Arkansas Business back issues from April 2007:
The next big thing in e-law? Protecting digital data, then defending the inevitable thefts.
Apr 02, 2007; ... IT'S ALMOST A CATCH-22: NEW LAWSUIT discovery regulations are requiring businesses to retain more electronic data at the same time that lawmakers are leaning on them to do a much better job of making sure such data is secure. The legal requirements of living in the digital age ...
Fate of PB hotel rests in the hands of financial foes.(Pine Bluff )
Apr 02, 2007; ... THE FATE OF THE ROYAL ARKANSAS Hotel & Suites, which is attached to the Pine Bluff Convention Center, is in the hands of two owners who clearly don't trust each other. If Gerhardt Becker of International Hotel Management Inc. of Ontario and Edward Hayter Sr. of IBAC Corp. of New ...
Alltel's training program earns recognition.(Job Training)
Apr 02, 2007; ... EMPLOYEES AT ALLTEL CORP. MAY BE facing an uncertain future--the wireless carrier is considering options that include selling to an outside buyer--but that's not keeping the Little Rock company from pushing everyone who works there to reach his or her full potential. Alltel ...
Hospital sale.(Whispers)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Last week Management Associates Inc. of Naples, Fla., announced that its deal to sell Summit Medical Center at Van Buren and a West Virginia hospital to Shiloh Health Services Inc. of Louisville, Ky., had fallen apart because Shiloh couldn't line up financing. That deal also ...
Double play.(Dickey-Stephens Park)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... You can't use work as an excuse to get out of catching a ballgame at the new Dickey-Stephens Park on the north banks of the Arkansas River. Laptops are welcome and, thanks to Aristotle.net of Little Rock, the shiny new park will be a Wi-Fi hot spot, offering up wireless ...
Ball-B-Q.(Sherwood supplying Pig'n-Chik to Dickey-Stephens Park)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Elsewhere on the Travelers beat ... We hear that Sherwood's Pig'n-Chik will be the official barbecue supplier to Dickey-Stephens Park. No word yet on what all will be offered, but BBQ pork piled high on ballpark-style nachos is a tasty trend at concession stands across the ...
April discovery.(Lewis & Clark Outfitters opening delayed)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... This time around, it's the people waiting to discover Lewis & Clark. The Springdale outdoors retailer Lewis & Clark Outfitters, which was originally slated to open in central Arkansas early last fall, will finally debut at the Midtowne Shopping Plaza in late April. ...
Funeral director strikes back.(Whispers)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Remember a few weeks ago when we told you about the Stuttgart funeral home owner who said he was haunted by a deal he made when he bought his funeral home from Derrick Gunn years ago? Well, Gunn has fired back. He says the deal has haunted him too. Trouble began when ...
Arthur's opening.(Arthur's Steakhouse opened by Jerry Barakat)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Arthur's Steakhouse, the latest venture of restaurateur Jerry Barakat, is expected to open May 1 in Barakat's bar and restaurant pod off of Rahling Road in west Little Rock, according to Marshall Smith, manager for the new fine dining establishment. Smith teamed up with Barakat ...
Pryor vote.(Mark Pryor's military policy)
Apr 02, 2007 ... WHETHER ONE AGREES WITH his position or not, Sen. Mark Pryor is to be admired for his vote in the Senate last week in a losing effort to remove withdrawal language from a $122 billion war-funding bill. Arkansas' junior senator, a Democrat, in what appears truly to be an issue of ...
Dumas and FEMA.(Federal Emergency Management Agency and post disaster reconstruction)(Editorial)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... LAST WEEK'S HEADLINE IN Arkansas Business said it well: "Dumas Pulls Itself Together." The residents of that southeast Arkansas town can rightly be proud of their effort to overcome the devastation of a tornado that heavily damaged many of the businesses and homes in the ...
'What we've got here ...'.(organization leadership and business communications)
Apr 02, 2007; ... I AM BETTING THAT ALMOST everyone reading this can finish the headline: " ... is failure to communicate." Some even know that it comes from "Cool Hand Luke." If you have ever worked in a business office, whether or not you have seen the movie, you have likely seen the impact of a failure to ...
Learn to see the signs.
Apr 02, 2007; ... WHY IS 1T THAT SEEMINGLY thriving businesses suddenly begin to struggle with cash flow, lose good customers and employees and become troubled companies, reaching the point where their actual survival comes into question? The answer is management. Management--or, more accurately, ...
Bank of the Ozarks ends Jacksonville branch fight.(BANKING & FINANCE)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Bank of the Ozarks and First Arkansas Bank & Trust have resolved a long-running dispute with Bank of the Ozarks bowing out of plans to build a bank branch at Jacksonville. Bank of the Ozarks originally filed the branch application with bank regulatory authorities in December ...
Arkansas's 2007 technology report card.(Inside Business)
Apr 02, 2007 ... <Pre> Arkansas's 2007 Technology Report Card How did the average Arkansas state score? Access to technology C ...
Arkansas overall technology score.(Inside Business)
Apr 02, 2007 ... <Pre> Arkansas Overall Technology Score Arkansas pointsAverage state awarded points awarded Access to technology...
ADFA bond issue to aid 5 manufacturers in state.(Inside Business)
Apr 02, 2007; ... The Arkansas Development Finance Authority has closed an $11,585,000 pooled bond issue to provide permanent long-term financing for five manufacturers locating in or expanding their facilities in Arkansas. The companies were financed through ADFA's Industrial Development Bond ...
HMA cancels deal to sell two hospitals to Shiloh.(HEALTH CARE)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Health Management Associates Inc. of Naples, Fla., has terminated an agreement to sell two hospitals to Shiloh Health Services Inc. of Louisville, Ky., after Shiloh was unable to obtain financing to complete the deal. Health Management said it would pursue alternatives to ...
Wal-Mart, UA, Blue Cross to research health care.(Inside Business)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will partner with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and Blue Cross Blue Shield to create a research center to focus on "improving the health care delivery system with the use of information technology." The groups said the Center for Innovation in ...
Arkansas gets $2 million from oil-gas auction.(ENERGY)
Apr 02, 2007; ... The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management brought in about $12 million on 236 parcels during a competitive auction of oil and gas leases on national forest land in Arkansas, Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi and Louisiana. In Arkansas, 27 parcels, some 9,145 acres ...
2007 Arkansas Realtors Association housing market report.(Inside Business)
Apr 02, 2007 ... <Pre> 2007 Arkansas Realtors Association Housing Market Report Most Units Sold for the MonthCounty Feb '07Feb '06% Change 1 Pulaski County409433 2.00% 2 Benton County 261 ...
Magic Springs: deal to create growth, jobs.(TOURISM)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Magic Springs Development Co., which owns the Magic Springs & Crystal Falls theme park at Hot Springs, said it has signed a refinancing deal that will pour $10 million into the park for new attractions over the next two years. Dan Aylward, president and general manager of Magic ...
Wildwood Park founder, director Chotard retires.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Ann Chotard)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Ann Chotard, executive director and artistic director of the Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, is retiring. Chotard founded the Arkansas Opera Theatre in 1973, and it became known as the Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts in 1989. Chotard is leaving the park to pursue ...
G&D Fiberglass making mark in films, on farm.(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Glynn Samuels has elephants and dinosaurs in his workshop. Samuels owns G&D Fiberglass in Hindsville and G&D Fiberglass Inc. of Sun Valley, Calif., fiberglass fabrication businesses that produce everything from tractor tops to fake mountains used in motion pictures. ...
Fairchild entering rubber Mulch market.(NW Journal: A Look at News From Northwest Arkansas)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Nathan Fairchild, owner of Fairchild Construction Inc. of Bentonville, is moving into the rubber mulch business. Fairchild recently purchased an International Mulch Co. franchise and will sell the patented Rubberific mulch made from recycled tires through Arkansas Rubber Mulch ...
Risk Management group forms Arkansas chapter.(NW Journal: A Look at News From Northwest Arkansas)
Apr 02, 2007; ... James Wiggins, senior vice president of Benefit Bank of Fort Smith, has been named head of the board for the newly formed northwest Arkansas chapter of the Risk Management Association. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Philadelphia, RMA is a nonprofit association whose goal ...
ASU board OKs bonds for rec center.(NE Journal: A Look at News From Northeast Arkansas)(Arkansas State University)(recreation center)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... The Arkansas State University board of trustees recently approved issuing $17 million worth of bonds to construct a recreation center for the Jonesboro campus. The ASU students at Jonesboro will pick up the tab for the new center by paying an additional $5 per credit hour fee, ...
Julio's restaurant fighting fine, suspension.(NE Journal: A Look at News From Northeast Arkansas)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Julio's Mexican Restaurant in downtown Jonesboro said it would fight an Alcoholic Beverage Control fine of $2,000 and 30-day suspension of its private club license. Julio's could have paid the fine and agreed to the suspension, but it has asked for a hearing before the ABC ...
Jonesboro sales taxes slip after record month.(NE Journal: A Look at News From Northeast Arkansas)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Jonesboro's sales tax receipts hit a record high in February with more than $1 million collected, but then slipped 24.2 percent in March. The drop was to be expected because the February numbers actually account for December sales, since retailers have two months to hand over ...
U.S. Commerce Department.(Business Briefs)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Arkansas' personal income grew 4.7 percent to $27,935 from 2005 to 2006, but the state still fell one spot to 48th in per capita income among states, according to figures from the U.S. Commerce ...
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said Arkansans traveling outside the country could expect delays in receiving a passport.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said Arkansans traveling outside the country could expect delays in receiving a passport. The State Department advises travelers to allow 10 to 12 weeks for routine passport processing and to allow four weeks, instead of two, ...
Stanley Inc., a passport services company, opened last week at Hot Springs to help meet the increased demand from travelers for passports because of new regulations that require Americans to have passports when traveling by air to any country.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Stanley Inc., a passport services company, opened last week at Hot Springs to help meet the increased demand from travelers for passports because of new regulations that require Americans to have passports when traveling by ...
The Situs Cos., a Houston-based real estate services firm, has opened a Little Rock office.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Situs Cos., a Houston-based real estate services firm, has opened a Little Rock office. Cindy Seay Webb will serve as vice president and manage the office. Sims has hired 10 other people and expects to expand in Little Rock, where it ...
American Trucking Associations'.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Trucking shipments in the United States were down 1.7 percent in February, according to the American Trucking Associations' monthly report ....
Conway Corp., which operates the electric, water, wastewater and cable television utility services for the city of Conway.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Conway Corp., which operates the electric, water, wastewater and cable television utility services for the city of Conway, has placed a second order with Nighthawk Systems Inc. of San Antonio for its CEO700 meter-based, ...
Distilled Spirits Council.(Business Briefs)(Senate Bill 795)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Distilled Spirits Council said that Senate Bill 795, which calls for a 5 percent excise tax on all off-premise wine and distilled spirits, would punish small businesses and harm the ...
Gwatney Chevrolet of Jacksonville has been recognized by GMAC Financial Services as one of the top 100 automotive dealers in the United States for its outstanding achievements in 2006.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Gwatney Chevrolet of Jacksonville has been recognized by GMAC Financial Services as one of the top 100 automotive dealers in the United States for its outstanding achievements in 2006. It is the only ...
BancorpSouth and Regions Financial Corp., both with branches in Arkansas, along with Wachovia Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... BancorpSouth and Regions Financial Corp., both with branches in Arkansas, along with Wachovia Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc. are participating banks in AT&T Inc.'s ...
Murphy Oil Co.(Business Briefs)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Murphy Oil Co. of El Dorado has sent out more than $60 million to more than 6,000 victims of damages when Hurricane Katrina broke a tank holding ...
Imagine: where execution, imagination go hand-in-hand.(Business Lunch Review)
Apr 02, 2007 ... CHEF ADAM ROSENBLUM AND his wife, Christina Latendresse, have a dream: a warm, classy restaurant serving simple dishes made from wholesome local ingredients. Our first visit to Imagine A Restaurant made us glad they're sharing the dream and made it clear that theirs is more than ...
E-discovery rules not such a big change, lawyer says.(electronically stored information regulations)
Apr 02, 2007; ... NEW COURT RULES RARELY CONCERN anyone except lawyers, but the addition in December of new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning electronic data made headlines. The idea that businesses now need to preserve e-mails and even voice mails just in case they ever turn out to be ...
Marriage training workshop goal is better workers.(Job Training: Notes)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Through a contract from the Arkansas Transitional Employment Board and the Department of Workforce Services, the Arkansas Healthy Marriage Project aims to build stronger marriages, which makes for better workers. Wallace Goddard and James Marshall, University of Arkansas ...
UAMS luncheon to support geriatric nurse training.(Job Training: Notes)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Jo Ellen Ford and her brother, Randy Wilbourn, will be guest speakers at a luncheon on April 26 to raise money for a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences nursing program that specializes in elderly care. Ford, wife of Alltel Corp. Chairman Joe Ford, is a member of the ...
Breakthrough Solutions Conference set for May 1.(Job Training: Notes)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The third annual Breakthrough Solutions Conference will be held May 1 at Next Level Events in the Union Train Station in Little Rock. The theme of the conference is "Boast Town or Ghost Town: Who Will Come, Who Will Go, Who Will Be Left Behind?" Ghost town refers to a ...
Multilingual employees, Mandarin keys to prosperous future.(Job Training)
Apr 02, 2007; ... BY THE TIME ESPERANZA Massana, a native of El Salvador, finished college at Harding University in Searcy nearly five years ago, she was fluent in three languages and could get by in a fourth. In a global economy and an increasingly diversified domestic population, educated, ...
Government, Wal-Mart, Tyson still top largest employer list.(Job Training: List Overview)
Apr 02, 2007; ... WAL-MART, TYSON AND the state and federal government continue to dominate Arkansas Business's annual list of Largest Arkansas Employers. The combined work force of those four entities, roughly 140,000, is more than the combined work force of the other 31 employers on this ...
Alaska frontier.(Whispers)
Apr 02, 2007 ... An Alaska businessman moved to Searcy recently and then filled for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Larry Don Crabtree listed more than $1.5 million in debt and nearly $800,000 in assets. Crabtree's bankruptcy attorney, G. Gregory Niblock of Stuttgart, said ...
EEOC files suit.(Whispers)
Apr 02, 2007 ... The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week filed a lawsuit against an El Dorado company for firing black employees just because of their race. The EEOC said in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in El Dorado that the Chemtura Corp., which you might know as the ...
Still waiting.(prenvention of embezzlement)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007 ... Nothing official here, but we're hearing that action is impending in a big case of embezzlement that we first told you about last summer. The victim is Forklift Systems of Arkansas of Little ...
Who's watching what.(demand for television viewing)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... The much-anticipated February Nielsen's Media Research ratings book is in, and, as usual, we'll do our best to translate the tangle of numbers and charts and trendy television lingo to reveal where the local affiliates stand. Again, the sticklers at Nielsen allow us only to use ...
Rise and shine.(demand for KARK-TV (Little Rock, Arkansas) programs and services)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... KARK learned a lesson in chemistry. A new team of veteran personalities assembled last November to compete in the mornings is beginning to show results. KTHV is still the overall leader at 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. (4.2 rating, 26 share and 8.4 rating and 29 share, respectively), but ...
Evening shade.(KATV-TV (Little Rock, Arkansas) and demand for its programs)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... Though showing some signs of slippage across most demographics at both 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., KATV still holds a strong slice of the overall pie in those time slots. A 12.2 rating and 26 share at 5 p.m., along with a 14.9 rating and 27 share at 6 p.m., has the ABC affiliate well ...
Night moves.(Outtakes: An Inside Look Into Arkansas Media)(Brief article)
Apr 02, 2007; ... We've grown accustomed to finding different ways to report a virtual tie at 10 p.m. over the past five or six books, but this time KTHV has made it a little easier to decipher. Channel 11 brought in a 12.5 rating and 25 share weekdays at 10 p.m., while KATV had a 10.9 rating ...
Nine lives.(Outtakes: An Inside Look Into Arkansas Media)
Apr 02, 2007; ... KLRT'S 9 p.m. effort is inching closer to the kind of numbers third place puts up at 10 p.m. with yet another growth spurt from the three-year-old newscast, no doubt helped along by the return of the ratings juggernaut "American Idol." "Fox News at Nine" showed a 5 rating and ...
Keeping 'em down on the farm: DeWitt family concern produces seeds, crops and now fuel.(Hornbeck Agricultural Group )
Apr 09, 2007; ... THE BROTHERS HORNBECK COME across as typical Arkansas farmers, but there s nothing typical about their operation. The three brothers have quietly built an integrated farming operation at DeWitt that extends the growing season into an impressive year-round business. Jeff, 47, ...
Funeral home family feud draws blood.(Family-Owned BIZ)
Apr 09, 2007; ... ON A SATURDAY MORNING IN February, Dwight Olmstead, the 55-year-old owner of Olmstead Funeral Home in Heber Springs, called police and said someone was trying to kill him. As officers raced to the funeral home, they received another call: Olmstead had been shot in the stomach. ...
Poultry-litter power generates debate: just how 'clean'?(Family-Owned BIZ)
Apr 09, 2007; ... IT SOUNDS LIKE GARRISON KEILLOR'S "Prairie Home Companion" shtick: Foreigners arrive in Minnesota selling a plan to burn turkey poop to generate electricity. "It does sound funny until you find out it's true," said Rupert Fraser, chief executive officer of Fibrowatt LLC, which ...
Tontitown bankers.(Whispers)
Apr 09, 2007 ... A group of investors is seeking $10 million in private stock subscriptions so they can purchase an unidentified south Arkansas bank and relocate its headquarters to Tontitown. One of the organizers is Jim Oldham, senior vice president with Valley Bank in Springdale. That's a ...
Long, hot bath.(Whispers)
Apr 09, 2007 ... After nearly a decade of frustration, a couple of Hot Springs architects and two more partners are scheduled to sign on Tuesday a lease on the historic Quapaw Bathhouse in Hot Springs. Architects Robert Kempes and Anthony Taylor have spent more than nine years trying to come up ...
Signature closing.(Whispers)(Signature Bank of Arkansas)(White River Bancshares Inc. acquired Bank of Brinkley)(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007 ... White River Bancshares Inc., the holding company for Signature Bank of Arkansas, has received its final approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to acquire the Bank of Brinkley and is set to close the deal on Monday. Gary Head, chairman and CEO of White River, wouldn't ...
Bikini lawsuit.(Glove Corp. Heber Springs Div. accused Bennett Productions Inc. for using Bikini Destinations name for calendar)(Brief article)
Apr 09, 2007 ... A California company is accusing a Heber Springs man of crossing the line when he published his swimsuit calendar in 2006. Bennett Productions Inc. of Los Angeles said it owns the rights to the name Bikini Destinations, the same name that Heber Springs shutterbug Erick David ...
Home bust.(Whispers)
Apr 09, 2007 ... Did you know a Rogers businessman recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and listed $1.5 million in debt? William Kealy also listed $1.5 million in assets, according to his bankruptcy petition. Kealy, who was a 50 percent owner of KW Homes Inc., listed ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Apr 09, 2007 ... Pulaski County Realtors sold 409 units in February, according to the latest Housing Market Report from the Arkansas Realtors Association. That ...
Big pat on the back: (and a small Kick in the butt).(Editorial)
Apr 09, 2007 ... MOST OF THE STATE LEGISLATORS were giving themselves a big pat on the back when the 86th General Assembly recessed last week after its 86-day session. With a couple of major exceptions, we agree that it was a remarkable session. We also recognize the job was made much easier ...
Immigrants' impact.(Editorial)
Apr 09, 2007 ... A STUDY PRODUCED BY THE Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation gives a detailed look at how Arkansas' growing immigrant population is impacting the state, now and in the future. The report concludes that although 51 percent of the state's immigrants are here illegally--the report calls ...