by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Austin Moore opened his first restaurant, a Firehouse Subs store, on Feb. 14 in Fayetteville. If all goes well, Moore plans to open a second location in Fayetteville and a third Firehouse Subs in Springdale.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Mexican restaurant offers fresh fare at slow pace.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
The pundits are calling it ?Enronitis,? the contagious fear that any publicly traded company?s financial statements might be suspect. Arkansas is not immune.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
No one could have predicted five years ago that two corporate giants like Kmart Corp. and Enron Corp. would be bankrupt within months of each other.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Ozarks Electric Cooperative, a member of the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, dispatched three teams of work crews to assist the cooperatives in Oklahoma and Kansas that were disabled by the January winter storms.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt, chairman of the board and founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services of Lowell, is proposing to sell 2.2 million shares of company stock, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Don Nelms of Fayetteville is the first board chairman for state chapter of the National Audubon Society
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Family income in Arkansas will be the lowest in the nation during the next federal fiscal year the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported recently.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
In March, Nancy Hendricks, Grady Jim Robinson and a silent partner will open the first production of their professional theater company, HeRo Productions.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Deb Holmquest recently opened the first Arkansas franchise of The Great Frame Up, a custom-framing store owned by Franchise Concepts Inc. of Houston.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
People told Chad and Rebecca Smith they were brave to settle their new furniture store in the middle of Springdale’s furniture row.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
The city of Fayetteville plans to put its newspaper advertising contract up for bid in late February.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Jeff Krupsaw, deputy sports editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, surely had a hand in his section’s Feb. 10 feature package on the University of Arkansas’ NCAA woes.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Since we misspelled February in the masthead in our last issue, we probably shouldn?t be making fun of anybody else for such things, but we couldn?t help wondering about a travel story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Superior Financial Corp. of Little Rock said Feb. 4 that its 2001 earnings report would be delayed while management and outside auditors review financial statements issued during the former comptroller?s tenure.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
On Jan. 31, Baldor Electric Co. of Fort Smith reported decreases in diluted earnings per share and a decline in sales.
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On Feb. 5, Beverly Enterprises Inc. of Fort Smith announced a fourth-quarter net loss of $266.6 million, about 4.6 times more than the $46.8 million lost in the comparable quarter of 2000.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Brass Eagle Inc. of Bentonville, which manufactures paintball guns and other extreme sports accessories, announced on Feb. 5 that it will take a charge of 9 cents per share on its fourth-quarter earnings because of the bankruptcy of Kmart Corp.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown on Feb. 8 announced a 13 percent net income increase for its fourth quarter from the same period last year.
by - February 18, 2002 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Inc. Chief Financial Officer Steve Hankins said the Springdale company is projecting revenue of about $25 billion for 2002.
