by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Two technology incubators are thriving: the University of Arkansas’ Genesis Technology Incubator and the UAMS Arkansas BioVentures Incubator. Also, the lists of SBA lenders and private equity firms.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Fayetteville retailers Bill Underwood, Mason Hiba and Scott Crook tell how they got started in business.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
About 51.4 percent of the SBA-guaranteed loans in the six-county Northwest Arkansas area during 2003, or about $15.44 million worth of that area?s total, were made to businesses in Washington County.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Virtual Incubation Co. LLC has won 12 Small Business Innovation Research awards for five local startups since Jan. 2003.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Olive Garden breaks Fayetteville record with $4.1 million in annual sales.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Vince Pianalto and David Lewis have opened La Maison des Tartes, a bakery and coffee shop, next door to Fayetteville’s Mill District.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Sam Culpepper plans to open a new Subway Sandwich Shop in March in Springdale’s Signature Square shopping cneter.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
More than 40 local companies plan to participate in the American Heart Association’s 2004 Northwest Arkansas Heart Walk.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Mel Robinson, a plaintiff in a libel lawsuit filed last Feb. 25 against Arkansas Business Publishing Group, one of its publications and three employees, has voluntarily dismissed his suit.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
The American Management Association recently announced the results of a survey of business executives that found 64 percent of their companies have a crisis plan in place, an increase from 49 percent in 2002.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Wal-Mart’s new prototype Supercenter that recently opened in Tampa, Fla., is 90,000 SF in size, 11,000 SF smaller than the Supercenters the company had been constructing.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Arvest Mortgage Co. saw a 60.1 percent increase in mortage originations from $912 million during 2002 to more than $1.46 billion last year.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell on Jan. 28 reported fourth-quarter net income up about 80 percent from the same quarter last year.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Capital Resource Corp. has been awarded a $205,000 grant and developed a three-way partnership with the Milken Institute and an arm of the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Hugo’s is still one of Fayetteville’s best underground restaurants.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Blake Russell took over on Jan. 26 as vice president and general manager of NBC 24/51, KPOM/KFAA-TV, the NBC affiliates based in Fayetteville that also serve the Fort Smith market.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Cox Communications Inc. plans to have the $104.7 million renovation of its 4,000-mile cable system in Northwest Arkansas completed before the end of the year.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
The Morning News has changed its Page 1 flag again, this time to prominently display the newspaper’s name instead of the city for which the edition is zoned.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Springdale meat producer Tyson Foods Inc. has asked its shareholders to vote down two proposals that are old hat to its annual shareholders meeting.
by - February 2, 2004 12:00 am
Despite the mad-cow disease scare late last year, Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said on Jan. 26 that its first-quarter earnings grew by 46 percent.
