by - April 11, 2005 12:00 am
Reporters Grill Wal-Mart, Check Out Pinnacle Group
Reporters from Japan and the Associated Press interview the Pinnacle Group while in Rogers for Wal-Mart?s first-ever media conference on April 5-6.
Tag: retail
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
?Red? Hudson?s House Tops Market at $3.4 million
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal takes a look at the most-expensive homes in the two-county area.
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
Not Grandma?s Kitchen Anymore
New upscale kitchen furnishing sales really cook in the market.
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
House Passes Art Museum Bill
The Arkansas House of Representatives passed House Bill 2480 on March 21 by a vote of 85 to 0 (with 15 representatives not voting).
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
Pleasant Crossing Plans for Imax
Pleasant Crossing developers have another ace up their sleeve: an IMAX theater.
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
Miller Eyes Land by Center
Clint Miller, vice president of Griffin Company Realtors in Springdale, recently bought 70 acres across from the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. distribution center.
by - March 28, 2005 12:00 am
Plaza Gets New Tenants
Bentonville Plaza has apparently signed a few new tenants lately.
by - March 14, 2005 12:00 am
Gift Card Accounting (Glenn E. Atkins Commentary)
Retailers have a love-hate relationship with the gift-card phenomenon. They love it because they get cash in. They hate it because it makes sales and inventory planning much more difficult.
by - March 14, 2005 12:00 am
Montana Plows Through Market
Montana Tractors of Springdale will do $65 million in sales this year. Partners J.B. Hunt, Charles Goforth and Dan Downing founded the business in May 2004 at the former location of the tractor distributor Agracat.
by - March 14, 2005 12:00 am
Houndstooth Buys Hanna?s Candle Spot
Michael Baker, owner of Fayetteville?s Houndstooth Clothing Co., has purchased the Hanna?s Candle Co. outlet store at 632 E. 15th St. in Fayetteville for $750,000 and is moving his warehouse there from Reindl Warehouse.
by - March 14, 2005 12:00 am
Hank?s Opens Fayetteville Store
Hank Browne, president of Hank?s Fine Furniture of Sherwood, opened a 40,700-SF store in Fayetteville?s CMN Business Park March 12.
by - March 14, 2005 12:00 am
Wal-Mart’s One-towel Rule at Headquarters
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has implemented a ?one paper towel rule? for employees in the Bentonville home office.
by - February 28, 2005 12:00 am
Is Downtown Ballpark Just A Dream?
Those steering the hopes of a downtown ballpark in North Little Rock have everything covered except the cost.
by - February 28, 2005 12:00 am
Parisian Store in Rogers May Alter Retail Terrain
A look at what stores may follow the 100,000-SF Parisian department store in the 345-acre Pleasant Crossing development in Rogers.
by - February 28, 2005 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Media Conference Set
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville plans to hold its first ever media conference on April 5 and 6.
by - February 28, 2005 12:00 am
Retail to Replace Ramada
Ben Israel of Dixie Development is about to close on the old Ramada Inn property off Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville.
by - February 14, 2005 12:00 am
Business Forecast: Good, Looking Better
Panelists at the 11th annual Business Forecast lunch agreed the economy is fine for the current business cycle. In Benton and Washington counties, the pundits said, it?s better than fine.
by - February 14, 2005 12:00 am
Young Speaks At Wal-Mart
Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta, kicked off Black History Month celebrations at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by speaking at the company?s Saturday morning meeting on Feb. 5 in Bentonville.
by - February 14, 2005 12:00 am
NWA Takes Big Deals
Three of the Top 10 largest business transactions that were announced last year in Arkansas happened in Bentonville. Together, the trio of deals totaled nearly $10.36 billion.
by - January 31, 2005 12:00 am
It?s Time for Internet Sales Tax (Jeff Hankins Commentary)
The reality today, now that Internet sales during the holidays alone topped $23 billion, is that there is definitely an impact on state revenues and local retailers.