Tag: Business Services

Year?s Top 10 Northwest Arkansas Stories

Major local stories for 2001 include business mergers, fraud and success.

Beall Tolls Loud for Firm at 39

Beall, Barclay & Co. is the largest CPA firm in the Arkansas River Valley and Northwest Arkansas.

Don?t Get ?Frosted?

What does it look like when the company bean counter is eating the beans? Protect your company from embezzlement.

Small Businesses Struggled in 2001

Scarred by an idling economy and an international catastrophe, this year pummeled existing small businesses and stunted many startups.

Truck Firm ?Earns It? Old-Fashioned Way

An agent of 4-Way Transportation Inc. of Springdale, JLC Trucking Inc. of Rogers still does much of its logistics work the old-fashioned way ? by hand.

ADEQ Director Overturns Waste Board?s Denial

A proposed expansion to the Waste Management Tontitown Landfill moved forward Nov. 30 when Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Interim Director Richard Weiss approved the certificate of need for expansion.

Siccardi Zoo Spawns Creative Environment

If visitors to Coenco Inc.?s headquarters in Fayetteville didn?t know Frank Siccardi was building souped-up fans, they might suspect he was building an ark.

Coenco Fans Profits for Growing Client Base

As president and founder of Coenco Inc. in Fayetteville, Frank Siccardi has parlayed a poultry farm experiment he started 19 years ago into a $1.5 million climate control business aimed at improving circulation and energy efficiency in large buildings.

AWA Buys Tulsa Company

Fayetteville-based Athletic World Advertising, the world?s largest sports calendar company, made its first acquisition of another business when it bought out a competitor in Oklahoma.

Newroads Dials Into New Markets

Newroads Telecom of Fort Smith is on the offensive again in Northwest Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.

Wealthiest Arkansans: Stephenses Hang on Behind Waltons Despite Tough Year

The Stephens family of Little Rock has lost almost a third of its stock holding wealth since mid-2000, but it manages to hang on in Arkansas Business? 2001 listing of Arkansans? stock holdings.

Lectures Provide Financing Info

Experts help entrepreneurs get going with loans for small businesses.

Business Executives Drawn to Golf

Northwest Arkansas could be facing a golf glut with too many new courses.

Tee Times Not the Problem

Golf glut may land market in the rough.

Webster Offers Online Security Degree

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Webster University has teamed with the American Society for Industrial Security to launch an online version of its graduate degree in ?organizational and business security management.?

Bean Counters Come Northwest Arkansas to Stay

Local acountants move into Northwest Arkansas as spouse of big-business employee.

SBA Offers Disaster Loans to Blunt Sept. 11 Impact

On Oct. 22, the U.S. Small Business Administration expanded its Economic Injury Disaster Loan program to include businesses across the country that were directly impacted by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

Architectural Firms Concentrating More on Environment

Perry L. Butcher & Associates in Rogers dominates Northwest Arkansas with 175 employees.

Virtual Security Promises Money

A number of Northwest Arkansas firms should be excited about the recent Wall Street Journal article that predicted a rush of federal spending during the coming year on technology for homeland security.

U.S. Airways Cancels Last Flight to Little Rock

U.S. Airways Express announced it will cut its round-trip flight from the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to Little Rock.

Pilot training school to scale at Drake Field

Connections: Northwest Arkansas leaders to participate in UCA program

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: Charter school progress, and ‘Serious Fiber’ in downtown Fort Smith

Harps, NationsBenefits partner to expand access to benefits card