Arkansas Business back issues from February 1990:
Cash-flow drama at TCBY Tower. (Little Rock office building)
Feb 12, 1990; Kern, David F. ... Cash-flow Drama At TCBY Tower Projections Fall Apart In Soft Office Space Market, Causing Flake And Co. To Scramble For Tenants And Financing There's a great real estate drama unfolding in Little Rock. It's a tale about the financing of the state's largest building, in ...
Pack Journalism? (Little Rock newspaper war) (company profile)
Feb 12, 1990 ... Pack Journalism? Is The Newspaper War Sensationalizing Business News Coverage In Arkansas? Or Are The Complainers Just Full Of Sour Grapes. The newspaper war has been subject to kudos and catcalls regarding its impact on the Little Rock business community. Lower ...
Collegiate ad execs. (Venture) (company profile)
Feb 12, 1990 ... Collegiate Ad Execs With studies, girlfriends and extracurricular activities, Jeff Noble and Mitch Bettis are just a couple of average college guys -- who happen to run a full-time advertising agency. "One day Jeff said, `Why don't we start a business?'" recalls ...
Corporate Counter-Coup. (Staar Surgical Co.) (Venture) (company profile)
Feb 12, 1990 ... Corporate Counter-Coup Thomas Waggoner, the exiled CEO of Staar Surgical Co. in Monrovia, Calif., suffered through the indignation of a palace revolt during 1989, but the Bentonville native is not abdicating his leadership role without a fight. For the time-being ...
Money talks, lawyers walk. (Union Planters acquisition) (Venture) (company profile)
Feb 12, 1990 ... Money Talks Lawyers Walk It looked like Union Planters Corp., the $3 billion asset holding company based in Memphis, had a done deal going to make its first Arkansas bank acquisition a year ago. The expansion-minded bankers from Tennessee had offered a combination of ...
Set in concrete. (Ideal Basic Industries Inc.) (Venture) (company profile)
Feb 12, 1990 ... Set In Concrete The newest product at Ideal Basic Industries Inc. is officially known as "Regulated Set Portland Cement." Some in the industry refer to it as super cement, and one construction company president went so far as to dub it: "bankers' hours cement." This ...
Aggressive Advertising (attorney marketing)
Feb 12, 1990; Waldon, George ... Aggressive Advertising Will Changes In Marketing Standards For Lawyers Generate Local TV Spots With Bikini-Clad Paralegals? Peter Miller, a Little Rock attorney who handles mostly personal injury suits, isn't your typical pin-striped lawyer poring over legal briefs and ...
Drying up the liquor trade.
Feb 12, 1990; Lorenzen, Rod ... Drying Up The Liquor Trade ABC Restrictions And Declining Numbers of Customers Are The Sober Reality For Stores Selling Alcohol What started out as an exciting business venture six years ago turned into a nightmare for Jessica Hutchinson when she tried to open a ...
Nabholz deal smells like acquisition, not merger. (Nabholz Construction; KA Industries)
Feb 26, 1990 ... Nabholz Deal Smells Like Acquisition, Not Merger A diplomatic news release, providing news about the marriage of Nabholz Construction at Conway and KA Industries at Rogers, notes the two companies are merging. But a closer look indicates the deal is more of an ...
Rodney's rebuffed but regroups for a return. (Rodney Myers, real estate developer)
Feb 26, 1990 ... Rodney's Rebuffed But Regroups For A Return Rodney Myers recently lost a federal lawsuit he hoped would force the Little Rock Water Works to provide water for his Chartwell subdivision straddling the boundary between Pulaski and Saline counties. Following his defeat, ...
Residential resurgence. (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Feb 26, 1990; Waldon, George ... Residential Resurgence Local Realtors Are Smiling With An Upswing In Home Sales, But Will This Trend Continue? Doug and Amy Whitley are all ears as the closing agent at Pulaski County Title walks them through an assembly line of paperwork. HUD-1 Settlement Statement, ...
The center that wouldn't hold: how economic tensions in an evolving legal marketplace blew the Wallace firm apart. (Wallace Dover & Dixon)
Feb 26, 1990; Walker, Wythe ... The Center That Wouldn't Hold How Economic Tensions In An Evolving Legal Marketplace Blew The Wallace Firm Apart Larry Wallace looks worn out. It is almost 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, and the normal work day is over. But Wallace, 46, is still in his elegant TCBY Tower office ...
Paradise lost? (Pankey subdivision; Little Rock, Arkansas)
Feb 26, 1990; Hathorn, Clay ... Paradise Lost? Resting on a street corner in the Pankey community, one hears a hammer rap to one side, a dog yap to the other. Children exit a bus and lollygag past simple homes. Once a quiet, modest settlement, Pankey today is pierced by expanding lanes of blacktop screaming ...
