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Article: New businesses: a listing of business start-ups in Arkansas.
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- December 11, 1995
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PROPROMPT COMPLETE SMALL PACKAGE SHIPPING CENTER
President: Derek Harris Address: 618 S. Center St., Little Rock, 72201 Phone: 372-0285 Hours: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays Start-Up Date: Dec. 4
When Derek Smith says he "kind of stumbled into the business," he's speaking both literally and figuratively.
The future president of ProPrompt MessengerCourier Systems was driving home to Little Rock from Fayetteville when destiny, in the form of an errant 18-wheeler, took him by the lapels.
"The truck ran me off the road, my car did a somersault and landed on its wheels," he says. "I'd been planning to work in Little Rock over vacation, but since the ...