by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
In 2001, employer health care plan premiums jumped 11 percent, and the average will be in double-digits again next year. The insurance industry doesn?t see any relief on the horizon.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Houndstooth Clothing Co. of Fayetteville had a 16 percent increase in same-store sales during December, said Michael Baker, who started the retro T-shirt company in 1992.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will move all of its import operations in-house beginning Feb. 1.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
On Dec. 13, C-Tech Industries Inc. of Camas, Wash., announced its wholesale distributor of pressure washer parts and accessories, Spraymart, moved into a 40,000-SF facility at 1468 E. Mountain Road in Springdale.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
The Tyson Foods Inc. board of directors elected three new members at its quarterly board meeting.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
On Jan. 8, Trans States Airlines/AmericanConnection plans to restore two flights each weekday from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to St. Louis that were temporarily canceled in August so two airplanes could be repainted.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
?Conference Call,? the Memphis-originated sports talk show formerly carried in Northwest Arkansas by ESPN-affiliate KREB-AM 1190 (?The Fan?) of Bentonville, is no more.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
We hate end-zone dances because, as one college football coach once said, we like to act like we?ve been there before. But this is one case of taunting that is deserved.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
A reader e-mailed us to say an item in the Best & Worst of 2001 section of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal?s Dec. 24 issue was inaccurate.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
The biggest deal in Northwest Arkansas of 2001 almost became no deal at all.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Dwain A. Newman and The Newman Family LLC announced on Dec. 27 that their offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of National Home Centers Inc. not already owned by Dwain Newman expired on Dec. 26
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Friedman Billings Ramsey said Dec. 27 that it has upgraded shares of Southwestern Energy Co. to ?buy? from ?accumulate.?
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale declared a quarterly dividend on its stock at its quarterly board meeting.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Former Baldwin Piano building tops list of recent real estate deals in Northwest Arkansas.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
The U.S. government is trying to collect $5.2 million from a Russellville metal manufacturer that did business with a Florida company that defrauded the government for millions of dollars in the early 1990s.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
When it rains it pours on Tyson Foods, and lately there seems to be a monsoon hovering over the Springdale headquarters.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
United Bank in Springdale flexed a little muscle with its recent $1.85 million acquisition of the Simmons First Bank of Northwest Arkansas branch at 670 E. Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
With interest rates so low, banks across the region are posting record numbers. But a recent peek at Arvest Mortgage Co.?s 2001 numbers shows what a whopper of a year both it and Northwest Arkansas had.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
The Arkansas State Golf Association is bringing its popular father-son tournament to Northwest Arkansas on June 10-11.
by - January 7, 2002 12:00 am
Try to say ?titanium tube bending? three times real fast. It?s probably easier to just search for the phrase on the Internet, where the five most popular search engines will turn up Mundo-Tech Inc. of Rogers.
