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CPG Firms Fuel Harvest Group

Sales and marketing firm grew from former co-workers’ association.

Revenue Climbs Despite Tumult During Dukes Tenure

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO has seen ups and downs since assuming post in 2009.

River City Deli is excited to announce that we will begin to serve brunch every Sunday from 11:00 – 4:00 in addition to our regular menu. Each week will feature traditional brunch foods along with unique specials and signature champagne cocktails. Join…

Homes gone in 60 minutes a signal of U.S. recovery?

BLOOMBERG — For the latest sign of a U.S. housing rebound, Toll Brothers Inc. Chief Executive Officer Douglas Yearley points to Hoboken, New Jersey: A couple torn between two condos…

ATU-Ozark names new student recruitment coordinator

John “Jack” Phillips IV of Walnut Ridge has been named its new coordinator of student recruitment for the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus. A graduate of the University of Central Arkansas,…

Car-Mart Profit Up 24% on Higher Revenue

The company topped the average earnings estimate of 91 cents per share from three analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

Ammonia leak in Tyson pork plant

Tyson Foods confirmed an ammonia leak in Madison, Neb. forced a plant evacuation and sent 40 workers to the hospital Thursday evening, May 24. "We're investigating the cause of an…

Texas Twang returns to Neumeier’s Rib Room

FORT SMITH — When you find local musicians and owners of other night clubs in the crowd, you know it’s going to be a good show. Hayes Carll played to…

Rogers noted in bond issue ‘pay-to-play’ scheme (Updated)

BLOOMBERG — Soon after investment bank Morgan Keegan Inc. gave $1,000 to a committee backing voter passage of a bond authorization for Rogers, Ark., in September, the bank earned $502,000…

U.S. economy shows signs of cooling

BLOOMBERG — Companies placed fewer orders for computers, machinery and other capital equipment in April for a second month, indicating manufacturing in the U.S. is cooling. Bookings for non-military goods…

Car-Mart rolls to higher profits

Bentonville-based America's Car-Mart continues to outperform Wall Street expectations posting double-digit net income growth in its fourth quarter and fiscal 2012, which ended April 30. The buy here, pay here…

Adam & Eats: Pupuseria Virolena

This week’s adventure takes us back to my new found love, the pupusa. This time around we eat at a place that has been every kind of eatery imaginable, but…

Northwest Arkansas Newspapers hires efficiency firm

Nearly three years after Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in Northwest Arkansas, the union has yet to achieve the expected financial security. The joint venture, Northwest…

CBID, Chaffee competing for sports facilities

Commissioners of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) know they’re in for a fight for the affections of soccer and volleyball groups in the Fort Smith region, but it’s a…

HP layoffs likely to hit Arkansas

The announcement that tech giant Hewlett-Packard will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide sent reverberations through Arkansas economic circles, particularly in Conway where the company opened a 1,000 employee, $28 million…

Rheem layoffs not a sign of departure

Rheem Manufacturing laid off 16 salaried jobs at its Fort Smith plant and a distribution center in Lewisville, Texas, on Thursday (May 24), but a company official says the move…

NWA construction pace trends upward

Local homebuilders and commercial contractors say business is steady through the first one-third of 2012. April permit values increased 8.87% among the five largest retail districts in Benton and Washington…

UA student savors every opportunity

FAYETTEVILLE — He might look like a typical college student in a coffee shop: backpack, water bottle, T-shirt and shorts. But this just might be a kid who will change…