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Looking for Perfect Chicks

Poultry industry taking a wait-and-see approach on possibility of cloning the perfect chicken.

Chicken Cloning Would Redefine Industry

If all goes well, Origen Therapeutics of California believes it can produce millions of cloned chickens in just a few months? time.

Dixieland Computers Site Needs Work

Dixieland Computers has a decent online brochure but could revamp its online presence to get a better Web site review.

Fire, Flood, ?49 Ford Shaped Williams? Life

Doyle Z. Williams, dean of the University of Arkansas’ Walton College of Business, learned the value of education while growing up in the rural South.

Variety Is the Game Plan at Newroads

Wayne King, founder of Newroads Telecom Inc. in Fort Smith, said there?s no reason for businesses to view the Internet as a necessary evil.

Venture Capital Loosens up for Growing Firms

In recent years, the lack of available venture capital has been the local death wail of developing technology companies. Now a quartet of venture capital funds is honed in on Northwest Arkansas.

Investment Committee Names Alpha Wolves

The Alpha Fund?s investment committee will consist of a ?Who?s Who? of local business leaders.

Bootsie Ackerman, executive director of the Downtown/Dickson Enhancement Project, told the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal that she is close to announcing her candidacy for the soon-to-be vacated District 7 state Senate seat.

JurisDictionUSA Sues Loislaw.com

JurisDictionUSA Inc. of Phoenix has filed a $75 million lawsuit against the owner of Web-based technology company Loislaw.com Inc. of Van Buren.

Club on the River in the Rough

The Club on the River may remain nothing more than a river if lot sales don?t pick up soon.

UARK Bowl Strikes Interest

The UARK Bowl on Fayetteville?s Dickson Street is still over a month away from its grand opening and groups have already booked events there as far away as Dec. 15.

TDS Moving to Fiberpark

Tim Stanley, owner of Total Document Solutions in Fayetteville, has signed a deal to become the first tenant adjacent to the second incarnation of Fayetteville?s fiberpark.

Westmoland Ousted

Guy Westmoland, an anchor on KFSM, Channel 11, told viewers during the 10 p.m. newscast on Jan. 30 that he was leaving the station after that show.

Buyout Solidifies ISP

Acquiring Millennium Communications LLC, which did business as MC2K, solidified Arkansas.Net?s dominance of the local market by bringing in 5,000 new dial-up customers in Benton and Washington counties.

Number of Hispanic Employees Increasing at Tyson Foods

When the aggregate employment figures are tallied between Tyson Foods Inc. and its newest division, IBP Inc., the total number of Hispanic employees is expected to increase.

Simmons Moves Plant; 100 to Lose Jobs

Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs is moving its deboning operations from Van Buren to Southwest City, Mo.

Lindsey Construction Ready for More Cliffs

Lindsey apartments top list of recent real estate deals in Northwest Arkansas.

Underwood Masters Art of Ads

What do former Miami Dolphins Coach Don Shula, golfer Raymond Floyd and Stephens Inc. Chairman Jack T. Stephens, have in common? They all know to go to Underwood?s Inc. in Fayetteville to avoid buying ?leaky? diamonds.

Quirky TV Ads Worm Their Way Into Local Minds

Corny commercials can pay off big.

State, Area Demographics Give Marketing Clues

The most attention-getting news from the Arkansas census during the 1990s was the phenomenal growth in the Hispanic population.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report