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ACT Center to Open in Fort Smith

Westark College in Fort Smith plans to open an ACT Center for career training, testing and licensing this fall. ACT Inc., formerly known as American College Testing, opened its first…

Fan Waves the Flag for Hong Kong Business

Within five hours of Hong Kong, you can reach half the population of the world. That was just one of the selling points of doing business in Hong Kong that…

New Businesses – Popart Studio

Owners: Jodie Daniels and Joe HintonrAddress: P.O. Box 1702, rRogers 72757rPhone: 501-633-0500rHours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. rMonday-FridayrStart-up date: September 1rE-mail address: [email protected] Address: rwww.popartstudio.com rRelishing the visual aspects of…

New Businesses – Freight Direct Inc.

Owner: John SisemorerAddress: 201 S. 20th St., Suite 5, rRogers 72758rPhone: 501-986-0628rHours: 24 hours via telephonerStart-up date: July 24rEmail address: [email protected] rLike pieces of a lucrative puzzle, trucking industry carriers,…

New Businesses – iTerra Inc.

Owners: Jeff Turner, Ken Young rand Kendall PricerAddress: 501 E. Maple St., rFayetteville 72701rPhone: 501-251-7638rHours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-rFriday and by appointmentrStart-up date: June 1rEmail address: [email protected] Address:…

Outtakes – CPI Cans BusinessInk

Community Publishers Inc. has ceased publication of its “BusinessInk” section, which had appeared each Sunday since January in CPI’s two daily newspapers — the Northwest Arkansas Times of Fayetteville and…

Outtakes – Stations Fight Over Radio Host

Chuck Barrett, the radio sports talk show host at KFAY, 1030-AM in Fayetteville, recently found himself in a tug-of-war between two Little Rock stations. rBarrett, who has dominated the sports…

Morning News Zones Out, Goes Regional … Temporarily

For several days in late September, the zoned editions of The Morning News started looking like … well, the old, regional Morning News of Northwest Arkansas. rInstead of having zoned…

Schools Grow to Accommodate Northwest Arkansas

Enrollment is booming this year at both public and private schools in Northwest Arkansas. rPublic schools in Washington and Benton counties serve an enrollment of 48,712 students, up 9 percent…

P.A.M. Transportations Services Inc.

Tontitown-based P.A.M. Transportations Services Inc. saw its fiscal second quarter numbers drop 1.2 percent, from $53.7 million in 1999 to $53 million in 2000. rThe company cited a decrease in…

Trammel Triumphs- Rogers? Rainmaker Shines in Community

Dick Trammel said he can get a pretty good feel for a town after spending just 30 minutes checking out the community. It takes far less time to realize the…

Senior Citizens to Get New Apartment Complex

Tom Embach of Leisure Homes Corp. in Mountain Home on Sept. 1 secured a $2.1 million loan from Arvest Springdale Bank & Trust to build a new apartment complex for…

Creeks Retail Building Approaching Capacity

The Village on the Creeks building located at 5206 Village Parkway in Rogers is one tenant short of capacity. rLehman Properties LLC, managed by Carmen Lehman, recently got $1.75 million…

Bentonville Church Builds Large Family Life Center

Bentonville Church of the Nazarene on July 11 got a $1.57 million loan from Bank of Bentonville to add a new family life center. rLocated at 107 NW 3rd St.,…

Moberly Professional Park Begins Second Building

Mike Beard and Doy Gillihan of Moberly Professional Park LLC on Aug. 21 got a loan of $1.43 million from Great Southern Bank of Springfield, Mo., to add the second…

George?s Secretive about Expansion

George’s Inc., the Springdale-based poultry company, on Sept. 8 purchased a building permit valued at $1.03 million for expansion on one of its plants. rWhile no one at George’s would…

Terminella Adds Houses to Candlewood Subdivision

Tom Terminella of Birddog Development LLC and owner of Terminella & Associates Inc. Realtors, on Aug. 25 got a loan of $850,000 from Community Bank of Fayetteville to build more…

Marks Electric Bolts to New Location

Andrew Marks of Marks Electric & Plumbing Supply purchased a building permit valued at $517,636 from the City of Springdale to build a new store just across the Benton County…

Arkansas to Get New Edge from Old Technology

New Edge Networks of Vancouver, Wash., is using $77 million in venture capital funding to bring high-speed Internet access to Arkansas and other states via an old fashioned medium —…

Arkansas to Get New Edge from Old Technology – Inter-Tax Interface Cuts Trucking Costs

Trucking industry interstate tax wiz Inter-Tax Inc. of Wayzata, Minn., enlisted the help of Bentonville’s Strategic Concepts Inc. in August. rSCI designed the Strategy 5 interface for the third-party administrator’s…

Arkansas to lead National Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship expansion

The Supply Side: Boomer generation concedes spending power to young consumers

2nd cohort of new lithium accelerator shows innovations in Bentonville

Weekly wages up 4.2% in Arkansas, Benton County leads with 13.4% wage gain