by - August 23, 1999 12:00 am
We’ve seen it before and we’ll likely see it again, but that doesn’t mean we like it: Television stations exploiting people whose relatives have died in accidents. The latest incident…
by - August 23, 1999 12:00 am
It came from outside the Business Journal’s usual coverage area, but this headline gaffe was too good – or too bad – to ignore. The Harrison Daily Times used this…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
With its stock recently reaching a four-year high and $16.5 million from a new bond offering expected within days, Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. may finally be on the verge…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
AERT picked up analyst coverage by paying for it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the company will get positive reports, its analyst insists. AERT is now being tracked by an…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
A meeting scheduled for Aug. 2 between vice chancellors at the University of Arkansas and B. Alan Sugg, president of the UA System, was abruptly canceled by Sugg after he…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Dayco Products Inc. of Springdale is expanding its plant at 2300 S. Arkansas Highway 265 in Springdale from 54,000 SF to 100,000 SF. Thanks to an overwhelming demand for its…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Furniture on Consignment has been advertising that it’s closing its Springdale store. But the company has not said publicly why it’s leaving. We hear it’s because Furniture on Consignment doesn’t…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
It’s been reported that Northwest Arkansas Community College in Rogers has financial backers interested in starting a men’s baseball program. But what was not explained was that the reason a…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Arvest Bank. Group Inc. is always tight-lipped about its acquisitions, but we hear the Bentonville bank group is paying $3.95 million for Delaware Bancshares Inc. of Jay, Okla. It only…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Marinoni Construction Co. of Fayetteville is doing $3.8 million worth of projects from Bentonville to Fort Smith. John Marinoni, chairman of the board, and Stephen L. Smith, company president, are…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Paul L. and Cammela K. Vaughn of Westville, Okla., trustees of the C.K.V. Revocable Trust, refinanced 77.5 acres of rural property May 12 with a $2.5 million loan from Arkansas…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Commerce Center LLC, comprised of developers Collins Haynes, Rick McCullough, Dan Dykema, Vic Evans and Mark Marquess, has three projects under way at Commerce Center on Walton Boulevard in Bentonville….
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Sellars Properties received a $990,000 building permit for the construction of a 15,266-SF office building in Bentonville’s Beau Terre North office park. The building at 805 McClain St., the 18th…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Lehman Properties Limited, with a $625,000 construction loan from First National Bank & Trust of Rogers, is adding an 18,268-SF office building to its Village on the Creeks development on…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Wal-Mart is spending $674,840 to remodel two of its stores in Springdale. Chance Construction Co. of Hemphill, Texas, was the contractor for the $125,000 addition of a loading canopy for…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Pat and Myrna Pugh of 9300 W. Baltic Drive in Lakewood, Colo., refinanced a portion of their 171.25 rural acres near Arkansas Highway 59 in the Siloam Springs School District…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Kent D. Rylee and Amy G. Rylee, managers of KAR Properties and owners of Kent Rylee Chevrolet-Oldsmobile of Rogers, bought 22 acres at the corner of New Hope Road and…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Geoffrey Brown has opened Fazoli’s restaurant at 1735 W. Walnut Ave. in Rogers with a $550,000 loan from Arkansas National Bank in Bentonville. Fazoli’s valuation from the city of Rogers…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Arkansas’ publicly traded trucking companies fared well overall during the quarter ended June 30. Dan Moore, an analyst with Stephens Inc. of Little Rock, says P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. was…
by - August 9, 1999 12:00 am
Institute stop rewards city’s chamber efforts, offers unique opportunity for business training The prestigious Disney Institute comes to Springdale later this month and local businesses had a hand in landing…
