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Quality Metal Sales

Owner: Gary Oaks Address: 11579 Opal Road, Bentonville 72712 Phone: 501-795-0407 Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday Start-up date: Feb 1 Quality Metal Sales specializes in the sale of metal building…

Sports Grill, Kisor’s Open in Springdale

Athletic Club Sports Bar & Grill opened March 11 in the Springdale Holiday Inn. The bar/restaurant replaced Nite Lites, a dance club that previously occupied the space. Athletic Club Sports…

St. Louis Bread Co. to Build in Fayetville

St. Louis Bread Co. plans to build a 4,682-SF restaurant at the intersection of Front and Sain streets in Fayetteville. The restaurant will seat 165 diners and employee 15 workers….

Powerhouse Price at $650,000

Bill Underwood, owner of Powerhouse Seafood restaurant in Fayetteville, says he’s asking $650,000 for the business. That doesn’t include the 10,000-SF building and two acres of land at the site….

Kisor’s Opens in Jones Center

Kisor’s Cafe and Bakery opened April 6 in the Harvey and Bernice Jones Center for Families in Springdale. The eatery is the third opened by Bill Kisor of Rogers. He…

Doe’s Out for Lunch

We told you that Doe’s Eat Place in Fayetteville was going to begin serving lunch March 24. Well, it did, for a few days, then Doe’s stopped serving a mid-day…

Chuckles Restaurant

Perhaps we’ve been dining at a different class of restaurant because we haven’t noticed too many covered tables at lunch recently. But when we strolled into Chuckles Restaurant for a…

Advanced Enviornmental Recycling Technologies Inc.

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. reported a sales increase of 80 percent for the quarter ended March 31. The company said sales exceeded $4.5 million, up $2 million from the…

Beverly Enterpises Inc.

Beverly Enterprises Inc. announced that it earned nine cents per share diluted in the first quarter of 1999 from operations, before costs associated with Year 2000 remediation and with an…

Thompson, Murray form brand new partnership

Thompson Earnhart & Associates and BrandWorks Consulting, both based in Fayetteville, have formed a partnership named Thompson Murray Inc. Thompson Murray Inc. will consist of Thompson Murray (an advertising agency…

And the Ernie goes to . . .

The Ernie Deane Award committee was apparently at a loss for words when it recently honored Maylon Rice. The citation he received read simply: “To Maylon Rice of the Northwest…

Expansion of UA Engineering Program Unlikely by Fall

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s answer to a competing computer engineering program at the Little Rock campus is unlikely to be launched by fall. That’s the timetable originally proposed…

Arkansas Targets Upscale Tourists, Niche Markets

With tourism stagnating, Arkansas has been repackaging the state to fish for tourists in some different ways. Traditionally, visitors come to Arkansas to hunt, fish, hike, camp and boat on…

They’re leaving the lights on

Now that travelers to Northwest Arkansas are landing in Benton County, more of them will be staying there. At least that’s the contingency many of the area’s hotel owners and…

Fed approves Chambers’ purchase, Arvest schedules visit with financial VIP

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has given its blessing to the merger of Northwest Community Bancshares Inc. of Fayetteville with Chambers Bancshares Inc. in a deal valued at…

Financial wizards visit for Arvest

A standing-room-only crowd turned out recently to hear Robert J. Froehlich, chief investment strategist for Kemper Funds, and event sponsor Arvest Investments Inc.’s plans to have additional financial stars in…

Arvest UIT fund to debut in April

Schumacher’s appearance is in conjunction with Arvest Investments’ planned introduction of a unit investment trust fund to include a number of stocks from the Arvest 50, a stock index that…

Froehlich optimistic, “three bears” are dead

As for Froehlich, he’s exuberantly optimistic about the stock market’s future and predicts the Dow will close above 15,000 on Dec. 31, 2002. He bases his optimism on several factors:…

Wal-Mart’s German foray tops list of 1998 deals

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to launch its push into Europe from Germany, so it’s not surprising that the Bentonville-based retailer’s purchase of 74 Interspar hypermarket stores tops the list of…

Double-dipped CARMLS

Patsy Simmons, one of the most out-spoken critics of CARMLS LLC, has asked to rejoin the Northwest Arkansas multiple-listing service. Only recently her Simmons Group Inc. of Rogers dipped out…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

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