by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-Companies Weigh Benefits Of Public vs. Private Status
The number of public companies in the Fort Smith area had dwindled from six to four since 2000, reflecting a national trend of public companies going private.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-The number of public companies in the Fort Smith area had dwindled from six to four since 2000, reflecting a national trend of public companies going private.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-Nabholz Construction Corp. of Conway buys a building permit valued at $4 million to build a 52,000-SF shopping center off Sixth Street in Fayetteville.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-Take 2 Video?s latest TV ad encourages viewers to come in and get a new poster featuring local spokesmodel/waitress Jessica. We wonder just how racy Take 2?s commercials can get.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-An 18-hole golf tournament set for Aug. 20 at The Blessing golf course in Johnson is asking ? and getting ? $36,000 per two-man team.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-Several retailers are departing from Rogers? Village on the Creeks development. First it was Secret Ingredients, then Bed Bugs, and now it?s the upscale clothier Blue.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-We hear that future tenants at The Shoppes off Pinnacle Parkway will include a lingerie store, another shoe store and another women?s clothing store besides Pink Bamboo.
by July 18, 2005 12:00 am
-Diesel Downs, Gary Combs? planned mega truck stop off Wagon Wheel Road and Interstate 540 in Springdale, will include five restaurants. The 36-acre development is supposed to include 40,000-SF of space and 94,000-SF office building.
by July 4, 2005 12:00 am
-Some who read Don Soderquist’s new book ask if the Wal-Mart corporate lawyers purged all its secrets. “That’s absolutely wrong,” said Soderquist, Wal-Mart’s former vice chairman and chief operating officer. It is a simple philosophy that works today.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-When Jim Crowell arrived at the University of Arkansas in 2001, the Walton College’s Supply Chain Management Research Center had nine companies and had not broken even. Now, it has 22 companies and has operated in the black for three years.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-The 100,000-SF Parisian store planned for the Pleasant Crossing retail development in Rogers might be expanding by about 20,000 SF.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-McRoy & McNair Inc., the historic Fayetteville office products store, is closing, and an auction will be held to sell the surplus equipment.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-Within 30 minutes after reading a radio-frequency identification tag, inventory information provided by the tag is available to suppliers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. through the company’s Retail Link software.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it has rescinded the retirement agreement of former Vice Chairman Thomas M. Coughlin, who resigned as a Wal-Mart director in March after an internal investigation.
by June 20, 2005 12:00 am
-The list of the region’s largest trucking firms, auto dealers and air chart companies.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-Thanks to Alice Walton for returning to Northwest Arkansas and building the $50 million Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-An insiders look at Northwest Arkansas companies making pitches at the International Council of Shopping Centers Spring 2005 convention.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-Investors make money flipping properties in Northwest Arkansas.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-Mark Brewer, owner of Real Assets Inc. in Fayetteville, said relationships are the reason he had a $21 million portfolio last year.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-Three of the top four and five of the top 20 counties in Arkansas for state sales and use tax collection are in the northwest corridor.
by June 6, 2005 12:00 am
-Recently, as a result of growth in Bentonville and customer requests, Mike Graham opened a second store to complement his store in Springdale.