by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Mr. Roboto Meets Fayetteville
Collier Drug Stores Inc. in Fayetteville is testing a $186,000 robotic arm that can fill 100 prescriptions per hour.
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by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Airways Stays ?Caudled?
Airways Freight Corp. CEO Dale Caudle can add majority owner of to his title at the Fayetteville company.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Law Firm Heads Out For Now
Head, Johnson & Kachigian, the patent law firm, is downsizing its Fayetteville office.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Bottom Line Changes for Ogden
For Gregg Ogden, the bottom line had always been the company?s sales figures at the end of the day. When he began to square off with death, Ogden searched for a more significant bottom line.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
TrestleTree Sprouts Savings Via Webcam
TrestleTree Inc., a self-described ?health transformation company? in Fayetteville, has initiated a national rollout that it predicts can save corporate America $5 billion by 2010.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Lenders Look for Usury Help for Relief From Usury Limit
Amendment 60 to the Arkansas Constitution was adopted by voters in November 1982, a matter of days after the Federal Reserve?s discount rate dropped below 10 percent for the first time in three years.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
LR Hospital Adds Interest Charge to Bills
St. Vincent Health System is more than a quarter of the way through a two-year contract with a North Little Rock company that sends credit card-like bills ? complete with interest charges ? for balances owed by individual patients.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Arkansas Best Corp. Posts Second-Quarter Net Income
Fort Smith?s Arkansas Best Corp. on July 18 posted second-quarter net income of $6.5 million.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Beverly Enterprises Inc. Releases Second-Quarter Earnings
Beverly Enterprises Inc. of Fort Smith released its second-quarter earnings July 30, reporting revenue of $634.7 million for the quarter that ended June 30.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. Completes Stock Repurchase
On July 1, First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc. completed its previously announced stock repurchase.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. Shares Increase
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown on July 30 said diluted and basic earnings per share increased to 45 cents during the second quarter, an increase from the 34 cents it reported during the same time last year.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Inc. Aquisition Gives Higher Earnings
John Tyson said Tyson Foods Inc.?s acquisition of IBP Inc. last year gave the company ?a larger basket of goods.? It also gave the Springdale company higher earnings in its fiscal third-quarter.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Signs Agreement With Thrifty Car Rental
Walmart.com, the Internet site for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has signed a marketing and sales agreement to provide flat rate prices for Thrifty Car Rental automobiles.
by - August 5, 2002 12:00 am
Heath Tops State Employee Pay
The University of Arkansas apparently saved $15 per year by swapping head basketball coaches last spring. That?s the difference in annual state salary between Nolan Richardson ($133,015) and Stan Heath ($133,000).
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
The Dish on DirectTV (Editorial)
Customer relations will always be a huge issue for any executive management team.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
District Glut Drives Teacher Demand (Gwen Moritz Editor’s note)
An extra $10,000 a year is probably not enough to make most readers of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal move to Texas. But for freshly minted school teachers, an extra 10 grand is 40-50 percent more than they can make teaching in Arkansas.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Fayetteville Restaurant Owners Expand Empire
The Huson family of Fayetteville is expanding its restaurant empire ? all the way across Dickson Street. Jim, Teresa and Nelson Huson opened Doe?s Eat Place and now plan to open Big Daddy?s Sports Bar & Grill.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Resumes Sales of Cajun Crawfish Tails
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pulled Chinese shrimp and crawfish from its shelves in three states after tests found chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that was banned in the United States a decade ago.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Upscale Florist Opens in Lowell
Jennifer Brock ?doesn?t do? carnations at Just Add Water. Instead, Brock, co-owner of the upscale floral shop, imports flowers from around the world to design her nontraditional floral arrangements.
by - July 22, 2002 12:00 am
Unique Imports Brings European Treasures to Arkansas
With a collection that she hopes will eventually span the globe, Julie Birchfield imports unique, handmade pottery from Europe and Mexico for her business, Unique Imports.