by - January 10, 2000 12:00 am
The Pressure is On
Construction is under way in Springdale on an 8,400-SF building for Advanced Systems Technologies Inc., a division of Pratt & Whitney PSD. The facility will use NASA technology to remove…
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by - January 10, 2000 12:00 am
No Chicken Feed
We’ve all heard about the trade secrets law suit between Tyson Foods and ConAgra, which began when four executives left the Springdale poultry producer to start work for ConAgra and…
by - January 10, 2000 12:00 am
Stock Dispute
A plan afoot by Proxy Monitor to disrupt Tyson Foods’ Jan. 14 annual shareholders meeting doesn’t sound like it will do much damage. The New York-based proxy voting adviser is…
by - January 10, 2000 12:00 am
Boss Hog Pep Talk
J. Frank Broyles is coming out of motivational speaking retirement. He will be one of eight featured speakers March 1 at Tony Robbins’ Results 2000 motivational seminar in Little Rock…
by - January 10, 2000 12:00 am
Wireless Expert Connects State
Elshabini helps build new technology research center at UA Aicha Elshabini hopes to help Arkansas share in the wealth — dollars, education and otherwise — of the exploding wireless technology…
by - January 8, 2000 12:00 am
Big Harry?s Music City
Drums and guitars, tuned for playing, pack the Big Harry?s Music City 2,000-SF showroom, and owner David Johnson said he wants customers to come into the store for a hands-on experience.
by - November 29, 1999 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Changes the Neighborhood
Since launching its first Neighborhood Market grocery store a year ago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has tweaked the concept until it has come up with a “blueprint” for rolling out the…
by - October 18, 1999 12:00 am
Northwest Arkansas Doctors out in Cold and Upset
Fourteen Benton County physicians have found themselves managed right out of two popular managed care networks, and they’re not happy. The doctors say it’s a metter of who is in…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
ANB Introduces ?Bucks Buggy?
Mobile ATM earns parking rights to Razorbacks games It’s an automated teller machine of a different color that Arkansas National Bank is introducing next. Actually, the machine is adorned with…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Flores Cooks Up National Plan
Cafe Santa Fe plans to cha-cha on Chi-Chi’s empire Tom Flores believes Cafe Santa Fe is poised to unseat Chi-Chi’s as the largest Mexican restaurant chain in America. Flores’ secret…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
CommunityCare Utilizes Means to Build Assets
Foundation offers new managment services to potential philanthropists in local region The creation of the $140 million CommunityCare Foundation as the state’s second-largest private foundation is having the unlikely effect…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Arkansas Gives More With Less
Some Southern states fare much better than Arkansas when it comes to philanthropy, says Pat Lile, executive director of Arkansas Community Foundation. Georgia and North Carolina, for example, have “huge”…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Investors Look to Europe
The European Union has been working toward economic cooperation and integration since shortly after World War II. A significant step in establishing the European Monetary Union occurred in February 1971…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
E-doc Program Proves Successful at Acxiom
2000 Employees an e-mail away from expert health care advice for non-emergency care A program that allows e-mail correspondence with a doctor is proving “overwhelmingly” successful for one Arkansas company…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
DiCarlo Fast-Tracking Razorback Stadium Expansion
DiCarlo Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., won the special contract for preliminary site work on the expansion of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. Its low bid of $850,000 includes drill…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
High-end sport
Skyranch Aviation Inc. has made skydiving such a popular sport in Northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma that a recent jump with tandem expert Hoyt Perry, owner of Perry’s Jewelry in…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
List This
We hear the threat of a lawsuit is what made Rita Allured paint over her white-lettered sign about 1.2 miles past the Arkansas Highway 12 bridge near the B&E Grocery…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Mc-Quick Stops
Talks are underway with McDonald’s to include chain restaurants in two of three convenience stores Stephen Griffin and Tommy Mardis plan to build in Northwest Arkansas. The projects will total…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Sharing the Wealth
An anonymous donor has given the Bentonville-Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce 4,682 shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., worth about $206,000, to keep as seed money for a new building. The…
by - September 6, 1999 12:00 am
Back to School
The revitalization of Fayetteville’s Dickson Street is spreading south along School Avenue. Tim Klinger, a Fayetteville lawyer, is having a two-story, 8,000-SF building constructed on a lot he owns on…