by - January 8, 2001 12:00 am
Southwestern Energy to Use Exploration Capital
The Fayetteville company has allotted $75 million for exploration and production in 2001, up from $68 million the previous year.
Tag: Public Companies
by - January 8, 2001 12:00 am
Wal-Mart’s Net Sales Increase 6.5 Pct.
The retailer reports net sales for the holiday period of $25.70 billion, compared with $24.13 billion last year.
by - January 8, 2001 12:00 am
Mr. Clean Ratted Out
An Englishman gets in trouble on the first day on the job for taking a shower after 10 p.m. in Switzerland.
by - January 2, 2001 12:46 pm
Tyson Reaches Agreement With IBP
Shares of IBP rose in trading Tuesday after Monday’s announcement that the company would merge with Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale.
by - December 25, 2000 12:00 am
Tyson Continues to Tower Over Chicken Industry
Chicken giant Tyson Foods will survive the downswing in the industry, but smaller companies may have to explore options.
by - December 25, 2000 12:00 am
Southwestern Energy Still Looking for Utility Buyer
After six months on the market, the company’s remaining natural gas utility has not drawn any reasonable offers, Southwestern Energy CEO Harold Korell says.
by - December 25, 2000 12:00 am
Loislaw.com Accepts Dutch Acquisition Offer
The Van Buren online legal information provider, which posted a $3.7 million net loss in the third quarter, is taking Wolters Kluwer NV up on its $95 million bid.
by - December 25, 2000 12:00 am
Edgewater to Sell ClinForce, Buy Back Shares
The plan will allow Edgewater Technology Inc., which has divested itself of five divisions since June, to focus on its one remaining division, its e-solutions business in Massachusetts.
by - December 25, 2000 12:00 am
Executives Make Stock Trades
With 2000 drawing to a close, executives in Wal-Mart and other Northwest Arkansas companies have made transactions.
by - December 19, 2000 10:36 am
Dutch Firm to Buy Loislaw.com
Arkansas? only Web-based information technology company, Loislaw.com Inc., agrees to be acquired by Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer NV in a $95 million deal.
by - December 12, 2000 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Begins Offer to Buy IBP Stock
Tyson Foods begins a cash offer for IBP for $26 a share; Arkansas? elected officials ask President Clinton to pardon Tyson?s Archie Schaffer.
by - December 11, 2000 12:00 am
Oversupply Won?t Beat Simmons Foods, CEO Says
Poultry companies, particularly the small and midsized ones, try to weather the storm that the nation?s meat surplus has caused in the industry.
by - December 11, 2000 12:00 am
?Amazing Bargains? (Jeff Hankins Publisher’s Note)
The Nov. 13 edition of Forbes? ?Money & Investing? section refers to an amazing six Arkansas-related stocks, and that?s good news for a state whose stocks have been beaten down in the past two years.
by - December 11, 2000 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Program Fights Hunger
Operation Frontline, sponsored by Tyson Foods Inc., holds its inaugural class for Chicago residents for the nutrition education program of the anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength.
by - December 11, 2000 12:00 am
Will Tyson Turn to Local Companies?
Tyson Foods Inc.?s offer to buy beef and pork producer IBP Inc. doesn’t silence speculation that the poultry giant might make a run on neighbors like Simmons Foods Inc. and Peterson Industries Inc.
by - December 4, 2000 9:57 am
Tyson Seeks IBP Acquisition After Lowering Debt Load
Tyson Foods’ $4.2 billion offer to acquire IBP Inc. follows a 1999 prediction by chairman and CEO John Tyson that his company would be in a position to ?go out and get somebody? after cutting its debt below $1.7 billion.
by - December 4, 2000 12:00 am
Walmart.com Passes Department Store Rivals
Figures for the week of Thanksgiving show that Walmart.com, the relaunched Web site for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., had more visitors than the sites of any of its department store rivals.
by - November 27, 2000 12:00 am
Edgewater Sells IntelliMark Division
Edgewater Technology Inc. sells IntelliMark, its information technology staffing and solutions division, and the division headquarters will be moved from Fayetteville to Little Rock.
by - November 27, 2000 12:00 am
Nebraska Meat Firm Will Use Irradiation
Omaha Steaks announces that it will use irradiation on its ground beef products to guard against bacteria.
by - November 27, 2000 12:00 am
FedEx Buying American Freightways
The Memphis-based company bags the Harrison trucking business, one of Arkansas’ best business success stories.