by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
State?s Clean Indoor Air Act Evens Playing Field
Gov. Mike Huckabee signs The Arkansas Clean Indoor Air Act, leveling the playing field among businesses, one police official says.
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by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Siam Palace Restaurant To Replace Lemongrass
Lemongrass, a Thai restaurant at the Bentonville Colonnade, closes, and Supha Vandiver plans to open Siam Palace, another Thai restaurant, in the same location at the end of May.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Moe?s Knows Tex-Mex Food
Moe?s Southwest Grill opens in Bentonville, the state’s second Moe’s, offering a menu of tacos, salads, fajita’s and burritos.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
San Francisco Bread Co. Gets 3 Stars (Business Lunch)
San Francisco Bread Co. gets 3 stars in our business lunch review.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
AHEC Hires New Director
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hires Dr. Robert R. Gullett Jr. as the new director for the Area Health Education Center in Northwest Arkansas.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Payroll Co. Buys AutoTime of Fayetteville
The Payroll Co. of Springfield, Mo., buys AutoTime, a Web-based time-keeping system, from PayTime Inc. of Fayetteville for an undisclosed sum.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Organizers Start Rolling AVF Ball
About 12 entrepreneurs, investors and economic development leaders gather in Fayetteville to discuss an action plan for the upcoming Arkansas Venture Forum.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Rheem Offers Internet Leads to Contractors
Rheem Manufacturing Co.?s Air Conditioning Division in Fort Smith partners with ServiceMagic Inc. to provide contractors with real-time Internet leads.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Aviation School Expands, Offers Class to NWACC
Bobby Purvis, owner and chief flight instructor of Fort Smith Aviation Academy LLC, receives a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide flight training to pilots who have finished officer training school.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
NWA?s Future Lot Supply Outpaces Market Demand (Market Forecast)
About 8,621 homes sold in 2005 in Benton and Washington counties, according to the Northwest Arkansas Multiple Listing Service, an increase of about 13 percent from 2004 and about 26 percent increase from 2003.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Nexstar to Sell KFTA For $5.6 Million
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. of Irving, Texas, files with the Federal Communications Commission to sell KFTA-TV, Channel 24, in Fort Smith to Mission Broadcasting Inc. of Becksville, Ohio, for $5.6 million.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Equity Broadcasting In $267 Million Merger
Coconut Palm Acquisition Corp., of Boca Raton, Fla., says it will acquire Equity Broadcasting Corp. of Little Rock. The deal is valued at $267.4 million.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
KNWA Hires News Director
Fayetteville?s NBC affiliate, KNWA, hires Scott Pickey to be the station?s news director.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Radio Duo Light Up the Laughter (Outtakes Opinion)
Sometimes we think it?s O.K. to turn on a little junior high humor and snicker ? as long as you?re in the car and no one knows about it.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Baldor Earnings Up 26 Percent
Baldor Electric Co. in Fort Smith announced on April 13 that it had $11.3 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2006, up 26 percent from the same time period last year, according to a press release.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Eliminates Guns From Some Stores
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is phasing out sales of firearms in about 25 percent of its U.S. stores because of soft demand.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Mid-Tec Takes Cargill Expansion (Real Deals)
Mid-Tec Inc. of Anderson, Mo., starts construction on a $17 million expansion to the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Springdale and EWI Constructors Inc. of Fayetteville starts a project valued at $1.2 million.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Pinnacle Shaken, Not Stirred
The Pinnacle Group and General Growth Properties aren?t very happy with the folks running Sullivan?s Steakhouse.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
ANB Financial to Open Office in Wyoming
Loyal Whispers readers may remember the Business Journal reported that ANB Financial N.A. of Rogers was looking to expand into the trendy tourist town of Jackson, Wyo.
by - April 24, 2006 12:00 am
Benz Dealership Lands New Owners
Readers looking to buy a new Mercedes-Benz will be making out their down payment checks to a new group that includes Gary George and Jim Lindsey.