by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that less than 17 percent of financial reports meet Securities and Exchange Commission regulations aimed at keeping shareholders informed.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
The CommunityCare Foundation Inc. is focusing its funding on specific areas of concern and changing the way it awards grants to area nonprofit agencies to reflect that focus.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had an increase of 2.5 percent in total paid daily circulation in Northwest Arkansas for the six months ended Sept. 30, while The Morning News had a slight decrease in weekday circulation of 1.4 percent.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Members of the Arkansas General Assembly should take heed in the lighthearted retelling of the ?Night Before Christmas? that ran in Brenda Blagg?s column in The Morning News on Christmas Eve.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
The Northwest Arkansas Times listed the Milken Institute?s rating of the ?Fayetteville Metropolitan Statistical Area? as No. 10 in a list of Top 10 local stories in 2003 but gave the city nearly all the credit.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Moving to contain both the possible spread of mad-cow disease and its potential economic impact, United States agriculture officials expanded the scope of a beef recall just before the new year and
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Investment firm Merrill Lynch said in late December it cut its rating on shares of J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. to ?neutral? from ?buy.?
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
ABF Freight System Inc. in December named Chris Baltz its new vice president of marketing and pricing, replacing Gerald Pirpich, who is retiring Jan. 31.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
The structural steel framing is 95 percent complete and the exterior block 20 percent complete on the education wing at the new Springdale High School and LEC Properties recently bought permits valued at $18.9 million
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
TrestleTree Inc., the Fayetteville health care firm, has ?graduated? from the Genesis Technology Incubator, consolidated its offices into one corporate facility and moved into about 4,500 SF of temporary lease space on Springdale?s Thompson Avenue.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Bob Friedman, Genesis? director, and Neil Schmidt, the former dean of the UA College of Engineering, have helped procure $2 million worth of satellite equipment to start the Electrical Engineering Department?s UA Satellite Communications Lab.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
Developer Charles Sloan has plans for another subdivision in Fayetteville.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
One of the largest insider shareholders in FedEx Corp. of Memphis has disposed of nearly half his remaining holdings during the past 18 months. Sales and transfers have reduced Sheridan Garrison?s direct stock ownership to about 1.7 million shares.
by - January 5, 2004 12:00 am
A new plan unveiled by CommunityCare Foundation Inc. in Springdale for distributing its grant money omitted one impressive commitment.
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly gives us something festive to talk about during this holiday season.
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
Fayetteville?s No. 1 Milken Institute rating is really best explained as a ?Tale of Five Cities.?
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
Here?s a look at the best and worst of what the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal staff encountered during 2003 including a look at the Top 10 business stories of the year in Benton and Washington counties.
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
Robert E. Kennedy, a University of Arkansas business professor from 1957 to 1999, took time after a Christmas partry drop-in at Garner Asset Management LLC in Fayetteville to talk about investment strategies for the new year.
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
Bank of Arkansas paced the Washington County mortgage market in October. It made $19.83 million worth of mortgage loans or about 12.24 percent of all of those made that month in the county.
by - December 22, 2003 12:00 am
Mason Hiba said his stores were showing a double-digit sales increase as of Dec. 16 when compared to the same period of the Christmas season in 2002.
