
The Arkansas River Valley boasts eight of the 49 largest privately held companies in the six-county area. With their combined $1.24 billion in 2003 revenue, those firms bring in more money than the largest private concerns in any other area city.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
The Hiram Walker plant in Fort Smith has gone from bottling 1.5 million cases of liquor per year when it opened in 1980 to 5 million now.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
In 2002, Steve Gann, Dennis Joyce and Bill Dodson started Lumber One in Van Buren, filling the void for a locally owned, full-service contract lumber yard. It remains the only one of its kind in the Arkansas River Valley.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Of the 13 private and public banking institutions operating in Crawford and Sebastian counties, 76 percent of the deposit market share is held by five banks.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Construction begins on the La Quinta Inn in Bentonville. Champion Builders adds units at Mill Creek. Terminella develops Abington subdivision in Rogers.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
As usual, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette won first place in the large daily category for general excellence from the Arkansas Press Association followed by The Morning News of Springdale and Southwest Times Record of Fort Smith.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Clear Channel Radio has promoted Jim Harvill to program director for KEZA Magic 107.9 to fill the vacancy left when Chip Arledge, known as ?the rotund one,? moved to Alabama in June.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Maloney Marketing Group of Cave Springs recently won three first-place awards from the Arkansas Chapter of the American Bankers Association Marketing Network.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
The Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce won the American Chamber of Commerce Executives 2003 Award for Communications Excellence for its annual tourism and relocation guide.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
We?ve noticed several new publications in the area lately.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
On the front page of the July 15 issue of The Benton County Daily Record: ?Sheriff: No Mo. nudity.?
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
?Chris Mills, stabbed in a parking lot fight, died early Wednesday not long after collapsing on the welcome mat of the Good Vibrations nightclub in Rogers, witnesses said.?
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Wilma Bulin has been cleaning houses for more than 20 years, but now she?s launched her own business with the help of partner Debbie Smith.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
With $25,000 in initial startup costs and lots of experience in trade-show events, Ken Abernathy and David Higgins launched Red Ball Productions in February.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
We hear Gary George, CEO of George?s Inc. in Springdale, and a group of local investors are forming a new bank.
by - July 19, 2004 12:00 am
Gary Combs recently bought more than 1,300 combined acres of land in Farmington and Prairie Grove for about $15 million.
