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McDonald?s Corp. To Build Restaurant

McDonald’s Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill., recently purchased a building permit valued at $675,000 to build a new restaurant in Fayetteville. The new McDonald’s will be located at 3380 W….

Seventh Day Adventist Ready For New Home

The Seventh Day Adventist Church of Springdale recently purchased a building permit for $616,932 for its new home in southwest Springdale. The church, formerly at 1383 E. Robinson Ave., will…

Natural Foods Store to Offer Larger Variety

Ozark Natural Foods recently purchased a building permit valued at $600,000 for its new structure in Fayetteville. ONF is currently located in a 3,000-SF building at 205 Dickson St., but…

Fayetteville Wal-Mart Will Sell Gas Soon

Publicly traded Murphy Oil Corp. of El Dorado has purchased a building permit valued at $450,000 to construct a gas station at a Fayetteville Wal-Mart store. Murphy USA, with 16…

Fellowship Bible Church Getting Versatile Lodge

Fellowship Bible Church of Northwest Arkansas on July 12 got a loan of $425,000 from Arvest Bank to build a new multi-purpose lodge. Located at 208 E. Pleasant Grove Road…

Soderquist: Wal-Mart?s Minister of Culture

For a decade, Sam Walton tried to hire Don Soderquist to work for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Soderquist gave in in 1980; he?s been a staple of the company ever since

The Wal-Mart Culture is Distinctive

There are several unique aspects of Wal-Mart’s culture, Johnnie Roebuck, dean of the graduate school at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, found when she studied the corporate management of Wal-Mart…

Technology Evolves Walton College Curriculum

Ten years ago, University of Arkansas business students had to master Hewlett Packard 10-B calculators by their senior year. Now, many Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration freshmen are…

Transplace.com Hires Firms for Web Initiative

International Business Machines Corp.’s Global Services division and Ariba Inc. were hired Aug. 8 by Transplace.com — the transportation online marketplace started in March by J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc….

?Dashboard? Coming From Lowell Carrier

Emplifi Inc., a provider of enterprise Web integration solutions, and eJiva Inc., a business-to-business e-services consultant, were recently hired by J.B. Hunt to design and develop its new Call Center…

Aviation Grads Ready for Takeoff

Arkansas Aviation Tech Center in Fayetteville will graduate its first class of aviation maintenance technicians on Aug. 31. The AMTs have been trained in 43 different technologies ranging from avionics…

Gov. Huckabee Rates IT Board Chair

Gov. Mike Huckabee was recently elected chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, which is comprised of the governors of 13 Southern states plus Puerto Rico. At Southern Growth’s 2001…

They Want To Be Your Overseas Reps

Catlett Yancey & Stodala PLC, the Little Rock law firm with offices in Moscow, Russia, recently approached several Northwest Arkansas companies about representing them in international markets. The poultry industry…

Walton Donation Funds Renovation, Professorships

The University of Arkansas’ Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration is putting a hefty donation from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation to good use. The college received a…

Collier Drug Stores Inc. (Web Page Review)

Collier Drug Stores Inc. Fayetteville www.collierdrug.com Refilling a drug prescription was never easier than logging on to Collier Drug Stores Inc.’s Web site and double clicking on the “Pharmaceuticals” page….

Where in the World is Jeff?

An Illinois-based businessman was being sought by Washington and Benton county authorities Aug. 17 in connection with multiple high-dollar hot checks he had written in Fayetteville through J.K. Humphreys &…

Bean Counter Buyout

Ervin & Co. CPAs P.A. of Fayetteville is buying out the cross-town accounting firm of Miller & Schroeder CPAs Ltd. for about $450,000. The deal, described by company owner John…

Krispy Kreme Coming

The doughnut place Jimmy Buffet liked so much he put it in a song is finally coming to Arkansas. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has plans to put in a franchise in…

TV Biz Speered

Had enough of “helmet hair and perfect teeth?” So has Richard Speer. The former news anchor for KFSM, Channel 5, in Fort Smith, has penned a scathing column about the…

Hairy Revelation

Bur Edson, the Fort Smith news director for KFSM, had no comment concerning the column by Richard Speer. But one of Speer’s former peers in Arkansas said Speer wasn’t the…

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: ACME input now online, UAFS students receive SURF grants

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