by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
From pluckers to planes, Springdale company’s employee base is a large and diverse one The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal poultry company rankings remain essentially unchanged for Northwest Arkansas firms from…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Directors of Simmons First National Corp., based in Pine Bluff, recently hiked the bank’s quarterly dividend to 19 cents per share. Payable April 3 to shareholders of record as of…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Tommy and Jodi Holland and Richard P. and Nancy E. Osborne consolidated and refinanced the loans on their six nursing homes Nov. 19 with a $12.1 million loan from Bank…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Taco Tico Mexican Restaurants on Nov. 19 refinanced $10 million worth of commercial property across the Midwest. Included in the refinancing were its Taco Tico restaurants at 1486 W. Sunset…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Burt Hanna, through his holding company JB Hanna LLC, got a $2.4 million loan Jan. 31 from McIlroy Bank & Trust Co. to cover the permanent financing for Hanna’s Candle…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
ARC Construction Co. of Centerton got a $2 million loan Jan. 13 from Bank of Bentonville to build homes on 396 lots at his Winwood Subdivision. The subdivision, is located…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Bill Lazenby, owner of Lazenby Properties Inc. of Fayetteville, bought a 16,000-SF office building Feb. 1 at Commerce Drive in Bentonville’s Commerce Center office park. He got a $1.6 million…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
John David Lindsey is building a $1.5 million, 10-acre subdivision at the corner of McKnight and Ann Streets in West Fork. McIlroy Bank & Trust Co. is providing the financing….
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Joy and Lamar Drummonds bought three acres containing a 5,600-SF office building at 304 Airport Road in Bentonville. The property is just off South Walton Boulevard between the city and…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Village Baptist Church is building a new sanctuary, administrative and educational facility at the corner of Pentland and Glasgow Streets in Bella Vista. Bill Wright, chairman of the church’s board…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
North College Development Co., the Fayetteville company owned by Richard Alexander and Rob Merry-Ship, bought the two-story, 2,600-SF residence at 5 West Ave. in Fayetteville. First Federal Savings & Loan…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
New venture has high goals for technology-based business Later this spring, a University of Arkansas graduate class of 29 business, science and electrical engineering students is making a unique offer…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
It’s clear to us that a business arrangement between Lindsey & Associates in Fayetteville, the real estate and construction company founded by UA trustee Jim Lindsey, and Stephens Inc., the…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
We were intrigued when The Wall Street Journal mentioned in a March 2 article that a Canadian comedian had spoofed the governor of Arkansas. The comedian was Rick Mercer, a…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
The University of Arkansas’ Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration is looking for a new development director in the wake of Blake Woolsey’s departure. Woolsey, who was immensely popular…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
We hear Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has asked “vendors” to refer to themselves as “suppliers.” The word first came down about a year ago but apparently doesn’t apply to Sam’s Club…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Bedford Camera & Video will be opening its fifth location in late April at the newly remodeled Market Place Shopping Center at 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock….
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
On Jan. 26, Robson Walton exercised $4.9 million worth of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stock options. The company chairman, and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, got 72,000 shares at $51.13…
by - March 20, 2000 12:00 am
Tollett leads poultry suppliers through mergers A year after merging three agricultural production and distribution companies, Gary Tollett said business looks promising. As president of the surviving company, Wynco Distributors…
by - March 6, 2000 12:00 am
Non-resident hunters and fishermen not deterred by price hikes in Natural State Non-resident license fees for fishing and hunting permits in Arkansas have both increased since August. On Jan. 1,…
