by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
A 100-mile stretch of Gulf Coast shoreline on the northeast Florida Panhandle is known as the Emerald Coast. Destin, one of its gems, is beginning to take on quite a flavor of the Ozarks.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
It’s a $3.9 trillion-per-year industry, but construction ranks 87th globally among industries in the adoption of technology.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Richard Schweik took over as owner of Fayetteville?s Cool Water Village Cafe on Feb. 1 and Chili’s took the No. 2 position in gross sales for 2002.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Jimmy John?s has been open for about a month in the Dickson Street building that previously housed a crafts gallery called Whimsicals.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Frames By Design and Asterix Inc. open for business in northwest Arkansas.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Rogers-based Delta Systems Inc., the publicly traded maker and marketer of software for automation control systems, will roll out its SoftFlow Version 3.0 in March.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
January same-store sales rose 2.3 percent for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., missing the Thomson First Call analysts’ consensus estimate of 3 percent growth.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Brass Eagle Inc. of Bentonville, the world?s leading maker of paintball guns and other extreme sports products, said on Jan. 31 that it had dropped its lawsuit alleging patent infringement against Odyssey Paintball Products LLC of Garland, Texas.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
America?s Car-Mart Inc. of Bentonville said on Feb. 4 that it opened a new dealership in Pine Bluff on Jan. 31 and plans to open one in Wichita Falls, Texas, by the end of February.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren said operating revenue, before a fuel surcharge, rose 9.7 percent to $67.3 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with $61.4 million for the same quarter of 2001.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
The Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America announced in early February that three of its members passed the national accreditation exam in the fall of 2002, bringing the chapter’s total to nine accredited members.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
We were wowed on Feb. 4 when we picked up the Benton County Daily Record and saw the newspaper?s coverage of a fire the night before that destroyed the Residence Inn by Marriott in Rogers.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Roger Williams, who has served since 1998 as chief spokesman for the University of Arkansas, has taken a job as executive director of the Alumni Association at Penn State University, his alma mater.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
The cover story in the Feb. 2 ?Business Matters? section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette carried the headline ?Downtown Dilemma.? The sub-headline, however, seemed a bit slanted to us.
by - February 17, 2003 12:00 am
Arkansas Best Corp. on Jan. 21 reported a surge in net income for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, although the Fort Smith company fell just short of analysts? estimates in its fourth-quarter earnings.
by - February 3, 2003 12:00 am
After spending years trying to improve both patient care and communication among doctors, a Fayetteville orthodontist has created a dot-com that he says will do both.
by - February 3, 2003 12:00 am
A summary of what the RxDDS Inc. portal can do.
by - February 3, 2003 12:00 am
Northwest Arkansas has no state-funded mental health facility. Without state support, a 24-bed mental health facility would lose $950,000 per year, according to a recent task force study.
by - February 3, 2003 12:00 am
A task force formed by Washington County Judge Jerry Hunton to study and make recommendations on problems with mental care services in Northwest Arkansas, also did the same for HIV services.
by - February 3, 2003 12:00 am
Finding that one great line or the proverbial lesson in life that will become entrenched in an audience?s mind is what every speaker aspires to accomplish.
