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Pulse Emergency Medical Services

Owners: Vester Cripps, Bill O’Hare Address: P.O. Box 261, Siloam Springs 72764 Phone: 524-0989 Hours: 24 hours, 7 days Start-Up Date: May 1 Every problem has a solution, and the…

Morgan Scott Interiors

Owners: Carolyn Trumbo and Kimberly Hooker Address: 577 E. Millsap Road, Fayetteville 72703 Phone: 442-4999 Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday- Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday Start-Up Date: June 9 Carolyn…

Democrat-Gazette Beefs Up for Zoned Edition

The statewide Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has hired a business editor, two feature writers and a photographer in recent weeks as the newspaper prepares to launch a zoned section for Northwest Arkansas….

D-G Ad Rates Half as Expensive as Local Newspaper

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has at least six people selling display advertising for the new Northwest Arkansas section. Ads in the new section are selling for about $5.11 per column inch,…

Location matters: Business Matters Moves South, Wins Award

We’d like to congratulate Northwest Arkansas Business Matters for winning the “award of distinguished journalism” for non-deadline magazine reporting at a recent regional Society of Professional Journalists meeting in Memphis….

Does ?Off Camera? Mean Off the Record?

A viewer contacted us after seeing the late newscast of KHOG, Channels 29/40 on June 8. It seems that reporter Roberta English quoted two Baptist ministers from Van Buren who…

Beverly Enterprises

Beverly Enterprises Inc. has agreed to sell its American Transitional Hospitals subsidiary to Select Medical Corp., a privately-held company of Mechanicsburg, Pa. Closing, subject to customary regulatory conditions, is expected…

Leggett & Platt Inc.

Leggett & Platt Inc. announced a 2-for-1 stock split and increased the second-quarter cash dividend. The split will be distributed to shareholders on June 15 for shareholders of record as…

Helping Hands to Begin Building New Thrift Store

Helping Hands Inc. of Bentonville received a $1.7 million mortgage from the Bank of Bentonville on May 5 to finance the construction of a new building along Airport Road in…

Commerce Inc. Mortgages Eight Acres in Springdale

More than eight acres of land and several buildings along South 40th Street in Springdale are being used to secure a $1.35 million mortgage from Community Bank of Fayetteville. Commerce…

Downtown Rogers Building Secures $1.1 Million Loan

A new four-story, 17,000-SF office building in downtown Rogers is being used to secure a $1.1 million mortgage from First National Bank & Trust of Rogers. The mortgage was signed…

New KFC Restaurant Under Construction

A new Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is being built in Fayetteville with a $998,750 mortgage from the Bank of Arkansas. The 3,380-SF restaurant is under construction at 2992 N. College…

Medical Clinic Changes Hands, Secures $496,983 Mortgage

The ownership of the Northwest Arkansas Clinic for Women was transferred April 8 and the building was used to secure a $496,983 mortgage from McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fayetteville….

Campbell Building Secures Mortgage

The Campbell Building at 1001 W. Walnut St. in Rogers was mortgaged April 30 for $375,000. James R. and Carolyn Campbell received the mortgage from Arkansas National Bank of Rogers….

Farmington Grocery Store Mortgaged for $300,000

The new Marvin’s IGA grocery store in Farmington was mortgaged May 15 for $300,000. Consumers Thriftway Inc. of Fayetteville received the mortgage from McIlroy Bank and Trust of Fayetteville. The…

Journal reporter Purchases Home

James H. Lovel purchased a house in Fayetteville on May 27 for $58,000 from Kim and Lydia McClusky. Lovel received a $57,900 mortgage from Arvest Mortgage Co. of Lowell on…

Early Berlin

300 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville three stars For lunch, the food at Early Berlin is good, authentic, unique and expensive. This was the first German restaurant – other than a…

Driver Shortage Forces Companies to Look Overseas

Facing a chronic driver shortage that has plagued the trucking industry for the past several years, some trucking companies are finding creative solutions to the problem. J.B. Hunt Transport Services…

Wal-Mart Stock Climbs, No Split

The crowd of 18,000 moaned in unison as David Glass, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., announced that directors wouldn’t split the mammoth retailer’s stock that day. But just as quickly,…

Printer Goes Public

Phillips Litho Co. — a Springdale printing company owned for years by Phil Phillips Jr. — is part of one of the nation’s newest public companies, and a public securities…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson