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Llama Asset Management Co., a sister company of Alice Walton’s Llama Co., recently hired two new analysts out of the Portfolio Management Class being taught by Robert Kennedy at the…

Dixieland Not Forgotten

The flurry of activity at Dixieland Mall in Rogers continues. Hibbett Sports, a national chain of more than 150 stores, plans to open a 5,000-SF store in the mall on…

Water, Anyone?

For most people, it’s probably a snore: The Arkansas Soil and Water Commission is asking voters to allow it to issue $300 million in bonds, the proceeds of which would…

Six Siblings Find Success With Mortgage Company Broyles Mortgage Brokers Loans $50 Million in First Year

Broyles Mortgage Co. is owned by Hank Broyles and his five siblings: Jack, Dan and Tom Broyles, Betsy Arnold and Linda Mayes. Mortgage lending may seem like a strange choice…

Tiny Tim?s Plans Microbrewery, Mazzio?s to Open in Fayetteville

John Schmuecker, who owns Tiny Tim’s Pizza on the downtown Fayetteville square, says he plans to open West Mountain Brewery next door to his pizzeria by Thanksgiving. Schmuecker has leased…

Mazzio?s to Open Fayetteville Restaurant

The Tulsa-based Mazzio’s Corp. will open a restaurant at 2769 E. Mission Blvd. in Fayetteville by Sept. 21, says Greg Lippert, a spokesman for Mazzio’s Corp. Mazzio’s closed its only…

Fennel Considers ESOP for Jose?s

The owner of Fayetteville’s highest-grossing restaurant says he’s considering an employee stock option purchase plan but it may be several years down the road. “I’ve got a lot of people…

McDonald?s to Open Aug. 26 in Bentonville

Bentonville’s new McDonald’s restaurant, one of the first in Arkansas to use the company’s “Made for You” food preparation system, is scheduled to open Aug. 26. The restaurant will be…

Rio Bravo

642 E. Millsap Road Fayetteville Rio Bravo took Fayetteville by storm when it opened last fall, setting the city’s all-time sales record in its first month of operation. Things have…

Medical Clinics Risk Funding If Y2K Problem Is Ignored

The Year 2000 is upon us — likewise the year 2000 problem. Year 2000, or Y2K as it has become known through frequent cultural references, is not only a global-scale…

Concordia Has New Unit For Dementia Patients

Concordia Care Center in Bella Vista has opened a 16-bed unit designed for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Byron Hooppaw, admin-istrator for the nursing home,…

New Facilities in Wichita, Dierks Expand Holland Nursing Chain

Tommy Holland has expanded his nursing home holdings by purchasing one and building another. Holland, who already owned and operated four nursing facilities in Arkansas, including three in Northwest Arkansas,…

UA Raises $28 Million in Fiscal 1998, Freshman Class Test Scores Improve

The University of Arkansas raised $28.1 million in private gifts in fiscal 1998, a 37 percent increase over the $20.4 million raised the previous year. The UA also had its…

How Private Lunch Talk Led to a Reporter?s Firing

This is a story about the firing of an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sportswriter here in Northwest Arkansas. Normally I would have no interest in rehashing a personnel decision by the statewide…

Donations Split Evenly Between Football, Basketball

Before 1993, most of the money donated to the Razorback Foundation was earmarked for the University of Arkansas football program. Since that year, though, when Bud Walton Arena opened for…

StarPoint ?The Rummage Sale”

Manager: Sheila Berkley Address: 312 SW “A” St., Bentonville Phone: 501-464-9400 Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Start-Up Date: July 15 Although this non-profit thrift store actually opened eight months ago,…

Departure

Owner: Mason Hiba Address: Northwest Arkansas Mall Phone: 501-582-3322 Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Start-Up Date: June 19 Capitalizing on the increase in travel to and from…

Hospital Sale Pays For Community Perks

Dickson, Tenn., is a community that’s seen the monetary benefit of selling its hospital to a for-profit entity. With a population of about 12,000 (in a county where the total…

Northwest Health Upgraded to Stable

Quorum Bails Out Struggling System Northwest Health System’s 14-member board of directors knew more than a month before its public announcement Aug. 8 that the community-owned, not-for-profit entity would have…

Dog With A Nose For News

For the past few months, we’ve grown accustomed to reviewing the Northwest Arkansas media in this column. But we recently found ourselves on the other end of a review —…

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