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Garnering a Company

Llama Asset Management Co. is about to become Garner Asset Management Co. Rebecca Garner, who purchased Llama Asset Management last month from Alice Walton, says the name change should be…

Hot from the Source

Pepper Source Ltd., a company that makes pepper sauces, is looking to construct a manufacturing facility between Rogers and Avoca. The company is based in Metairie, La., a suburb of…

Don’t Press Us

This year, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is excluding members of the press from the question-and-answer session the company holds after its annual shareholders meeting. That means the press will be able…

Remember the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal article on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s defense of personal injury lawsuits (“Settle suits? Not when you’re Wal-Mart,” Dec. 14, 1998)? Apparently, plaintiffs attorneys across the…

Brewery to Expand?

We hear Ozark Brewing Co. plans to close its Ozark Baking and Catering location at 313 West Dickson St. in Fayetteville and expand its building at 430 West Dickson St….

Mathias Rolls on with Refinancing

Mathias Shopping Centers Inc. of Springdale combined and refinanced its notes on seven shopping centers across Northwest Arkansas. The $6.6 million loan received Feb. 22 from the First National Bank…

D-day for Allies Set for Year 2000

West Allies LLC, a subsidiary of Keating Joint Ventures of Fayetteville, received a $3.6 million mortgage in March from McIlroy Bank & Trust. The loan, signed by company president Richard…

Maxillo Surgery Center is a Cut Above the Rest

The Maxillo Facial Surgery Center, owned by Dr. Scott Bolding and Dr. Steve Skoch, recently opened its new 7,000-SF surgical center at 2926 W. Huntsville Ave. in Springdale. BSW Holdings…

Fieldstone Leaves No Option Unturned

Fieldstone Homes LLC, a Bentonville construction company, received a $1 million mortgage March 3 that is being used to refinance its remaining lots in the Crystal Heights Subdivision, which are…

Charlton in Charge of New Office Complex

John W. Charlton’s new 15,500-SF office building at the corner of S.E. “J” Street and 22nd Street in Bentonville should be completed by July 1. That’s when a vendor to…

Firm Gets Grip on New Building

Jorgensen & Associates Consulting Engineers of Fayetteville is building an 11,000-SF office complex at 124 W. Sunbridge Drive in Fayetteville. David L. Jorgensen, the company’s owner, received a $716,000 mortgage…

Farmer Doesn’t Travel Pharr to Buy Business

Gene Pharr of Lincoln has purchased a 67-acre farm on Cane Hill Road in Lincoln where he plans to produce chickens for George’s Inc. Pharr received a $700,000 mortgage March…

Resses Piece Addition to Farm

Keith and Kaye Reese of 20296 Garner Road in Gentry bought a second poultry farm March 15 for $612,000. They received a mortgage from Regions Bank in Rogers for the…

Huge Home Nears Completion

Rogers lawyer David R. Matthews and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Matthews, received a $560,000 mortgage March 4 from First National Bank & Trust. The note is for their 6,075-SF home…

Goshen is Her Kind of Town

Laura “Alexander” Skoning of Chicago, purchased 220 acres from Claudette Warren on March 17 for $475,000. The Goshen acreage at 288 Paul Pray Drive was previously farmland that has been…

NationsBank’s Market Share Slips; McIlroy Bank & Trust Moves Up

NationsBank Corp.’s share of bank deposits in the Washington County market slipped dramatically in 1998. Figures from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. show that NationsBank’s deposits dropped 32 percent between…

Hutchinson/Ifrah Opens Local Offices

Hutchinson/Ifrah, a financial planning and investment managing company based in Little Rock, has opened an office in the Bella Vista branch of First Western Bank and Trust of Rogers. Additionally,…

Simmons First Pushes into Washington County

The acquisition of the Bank of Lincoln by Simmons First Bank of Northwest Arkansas was scheduled for completion on May 1. Joe Mills, president of Simmons First, says the Simmons…

First Security Plans Rogers Branch for 2000

First Security Bank, the Searcy-based bank that expects to open its new 14,000-SF building in Fayetteville in early June, is planning to build a similar facility in Rogers. Jim Taylor,…

Northwest Arkansas Banks Should be ‘A-OK’ Despite Y2K

Jan. 3, 2000, should be business as usual, officials from most area banks and savings institutions say. As the first weekday of the new year, that could be the day…

911 vendor for Fort Smith, county allegedly breaches contract

Sen. Boozman introduces ‘Farm Bill 2.0’ with higher loan caps

Sebastian County Judge, Fort Smith Director not broadly supportive of NDAs

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