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Sunbelt Sells Out to its Franchisees

Sunbelt Business Brokers, the Charleston, S.C., business brokerage with local offices in Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Little Rock, was recently bought out by its franchisees.

Airport Bonds get ?BBB? Rating from Fitch

Fitch Ratings, a San Francisco-based credit rating agency, recently assigned a ?BBB? rating to $37.3 million worth of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority revenue bonds for the 2003 refunding series.

World?s Richest Dozen Includes Walton Family

Members of the Walton family of Bentonville individually, ranked Nos. 7-11 with $16.5 billion each on Forbes’ annual list.

Four Northwest Arkansas Firms win Family Friendly Employer Awards

DaySpring Cards of Siloam Springs, a manufacturer of inspirational greeting cards, took the gold for medium employers at the first Arkansas Governor?s Family Friendly Employer Awards in Little Rock.

Rounds Of Golf Played in Central Arkansas Dip

Since 2000, the number of rounds of golf played at War Memorial Golf Course has dropped by 30 percent.

It All Adds Up to Meza Once Again

As sure as there are going to be beads at Mardi Gras and cheese heads at a Green Bay game, so is Meza Harris at the top of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal?s annual real estate agents list.

Penny Stock Blunders Its Way To First-Ever Profit

Capitol Communities Corp., now of Boca Raton, Fla., ended its fiscal year in 2002 with something never seen in its eight-year history as a public company: a profit.

St. Valery Downs Won?t Horse Around With Quality of Living

St. Valery Downs is a 120-acre, upscale equestrian community with 81 lots in its first phase and 25 more to come.

Canadian Timbers Frame Posh Cabin

Jane Garrison and Ron Bumpass’ big cedar home in Fayetteville was inspired by her love of tree houses.

Eliminating Mold Can Be Costly, In-Spore-Ational

Tiny mold spores float continuously through the air, indoors and out, but when they begin to thrive in a damp indoor area, they can wreak havoc on the health of those breathing in their contaminants.

Lover?s Lane, Canterbury Remain Among Area?s Nicest Neighborhoods

Arkansas Highway 265 was still a dirt road in 1968 when bankers Ellis Burgin, Hayden McIlroy and others decided to head to east Fayetteville to develop an upscale subdivision.

UA Table-Grape Program Lands Two More Patents

Two new seedless table grapes, named Jupiter and Neptune, are intended to give Arkansas growers a hearty, marketable new fruit option.

Firm Handles Conflict Management

A mediation consultant and a wedding design company have opened shop locally.

Petra Caf? gets Three and a Half Stars (Business Lunch)

We thought Petra Caf? was a great place for a change of pace in downtown Fayetteville. The food is inexpensive, healthy and exotic, all at the same time.

Ruby Tuesday Chooses Fayetteville

Ruby Tuesday Inc. plans to build a 4,600-SF restaurant in Krushiker Addition, and Famous Dave?s Bar-B-Que plans to open a restaurant in Rogers? Scottsdale Center by mid-June.

Tyson Acquitted on All Charges

Tyson Foods Inc. and three of its managers on March 26 were acquitted by a federal court jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work at its poultry plants.

First Federal Pays Dividend in March

First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc., the Harrison unitary savings and loan company, declared in February that it would pay a 16-cent dividend payable March 25.

Britain Holds Up Wal-Mart, Other Safeway Bidders

Great Britain threw cold water on a bidding war for the country’s fourth-biggest supermarket chain Safeway Plc on March 19, ordering all but one of the five bidders to undergo a competition inquiry.

P.A.M. Reports Net Income Spike

P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. on March 13 reported net income of $16.59 million, or diluted earnings per share of $1.55, for the year that ended Dec. 31, 2002, a 64.8 percent increase from its 2001 net income.

Triad CFO Heads for Conflict in Iraq

The chief financial officer for Dallas-based Triad Hospitals Inc. has been recalled to temporary active duty with the United States Marine Corps.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report