by - January 26, 2009 10:34 am
A Monday (Jan. 26) bankruptcy filing by Smurfit Stone Container Corp. is not expected to have a negative immediate effect on the 49 employees at the company’s cardboard sheet plant…
by - January 26, 2009 7:37 am
Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc. reported Monday (Jan. 26) a net income loss of $112 million in its first fiscal quarter of 2009 (for the 90-period ended Dec. 27). Sales in…
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
Contractors in Northwest Arkansas said they aren’t counting on an immediate impact from the public spending package but are pursuing projects that have guaranteed funding.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
Wind and fire damage is covered under builders risk insurance, which are policies usually taken out by the general contractor to cover their investment in a project while it’s under construction.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
After years of doubling and tripling raw materials prices from oil to copper caused by burgeoning world demand and a weak U.S. dollar, the bottom fell out in the final quarter of 2008.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
The number of commercial construction projects under way in 2008 fell sharply from the previous year.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
The number of deals made in Northwest Arkansas declined in 2008, but the value increased.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
The Arkansas chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. is encouraging its members to contact their legislators regarding the Employee Free Choice Act.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas has over $75 million in construction projects set to begin in 2009.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
As Oklahoma’s case against Tyson Foods Inc., Simmons Foods Inc., George’s Inc. and others plods through its fourth year with a tentative trial date set for this September, parallel efforts locally and in Washington D.C. are aiming to make Edmondson’s laws
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
President Obama would surely hear the howls of his allies on the left who trust the power of government over power of the people, but I suspect a safe prediction for the market reaction would be quite different than what we saw on Inauguration Day.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
No matter what your role is ? whether executive or hourly, service or sales ? we all have one thing in common: the ability to control our own attitude.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
Six of the eight state senators from Arkansas’ northwest corridor sit on the Arkansas General Assembly’s Joint Budget Committee.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
KFSM-TV, Channel 5, led the 11-county designated market area during all three weekday evening newscasts in the November household ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
A recent study found that charitable organizations in Arkansas contributed more than $14 billion to the state’s economy from 2005 to 2008.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
BKD LLP, the largest accounting firm in Arkansas, has acquired an office in Rogers with the addition of several members from the Lundy Allard & Co. PLLC firm.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. of Springdale has received federal approval of a settlement with plaintiffs who sued over the companies ChoiceDek product.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
Our hopes for 2009 seem to reside with the collective emotional well-being of soccer moms and Joe Six-packs. It could reasonably be asked if tax cuts and cheap money will turn the trick.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
A gluttonous quartet of habits – smoking, drinking, eating and gambling – are the triggers behind several early bills proposed this state legislative session in Little Rock. The bills either make it easier, or more expensive, to enjoy all of the above.
by - January 26, 2009 12:00 am
A look at important real estate transactions in Northwest Arkansas for Jan. 26, 2009.
