by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
Dollar Blessing Store
Owners: Victor and Addie Juarez Address: 1324 W. Walnut St., Rogers, 72756 Phone: 501-636-1270 Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday Start-up date: March A few dollar stores have moved…
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by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
Tricia’s Treasure Chest
Owner: Patricia Silk Address: 1528 W. Sunset Ave., Suite E, Springdale, 72764 Phone: 501-750-7393 Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Start-up date: May 4 For the first time in…
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
KJ’s Corner Store
Owners: Steve and Saundra Cooksey Address: 600 S. Holly Ave., Siloam Springs, 72761 Phone: 501-524-9446 Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Sunday Start-up date: March 6 Steve and Saundra Cooksey…
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
Community Publishers Buys Fourth Missouri Paper
In late May, Community Publishers Inc. of Bentonville announced that it is buying the Marshfield Mail, a weekly newspaper in Marshfield, Mo., east of Springfield. In January, CPI said it…
by - June 14, 1999 12:00 am
Distribution Numbers? Never again!
On May 17, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal reported March distribution numbers for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Northwest Arkansas edition. For the three local daily newspapers, however, the Journal furnished a…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Northwest Health Takes ‘Stock’ in Hospital’s Future
More than half of Northwest Health System’s $180 million budget depends on Medicare reimbursement payments. Northwest CEO Greg Stock is acutely aware of the possible ramifications of further reductions. Nationally,…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
It’s a Small Business World After All
Area companies band together to tap growing international markets Corporate heavyweights Tyson Foods Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. made Northwest Arkansas a player in the…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Sam’s Club Leads Wholesale Boom
After a lull in the wholesale club business for more than a decade, the industry is again showing double-digit sales increases, and Sam’s Club is leading the way. Sam’s Club,…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
From Disneyland to . . .
It won’t include Space Mountain or fighting Pirates of the Caribbean, but Disney will be in Northwest Arkansas this summer. The Springdale Chamber of Commerce has landed a date with…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
A COO-in for New Job
A top administrator at Northwest Health System is due for a new position, we hear. Tom O’Neal has been chief operating officer of Northwest Health System since the 1996 merger…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Electric Company Glowing
Fort Smith’s Baldor Electric Co. got a glowing recommendation in a recent issue of Better Investing, the monthly magazine published by the National Association of Investors Corp. The electric motor…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Bids for Birds
Kinco Construction Co. and Nabholz Construction are the main contract bidders for a $20 million to $30 million expansion of Tyson Foods Inc.’s Chick’N Quick plant in Rogers. The bids…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Insty-Building
Mike Andrews, owner of the Fay- etteville Insty-Prints franchise, plans to construct a 6,300-SF building just west of the Aldi’s store on Appleby Road in Fayetteville and move his business…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Lights Out
The asking price on Puppy Creek Golf Course is $560,000. The 12.67-acre parcel includes the nine-hole, lighted golf course on U.S. Highway 71 just south of U.S. Highway 412. The…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
PHP SOS
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from the Northwest Arkansas Physicians’ Health Plan, the insurance plan promulgated by members of the NWA Independent Physicians Association. But that’s about to change….
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Dowd Flies Coop
Longtime Tyson Foods executive Jerry Dowd recently left the company to join competing poultry giant ConAgra. Dowd was Tyson’s senior vice-president of food service and general manager of food service…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Brandy & Brittney
For the Wal-Mart annual shareholders’ meeting on June 4, the world’s largest retailer has scheduled some top-notch entertainment for shareholders and associates (that’s “employees” to the rest of us). Two…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Vishwakarta Builds Somewhere by Rainbow
Ken R. Mourton, of Ball & Mourton Ltd. in Fayetteville, and Hansaben Bhakta received a $4.8 million construction loan March 22 from the Bank of Bentonville to build a Hilton…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Circut City Gets High-Voltage Loan
Robert Wood, through his holding company WEC 99A-2 LLC, refinanced the Circuit City store at 744 E. Joyce Blvd. in Fayetteville on March 18 with a $3.3 million loan through…
by - May 31, 1999 12:00 am
Mathias Treads on with More Refinancing
Sam Mathias refinanced his 60,000-SF Treadco Inc. building at the Ozark Factory Outlet Stores mall at the corner of U.S. Highways 71 and 412 in Springdale. Treadco sells new and…