by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Northwest Arkansas edition has a new business editor. John Cummins started at the newspaper’s Springdale office Aug. 16. Despite a short stint as a sportswriter, Cummins says…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Mangan Holcomb & Partners’ Fayetteville office is currently an office without a staff — local staff, that is. Sharon Tallach, public relations director for the Little Rock-based advertising agency, says…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas is offering an Internet service to report on University of Arkansas athletic teams throughout the day. The service, eHogs.com, will provide daily updates and…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Bank of Bentonville, First Federal Bank of Arkansas top list of Northwest Arkansas’ leading lenders Bank of Bentonville once again leads the region in number of mortgages originated, but several…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
American Freightways Inc. will begin serving direct all-points in North Dakota and South Dakota, increasing its scheduled, direct all-points coverage to 32 states. The company will open six additional customer…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Staffing services company StaffMark Inc. said it had hired Credit Suisse First Boston to help it consider strategic alternatives and that it sees its operating results being hurt in the…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Michael Morton, owner of Central Arkansas Nursing Homes Inc. of Fort Smith, is spending $3.5 million to completely refurbish that company’s Siloam Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at 811 W….
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Commerce Plaza LLC, the investment crew behind Bentonville’s Commerce Center development on South Walton Boulevard, is close to completion of its latest office building. This time, it’s a 16,000-SF facility…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
A group of local developers, through their holding company Bakery Building LLC, have restored the old Superior Linen Cleaners building at 326 N. West Ave. in Fayetteville. McIlroy Bank &…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Sterling and Kay Anderson, co-trustees of the Anders Limited Family Partnership, are building an $870,000 warehouse at 2601 S.E. “J” St. in Bentonville. The 30,000-SF project is being financed by…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Ralph Walker’s Allen Ralph & Carl Construction & Development Co. built the 21,000-SF Barry’s Apple Market on Commercial Street in Centerton. On July 6, People’s Bank & Trust Co. of…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Allied Storage Limited got a $450,000 loan June 21 from Arkansas National Bank to add 80 new storage units to its property at 85 W. 15th St. in Fayetteville. Company…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
McIlroy Bank & Trust Co. of Fay-etteville is financing Michael Andrews’ $400,000 construction of his new Insty-Prints store at 659 Appleby Road in Fayetteville. The printing services business has outgrown…
by - September 6, 2000 12:00 am
Randy Mullikin’s advertising firm, The Mullikin Agency, is remodeling and refinancing its 4,000-SF office building at 6200 W. Sunset Ave. in Springdale. Bank One of Tulsa, Okla., issued Mullikin a…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
Tom Flores, president of CSF Franchise Group of Fayetteville, said he is considering a new concept eatery that would be about half the size of the company’s Cafe Santa Fe…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
Rolf Wilkin, owner of Fayetteville-based Eureka Pizza, said the company’s marketing director, Chad Needham, plans to open the first three Eureka Pizza franchise eateries. Wilkin said Needham has yet to…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
Panera Bread Co. 3286 N. Front St. Fayetteville This the most crowded new restaurant in Northwest Arkansas — at least during lunch time. The parking lot can’t handle the overflow…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
A China-based company plans to make Farmington the headquarters for its U.S. distributorship. Agracat Inc. Tractors of Arkansas, founded by Jim Steele, Mel Robinson and Charles Foster, is hoping to…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
Sales at the Old Navy store that opened Aug. 1 in Fayetteville’s Spring Creek Centre have been “going through the roof,” said Michael Wade, the store’s manager. Wade said August…
by - September 4, 2000 12:00 am
The 11th annual Polo in the Ozarks, which raised $40,000 at its 1999 event for Life Styles Inc., is expecting and even larger amount when all the numbers are tallied…
