Harps Food's presence grows in Northwest: family-owned, $187 million food chain experiences eventful '94. (Harp's Food Stores Inc.)

Arkansas Business | July 11, 1994| | Copyright

SITTING IN HIS OFFICE SURrounded by wildlife prints, a stuffed pheasant, deer antlers and a gun case full of rifles and antique pistols, it's quickly apparent that Gerald Harp is an avid sportsman. A boyish grin spreads across his face as he describes an upcoming trip to Alaska to fish for salmon.

But life is not all fun and games for the 54-year-old Harp, chief operating officer of Springdale-based Harps Food Stores Inc., the state's 16th-largest privately held company with $187 million in revenues and 1,700 employees. This year in particular has brought about several ...

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