Tag: NWABJ

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Wal-Mart Shows Modest Sales Spike

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said sales at stores open at least a year rose only 2.3 percent in December, as weakness at its Sam’s Club warehouse unit and a slow start to the holiday season dragged on results.

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Feds Put Usury Limit in Legal Limbo

If Arkansas? constitutional restriction on usury wasn?t problematic enough, a recent change in the Federal Reserve?s monetary policy has left the state without a clear definition of the allowable interest rate that can be charged by non-bank lenders.

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Taxes on Display

The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration says the now defunct Taylor Displays Inc. owes back sales taxes to the state of Arkansas totaling $357,186.03.

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AWA Spreads West

Athletic World Advertising has leased the 30th floor at Tulsa?s CityPlex Towers, the tallest building in Oklahoma, for an expansion that will add 40 new sales positions there.

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Deposit Express

First National Bank of Springdale received approval in early January from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for an innovative plan to grow its commercial client base.

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Doobie or Not Doobie

The Alliance for Reform of Drug Policy in Arkansas Inc. was miffed on Jan. 15 after the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette refused to publish its advertisement for medical marijuana.

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Leaving Waste Behind

John Sampier, who left Perry L. Butcher & Associates of Rogers in August 2001 to join Waste Management Inc. in Tontitown, will rejoin PBA on Feb. 3.

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Rockefeller Rally?

Several states, including Arkansas, are vying to be the first to launch American Venture Resource Association in hopes of becoming the next Silicon Valley or Golden Triangle.

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Taco Tradeoff

Ben Hunt, owner of Fayetteville?s Casa Taco for the past 32 years, said he intends to lease the 5,000-SF space at 1860 N. Crossover Road that housed a Cafe Santa Fe until mid-December.

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Look Mom, No Wires

Wireless Internet service provider (ISP) TanTella Inc. of Bentonville on Jan. 2 began offering high-speed connectivity throughout most of Benton County.