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Glass Everywhere in Royals? Office

David Glass, former CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for 12 years and current owner of the Kansas City Royals, has filled the KC front office with family members. Glass is…

NBC Revives Local Newscast

Griffin invests $5 million in newsroom, 50 employees Shortly after arriving in Fayetteville, the two main anchors hired for NBC 24/51, KPOM/KFAA, had some unusual medical problems. Don Elkins collapsed…

American Building Specialties

Owners: Joe McIlveene and Georgeanne Russell McIlveene Address: 807 W. Bailey Ave., Suite B2, Springdale 72764 Phone: 501-927-1859 Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday Start-up date: July 1 Managing…

Polk Stanley Yeary Architects Ltd.

Owners: Tommy Polk, Joe Stanley, and Jim Yeary Address: 21 W. Mountain, Suite 227, Fayetteville 72701 Phone: 501-444-0473 Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday Start-up date: June 1 Email…

Inlogistic

Owner: Tom Pleggenkuhle and Matthew Lindsey Address: 20 W. Sunbridge, Fayetteville 72703 Phone: 501-444-8910 Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment Start-up date: April 24 Internet address:…

Program’s Success Spawns More Funding

Lowell Medical Center’s drug-free workplace program recently got an increase and an extension on its U.S. Small Business Administration funding. Last year, the center received $184,000 to help businesses set…

Little Rock Architects Expand to Fayetteville

Little Rock-based Polk Stanley Yeary Architects, a firm that is part of the architectural team for the Clinton Presidential Library, has opened a branch office in Fayetteville. The firm cited…

Arsaga’s to Open Third Location

Cary and Cindy Arsaga plan to open their third Fayetteville coffee shop by July. The new business will be located in Crossover Village shopping center in east Fayetteville. Roz Ingerson…

Commuters Create Market for Advertisers

Local businesses are tapping into daily drive commerce with radio, wireless and billboard advertising.

For Advertisers, Signing Is the Bottom Line

A lack of new sign opportunities along U.S. Highway 71 increases the value for billboard exposure.

Even in NW Arkansas, Venture Capital Hard to Come By

It’s not the money, it’s the mindset. Affluent northwest Arkansas doesn’t have any more venture capital than the rest of the state. Although many local residents amassed stock fortunes through…

Fayetteville Sales Up Despite Airport Departure

With the departure of the area’s largest airport to Highfill in early 1999, Fayetteville’s restaurant and hotel owners braced for a financial jolt. But like the New Madrid earthquake that…

Million dollar Meza beats her own record

Despite back-to-back years of being the No. 1 residential real estate agent in Northwest Arkansas, Meza Harris is still driving her 1994 Lexus. It’s not that the senior vice-president of…

High-end amenities ample

Residential real estate sales ace Meza Harris said the residential market shifted upscale in 1999. Previously, the sale of a $350,000 to $400,000 home was considered a rarity around area…

Panama, Asia New Frontiers for Tyson International

Tyson Foods Inc. in Springdale exports its poultry products to 57 different markets, but until March it only had production facilities in the United States and Mexico. That changed Feb….

On the Cobb

Cobb-Vantress Inc., the wholly-owned Tyson Foods subsidiary, is no stranger to Asia. The broiler-breeder operator celebrated March 17 as the 35th anniversary of its partnership with Vitarich Corp. in Bulacan,…

Airport Finds $7.68 Solution

Officials await mid-year stats to know if creative-financing plan is paying off Luring the five airlines from Fayetteville’s Drake Field to the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport was easy. Officials at…

American Power Muscles Valve into Poultry Market

American Power & Supply Co. is the “Hans and Frans” of the Arkansas poultry industry. Like the Saturday Night Live body builder characters who are famous for wanting to “pump…

Cages Capture Market

Siloam plant has alternative solution It may not be a better mousetrap, but Alternative Design Inc. of Siloam Springs has built a better cage for the rodent. The 13-year-old business,…

Restaurants Break Sales Records ?? Again

In what seems to have become an annual ritual, Fayetteville restaurants once again set all-time sales records for the year. City tax records indicate Red Lobster brought in $3 million…

Wing: Cutting PBS ties necessary, more local shows coming

Seth Summerside of Keo Fish Farms named to prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholar program

AG Griffin creates new role to advise on AI

Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference set on A-State campus