by - January 1, 2018 12:38 pm
Bill Sussman, president and CEO of global shopper marketing agency Collective Bias in Rogers since June 2013, has resigned. His final day was Dec. 31. Sussman, 47, has been hired…
by - December 31, 2017 2:22 pm
America’s Car-Mart is ready to grow, and Jeff Williams, president and chief financial officer, will be leading the way when he becomes CEO in January. “We have built this big…
by - December 29, 2017 2:59 pm
Stephen Lair and Steve Turner, co-owners of Petromark Oil, announced a $250,000 gift to Arkansas Children’s Northwest. This brings the total raised for the Care Close to Home campaign to…
by - December 22, 2017 11:20 am
The third installment of the HBO crime anthology “True Detective” created by Nic Pizzolatto and starring Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will be filmed and produced in Northwest Arkansas, beginning in…
by - December 21, 2017 2:36 pm
College Avenue in Fayetteville is going to the dogs — at least at 2407 N. College Ave. Following the success of its first property, a Little Rock-based company is expanding…
by - December 21, 2017 12:05 pm
Consumers continue to spend in Northwest Arkansas. The region’s four largest cities reported combined sales tax revenue through December rose 5.9% to $66.072 million. Each of the four cities collected…
by - December 21, 2017 9:59 am
Fayetteville City Council tabled a request to establish an Energy Action Plan on Tuesday (Dec. 19) after city staff worked with community and city leaders and stakeholders to develop the…
by - December 21, 2017 8:57 am
The Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce has promoted Debbie Griffin to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer. She will assume the role Jan. 1. Griffin…
by - December 20, 2017 2:13 pm
Sam’s Club, the warehouse club division owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is planning to build a new layout center in Bentonville, just a few steps from its headquarters on Simple…
by - December 19, 2017 12:00 pm
James (Jim) Rankin, the chief research officer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, will return to his alma mater as the 19th president of South Dakota School…
by - December 18, 2017 8:34 am
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story appeared in the Dec. 11 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s…
by - December 17, 2017 5:47 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will add two gates to the B concourse and establish a generic gate system for them. On Dec. 13, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved…
by - December 14, 2017 10:05 am
A 6,505-square-foot commercial building in Rogers’ Scottsdale Center development recently sold for $2.8 million. The purchase price equals $430.43 per square foot. Crain Investments LP, led by Little Rock businessman…
by - December 14, 2017 7:59 am
Three months after Louisville, Ky.-based Generation Tux purchased for $25 million the online tuxedo rental startup Menguin, headquartered in Fayetteville at the time, co-founder Justin Delaney said the company is…
by - December 13, 2017 4:39 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved spending up to $200,000 to hire an executive consultant to review the airport’s organizational structure and recruit a CEO. The board also approved a…
by - December 13, 2017 8:18 am
Realtors in the two-county area combined to sell 8,276 homes through the first 10 months of 2017, essentially flat (up 0.8%) from 8,210 home sales in the January-October period of…
by - December 12, 2017 12:32 pm
Bentonville-based development firm Dynamic Development Inc. agreed at auction Tuesday (Dec. 12) to buy three bank-owned commercial lots in Fayetteville totaling 24.78 acres for $555,000. The purchase price equals $0.51…
by - December 12, 2017 8:19 am
The solar connection between Arkansas and China moved another step forward in November, thanks to a proactive trip from the CEOs of two Fayetteville-based startups in the solar industry. Douglas…
by - December 11, 2017 2:55 pm
Fayetteville engineering firm McGoodwin Williams & Yates Inc. (MWY) is set to be acquired next month by Nebraska-based engineering and design firm Olsson Associates. The negotiations are nearly complete, according…
by - December 11, 2017 9:06 am
The University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design In Fayetteville will launch an affordable housing program, supported by $250,000 from the Walton Family Foundation of Bentonville. Housing…
