Tag: NWABJ

P.A.M. Transportation Services

P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. announced second-quarter net income of $2.4 million, or 29 cents per share. That compares with net income of $2.1 million, or earnings per share of 25…

TransMontaigne Oil Co.

TransMontaigne Oil Co. said revenues for the fiscal year ended April 30 increased 68.6 percent to almost $2 billion from $1.2 billion in 1997. Net operating margin increased 93.3 percent…

Three Apartment Buildings Secure $2.9 Million in Loans

HCL Properties of Fayetteville received three mortgages totaling $2.9 million that are secured by three apartment complexes. The company received a $1 million mortgage from Laureate Realty Services Inc. of…

Trucking Company Buys New Building

E.T.A. Transportation Inc. of Bentonville received two mortgages from Arkansas National Bank on June 30 totaling $2.75 million. Part of the money was used to purchase a building at 401…

Superior Linen Services Buys Springdale Building

Superior Linen Service has moved its operations to Springdale after purchasing a building at 1648 E. Mountain Road for $1 million. Cintas Corp., an industrial uniform rental, cleaning and sales…

Fayetteville Bank Sells Convenience Store

The Village Market convenience store at 2103 S. Powell Ave. in Springdale was sold June 30. The Bank of Arkansas sold the store to Woodridge Estates Mobile Home Park LLC…

Haynes Sells Lot in Pinnacle Pointe

A 5-acre vacant lot at the corner of U.S. Highway 71 and Champions Drive was sold June 26 for $475,000. Collins and Cynthia Haynes of Rogers sold the land to…

Church Plans Exspansion

The Bella Vista Church of Christ at 8889 W. McNeely Road is making plans to expand its facilities. The church received a $400,000 mortgage June 15 from the Bank of…

Nibbles Building Mortgaged, Company Plans Expansion

The building that houses Nibbles Food Emporium and Nibbles Gourmet Catering was mortgaged June 19 for $325,900. AICDI Inc. of Fayetteville received the loan from Community Bank of Fayetteville. The…

Harmon Place Apartments sold

Harmon Place Apartments at 65 S. Duncan Ave. in Fayetteville were sold June 29 for $930,000. Mark and Carie Pryor bought the apartments from Linda B. Moore. The purchase was…

Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market Coming to East Fayetteville in 1999

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to build one of its “Neighborhood Market” stores in Fayetteville. Plans for the 40,000-SF stores in Bentonville, Springdale and Sherwood have already been reported by the…

Walgreens Planning Three Area Stores

Walgreens, America’s largest and fastest-growing retail pharmacy chain, is coming into Northwest Arkansas with plans for stores in Springdale and Rogers, and the company is still scouting for a location…

Rogers Has Myriad of Local Businesses

More than 2,100 businesses have a city license to operate in Rogers. Most of those businesses are classified by the city as service industries, other than professional. The city has…

Rogers Ifrastructure Catching Up With Growth

Since the population boom that hit Northwest Arkansas in 1994 and 1995 has slowed down, Rogers has a chance to improve its infrastructure to keep up with the growth of…

Rogers Packaging Business Keeps Up With Technology

Family owned Stribling Packaging has expanded, improved as brothers-in-law joined business A box may look like a simple thing to the average consumer, but the folks at Stribling Packaging know…

Southwest Entergy Stock Profile

Gas and oil production during the first quarter of 1998 was 9.9 billion cubic feet equivalent, even with the same period in 1997. Gas production was 8.7 Bcf for both…

J.B. Hunt Earnings Up; AMCA Ranks Legislators

Things continue to improve for J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell. The company reported a 767 percent increase in earnings for the second quarter of this year, which ended…

Retrieve the Hounds

Michael Baker, the owner of Houndstooth Clothing Co. of Fayetteville, has pulled his T-shirt and casual clothing line from about 50 J.C. Penney stores across the country. Baker says he…

Gentlemen Prefer Beer

The Southern Gentleman, a cigar and gift shop on the downtown Fayetteville square, closed in early August. Tiny Tim’s Pizza, which is located in the same building, has leased the…

Leaning Tower of Peace?

Architects considered installing the new J. William Fulbright Memorial Peace Fountain at the University of Arkansas under cover of darkness. The reason? They were afraid the blistering August sun might…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson