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In Our Backyard Reaches First Goal

The Northwest Arkansas business coalition raising money to help Arkansans get access to clean, safe running water has passed its first goal. In Our Backyard recently donated to the Safe…

Cooper Clinches Deals Bella Vista Company Sells One, Buys One

In keeping with its strategy of seeking out commercial properties, Cooper Realty Investments is set to close on a couple of deals soon. Cooper Realty Investments is a wholly owned…

Cheeburger Cheeburger, Franchising Franchising

Charlie Anderson, owner of the Cheeburger Cheeburger franchise in Fayetteville plans to open a second location ? in Bentonville ? by fall. Anderson ? who has franchising rights in Arkansas,…

Nibbles Gets Stout

Morgan Stout, sous chef at James at the Mill in Johnson, is leaving that job to be executive managing chef at Nibbles Gourmet Catering in Fayetteville. Suzie Stephens, who owns…

Alferno?s Opens

Alferno’s, a Chicago-style Italian restaurant, opened in May at 660 S. Thompson Ave. in Springdale. The restaurant is owned by Jorge Flores, Salvador Lopez and Artunio Esqueda, all originally of…

Charlie?s Chicken Opens in Fayetteville

Two brothers, Jeff and Matt Parker, have opened a Charlie’s Chicken restaurant at 1542 W. Sixth St. in Fayetteville. The restaurant is the second in Arkansas for the Muskogee, Okla.-based…

Touche Restaurant at 1733 N. Crossover Road in Fayetteville has closed. Tuyen Bui, the owner of the business, was unavailable for comment. Touche served “continental cuisine with an international flare,”…

Bringing Back Dickson Street Fayetteville Developer Focuses on City?s Entertainment District

If Greg House has his way, Fayetteville will look a lot more like New Orleans or San Francisco than it will Dallas or Los Angeles. House, a former surfer who…

Mergers Making News

Big mergers have dominated business news in Arkansas during the past six months. We should be thankful that, with the exception of banking, Arkansas’ public companies generally have been on…

Area Developers Launch Space Race

Office and Retail Space Abundent A survey of office, retail and warehouse space in Northwest Arkansas found an occupancy rate of 96 percent, an incredible level for any market, according…

Simple Pleasures Bath & Garden

Owner: Amy Wood Address: 5320 W. Sunset Ave., Suite 157, Springdale 72762 Phone: 756-3850 Hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Noon-6 Sunday Start-Up Date: April 13 Simple Pleasures Bath & Garden…

Pulse Emergency Medical Services

Owners: Vester Cripps, Bill O’Hare Address: P.O. Box 261, Siloam Springs 72764 Phone: 524-0989 Hours: 24 hours, 7 days Start-Up Date: May 1 Every problem has a solution, and the…

Morgan Scott Interiors

Owners: Carolyn Trumbo and Kimberly Hooker Address: 577 E. Millsap Road, Fayetteville 72703 Phone: 442-4999 Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday- Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday Start-Up Date: June 9 Carolyn…

Democrat-Gazette Beefs Up for Zoned Edition

The statewide Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has hired a business editor, two feature writers and a photographer in recent weeks as the newspaper prepares to launch a zoned section for Northwest Arkansas….

D-G Ad Rates Half as Expensive as Local Newspaper

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has at least six people selling display advertising for the new Northwest Arkansas section. Ads in the new section are selling for about $5.11 per column inch,…

Location matters: Business Matters Moves South, Wins Award

We’d like to congratulate Northwest Arkansas Business Matters for winning the “award of distinguished journalism” for non-deadline magazine reporting at a recent regional Society of Professional Journalists meeting in Memphis….

Does ?Off Camera? Mean Off the Record?

A viewer contacted us after seeing the late newscast of KHOG, Channels 29/40 on June 8. It seems that reporter Roberta English quoted two Baptist ministers from Van Buren who…

Beverly Enterprises

Beverly Enterprises Inc. has agreed to sell its American Transitional Hospitals subsidiary to Select Medical Corp., a privately-held company of Mechanicsburg, Pa. Closing, subject to customary regulatory conditions, is expected…

Leggett & Platt Inc.

Leggett & Platt Inc. announced a 2-for-1 stock split and increased the second-quarter cash dividend. The split will be distributed to shareholders on June 15 for shareholders of record as…

Helping Hands to Begin Building New Thrift Store

Helping Hands Inc. of Bentonville received a $1.7 million mortgage from the Bank of Bentonville on May 5 to finance the construction of a new building along Airport Road in…

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