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Tyson Stock Struggles

Despite a 50 percent increase in its third-period earnings per share, the stock of Tyson Foods Inc. is struggling. Analysts say it’s because of a meat glut that’s affecting the…

Sports Print, TV Crossovers Continue with Irwin Column

A column written by Mike Irwin, sports director for Fayetteville television station KFSM, Channel 5, began appearing in the sports section of the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas on Aug….

Score 1 for Sensationalism Over Sensitivity

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…

What a Difference a Name Makes

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…

Better Times Ahead for AERT

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…

AERT Pays for Analyst to Cover Company

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…

A Virtual Suggfest

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…

Dayco Relieves Tension

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…

Store On The Move

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…

Shot At The ‘Title’

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…

Close To The Arvest

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…

Marinoni Finds Amore In Mulitude Of Projects

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…

Vaughns Refinance Sizable Rural Tract

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…

Commerce Group Goes Office Crazy

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….

Beau Terre

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…

Merrill Lynch Joins Village People

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…

Wal-Mart Remodels Area Pharmacy, Sam’s

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…

It’s Pugh Good To Be True In Siloam

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…

Rylee Moving Car Dealership

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…

Fast Italian Food Spices Up Rogers

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…

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

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