by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Ex-minister Preaches Faith in Mutual Funds
A former Baptist minister for 30 years, Morris Vickers operates Financial Security Advisors Inc. out of his 3,700-SF lakeside home in Rogers.
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by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Personal Finances and the Potential in Direct Investing (Ron Goforth Commentary)
Ron Goforth, president of Beta-Rubicon, Inc., offers an opinion on the power and promise of direct investing in technology.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
UA Builds Strong Data-mining Rep
Since 1998, the Walton College has become one of the best schools in the nation at torturing data and getting useful information from it. The catch phrases for this data analysis are ?business intelligence,? ?data mining? and ?data warehousing.?
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
College Cultivates Tech Gifts
The Walton College received three major technology gifts in 2000:
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Oracle Donates $7M Software to UA
Larry Ellison, chairman and CEO of Oracle Corp., announced on Nov. 3 that his company had given $7.1 million worth of software and curriculum to the Information Technology Research Center in the University of Arkansas? Sam M. Walton College of Business.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Wal-Martians Deal With Aliens
The Department of Homeland Security?s Immigration and Customs Enforcement led the recent raids of 61 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states, including the firm?s Bentonville headquarters, arresting 245 illegal immigrants.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Crowne Partners Develop Apartments
LEC Properties has submitted building permit applications to build a 444-unit apartment and Jim Lindsey and Ron Stanley of Stearns Street Apartments LP recently secured a mortgage for $13 million
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Return Variability Affects Investment Scenarios (Glenn Atkins Commentary)
Monte Carlo analysis is designed to take investment variables into account.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
New Restaurants Planned for CMN
Hamburger and barbecue restaurants are currently in the works for Fayetteville?s CMN Business Park.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Goldens Open Mermaids In Former Pizza Inn Spot
Todd and Nickki Golden planned to opened Mermaids Seafood Restaurant on Nov. 10 in the 2,900-SF building at 1815 Green Acres Road in Fayetteville that previously housed a Pizza Inn restaurant.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Shorty Small?s Closes Area Restaurants
Shorty Small?s closed its two Northwest Arkansas restaurants on Oct. 28, saying ?facility costs were too high and negotiations to lower those costs broke off … forcing the closure of the properties.?
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Grace Manufacturing Has Grate Idea
Grace Manufacturing Inc. of Russellville appears to be on a roll with its Microplane kitchen graters.rnMicroplane graters and zesters are available primarily through three national chains: Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table and Bed, Bath and Beyond.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
American Concrete Comes to Rogers
David Stephenson and Rushard Hudson have a new concrete operation in Rogers.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Poultry Processing Rules State Manufacturing Sect
Among the largest manufacturing firms in Arkansas, the top four overall have major operations in the Arkansas River Valley or Northwest Arkansas.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Pfeifer to Sell OneSource to National Home Centers
National Home Centers Inc. of Springdale announced on Oct. 30 that it has reached an agreement to purchase OneSource Home and Building Centers of Little Rock, a 101-year-old business.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Brandon, Moldenhauer, Hash To Build $3.5M Office Building
Gary Brandon, Margie Moldenhauer and Brett Hash plan to build a three-story, 28,350-SF building at the site of an old Shoney?s restaurant just north of Fayetteville?s Northwest Arkansas Mall.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Candy Out at Mall As Bluebirds Fly In
Scott Tanner closed Candy Creations in October. The store had operated in Fayetteville?s Northwest Arkansas Mall under that name since Tanner bought it in 1998, said Alice Church, the mall manager.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
NWACF Awards $95K to Nonprofits
Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation Inc. has awarded $95,750 in grants to ten regional nonprofit organizations.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Triad Partners With Sparks
Sparks Health System in Fort Smith agreed Oct. 28 to a partnership with Triad Hospitals Inc. to operate the health system and build a new hospital.
by - November 10, 2003 12:00 am
Baldor Program Pays for Itself
Baldor Electric Co. officials have always prided themselves on the energy-efficient motors produced at the company?s plants worldwide and at its headquarters in Fort Smith.