by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-VIC Client Receives Research Award
OmniPak LLC, a Fayetteville client of Virtual Incubation Corp., has received a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-OmniPak LLC, a Fayetteville client of Virtual Incubation Corp., has received a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-VeriSource Inc. of Rogers and Advanced Control Solutions Inc. of Bentonville ?revenue sharing arrangement? has apparently fallen through.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-The Arkansas Music Pavilion is pursuing possible acts for its 2006 season, such as Pat Benatar, Lyle Lovett and Hall & Oates, among others.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-David Glass, chairman of the executive committee of the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., filed a plan with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 300,000 shares of the company?s stock, worth an estimated $13.54 million.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-Southwestern Electric Power Co. and Arkansas Western Gas Co. top the lists of the region’s largest public electric companies and public gas companies.
by December 5, 2005 12:00 am
-Southwestern Bell Communications Services Inc. and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. tops the lists of the regions’s largest local and national telecommunications firms.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Two documentary films premiered in mid-November presenting both sides of the Wal-Mart argument. In Northwest Arkansas, we?ve heard all this before. Was it really Wal-Mart that put mom out of business, or did the consumers do that?
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Arkansas may be on its way to picking itself up by its economic bootstraps and building the technological utopia scientists and politicians dreamed of.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Northwest Arkansas? deposit market grows 7 percent to $9.18 billion, and Arvest Bank of Bentonville is still No. 1 with 31 percent of the market.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Building new homes with wet lumber can encase a mold-breeding habitat within the walls. EGIS Inc. of Bentonville works to detect and remove mold from residential and commercial buildings.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Home sales in Northwest Arkansas increased 13 percent from June through August, according to the November Skyline Report commissioned by Arvest Bank Group Inc.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-The dollar value of processed mortgages in Benton and Washington counties increased a whopping 145 percent from about $5.82 billion in calendar 2003 to about $14.26 billion in calendar 2004. But lenders say people are buying homes, too.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have affected the cost of construction materials across the nation. In Rogers? Saddlewood Development, house prices have gone up from $3 to $3.50 per SF, largely because of the hurricanes.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Atlas Construction of Arkansas LLC in Fayetteville has been sued by a homeowner and is facing two other lawsuits filed this year. In all, the company has been involved in eight other lawsuits in Washington County since 2001.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-The Celtic Grill in Bentonville gets 3.5 stars in our lunch review.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Within the next two years, downtown Fayetteville will have at least 236 new condo units. Construction hasn?t even started on The Barber Group?s seven-story Legacy building, but 60 percent of its condos have already been spoken for.)
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Figures show that our region?s estimated available funding falls very short of our transportation needs.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Reporters Sydney Hart and Tom Yazwinski are leaving KNWA to go to work for KARK-TV, Channel 4, in Little Rock.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-Sports anchor Eric Sullivan leaves KFSM, Channel 5.
by November 21, 2005 12:00 am
-The Northwest Arkansas chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists recently won a Circle of Excellence award from the national SPJ organization.