by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Car-Mart Opens Alabama Store
America’s Car-Mart Inc. opens a car lot in Muscle Shoals, Ala., bringing the number of dealerships to 88.
Regions
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Arkansans Get Evelyn Hills (Real Deals)
Four groups buy the Evelyn Hills Shopping Center from Weingarten Nostat Inc. of Houston for $10 million; and Salem Road LLC of Russellville spends $2.2 million to buy about 40 acres from Nock-Broyles Land Development LLC of Fayetteville in March.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Robert Half Staffs Area IT
According to research by Robert Half Technology, a temporary staffing and consulting firm with a location in Fayetteville, information technology hiring gains are expected to grow in the third quarter.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
UA Releases RFID Findings
Officials at the RFID Research Center, a sub unit of the Information Technology Research Institute in the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, recently releases some new findings about RFID technology.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
‘Ice Houses’ Provide Self-Serve Ice
Kool Kat Vending LLC of Fort Smith plans to open 10 “ice houses” ? 200-SF ATM-like ice dispensing machines ? in the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas by next year. Three are currently in operation, and three more will be open by the end of this year.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Creekside Sold for $9.1M Profit
We hear Strategic Development Partners LLC sells 56 acres of the land to The Barber Group for $27 million, a cool $9.1 million profit.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
FOIA Doesn’t Show Broyles Board Status
A Freedom of Information request made to the University of Arkansas for a comprehensive list of university personnel who serve as a board member to any financial institution didn’t show Frank Broyles, who we knew serves as a board member for Priority Bank
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Valley View Opens Office in Springdale
Valley Bank of Moline, Ill., opens a loan production office in Springdale in late April, and has already made the charts.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Arvest to Relocate a Fayetteville Branch
Arvest Bank-Fayetteville has plans to juggle one of its branches. The bank’s location at 1164 E. Joyce Blvd. will move across the street and east about a quarter of a mile into a yet-to-be-built 8,000-SF Arvest prototype.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
NWA Title Closed Business
Northwest Arkansas Title Co. in Fayetteville closes its office, after closing a Bentonville location last year.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Van Buren Hush on Prospective Company
We hear a mystery Fortune 500 company is looking to relocate its call center to Van Buren, but the city is mum on who and when.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
Vegrandis Nabs 11th Tech Award
Vegrandis LLC in Fayetteville ? a portfolio company of Virtual Incubation Co. ? receives a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer award from the National Science Foundation.
by - July 3, 2006 12:00 am
OK Industries Tops Region’s Private Companies List
OK Industries of Fort Smith tops the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s annual list of the region’s largest private companies, with revenue of about $900 million in 2005.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Palmer Rolls IT to the Top
Kay Palmer heads the information technology department at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Her department has increased efficiencies for the Lowell trucking company.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Big Boxes Aim For Fort Smith
Fort Smith?s commercial real estate sector appears to be on an upswing with riverfront development and new Wal-Mart and Target stores.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Arkansas Proves Fertile for Pods Business
The Portable On Demand Storage franchise in Arkansas is booming as people use the 12-by-8-foot and 16-by-8-foot containers for moving.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Perrys Jewelry Plans Pinnacle Store
Perry?s Jewelry & Fine Gifts of Fayetteville plans to open a store in Rogers? Pinnacle Hills area on July 1.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Faucette To Launch Real Estate TV Show
Coldwell Banker Faucette Real Estate in Fayetteville has hired professional production company Creative Edge out of Missouri to produce a high-quality television show on real estate called ?Northwest Arkansas Showcase of Homes.?
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Toys ?R? Us Stocking Wordigo
Fayetteville entrepreneur Philip Zweig got an order from retailer Toys ?R? Us for about 400 of his Wordigo games. The company wants to put Wordigo in its top 50 U.S. stores, he said. Toys ?R? Us has 587 stores in the U.S.
by - June 19, 2006 12:00 am
Minotaur Gets $150,000 Grant
Minotaur Technologies LLC, a Fayetteville technology company, has received a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Science Foundation.