by - May 12, 2003 12:00 am
Bad Help Wanted
The most unusual help-wanted ad caught our eye recently.
Tag: Whispers
by - May 12, 2003 12:00 am
Penchant for Pension
The state?s largest pension fund has selected a new property manager for three of its Little Rock properties.
by - May 12, 2003 12:00 am
Deffenbaugh Joins Bulls
Fayetteville native Tommy Deffenbaugh has been named assistant basketball coach at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Crystal Now Clear
A press conference is planned for the week of April 28 to announce that the movie ?Crystal? will be filmed in Northwest Arkansas.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Bill Gates in Bentonville?
Well, not exactly. But Microsoft Corp., where Bill Gates is chairman and chief software architect, is putting an office in Bentonville.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Drops ?Acx?
Apparently, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has decided to replace Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock with Experian Information Solutions Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill., to do the bulk of the Bentonville retailer?s marketing database work.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Former KHBS/KHOG Anchor Moon Appears on ’48 Hours’
Melanie Moon, a former news anchor and reporter for KHBS/KHOG, Channels 40/29, in Fayetteville and Fort Smith, was featured on CBS Television?s ?48 Hours? news magazine on April 23.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Governor?s Entrepreneurial Award Needs More Support
The Governor?s Award for Entrepreneurial Development competition needs additional financial support to survive.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
Pentagon Poultry Doesn’t Fare Well
Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken, or KFC, didn?t go as planned because the tough desert environment didn?t agree with the finicky fowl.
by - April 28, 2003 12:00 am
OTC Bulletin Board to Be Phased Out
The OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB), the online marketplace for over-the-counter equity securities, is being phased out in 2003.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Mountain Inn Again
Two Fayetteville men ? Richard Alexander and John Nock ? are under contract to buy the 60,000-SF, seven-story Mountain Inn from Stella Moga of Westlake, Ohio.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Barron Von Retail
Barron Witherspoon, the director of global customer business development for Procter & Gamble Co. in Fayetteville, will transfer this June to Singapore.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Recycling Kohl?s Trees
The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, off Arkansas 265 in Fayetteville, plans to build a 3,000-SF timber-frame structure in October with 30 logs from the construction site of Kohl?s department store in Fayetteville.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Mercari Shuts Down
Mercari Technologies Inc., the once promising supply chain management and e-fullfillment software company in Fayetteville, has closed.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
The Posts of Mississippi
Ben Israel’s Next Generation may partner with a developer to create affordable homes in the Mississippi Delta.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
No Classified for Carla
Carla Tyson purchased a large display advertisement in The Morning News on March 24 that more than got her point across.
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Courier Competition
Three months after First National Bank of Springdale got approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to start a courier service for commercial deposits another local bank has applied to start a ?virtual branch.?
by - April 14, 2003 12:00 am
Granted
A local Small Business Innovation Research program conference is going to be held May 15 at the Genesis Technology Incubator in Fayetteville.
by - March 31, 2003 12:00 am
P&G Upping Presence
The Procter & Gamble Distributing Co. in Fayetteville, which already employs about 250 people, is looking into further expansion
by - March 31, 2003 12:00 am
Multiple Interests
At least two other businesses were apparently being operated during 2002 at the same address as Golf Entertainment Inc., the Springdale penny stock embroiled in numerous legal fights.